Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

Fair Janet

E.  The copy in Kinloch Manuscripts, II, 41, has been revised by Mr. Kinloch. His more important changes are as follows:
11. Sweet Willie.
13. took in labor-pains.
21. Gae fetch.
23. For but.
24. It's surely.
33. And what a woman can do, Janet.
34. That I.
44. Says, Fy.
61,3. now chuse thee, Fair Janet.
72, 82. hollin.
102, 111, 183, 193. Marytoun.
104. Cam riding.
121, Then out.
144. ye let me abee.
181. the bridegroom then.
191. But out.
192. His heart.
20. Fair Janet was buried in Mary's kirk,
Sweet Willie in Mary's quier,
And out o the tane there sprang a rose,
Out o the tither a brier.

21. And aye they grew, and aye they threw,
Till thae twa they did meet,
That ilka ane might plainly see
They war twa lovers sweet.
G.  13. Var. mourn for.
11, in Finlay, follows 13.
Fourteen stanzas, taken from C, have been omitted.

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