Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

83. Child Maurice

P. 272. F.

Mr. Macmath has found the edition of 1755, and has favored me with a copy. Substitute for F. a., p. 263: Gill Morice, An Ancient Scottish Poem. Second Edition. Glasgow, Printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1755. (Small 4^o, 15 pages.) The copy mentioned p. 263 b, note, is a reprint of this or of the first edition; it has but two variations of reading. The deviations from the text of 1755 will be put in the list of things to be corrected in the print.

To be Corrected in the Print.

272 f. Read (according to the text of 1755):
2¹. will I.
7⁴. gar thy.
10². to thy.
18³. maun cum.
22¹. Note: "perhaps fetchie" nurse.
23⁴. hes he.
26¹. sits.
26³. means a' those folks.
26⁴. mother she.
27¹. And when he cam to gude grene wod.
27³. first saw.
27⁴. Kemeing down.
28². Than, misprint for That.
34⁴. they lay.
35⁴. hip was.
39². ill deed.

275 b. Read, v 17, You see his heid upon my. v. 20, that did, apparently a misprint for that thocht.
The only variations in the other copy are:
26^3,these for those; thocht for did, in v. 20 of p. 275 b.

The following are mostly trivial variations from the spelling of the text.

272 f. Read (ed. 1755): 1¹. Gill Morice.
5². said.
6³. red.
8³, 16³, 17³, 24³, 26¹, 36³. guid grene wod.
9², 18². slive.
10², 15². Tho.
11¹. micht.
11². near.
11², 20². coud.
12³. I's.
13³. whar he.
14². woud.
15³. stracht.
17⁴. Even.
21⁴. welcom.
21⁴, 39⁴. me.
22². lie.
22⁴. she.
23². he.
24⁴. with.
26¹. Gill.
26². whistld.
26⁴. tarrys.
27², 36². miekle.
27². cair.
28². well.
29⁴, 31¹, 31⁴, 33³, 34¹. heid.
30³. bodie.
33⁴. town.
34⁴. there.
35³. ance.
37¹. credle.
39². die.

275 a, last line but three. Read Wi, pearce.

L. 1. but one, naithing, heid.
Last line, coud.

b, v. 3. day[s].
7. been.
8. me. 15. teirs, wensom.
18. bluid.
22. comly.
25. driry.

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