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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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†ALLACING, vbl.n. Repeating of allace! = Alace, q.v.Sc. a.1791 The Lochmaben Harper in Ballads ed. Child (1904) No. 192 xxi.:
Come had thy tongue, thou silly blind harper, And of thy allacing let me be.