Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

A.  73. laugh; but we have laughd in 103.
93. Rowed seems to be written Round, possibly Rowad.
143. brother.
B.  54. The edition of 1776 has body's.
C.  7. When they part he returns home, and on the way his head becomes "wondrous sair:" seemingly a comment of the reciter.
The Abbotsford copy in "Scottish Songs," fol. 3, has these readings, not found in Lewis, the Brown Manuscript, or Herd.
32. And dinna deave me wi your din: Lewis,
And haud, my Lady gay, your din,
63. He's laid her on the flowery green.

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