| a. |
Divided in Jamieson's manuscript into stanzas of four
verses, two verses being written in one line:
but Jamieson's 8 = a 14-16.
11. Sweet Willy 's taen.
5-11, wanting. Instead of the cup, the girdle
occurs here: = a 21-28.
121. He did him till.
2. wilest kin.
131. An said, My lady.
141,2. he is.
162. An lat her be lighter o her young bairn.
181. go to clay.
a 211 = b 51 . Now to his mither he has gane.
2. kin.
a 221 = b 61 . He say[s] my lady.
2. It 's a' red.
a 231 = b 71. at ilka.
2. Hings.
a 241 = b 81. gift sall be your ain.
2. lat her ... o her.
a 29 = b 22. Then out it spake the belly blin;
She spake ay in a good time.
a 32 = b 25, 26.
An do you to your mither then, An bid her come to your boy's christnen;
For dear 's the boy he 's been to you: Then notice well what she shall do.
Between a 33 and
a 34 occurs in b (28-31):
He did him to the market place,
An there he bought a loaf o wax.
He shap'd it bairn and bairnly like,
An in't twa glazen een he pat.
He did him till his mither then,
An bade him (sic) to his boy's christnen.
An he did stan a little forebye,
An notic'd well what she did say.
a 352 = b 332. hang amo.
36. wanting in b.
372. aneath.
392 = b 362. hang amo his.
401. kemb o care.
2 . his lady's.
41. wanting in b.
422 = b 382. ran aneath his.
44. wanting in b.
b 222 makes the Billy Blind feminine. This
is not so in a, or in any other ballad, and
may be only an error of the transcriber, who
has not always written carefully. |
