The book of British ballads . Franklin, del. T. Armstrong, sc :9a. IL MORRICE. We retain the old title ot this ballad,although modern annotators consider it to be that whichPercy surmised it to have been,—a corruption of ChildMaurice:—a name restored to it in the Collections ofPinkerton and Jamieson, but given as Child Noryceby Motherwell, who assumes it to be, in each instance,only an alteration of the word Norice, a nurseling orfoster. Before Dr. Percy introduced it into the Re-liques, it had run through two editions in Scotland, thesecond having been printed at Glasgow in 1755:—toboth of th
The book of British ballads . Franklin, del. T. Armstrong, sc :9a. IL MORRICE. We retain the old title ot this ballad,although modern annotators consider it to be that whichPercy surmised it to have been,—a corruption of ChildMaurice:—a name restored to it in the Collections ofPinkerton and Jamieson, but given as Child Noryceby Motherwell, who assumes it to be, in each instance,only an alteration of the word Norice, a nurseling orfoster. Before Dr. Percy introduced it into the Re-liques, it had run through two editions in Scotland, thesecond having been printed at Glasgow in 1755:—toboth of them an advertisement was prefixed, setting forththat it had been communicated to the printers by a lady, by whom it had beencollected from the mouths of old women and nurses, and suggesting, that ifany reader could render it more correct or complete he might oblige thepublic by so doing. The consequence of so seductive an invitation was theprompt supply of sixteen additional lines: they were first handed about in manu-script ; subsequently printed by Mr. He
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