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=== Editions ===
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* {{:Lewis, Samuel 1831a}}, vol. III, p. 415
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Northumberland.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-28.

Allusion

 [...] The lawless and predatory habits of the ancient borderers, so large a portion of whom inhabited this county [i.e. Northumberland], are well known they were finally suppressed about the commencement of the last century; and the numerous ballads in which the achievements of these half-licensed brigands were celebrated, have, like the ballad of Robin Hood, ceased to engage the public mind, but have assumed a less changeable form in the volumes of Percy and of Scott, as lasting memorials of a state of manners which, at least in Britain, has probably disappeared for ever.[1]

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