| A. |
33. Perhaps bretlher a:
not understood by me in either case,
clear may be clean.
202. keping. Glossed "meeting" in a note,
but the line is not intelligible to me, and
does not seem to be consistent with what follows. |
| B. a. |
93. herbs sweet air. Robertson, New Deeside
Guide, prints herbs sweet an fair.
126. Robertson prints ony langer. |
| b. |
| 1 |
The Earl o Aboyne he's courteous an kind,
He's kind to every woman,
An he has left the castle o Aboyne
An gane to dwell in Lunan;
An sair was the heart his lady had,
Because she wan na wi him. |
| 2 |
As she was walking in her garden green,
Alang wi her gentlewoman,
There was a letter brocht to her
That her lord was wed in London. |
3. wanting.
42. saw twa bonny boys.
44. bring ye.
51. ye lady.
52. For the Earl o.
53,4. wanting.
61. all wanting.
64, 84, 93. Earl for Lord.
7, 82,3, 92-5, 10,
111,2. wanting.
91. maidens.
115. Gae bring me a pint o the gude red wine.
122. Says, Ye 're welcome hame.
123. welcome, he cried, as.
125. wad hae been.
123. only langer.
131. her about wi a scornfu.
133. suld hae been his.
134. He may kiss his miss in.
141. My merry men a'.
142. I'm wae at heart for.
143. The nicht we'll licht.
144. An the morn tak.
15, 161,2, 174, 182. wanting.
181. My merry men a' now turn.
191. near to bonny Aboyne.
193. the tollin.
a may have been derived from a printed copy,
and b learned from the same. |
| C. |
The latter half of the Skene Manuscript is very carelessly copied.
Here, as in other places, stanzas are not separated,
lines are improperly divided, and there are omissions which
are in no way indicated.
13. man hin | Before to, etc. |
| D. |
44. yonder's? But yonder may = yonder are.
144. She speed. |
| G. |
7, 8 are 2, 3 in the Manuscript. |
| H. |
74. streeket. Manuscript, perhaps,
struket. |
| I. |
11, 34. of is of later insertion.
63. came hame, originally; hame is erased
and to town written above. |
| J. |
21. I do not understand turned the honey month.
31. taen from him.
33. as you say: originally written he says.
71. him struck out after the second ask. |
