[365] I do not entirely understand Professor Milá's arrangement of those texts which he has not printed in full, and it is very likely that more of his copies than I have cited exhibit some of the traits specified.
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THE BROOMFIELD HILL
[A]. 'The Broomfield Hill.' a. Scott's Minstrelsy, III, 271, 1803. b. The same, II, 229, 1802.
[B]. 'I'll wager, I'll wager,' etc., Herd's Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, 1769, p. 310.
[C]. 'Broomfield Hills,' Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 291.
[D]. 'Lord John,' Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 195.
[E]. Joseph Robertson's Note-Book, January, 1830, p. 7.
[F]. 'The Merry Broomfield, or The West Country Wager.' a. Douce Ballads, III, fol. 64b. b. The same, IV, fol. 10.
A song of 'Brume, brume on hil' is one of those named in The Complaint of Scotland, 1549, p. 64 of Dr J. A. H. Murray's edition. "The foot of the song" is sung, with others, by Moros in Wager's "very merry and pithy Comedy called The longer thou livest the more fool thou art," c. 1568. 'Broom, broom on hil' is also one of Captain Cox's "bunch of ballets and songs, all auncient," No 53 of the collection, 1575.[366] The lines that Moros sings are: