Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Nut-Brown Maid

Nut-Brown Maid.
Hall’s British Ballads, A.D. 1847; and a poem by Prior.

Merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale,
And sing, enamour’d, of the nut-brown maid.
Beattie.—The Minstrel, Book I. Verse 44. Line 1.