"'O sister, sister, reach thy hand!
Hey ho, my Nanny, O
And you shall be heir of all my land.
While the swan swims bonny, O'"
Out of this stanza, or the corresponding one in Mrs Brown's copy, Scott seems to have made his 9, 10.
[E].
"My mother used to sing this song." Sharpe's Ballad Book, ed. of 1880, note, p. 129.
[F].
22. An wooer.
[G].
21. strand, with sand written above: sand in 31.
[I].
12. var. in MS. There was a knicht and he loved them bath.