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Thread #59643   Message #952039
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
13-May-03 - 05:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Meikle Black Deil
Subject: RE: The Meikle Black Deil
There are some errors of transcription, but they don't affect the sense, which is obscure to most of us nearly 180 years on. The two (omitted) verse footnotes provide a little clarification, but not much. You may not be familiar with the  Bodleian Library Broadside Collection, where a photograph of the sheet can be seen, together with the information that it was published Nov. 2, 1826, by W. Fordyce, Printer, 29, Sandhill, Newcastle.