173. shall I come.
F.
After 20 Jamieson introduced these two stanzas of his own, "the idea of the rose being suggested by the gentleman who recited, but who could not recollect the language in which it was expressed:"
But up and spak her midmaist brother,
And an angry laugh leugh he:
'The thorn that dabs, I'll cut it down,
Though fair the rose may be.
'The flower that smelld sae sweet yestreen
Has lost its bloom wi thee;
And though I'm wae it should be sae,
Clerk Saunders, ye maun die.'
After 23 follow ten stanzas, which are transferred to '[Sweet William's Ghost].'
G.
326. you to speak again.
FOOTNOTES:
[101] But it is, of course, not impossible that there may have been such a conclusion to 'Clerk Saunders.' It may be mentioned, though not as an argument, that there was a ballad in Boccaccio's time (of which he cites the first two lines), on the story of G. iv, N. 5, of the Decamerone; a tale in which three brothers kill their sister's lover, and bury the body in a solitary place, and his ghost appears and informs the sister of what had happened.