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I'll try once more then I'll email you.

You're absolutely right, there were lots of spurious ballads and literary pieces floating about at the time and Percy was rewriting anything he could get his hands on. However this one was written by Dalrymple and sent to him. I don't know of any ballad scholar (past or present) who doesn't think it is a load of bollocks. 'landscape of lords and ladies'. This is neither here nor there. The OTT antiquified language is the give-away. If it is based on anything British trad there is no evidence at all for this. The few recently collected versions prove nothing. These could either stem from 'Edward' itself or they could come from another 19thc translation.