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Thread #25174 Message #3708916
Posted By: Steve Gardham
14-May-15 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Scarborough Fair: uncorrupting the corruptible
Subject: RE: Scarborough Fair: uncorrupting the corruptible
Common and Midland Hawthorn, and Blackthorn are our native thorns and all of them flower, but I suppose any prickly bush could be referred to as a thorn.
This stanza isn't in the earliest version
just 2 stanzas form her task.
For thou must shape a sark to me Without any cut or hem, quoth he.
Thou must shape it needle and sheerless And also sew it needle threedless