| A. a. |
11. day written over time.
12. from home was he?
22, 32, 54. Await.
42. The -ee rhyme may be restored by transposing
Come tell to me, as in c (or adding
said she).
74. Nae said, nae said.
132-133. Two half-stanzas are wanting here:
see b, c.
16 follows 17, but see b,
c. |
| b. |
12. king was from home but lately.
13. That Sir.
21. was laid.
22, 32, 54. I wat.
23. And there's not a man in.
24. Wad speak.
31. king's fair.
34. And went in and.
42. if you have.
43. vow, I'll.
52. was it.
54. And I wat he's.
After 5:
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Up then spak the king himsel,
And an angry man I wot was he:
'For stealin o my jewels rare,
Hatlie shall oer the barriers die.' |
61,2. A boon, a boon, O.
63. askit a boon before.
64. And I 'm sure that you will grant it me.
71. O ask it, ask it.
73. And gin it be the half o my estate.
74. Granted sal it be to thee.
| 8. |
'O grant me this favour, father dear,
O grant this favour unto me,
For I never asked favour before;
O spare the life of James Hatlie!' |
9. Wanting.
103. Let Hatley and Fenwick go to.
111. 'Well askëd, well askëd.
112. Well asked.
113. Before the morn at.
121. he was seventeen.
123. But wanting: strak.
124. gien.
131. he said.
Between 132 and 133:
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'For this is spillin of noble blude,
And shamciii of my noble kin. |
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'Hold up, hold up,' Sir Fenwick he said,
'Hold up, and ye sal justified be;' |
133. stolen the jewels myself.
141. Up then spake a southern.
143. rather have given the half o my land.
144. Before James Hatlie should not hanged be.
15. Wanting.
16, 17. The son speaks before the daughter.
161, 171. Up then.
163. For from this hour receive this dower.
164. Ye sal be.
173,4. For ere the sun gae down this night, O
there's my hand, I'll marry thee. |
| c. |
11. It fell upon a certain day.
12,from home he chanced to be.
13. The king's jewels they were stolen all.
14. And they.
21. And he is into prison cast.
22. And I wat he is.
23. For there was not a man.
24. speak a.
| 3. |
But the king's eldest daughter she loved him well,
But known her love it might not be;
And she has stolen the prison-keys,
And gane in and discoursed wi James Hatelie. |
41. Oh, did you steal them, James.
42. Oh, did not you steal them? come tell to me.
43. For I'll.
44. You's.
51. I did not steal them, James.
52. And neither was it.
53. For the English they stole them themselves.
54. And I wat they 've.
| 61,2. |
Now she has hame to her father gane,
And bowed her low down on her knee;
'I ask, I ask, I ask, father,' she said,
'I ask, I ask a boon of thee.' |
63. For wanting.
64. And one of them you must grant to me.
71,2. Ask on, ask on, daughter, he said, And
aye weel answered ye shall be.
73. For if it were my whole.
74. you shall.
81. I ask.
82. As little of your white monie.
83. But all the asken that I do ask.
91. Ask on, ask on, daughter, he said.
92. And aye weel answered ye,
93. and keep.
94. shall not.
101. asken I ask, father: dear wanting.
102. asken I ask of thee.
103. go to.
111,2. Ask on, ask on, daughter, he said, And
aye weel answered you shall be.
113. For before the morn at.
121. eighteen years of age.
122. False F. was thirty years and three.
123. He lap: strack.
124. And he gave false F.
131. Oh, hold your hand, J. H., he said.
Between 132 and 133:
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'Were it not for the spilling of my noble blood,
And the shaming of my noble kin.
'Oh, hold your hand, James Hatelie,' he said,
'Oh, hold your hand, and let me be.' |
133. For I 'm the man that stole the jewels.
134. And a: it was.
141. Then up bespoke.
142. I wat but he.
143. rather have lost all my lands.
144. they had.
151. Then up bespoke a good Scotch.
152. I wat a good Scotch lord was he.
153. to the knees in blood.
154. Than they.
16, 17. The son speaks before the daughter.
161, 171. Then up bespoke.
162, 172. Come in.
163, 173. I'll make: and I'll.
163. You'se: and sea.
171. king's eldest. |
| B. |
The copy transcribed by Wilkie has been edited
a little.
21,2, originally written in one line,
are rightly divided as here;
23,4 are made the concluding half of another stanza.
24. Would speak one.
31. James he.
34. omitted.
43. And omitted.
51. prince is: father's chamber.
62. to omitted.
92. That hung low down by his knee.
93. it wanting.
94. Then gave him.
11 is put before 10, and 101,2 omitted.
114. king's laying (careless copying).
123. false omitted.
Wilkie notes (No 39) that he had "heard this
sung also by a shepherd on Soltra hill," but
it is not likely that these variations were derived from the
shepherd. |
| C. |
91. When Johnie.
143. War for Were originally.
174. brothered in the Manuscript. |
