Re: June Tabor on Mike Harding R2

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:00:39 +0000 (UTC), David Kilpatrick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Child didn't set these in stone. They predate him by between one and two 
>centuries. 

Yes, but they existed in many, varied and changing forms.  Child did
an immesurable good in collecting as many of those as he could, but
that had the inevetable and unfortunate side effect of introducing the
spurious complaint of "but it's not authentic because it's not the
same as the Child version".