Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

195. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight

A.  12. faither's place ? So B.
42. And a' to be revainged on him. Cf. B.
52. Fair well the Lanrike faires. (?)
94. struet. (?)
131,2. He took out a good gold ring [where it hang, partly erased.]
Where it hang signets three.
B.  Written in stanzas of eight lines.
41. laboured.
The variations of the Minstrelsy, being editorial, do not require to be recorded, but some of them have a certain interest.
12. sisters three.
14. My heart is wae for thee.
33. mind their wrath disdains.
63,4. Their treacherous art and cowardly heart
Has twin'd my love and me.
11 Lord of the land, that ladye said,
O wad ye go wi me
Unto my brother's stately tower,
Where safest ye may be!
121,2. There Hamiltons and Douglas baith
Shall rise to succour thee.
143. His life is but a three days' lease.
151. was clear, as in A.

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