Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

The Lads of Wamphray

   Not divided into stanzas in the Manuscript.
Scott makes stanzas of four lines.

31. Leuerhay.
After 8 Scott inserts:
  For the Galliard, and the gay Galliard's men,
They neer saw a horse but they made it their ain.
The Galliard to Nithside is gane,
To steal Sim Crichton's winsome dun.
201. let Willy bee, in the text: or the Galiard, in the margin.
211. In the margin: Will of Kirkhill.
382. Breaklaw: changed in the Manuscript to Reaklaw.

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