This ballad is in all of the salient features a repetition of 'Jock o the Side' (No, 187), Halls playing the parts of Armstrong's. The Halls are several times complained of for reif and awaytaking of ky. oxen, etc., in 1579. B a was printed by Scott in the first edition of his Minstrelsy, with certain changes, besides Scotticising of the spelling. The later edition of the same contains ten stanzas from another version preserved in Abbotsford Manuscript (see Child, iv, 516) and omits some stanzas of B a. The new stanzas are given in the Notes as they stand in the manuscript.
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