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Transcriber's Notes

Archaic, dialect and inconsistent spellings have been retained as in the
original. Other than minor changes to format or punctuation, any changes
to the text have been listed at the end of the book.

In this Plain Text version of the e-book, symbols from the ASCII
character set only are used. The following substitutions are made for
other symbols, accent and diacritics in the text:

  [ae] and [AE] = ae-ligature (upper and lower case).
  [^a]          = a-circumflex
  [:a]          = a-umlaut
  [oa]          = a-ring
  [c,]          = c-cedilla
  ['e]          = e-acute
  [e']          = e-grave
  [~n]          = n-tilde
  [:o]          = o-umlaut
  [OE] and [oe] = oe-ligature (upper and lower case).
  [S]           = section symbol
  [:u]          = u-umlaut

Other conventions used to represent the original text are as follows:

  Italic typeface is indicated by _underscores_.
  Small caps typeface is represented by UPPER CASE.
  Superscript characters are indicated by ^{xx}.
  A pointing hand symbol is represented as [hand].

Footnotes are numbered in sequence throughout the book and presented at
the end of the section or ballad in which the footnote anchor appears.
Notes with reference to ballad line numbers are presented at the end of
each ballad.

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