B.
6, 7. These stanzas, with the trivial variation in 63 of she's taen out, are given by Chambers, Scottish Ballads, p. 259, note, from his recollection of a recited fragment.
D.
"The catastrophe wanting, but the lady's treachery was discovered, and she was burned." Motherwell's MS.
94. so deep.
201. hast.
E.
"Although much of the language seems somewhat modernized, this must be attributed to its currency, being much liked, and very much sung, in this neighborhood. I can trace it back several generations, but cannot hear of its ever having been in print. I have never heard it with any considerable variation, save that one reciter called the dwelling of the feigned sweetheart Castle-swa." Hogg.
G.
"To a wild melancholy tune." Herd.