| b. |
The printed copy seems to have been made up
from a and Kinloch's other versions.
1. Preceded by these two lines, taken from D:
As I cam in by Athol's yetts,
I heard a fair maid singing.
12. And I wat it weel does set me.
32. ye'll omitted.
33. drink the lass' health.
34. That 's coming to pay the.
(This stanza occurs in Motherwell's Note-Book, p. 46,
where it is credited to a Manuscript)
After 3:
He hied him doun to yon change-house,
And he drank till the day was dawing,
And at ilka pint's end he drank the lass' health
That was coming to pay for his lawing.
41. and aye.
62. see gin she war.
63. There he saw the duke and a' his merry men.
64. the hill.
71. doun omitted.
73. She buskit: woman's.
82. they war calling.
83. Had ye a young man here yestreen.
After 8:
'He drank but ae pint, and he paid it or he went,
And ye 've na mair to do wi the lawing.'
They searchit the house a' round and round,
And they spared na the curtains to tear them,
While the landlady stood upo the stair-head,
Crying, 'Maid, be busy at your baking!'
They gaed as they cam, and left a' undone,
And left the bonnie maid at her baking. |
