[B]. a.

Written in long or double lines in the manuscript.

22, 42. or.

53. a besure.

84. landy mair

114. twice.

163. wicked is inserted before stepmother, seemingly by Jamieson.

b.

The first stanza, as given by Anderson, Nichols, Literary Illustrations, VII, 177, is:

'Come here, come here, ye freely feed,
And lay your head low on my knee;
The heaviest weird I will you read
That ever was read till a lady.'