The book of British ballads . ed up the bloody head; She kissed it frae cheek to chin: Far better do I love this bloody head Than all my royal kin. Oh, wae be to thee, Lady Margaret! he said, And an ill death may you die;For, if you had told me he was your son, He had neer been slain by me. Mr. Motherwell asserts that the ballad is founded on facts which occurred atsome remote period of Scottish history; and pointsout the several localities to which reference is made. The siller cup and mazer dish, of this ballad,have not been well explained by Percy. In a note,he describes the mazer dish to b
The book of British ballads . ed up the bloody head; She kissed it frae cheek to chin: Far better do I love this bloody head Than all my royal kin. Oh, wae be to thee, Lady Margaret! he said, And an ill death may you die;For, if you had told me he was your son, He had neer been slain by me. Mr. Motherwell asserts that the ballad is founded on facts which occurred atsome remote period of Scottish history; and pointsout the several localities to which reference is made. The siller cup and mazer dish, of this ballad,have not been well explained by Percy. In a note,he describes the mazer dish to be a drinking cup ofmaple; it is far more likely to have been the dishupon which the cup stood. A beautiful cup, withits dish-shaped stand, still exists in Oriel College,Oxford, presented by Bishop Stapleton in 1470. Thestand, or dish, is of the cocoa-tree. We have selected,as an illustration of the passage, a beautiful speci-men of a richly ornamented cup and dish, from anengraving by the celebrated Hans Burgmair, dated
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