| B. |
Note by Scott: "There is or was a curious
song with this burthen to the verse,
'And I the fair maiden of Gowden-gane.'
Said maiden is, I think, courted by the devil in human shape, but
I only recollect imperfectly the concluding stanzas [1, 2]:
'Seven years ye shall be a stone,'
(here a chorus line which I have forgot), etc. The lady answers,
in allusion to a former word which I have forgotten,
Weel may I be [etc., st. 3]." |
