| A. a. |
13. quhar.
51. quha.
53. zeir.
111. have owre, have owr. |
| b. |
In this copy Sir Andrew Wood replaces Sir
Patrick Spens throughout.
84. They wat thair heads aboone.
At the end of version B Herd says,
'The foundation of the preceding song seems to have been the same
story with that under the title of 'Sir Andrew Wood' in the
former volume [of 1769]. In the Relicks of Antient Poetry is a
copy somewhat different from either.
We cannot suppose, after this, that Herd took his copy from
Percy and altered it, and yet, excepting the variations noted
above, and haff for have in 111,
the copies are the same to a letter. If Herd's copy was one of
the two used by Percy, what was the other? Was there, after all,
but one copy again, as in the case of 'King
Estmere'? |
| B. |
O is added, in singing, to every second and fourth verse.
Also in D, E, F, H. |
| A. a. |
142. I thing. |
| F. |
14. In a smaller hand, and detached from the preceding,
as if added later. |
| G. |
After 4 occurs this stanza, almost verbally repeated
in 9, and improperly anticipating matters, according to the
arrangement of the story in this version:
Be 't wind, be't weet, be 't snaw, be't sleet,
Our ships maun sail the morn:
Ever alack! my master dear,
For I fear a deadly storm. |
| H. |
244. perhaps driven. |
| K. |
'Spendin the queen's meat an her fee'
was said by the reciter to belong to the ballad,
though the connection was not remembered.
132. Var.: 'An langer will she stan. |
| L. |
1 is 5 and 5 is 1 in the
Manuscript |
