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Thread #31678   Message #413807
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
09-Mar-01 - 02:22 AM
Thread Name: Origins of The Wild Rover
Subject: RE: Origins of The Wild Rover
I don't have any idea how to organize a personal tour. Some of that on my website has been there close to 3 years, and like here, I've forgotten about a lot I do have. Could you make that a bit more specific? And I'm not sure I understand about the intitials. Do you mean the short form identifiers I've used for sources? They're spelled out at the beginning of files that use them.

The name of the author of the Irish "The fine Old Irish Gentleman" I didn't copy down. Ebsworth gave it either in Roxburghe Ballads, above, or more likely in connection with drollery versions of "The Queen's Old Courtier". With Ebsworth erratic editorship (on which C. M Simpson wrote a whole article on his brosdside ballad books) it's going to take a while to find it. I'm now at the point I have to leave until tomorrow night. (I think the slightly later "Old Soldiers of the Queen" is in 'Pills to Purge Melancholy'.