O, Stop Your Hand- Irish maid (MA) 1909 Kittredge
[My title. From: Various Ballads by G. L. Kittredge; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 26, No. 100 (Apr. - Jun., 1913), pp. 174-182.
W. A. Neilson was William Allan Neilson, Ph. D., Professor of English, Harvard University.
This version has an important link to the Irish ballad, Derry Gaol (Child 95 Appendix), in it's last line: "pardon from the king."
R. Matteson 2015]
2. (O, Stop Your Hand) THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS- The following fragment of Child, No. 95, was given to Professor W. A. Neilson by an Irish servant-maid in 1909.
1. O, stop your hand, grand jury!
I think I see my sweetheart in full speed a-coming.
2. "Welcome here, dear sweetheart, welcome here to me!
Did you bring me e'er a money or e'er a fee?"
3. "I brought you ne'er a money nor ne'er a fee,
But I have got your pardon from the king, and come along with me!"