Archaic, dialect and inconsistent spellings and hyphenation have beenretained as in the original. Minor corrections to format and punctuationtogether with regularisation of poetry line numbering have been madewithout comment. Any other changes to the text have been listed at theend of the book.
Notes with reference to ballad line numbers are presented at the end of each ballad and the presence of a note is indicated by links in the text.
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VOLUME VIII.
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