| A. |
The stanzas are written in the Manuscript in two
long lines. The first stanza, as given by Anderson, is:
Willie was as brave a lord
As ever saild the sea,
And he 's gone to the English court,
To serve for meat and fee.
13. Enlish.
62, 72, 141,
241. & for an.
224. tie (?).
241. the bow. |
| b. |
151. Omits For.
After 15, inserts:
'Dame Oliphant, Dame Oliphant,
A king's daughter are ye;
But woud ye leave your father and mother,
And gang awa wi me?'
'O I woud leave my father and mother,
And the nearest that eer betide,
And I woud nae be feard to gang,
Gin ye war by my side.'
174. trinkle.
193. there are.
194. Then ever.
202. table play.
232. grow.
264. pray you.
After 30, inserts:
And lang and happy did they live,
But now their days are deen,
And in the kirk o sweet Saint Bride
Their graves are growing green.
Motherwell makes some alterations in his copy:
as 12, laigh to sair;
124, and toil; whateer,
in the second line of the second inserted stanza, above;
besides others which
are purely arbitrary. He has table eye in
202, where Buchan prints table play, and
living, with being written over, in 262. |
