9
He took her by the hand so meek and sma,
And he cast her over between him and the wa.
10
'Tho all your friends were in the bower,
I would not let you go for the space of half an hour.
11
'You came to me without either horse or boy,
But I will send you home with a merry convoy.'
D.
Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xix, No XVII.
'O Johnie, dear Johnie, what makes ye sae sad?'
As the sun shines ower the valley
'I think nae music will mak ye glad.'
Amang the blue flowers and the yellow
[B].
b is a with stanzas 3, 12-15 omitted, and "a few alterations, some of them given from the recitation of an old woman." "Buchan's version differs little from the way the old woman sang the ballad." The old woman's variations, so far as adopted, are certainly of the most trifling.
12. I am.