He sped him sone, and gat the thrid;
Ane Carling of the Quene of Phareis,
That ewill win gair to elphyne careis,
Through all Braid Albane scho hes bene,
On horsbak on Hallow ewin;
And ay in seiking certayne nyghtis,
As scho sayis, with sur [read our] sillie wychtis.
Similarly, he gives the fairies the name of Seely Court, and cites as illustrating it the following lines from R. Jamieson’s Popular Ballads, (i. 236, and) ii. 189:—
But as it fell out on last Hallowe’en,