...traditional ballad expressions which occur earlier in the poem, such as 'her lily-white hand,' and Now she has kilted her robes of green A piece below her knee. As for the Reliques, it is probable that Percy would have patched his material less freely had he not...

...beet, ' Ha'e there '• your faith and troth, Willie ; God lend your aoul good rest.' Now the haï kilted her robes of green A piece below her knee, And a' the live-lang winter night. The dead corp followed she. ' Ii there any room at your head, Willie, Or any room at your feet ? Or any room...

...closely. In William's Ghost (Percy's Selics, Ayton, ii. p. 98), we are told : — But she has kiltit her robes of green A piece below her knee, And a' the livelong winter's night The dead corpse follow'd she. In the Danish ballad of Aage and Else (Grundtvig,...