"Clerk Colvill" or "Clerk Colven" (Roud 147, Child 42) otherwise known as "The Mermaid", is a traditional English-language folk ballad.[1][2] This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful (1912), where it was illustrated by Vernon Hill.
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