THE WEE WEE MAN
The Text is that of Herd’s MS. and his Scots Songs. Other versions vary very slightly, and this is the oldest of them.
There is a fourteenth-century MS. (in the Cotton collection) containing a poem not unlike The Wee Wee Man; but there is no justification in deriving the ballad from the poem, which may be found in Ritson’s Ancient Songs (1829), i. p. 40.
Scott incorporates the story with The Young Tamlane.