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The three paths leading from the cross-roads in the woods are variously described as being “all thorns and briars”, “all winding”, and the last (which the Lancre Morris Men decide to take) as “Ferns grew thickly alongside it”.
This echoes the poem and folk song ‘Thomas the Rhymer’, about a man who followes the Queen of Elves to Elfland:
O see ye not yon narrow road,
So thick beset wi’ thorns and riers?
That is the Path of Righteousness,
Though after it but few enquires.
And see ye not yon braid, braid road,
That lies across the lily leven?
That is the Path of Wickedness,
Though some call it the Road to Heaven.
And see ye not yon bonny road
That winds about the fernie brae?
That is the Road to fair Elfland,
Where thou and I this night maun gae.
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