Of course we know libraries love catalogues, which are useful for so many things. Some recent posts in the ballads.bodleian blog describe the catalogued variants of a broadside ballad sheet containing a song of two constant lovers, the sailor and the farmer’s daughter, who remained true to each other, despite parental objections.
![A duck, from Harding B 11(146) [detail]](http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2013/02/harding-b-11146_detail.jpg)
See the Ballads Project at Cecil Sharp House, 23 Feb.