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When we come to the ballad Clerk Colvin' we find a different state of things. The opening stanza of this narrative states that the "girdle round the middle jimp" of Colvin's lady cost her lord no less a sum than crowns fifteen. To this Lewis or his repre- sentative appends the startling note, "Jimps, stays"! This deliverance may have been due not so much to hopeless ignorance as misguided ingenuity, for the annotator may The natural inference of a mere man from He has mounted on his berry-brown steed, And there his mother dear resides. IN 1887 the late Prof. Henry Morley |