| A. |
23. was not war.
F 3 has wasna aware.
B, C, have the obviously right reading.
51. Wallace then. Maidment, there.
54. Maidment, ouer good.
101. Maidment, When come.
102. quoth he be here.
124. Maidment, should we. |
| B. |
32. oer a stree. Stree is glossed by Lambe as
stick, but this is impossible: the s
was induced by the s in staff above.
103, 121. Oh.
111. root of his sword simply from ignorance
of the meaning of the rood, by which the
captain swears in A 12; rood of his sword
is hardly to be thought of.
122. A word for A wat.
See D 144.
163,4. Corrupted: the words should be Wallace's.
Cf. C 12. |
| C. |
92. meal: perhaps meat. |
| D |
12. Var. (or gloss), his ain.
21. went changed to gaed (for rhyme?).
94. Var. with angry jeer. |
| E. |
23. gin he.
A. Fisher says that lines are wanting, and has supplied two after 72
(making a stanza of 73,4,, 81,2,
and leaving 83,4 as a half stanza)
and two after 102
(leaving 103,4 as the second half of another
stanza). The arrangement here adopted is
in conformity with that of the other copies. |
| F. |
33. wasna.
221. Insch. |
| G. |
Buchan's variations.
23. And for Said.
34. Christendeen.
92, 103, 152, 273. done.
104. on a.
121. me wanting.
202. I heard them in yon inn.
211. you.
322. ane by ane. |
