[I].
Scott's copy having been "prepared from a collation of the printed copies," namely, those in Johnson's Museum and Herd's Scottish Songs, "with a very accurate one in Glenriddell's MS., and with several recitals from tradition," what was not derived from tradition, but from the Museum, Glenriddell, and Herd, is printed in smaller type.
a. 3, 20, not in b.
After 31 are omitted five stanzas of the copy obtained by Scott "from a gentleman residing near Langholm," and others, of the same origin, after 46 and 47.
32
'But we that live in Fairy-land
No sickness know nor pain;
I quit my body when I will,
And take to it again.
33
'I quit my body when I please,
Or unto it repair;
We can inhabit at our ease
In either earth or air.
34
'Our shapes and size we can convert
To either large or small;
An old nut-shell's the same to us
As is the lofty hall.
35
'We sleep in rose-buds soft and sweet,
We revel in the stream;
We wanton lightly on the wind
Or glide on a sunbeam.
36
'And all our wants are well supplied
From every rich man's store,
Who thankless sins the gifts he gets,
And vainly grasps for more.'
404. buy me maik, a plain misprint for the be my maik of b 57.