Like A b, derived by Motherwell from Buchan.
41, 61, 81. wade in, wade in.
143. And thanked.
Dixon, Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, p. 63, printing B from the manuscript, makes one or two trivial changes.
d
is only this fragment.
43
Mony a time I rade wi my brown foal
The water o Wearie's Wells.
'Leave aff, leave aff your gey mantle,
It's a' gowd but the hem;
Leave aff, leave [aff], it's far owre gude
To weet i the saut see faem.'
5
She wade in, an he rade in,
Till it took her to the knee;
Wi sighin said that lady gay
'Sic wadin's no for me.'
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