173. you are.
214. killed 3.
223. head: there is a tag to the d as if for s. Furnivall.
234. these 3.
B.
13, 4, 2 are cited by Jamieson in the Scots Magazine, October, 1803, p. 698, as the beginning of a fragment [Gray's], with only this variation:
Glenkindie was ance the best harper.
He has, therefore, combined the two versions here.
Stanza 4, as published, is the first of "another copy [Scott's], in which the story is complete, but, it having been written from the recitation of a poor old woman in Aberdeenshire, the diction has been much humbled. It begins:
'I'll gie you a robe, Glenkindy,
A robe o the royal pa,
Gin ye will harp i the winter's night
Afore my nobles a'.'