| A. a. |
44, 5, 6. Omitted; supplied from b. Dean
Christie notes that the lines omitted will
be found in a copy which, with other
things of the kind, he had destined for
use in this collection. Unfortunately, and
quite unaccountably, these pieces never
came to hand.
192. put on the black. |
| b. |
Of b, which was obtained some twenty years
after a was written down, Mrs. Thomson says:
Enclosed is the whole of the ballad, as I had it from my
mother... She never sang those two verses to us [5, 6].
She only repeated them to me when Dean Christie wanted the
ballad. We may, perhaps, infer from these last words that the
ballad was originally taken down by the daughter from her
mother's recitation, and not by Dean Christie. It is to be
observed that the mother was still living in 1890, but
when b was committed to paper is not said. |
| a. |
83,4, 91,2, are wanting in b;
b has a stanza, an inevitable one, which a lacks,
in answer to 13.
11. It's we were sisters and.
13. Some got dukes.
14. got men.
15. But I: Earl Crawford.
16. a meet.
21. Fifteen years that.
22. And sixteen years I.
23. that a tender age.
32. We were walking in yon.
33. There was nae body walking there.
34. But the earl himself and.
41. you, Earl.
42. You mak sae much o your.
43. I wonder at you, Earl Crawford.
44, 5, 6. Inserted in a.
72. little son he set her.
73. gee on to your father's bowers.
82. down on her knee.
83,4, 91,2, wanting.
93. Hoo's a', hoo's a.
94. thee wi.
101. now wanting.
102. And a' my folly lat it.
103. For one: mouth.
111. my Lady.
112. And I'll lat a' your folly.
113. portion oer again.
114. I'll provide for.
121. now wanting.
122. And speak nae mair o this to me.
123. For I wad nae.
124. ye could.
133. That will: Crawford's.
134. see gin's hairt be faen tae.
After 13:
| |
'O here am I, a bonny boy,
That's willin to win meat and fee,
That will go on to Earl Crawford's,
And see an's hairt be faen to thee.' |
141. to Earl Crawford's gates.
142. He lighted low down on a stane.
143. Says, I wonder at you, E. C.
144. You 'r nae gaun to tak.
151. tell to Lady.
152. Ye may neither.
153. stay weel in.
154. she'll never.
161. came to her father's bowers.
171. tell to Lady.
173. You'r bidden stay well in your.
174. For yu'll never enter his.
181. lily-white.
183. to the Earl himsell.
184. And wi that her bonny hairt did brack.
191. Dowie, dowie raise up her father.
192. And wanting: the black put on.
193. And wanting: his steed he mounted.
201. When he came to Earl Crawford's gates.
202. They were all going to dine.
203. And were all drest in robes of white.
211. He says, You may put aff the robes o white.
213. And ye'll put on the dowie black.
221. Earl Crawford took his hat in's hand.
223. Says, If this be true that L[ady] L[illie's].
224. sin shall never shine. |
