7. The following stanza was subsequently written on an opposite blank page,—perhaps derived from D 8:
Foul fa the hand that I wad take,
To twin me and my warld's make.
102. a was, perhaps, meant to be expunged, but is only a little blotted.
112. var. a lady or a milk-white swan.
12, 13 were written in later than the rest; at the same time, apparently, as the stanza above (7).
[K].
Found among Mr Kinloch's papers by Mr Macmath, and inserted by him as a note on p. 59, vol. II, of Kinloch's MSS. The order of the stanzas is there, wrongly, inverted.
12. var. I wad give you.
[L]. a.
These fragments were communicated to Notes and Queries, April 3, 1852, by "G. A. C.," who had heard 'The Miller's Melody' sung by an old lady in his childhood, and who represents himself as probably the last survivor of those who had enjoyed the privilege of listening to her ballads. We may, therefore, assign this version to the latter part of the 18th century. The two four-line stanzas were sung to "a slow, quaint strain." Two others which followed were not remembered, "but their purport was that the body 'stopped hard by a miller's mill,' and that this 'miller chanced to come by,' and took it out of the water 'to make a melodye.'" G.A.C. goes on to say: "My venerable friend's tune here became a more lively one, and the time quicker; but I can only recollect a few of the couplets, and these not correctly nor in order of sequence, in which the transformation of the lady into a viol is described."