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5–8. These feats are all but equalled by the musician in the Swedish and Danish Harpans Kraft.

"He harped the bark from every tree,

And he harped the young from folk and from fee.

"He harped the hind from the wild-wood home,

He harped the bairn from its mother's womb."

Arwidsson, No. 149.

"Villemand takes his harp in his hand,

He goes down by the water to stand.

"He struck the harp with his hand,

And the fish leapt out upon the strand."

Grundtvig, No. 40.

17–20. This stanza is found in the opening of Brown Robin, which commences thus:—

"The king but and his nobles a'

Sat birling at the wine, [bis] He would hae nane but his ae daughter To wait on them at dine.

"She served them but, she served them ben,

Intill a gown o' green;

But her e'e was ay on Brown Robin,

That stood low under the rain," &c.

J.

25–28. The following stanza occurs in one of the editor's copies of The Gay Gosshawk:—

"O first he sang a merry song,

And then he sang a grave;

And then he pecked his feathers gray,

To her the letter gave."

J.

64, at the chin. Sic.

120. This stanza has been altered, to introduce a little variety, and prevent the monotonous tiresomeness of repetition. J.