[157] And also stanza 3 of Buchan's 'Fairy Knight,' 'The Elfin Knight,' D, p. 17 of this volume, which runs:
I hae a sister eleven years auld,
And she to the young men's bed has made bauld.
[158] Who suggests, II, xlv, somewhat oddly, that the passage may have been taken from Revelation, xii, 2 f, 13 f.
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SHEATH AND KNIFE
[A]. a. Motherwell's MS., p. 286. b. 'The broom blooms bonnie and says it is fair,' Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 189.
[B]. Sharpe's Ballad Book, ed. by D. Laing, p. 159.
[C]. 'The broom blooms bonie,' Johnson's Museum, No 461.
[D]. Notes and Queries, First Series, V, 345, one stanza.
The three stanzas of this ballad which are found in the Musical Museum (C) were furnished, it is said, by Burns. It was first printed in full (A b) in Motherwell's Minstrelsy. Motherwell retouched a verse here and there slightly, to regulate the metre. A a is here given as it stands in his manuscript. B consists of some scattered verses as remembered by Sir W. Scott.