Motherwell, as often elsewhere, makes slight changes in printing, as: 112, broken to won, though not changed in 122; 153 [173], And to And wi, unnecessarily, see F 193.
F.
2-9. "Her father, brother, and sister successively address her in the same polite style, and receive the same answer; except that to the latter, instead of the information contained in the last two lines, she addresses a piece of advice." The phrase stood stately in 22, most appropriate for the mother, was probably varied for father, brother, and sister.
15-16. "He delivers his message in the approved ballad style, and the lover speaks."
20. "The few verses following contain her testamentary bequests to her relatives above mentioned; but the person from whom I got the ballad could not repeat them."
G.
62. He bend.
I. a.
1. Given in the Appendix to Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. xix, XIV, with this slight difference in the burden: And she dearly loved me.
3-9. at Dundee in the burden.