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Thread #9387   Message #4126210
Posted By: GUEST,John Moulden
15-Nov-21 - 05:02 AM
Thread Name: A Maid Went To Comber (Next Market Day)
Subject: RE: A Maid Went To Comber (Next Market Day)
Don't think I misread anyone. There's a connection - plot and comber (occupation) against Comber (toponym) but, my interest is in showing that the familiar text of the Comber Ballad/ Next Market Day can be read as bawdry. (See my website "Changing Tradition - Studies - "The Best English-Irish Poetry before Yeats"