Notes

Title
A-begging buttermilk I will go
Singer
Sawyer, David [Phoebus]
Notes
Note 1

Williams, Alfred: Ms: Obtained of David Sawyer, the sheep shearer, of Ogbourne, Wiltshire. He learned it of his mother.

Williams, Alfred: WGS: Obtained of David Sawyer, the sheep shearer, of Ogbourne. He learned it of his mother.

Williams, Alfred: FSUT: Obtained of David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wilts. He learned it of his mother. The subject appears among the fables of Aesop, and also in the Hindu Hitopodesa.

Note 2

In Verse 2 Line 2 and Verse 4 Line 2 the original text read:

Fol the rol the ladle dee


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Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.