P. 17. Among Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's papers there is a copy of this ballad, which, from its being entirely in Sharpe's hand excepting the first line, we may suppose to have been intended as a reply to some person who had inquired for a ballad so beginning. This copy is mainly compounded, with a word altered here and there, from D (which Sharpe gave Motherwell), ten stanzas of H, and two resembling L 2, 3. The Sir Andrew Wood of D is changed to Sir Patrick Spens, and there is this one stanza which I have not observed to occur elsewhere, following D 7, or H 21:
32 b, 6th line from below. For H read J.
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