35, wanting in a.
The never a word spake that ladie,
As on the floor she lay,
But hushd her young son in her arms
And turnd his face away.
36=a 35.
'Now up ye take my bonny young son
And wash him wi the milk,
And up ye take my fair ladie,
And row her i the silk.'
a 36 is wanting in b.
37. 'And smile on me now, Bird Ellen,
And cast awa your care,
For I'll make you ladie of a' my lands,
And your son shall be my heir.'
38. 'Blessd be the day,' sayd Bird Ellen,
'That I followd you frae the town,
For I'd rather far be your foot-page
Than the queen that wears the crown.'
C.
The stanzas bracketed are those which Kinloch interpolated in his later copy.
27, 31, 32, were derived from D.