| A. a. |
11. than he.
21. lover's.
33. drucken.
73. the green.
101. higher.
103. On every.
122. Or he.
201,2 and 21 in one stanza.
211. Clyd's. (?)
233. lackless.
255,6 and 26 in one stanza. |
| b. |
is a revised copy, in which most of the above readings
are corrected, with other changes.
11. second young omitted.
33. love drucken.
43. love drunken.
61. her of.
131. wan omitted.
141, 241. pit.
152. gan.
181, 211. Clyde's.
191. tae omitted.
271,2. hae omitted.
276. hoky gren wanting. |
| B. |
6, 7. These stanzas, with the trivial variation in
63 of she's taen out,
are given by Chambers, Scottish Ballads, p. 259,
note, from his recollection of a recited fragment. |
| D. |
"The catastrophe wanting, but the lady's treachery was discovered,
and she was burned." Motherwell's Manuscript.
94. so deep.
201. hast. |
| E. |
"Although much of the language seems somewhat modernized,
this must be attributed to its currency, being much liked, and
very much sung, in this neighborhood. I can trace it back several
generations, bnt cannot hear of its ever having been in print. I
have never heard it with any considerable variation, save that
one reciter called the dwelling of the feigned sweetheart
Castleswa," Hogg. |
| G. |
"To a wild melancholy tune." Herd.
Quhat, ze, etc., are printed what, ye,
as usual. |
| H. |
71,2 and 8 one stanza. |
