8. 'Carry my love this knife,
That dearly loves me
Bid him seek another wife.
9. 'Carry my love this ring,
That dearly loves me
Bid him come to my burning.
10 is wanting.
FOOTNOTES:
[87] The genuineness of H, Buchan's version, may be doubted both on general and on particular grounds, and both because of its departures from the common story and because of its repeating some peculiarities of the Jamieson-Brown copy, A. If H was compiled, as I think it was, largely from A, the person that did the work may have seen the manuscript, which is not at all improbable; for the English blude of H 13 is found in the MS., A 16, and not in the copy printed by Jamieson, and so with the thistle of H 15, A 17. Buchan, or Buchan's foreman, is entitled to copyright for the invention, in H 17, of Maisry's carrying peats in her petticoat, "her ainsell for to burn;" also for English James, that little prince, 103, Adam's high tower, 203, thro Linkum and thro Lin, 374.
[88] Like the Clerk of Oxenford's two sons, and Sweet William, Motherwell, Minstrelsy, p. 307.
[89] There is no word of quailing except in G, and in G she blesses her lover most touchingly, with almost her last words.
She turned her head on her left shoulder,
Saw her girdle hang on the tree:
'O God bless them that gave me that!
They'll never give more to me.'
[90] According to Buchan, H 39, Maisry's true-love ran brain; so again in Buchan's version of [Fair Janet], see F 35. This is Maisry's end in several versions of 'Auld Ingram,' and in all, I suppose, a modern substitute for the immediate death of older ballads.
[91] A champion may be offered even in Ariosto's Scotland.