[BITList] The Fallen Status of Books

[John Feltham]

Hugh,

On 14/09/2010, at 4:05 PM, HUGH wrote:

> Emma Chisset (I knew her well) is one of the Mondegreens by marriage.

Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad "The Bonny Earl O'Moray". 
She wrote: When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl O' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen.


The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green".



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen




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