| A. a. |
The beautifull Shepherdesse of Arcadia. A new pastorell Song
of a courteous young Knight and a supposed Shepheard's Daughter.
To a gallant tune, called the Shepheards Delight. ... London,
Printed for William Gilbertson. Gilbertson published 1640-63:
Chappell. Dated 1655 in the Museum Catalogue.
4, 6. Burden Trang dang.
73. abeut.
101. cour.
124. fingets.
184, faults.
242. rights.
271. Perhaps to linked.
Some trivial errors of the press have been
corrected. |
| b. |
The Beautiful Shepherdess of Arcadia: A new Pastoral Song of
a courteous young Knight and a supposed Shepherd's Daughter of
Arcadia, in Peloponnesus. To the Tune of The Shepherd's Daughter,
&c. London: Printed for A. M., W. O., and T. Thackeray, at
the sign of the Angel in Duck [Lane]. Dated 1680? in the
Catalogue.
33. yong wanting.
41. about the middle.
42. down wanting.
4 3 . had got.
51. kind sir.
52. thus wanting.
61. men wanting.
63. fair court.
71. into the.
72. he did.
73. her girdle.
93. was never.
101. But wanting.
111. save you.
113. got wanting.
121. of, sweet-heart.
124. finger.
132. or of.
134. most of.
153. was wanting.
162. within.
183. to thee.
184. fault.
19. not thy.
22. wanting, in my transcript.
242. rites was.
252. will be.
254. make thee.
263. should a.
271. being linked so.
272. joyned. |
| B. |
233. tak he. |
| C. |
C and D were derived from the recitation of
Jenny Watson of Lanark and Mrs. Charles
of Torry, but which from which we are not
distinctly told. An incidental expression of
Kinloch's, Manuscripts, VII, 59, may warrant the
assigning of C to Mrs. Charles. C is written
on the right hand of the Manuscript and D on the
left, except that the last two stanzas of D
are written on the right, and a few readings
of D are written above those of C. (The
ink of D is blacker.)
6. omitted by Kinloch in printing.
74. wade altered to wyde, according to the
pronunciation.
84, 214. na is wanting.
141. Kinloch prints your fause love: in
Manuscript
[fause].
25. inserted at p. 23 of Kinloch's interleaved
copy of his Ancient Scottish Ballads. |
| D. |
13. frae the king's court.
34. Earl Richard is my name.
111. anie.
144. Altered to At midday and.
163. cried the.
171. He powd out a hundred punds.
172. Weel lockit in a glove.
271. Hoch! had I drank the wan water.
273. That ... a mill-capon. |
| E. a. |
64. for me: see 44,
84.
164. Oh.
34. wanting, supplied from the Manuscript
443,4, 503,4. unless hide is
for heed, read heed, as in b. |
| b. |
11, on a.
133. ye shall be.
184. does.
221. wand she had in.
224. on the.
226. help does not lye.
231. omits it.
232. is there that has.
23. to a.
243. came.
256.will I.
262. omits it.
304. samen.
311. men all.
314. omits man.
34. omitted in a.
432. we he.
443,4. When you heed so little of yourself,
I 'm sure ye'll heed far less nor me.
473,4. If the auld carle and his bags were here,
I wot he would get meat his fill.
481, 491. last night.
50. Away, away, you evil woman,
How sore your vile words grieve me!
When you heed so little on yourself,
I know you will heed less on me.
524. as ye.
531. you are.
551. was rung.
553. the ladye.
554. In one.
561. face to.
564. thir twa.
571. Great was the mirth.
572. into.
574. And wiping.
604. at thee.
The variations in b are probably Motherwell's
improvements. He does not adopt all of
them in printing, but makes still other
slight changes. |
| F. b. |
"An epitome (eleven eight-line stanzas) of Buchan's version,
with some slight alterations from the way the editor has heard
the ballad sung."
151. The lady to the queen's court gaed.
153. And ready was.
162. And gae him gowd sae free.
192. He lout doun.
232. She lout doun.
302. And blind.
331, 371. I will not hae your purse o
gowd.
334. And other.
392. Nor will I hae.
413. And when they came to St. Mary's kirk.
623. My husband. |
| I. |
12. Var. Kept hogs.
83. sigh and. |
| J. |
33. in, perhaps, for on.
3, 4; 8, 9; 11, 12. Written without division
in the Manuscript
173. sich &. |
| K. |
41. Oh.
174. Hae added later; pickled altered
from pircled. |
