[A].
Burden. Song xix of Forbes's 'Cantus,' Aberdeen, 1682, 3d ed., has, as pointed out by Motherwell, Minstrelsy, p. lx, nearly the same burden: The gowans are gay, The first morning of May. And again, a song in the Tea Table Miscellany, as remarked by Buchan, There gowans are gay, The first morning of May: p. 404 of the 12th ed., London, 1763.
b.
No doubt furnished to Motherwell by Buchan, as a considerable number of ballads in this part of his MS. seem to have been.
32. Then in.
81. kind sir, said she.
102. That we may some rest before I die.
111. the near.
132. to them ilk ane.
1 is given by Motherwell, Minstrelsy, p. lx, but apparently to improve metre and secure rhyme, thus: