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Thread #163685   Message #3909642
Posted By: Richie
05-Mar-18 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter & Child Ballads
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter & Child Ballads
Hi,

I compared 'Claret Banks' to 'Cathar' and neither seemed to be a well-known place.

Motherwell has "nor" instead of "than" which seems odd, also he has "pies" instead of "peas" which even if it's a slang doesn't seem to work. He also has "And Clootie's waur" where Crawford has "the Fiend is waur[worse]."

The "Humours of Love" broadside is missing the opening stanza. It has Cambrick which wasn't known much in England or Scotland before 1770. The earliest version with the herb refrains is Kinloch's (c. 1777)from Mary Barr and it has Holland sark.

Richie