What tidings hast thou brought me, child,
Thou art comen home so soon to me?’
9.
9.2 The line is partly cut away in the MS.: I follow the suggestion of Hales and Furnivall.
‘Good tidings, father, I have you brought,
Good tidings I hope it is to me;
The book is not in all Scotland,
But I can read it before your eye.’
10.
10.4 In the MS. the line stands: ‘To learn the speeches of all strange lands.’