[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.'