| A. |
And throughout for &.
183, 193, 221,
231. four and twenty, Manuscript has 24.
266. [rich]. Percy.
272. they way.
281. goe thy.
283. ffarest.
285, 295. armes 2.
311. this and itt droue now.
The emendation, made without confidence,
assumes, as does that to 311, and
to be used as in 'Sir Cawline.'
323, did on. |
| b. |
11. I forbid you.
13. To leave your father's families.
14. And follow ... frae the.
21. I am a gay ladie.
22. wear.
23. father's castle.
31,3. stands.
32. Says I am boon to ride.
34. Says I'll run by your side.
41. He has mounted on his berry brown steed.
43. She's clad her in a page's weed;
44. And ay as fast.
52. An folks.
53. He's lookd oer.
54. Says Ellen will you ride.
61. O I learnd it when I was a bairn.
71, 81 9 1.that ladie.
72. It was aboon her knee.
73. Says Bird Ellen.
82. It was up till.
83. Ohon alas says Bird Ellen.
91. The thirden step.
92. touched her pap.
93, The bairn between her sides twa,
94. begood to.
102. You gie your mother pain,
104. And cares little for us twain.
111. O wanting. Clyde's.
112. There stands.
113. He has turnd about his berry brown steed.
114, And taen her up him behind.
124, Where this night you mean to be,
131. Do not ye see.
132. so far and hie.
133. ladie there, he says.
14. Altho there be a ladie there,
Should sunder you and me,
Betide my life, betide my death,
I will go thither and see.
152, 162. brown.
153. Then you will.
154. That ever you lovd a man.
161. O 't is I shall.
163,4. But I neer shall live to cry alas,
That ever I loyd a man.
171,2. My horse shall eat the baken meat,
And you shall eat the corn.
173. You then will.
181. O I shall eat the baken meat.
183. And I still shall bless.
204. her lane.
212. a' were.
22 = a 23. 3. O I can neither eat nor drink.
23 = a 22. 3. O I can neither eat nor drink.
243,4. My son, where gat ye that foot-page
You have brought hame to me?
251. cheeks look.
252. pale and wan.
253. He looks mair like a ladie wi bairn.
26. He has looked oer his left shoulder,
And a loud laugh laughed he;
Says, He's a squire's ae dear son,
I got in the north countrie.
271. Win up, win up.
273. And so.
274. As fast as ever I may.
282-4. And the corn in her right hand,
And she 's hied her to the stahle-door,
As fast as she could gang.
292. Stand nearer to.
293. between my sides.
301,2. She has leand to the manger side
And gien a grieveous groan.
304. brought home a son.
31 = a 31, 32.
Then out it spake Lord John's mother,
As she stood on the stair,
'I think I hear a woman groan,
And a bairn greeting sair.'
32 = a 33. 1. O quickly, quickly raise he up.
3. But hied him to the stable-door.
33, wanting in a.
'Now open the door, Bird Ellen,' he says,
'O open and let me in,
Or baith the door and the door cheeks
Into the floor I'll fling.'
34. He is struck the door wi his right foot
And pushed it wi his knee,
Till iron bolts and iron bars
In flinders he has gard flee:
'Be not afraid, Bird Ellen,' he says,
'For there's nane win in but me.'
35, wanting in a.
The never a word spake that ladie,
As on the floor she lay,
But hushd her young son in her arms
And turnd his face away.
36 = a 35.
'Now up ye take my bonny young son
And wash him wi the milk,
And up ye take my fair ladie,
And row her i the silk.'
a 36 is wanting in b.
37. 'And smile on me now, Bird Ellen,
And cast awa your care,
For I'll make you ladie of a' my lands,
And your son shall be my heir.'
38. 'Blessd be the day,' sayd Bird Ellen,
'That I followd you frae the town,
For I'd rather far be your foot-page
Than the queen that wears the crown.' |
