Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferlies
Literary usage of Ferlies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"12a-4 and 16«'4 (and consequently 13«'4, 17*-4) are wrongly interchanged in b,
mixing up ferlies and questions. a 123'4, 13*-4, 14, 15, 161-2, l6*Л 171-*, ..."
2. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"... ferlies four ye maun find me, And that is twa and twa; Or I'll never lie in
your bed, Either at stock or wa'. " And ye maun get to me a plumb That in ..."
3. The Scottish Ballads by Robert Chambers (1829)
"... ferlies four ye maun find me, And that is twa and twa; Or I'll never lie m
your bed, Either at stock or wa'. It's ye maun get to me a plum That in ..."
4. The Common-place Book of Ancient and Modern Ballad: And Metrical Legendary (1824)
"... four : ferlies four ye maun find me, And that is twa and twa; Or I'll never
lie in your bed, ..."
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