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Variations of Waly, Waly, etc. |
| a. |
Put among 'Auld Sangs brushd up' in Earnsay's
"Contents," p. 329. Printed in eight-line stanzas.
4. Burns had heard this stanza "in the west
country" thus (Cromek's Reliques, 1817, p. 245):
O wherefore need I busk my head?
Or wherefore need I kame my hair?
Sin my fause luve has me forsook,
And says he'll never luve me mair.
78. my cry: me in the London edition of
1733. |
| b. |
11, up yon bank.
12, down yon brea.
13. And waly by yon river's side.
14. Where my love and I was wont to gae.
2, 3 are 3, 2.
24. And sae did my fause love to me.
31. Waly, waly, gin love be bonny.
32. little while when.
33. it 's: waxes.
34. wears away like.
4. Already given.
61. O Martinmas.
64. And take a life that wearies me. |
| B. |
33. wlalking.
61. bells turn silver shells. |
| C. |
These variations in the second copy (I, 103)
are Kinloch's:
43. on a.
92. to thee.
122. let abee.
124. for thee.
131. father, I said.
133. ae kiss.
144. I'll. |
| F. |
51. For gentlemen Motherwell queries, lairds
and lords?
91. Earl of Marquis; March queried by Motherwell.
It is March in I. |
| I. |
52, 64. Orange, not orange,
in the Manuscript
61. Motherwell queries far in for foreign. |
| J. |
21. nonnie, nonny is written in pencil by
Motherwell between 1 and 2;
no doubt as a conjectural emendation of Johnie, Johnie. |
| L. |
2, 3, 4, 15 are M 2-5, with slight changes.
15. "One copy here bears black-bird and
another a fause bird." (Finlay.)
133. Lord Orgul. "This name is differently
given by reciters." (Finlay.)
151. Fastness as a proper name, but evidently
meant for faustness, falseness,
as Motherwell has observed. |
| M. |
Quham, quhen, quha are printed wham, when,
wha; zet, ze, zour, are printed yet, ye, your. |
| N. |
Motherwell's ballad is "traditionary" to the
extent that it is substantially made up from
traditionary material. The text of the recited
copies is not always strictly adhered to.
The fifth stanza happens not to occur in the
texts used, but may have come in in some
other recitation obtained by Motherwell, or
may simply have been adopted from Ramsay.
The three last stanzas (N) are from some
recitation not preserved in Motherwell's relics.
Neglecting unimportant divergencies,
the constituent parts are as follows:
1 = H 11-3, G 14.
2,3 = J 2,3.
4 = F 2.
(5 = Ramsay 4.)
6 = F 3.
7 = I 14.
8-10 = F 4-6.
11 = F 71.2,4, H 48.
12 = H 3 (see E 14,5, L 14).
13 = F 8.
14 = I 51,3, O4.
15 = I 6.
16 = H 7.
17 = J 7.
18 = F 112, I 31,3,4.
19, 20 = I 4, 8.
21 = I 9 (see L 93).
22 = J 9.
23 = F 12.
24 = J 10.
25 = I 10.
26 = I 71-3, G 44.
27 = G 13, I 113,4.
28 = F 15, G 14.
29 = F 16.
30,31 = I 15, 16.
(32 resembles D 101,2,
143,4; 33, D 11.) |
