Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

196. The Fire of Frendraught

P. 39 b. Thirteen stanzas of C are given, in the course of an article on The Burning of the House of Frendraucht, in the Aberdeen Magazine, 1832, II, 561.

P. 44. A a. Collation with Sharpe's Manuscript and with another copy of the same pieces in "North Country Ballads," Miscellanea Curiosa, Abbotsford Library.

   41. Well, turn.
125. were.
154. Let Rothiemay may ly, may ly. But Rothiemay lie, written under, probably as an emendation by Sharpe (not in Scott).
164. Turn in Scott, an easy misreading of Twin.
261. Ahon. With a few slight differences of spelling.
we in 92 is a misprint for he.

IV, 522 a. The Satyr begins:

  O world of woes, O greif of griefs, to see
This damned den wher sure brave sp'rits did dye.

P. 41, note ‡. Read: The peerage of Aboyne was first created in 1626, in favor of John Gordon, fifth son of the first Marquis of Huntly (Viscount of Aboyne and Melgum in 1627). He married Sophia Hay, a daughter of Francis, Earl of Errol, The Records of Aboyne, edited by the Marquis of Huntly, New Spalding Club; 1894, pp. 325, 526.

V, 251 b, P. 44. In "But Rothiemay lie," may seems to have been accidentally omitted. The "Turn" in Scott was probably meant for Twin, the dot of i being omitted.

To be Corrected in the Print.

44 b, 92. Read as he.

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