| A. a. |
"Given from two copies obtained from recitation, which differ
but little from each other. Indeed, the only variation is in the
verse where the outlawed brother unweetingly slays his sister."
[19.] Motherwell. |
| b. |
19. He's taken out his wee penknife,
Hey how bonnie
And he's twined her o her ain sweet life.
On the, etc. |
| c. |
The first stanza only:
There were three sisters livd in a bower,
Fair Annet and Margaret and Marjorie
And they went out to pu a flower.
And the dew draps off the hyndberry tree |
| B. a. |
"To a wild melancholy old tune not in any collection."
"N.B. There are a great many other verses which I could not
recover. Upon describing her brothers, the banished man finds
that he has killed his two brothers and two sisters, upon which
he kills himself." Herd.
22. Manuscript Quhen.
41, 42, 52, 121,
122, 132, 142. ye, your, yet,
Manuscript ze, zour, zet.
8, 9, 10 are not written out. |
| b. |
"Of this I have got only 14 stanzas, but there are many
more. It is a horrid story. The banished man discovers that he
has killed two of his brothers and his three (?) sisters, upon
which he kills himself." Jamieson.
The first two stanzas only are cited by Jamieson.
11. three sisters.
22. up there started. |
| C. |
7-11 and 122 are not written out in the
manuscript. "Repeat as to the second sister, mutatis
mutandis." Motherwell. |
| D. |
9-13 are not written out in the manuscript
"Same as 1st sister." Motherwell.
142. bring her.
15, 16 are not written out. "Same as 1st and 2d sisters,
but this additional, vizt." M
222. longe, or large? |
