| A. |
14. cappe ... yoode.
15,6, 21,2 make a stanza in the Manuscript
33. this harpe.
41. him fall?
43. 7 yeere.
61. whom then.
73,4. & at her chamber must I bee
beffore the cocke haue crowen.
102. pinn:one stroke of the n is left out, as
frequently, in the Manuscript Furnivall.
112. nor noe.
144. times.
164. him im.
171. you you.
173. you are.
214. killed 3.
223. head: there is a tag to the
d as if for s. Furnivall.
234, these 3. |
| B. |
13,4, 2 are cited by Jamieson in the Scots Magazine,
October, 1803, p. 698, as the beginning of a
fragment [Gray's], with only this variation:
Glenkindie was ance the best harper.
He has, therefore, combined the two versions here.
Stanza 4, as published, is the first of
"another copy [Scott's], in which the
story is complete, but, it having been written from the recitation of a poor
old woman in Aberdeenshire, the diction has been much humbled. It begins:
'I'll you a robe, Glenkindy,
A robe o the royal pa,
Gin ye will harp i the winter's night
Afore my nobles a'.'
(Robe is misprinted rolu).
After 4 follows this stanza, which,
with but a word or two of difference, is
the first of 'Brown Robin,' where, no doubt,
it belongs, but not here:
And the king but and his nobles a'
Sat birling at the wine,
And he wad hae but his ae dochter
To wait on them at dine.
10 may not be in the right place, and should, perhaps,
be put just before Gib gets his deserts. Some such stanza
would come in well between 20 and 21 of A.
After 25 follows 29,
manifestly with no right. If this commonplace is
retained, it must come at the end.
After 29 (27 in Jamieson) follow these three stanzas,
the first a superfluous and very improbable repetition;
the second altered by Jamieson,
"to introduce a little variety, and prevent the
monotonous tiresomeness of repetition,"
the last as little in traditional style as the second.
He'd harpit a fish out o saut water,
The water out o a stane,
The milk out o a maiden's breast
That bairn had never nane.
He's taen his harp intill his hand,
Sae sweetly as it rang,
And wae and weary was to hear
Glenkindie's dowie sang.
But cald and dead was that lady,
Nor heeds for a' his maen;
An he wad harpit till domis day,
She'll never speak again. |
| C. |
8 follows 2 in the Manuscript.
A fragment in Kinloch Manuscripts, III, 147, sixteen stanzas,
in the writing of John Hill Burton, is thus made up
B 1, 2, C 2, B 6, 7, C 4, 5,
B 11, C 6, B 14, C 7, 8,
B 17, 18, B 191-3 and
C 94, B 20; with the
following variations, probably arbitrary.
Variations from
B 11. a gude harper.
13. he was the.
14. on string.
21. o the sea-flood.
22. o the.
23. And milk.
C 23. Except it was.
B 74. streek down.
C 43. Untill.
C 51. Now might.
C 52. a man had slain = B 102.
C 53. Indeed ye micht.
B 111. Jock my man.
113. And but ye.
C 71. And he's.
C 81. bower-door.
C 83. and away. |
