| A. |
a, b. Obtained from recitation "many years
ago" wrote Mr. White in 1873, by James Telfer,
of Laughtree Liddesdale, in some part of
the neighboring country: the copy has the date
1818. c is said by the editor to have been taken
down from the recitation of an old fiddler in
Northumberland, but when and by whom he
does not tell us. The three are clearly more
or less "corrected" copies of the same original,
c having suffered most from arbitrary changes.
Alterations for rhyme's sake, or for propriety's,
that are written above the lines or in the margin of
a 2, 5, 8, 19, are adopted in c without
advertisement.
Burden, b. I the brave night sae early: c. I
the brave nights so early: d. I (or O) the
life o the one, the randy.
11, c. Brand, and always in c.
12, a. daughters, b. He 's courted.
21. c. years that tide; that tide is written
over of age in a.
22. c. When sae.
42. c. But thou.
52. b. best o these, c. best of tho. of tho
is written over o them a in a.
62. b, c. have met.
71. c. Till at last they met.
72. c. He 's aye for ill and never.
81. b. O Earl Bran. c. Now Earl Brand. Now
in the margin of a.
82. b, c. Slay this.
92. b. man that wears, c. carl that wears, carl
. . wears written over man . . has in a.
10. b. O lady fair, I'll no do that,
I'll pay him penny, let him be jobbing at.
c. My own lady fair, I'll not do that,
I'll pay him his fee
112. b. where have stoln this fair. c. And
where have ye stown this fair.
13. b. She is my sick sister,
Which I newly brought from Winchester.
c. For she is, I trow, my sick sister,
Whom I have been bringing fra Winchester.
141. c. nigh to dead.
2. b, c. What makes her wear.
151. c. If she's been.
2. b, c. What makes her wear the gold sae high.
161. c. When came the carl to the lady's yett.
2. b. rapped at. c. He rudely, rudely rapped thereat.
172. b. maids playen. c. a playing, d. She 's
out with the fair maids playing at the ball.
181. b. mistkane (?):
2. b, c. Ye may count.
b2. young Earl.
19. c. I met her far beyond the lea
With the young Earl Brand, his leman to be:
In a lea is written over moor,
and With the young, etc., stands as a "correction."
20. b. Her father, etc.,
And they have riden after them.
c. Her father of his best men armed fifteen,
And they 're ridden after them bidene.
211. b, c. The lady looket [looked]
over [owre] her left shoulder then.
221. b, c. If they come on me one by one,
2. b. Ye may stand by and see them fall.
c. You may stand by till the fights be done.
d. Then I will slay them every one.
231. b. all in all. d. all and all.
2. d. Then you will see me the sooner fall.
242. b. has slain.
24. c. They came upon him one by one,
Till fourteen battles he has won.
And fourteen men he has them slain,
Each after each upon the plain.
25. c. But the fifteenth man behind stole round,
And dealt him a deep and a deadly wound.
26. c. Though he was wounded to the deid,
He set his lady on her steed.
271. c. river Doune:
2. b. And he lighted down.
c. And there they lighted to wash his wound.
282. b. It 's but the glent.
c. It 's nothing but the glent and my scar let hood.
291. c. yett.
292. b. Sae ruddly as he rappet at.
c. So faint and feebly he rapped thereat.
301. b. O my son 's slain and cut down.
c. O my son 's slain, he is falling to swoon.
32. b. ... death of only one,
But it 's been the death of fair seventeen.
Instead of 32, c has:
To a maiden true he'll give his hand,
To the king's daughter o fair England,
To a prize that was won by a slain brother's brand. |
| D. |
10. The following stanza, superscribed "Mrs.
Lindores, Kelso," was found among Mr. Kinlock's papers,
and was inserted at I, 331, of
the Kinlock manuscripts. It may be a first recollection of
D 10, but is more likely to be another version:
'We raid over hill and we raid over dale,
And we raid over mountains sae high,
Until we cam in sicht o yon bonnie castle bowr
Whare Sir William Arthur did lie.' |
