• "Walter Lesly" (Roud 3925, Child 296) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. Walter Lesly asks a lady to come to Conland. Then his kinsmen, led...
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  • Lesly Malouda (born 1983), French footballer Lesly St. Fleur (21st century), Bahamian footballer Mark Lesly (born 1959), American actor Walter Lesly,...
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    and its tale about "the animosity between England and Scotland". In Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy (1817), the main character, Frank, upon seeing the trophies...
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    into ballad form (c. 1700), though there are dissenting views on this. Walter Scott expanded the ballad into three parts, adding a sequel which incorporated...
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    reprinted again in 1965 in New York by Dover, this time with an essay by Walter Morris Hart entitled 'Professor Child and the Ballad' (reprinted from Publications...
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    and Scottish Popular Ballad. Gayna Walls (trans.). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 25, 57. ISBN 3-11-014290-2. "(69) Page 27 – Barbara Allan...
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    performed. Child (I, 253) quotes a letter from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Walter Scott (August 8, 1802): "The song of 'The Twa Corbies' was given to me by...
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  • His last words, according to the (probably apocryphal) story related by Walter Scott, deserve special mention. Huntly slashed him across the face with...
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  • particularly in the south of England. Folklorist Peter Kennedy recorded Walter Lucas of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset singing a version in 1951, and Sarah Ann...
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  • Glencoe", "Portmore" 3924. "The Laird O' Meldrum and Peggy Douglas" 3925. "Walter Lesly" (Child 296) 3926. "The Abashed Knight" 3927. "The Miller's Son" 3928...
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    bedside and laughing at him, pledges to dance on his grave. 296 Walter Lesly Walter induces a maiden with drink and kidnaps her. Interested in her mother's...
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