| B. b. |
Stanzas 7, 3, 122, 6, 4.
| 3 |
And then out and spak her father dear,
And oh! but he was wondrous angrie;
'It's ye may steal my cows and ews,
But ye maunna steal my bonnie Peggy.' |
| 4 |
'Hold your tongue, you silly auld man,
For ye've said eneuch already;
I'll neither steal your cows nor ews,
But I wat I'll steal your bonnie Peggy.' |
61. He's mounted her on a milk-white.
63. are ouer hill and they 're ouer dale.
64. he's clean awa.
71. As I cam in by.
73. I met.
74. son, war.
122. Feather beds and bowsters many. (A,
102) |
| c. |
"I have carefully collated these [Kinloch's
copy, B a, and Sharpe's, A] with another
copy, giving, for the most part, the preference
to the version of Mr. Kinloch."
Readings (quite unimportant) which do
not occur in B a, A:
13. they hae come doun to Glasgow toun.
21. O I.
23. were a hundred.
43. or.
After 4, cf. A 41,2:
| |
But up then spak the auld gudewife,
And wow! but she lookd wondrous yellow. |
51,3. follow him.
54. I'll bide.
71. out frae.
72. And by the side o Antermony.
74. Wi him his.
82. sadly for sorry.
101. It's they.
114. wi the.
121. There's mair than ae bed in.
162. on them.
163. It's I. |
| C. b. |
8. In a letter of John Hamilton's to Sir
W. Scott, dated August 17, 1803 ("Scotch
Ballads" etc., No 116), this stanza is given
thus:
| |
My palace stands on yon burn-brae,
My bow is bent an arrows ready;
My name is Donald, in the Isle of Sky,
Although I be but a Highland laddie. |
Scott probably trusted to his memory when
making the following note to a, printed in
Sharpens Ballad Book, ed. 1880:
| |
'I have a dirk and a gude claymore,
My bow is bent and my arrow ready;
My castle stands in the Isle of Skye,
Although I am but a Highland laddie.' |
"The above stanza, which I got from the late
Mr. Hamilton, music-seller in Edinburgh,
seems to belong to ' Glasgow Peggie.'" |
