Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

217. The Broom of Cowdenknows

B. a.  6 should probably come before 5.
92. Whare.
b.  22. lassie shew.
51. But when twenty weeks were.
52. O twenty weeks and three.
53. lassie began to grow pale and wan.
61. father's herd.
64. And wadna bide wi me.
92. loud's.
11. He was the laird of Auchentrone,
      With fifty ploughs and three,
And he has gotten the bonniest lass
      In a' the south countrie.
C.  33. if he.
Kinloch has made clianges In his printed copy.
D.  1. Oh.
13. Changed later to ay as she sang, her.
24. Burden: To see.
34. Changed to out owr.
54. axit in the burden.
61. But quhan,
74. neer inserted later after ye'll.
Burden: It 's ye'll see me.
81. purse-string originally.
83. in 3.
84. It will; t seems to be crossed out. I in the burden.
91. fit originally, altered to fut, or fot.
133. Originally, An afore the ane he took.
151. Changed to and a bonnie simmer day.
161,2. Quha.
172. Changed to Sae loud 's.
The first stanza is given by Motherwell, Minstrelsy, Appendix, xvii, X, under the title 'Ochiltree Walls,' with the variation, O May, bonnie May.
E.  21. Oh.
I.  Kinloch has made changes in his printed copy.
J.  114. thee for me.
L.  44. fair, vain? Cf. M, 84.

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