minstrel: Child ballad # 14, question of date

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:31:25PM -0400, jpark6 at gmu.edu wrote:

>    I'm writing because I'm trying to find out the date of Child
> Ballad # 14, called either Baby Lon, Babylon, Bonnie Banks of the
> Virgie-O, or Three Sisters.

You can email Dani (who wrote the Compleat Anachronist) and ask him --
there are some obscure references he probably owns. I don't have # 14
on my list of known-period Child ballad texts, but that's more out of
absense of evidence than anything else.

-- Gregory