[126] C 3, 4 are evidently misplaced, and belong in that part of the story where B 8, 9 occur.
[127] Liebrecht has noted many of the above in his 'Volkskunde.' A man requires identification of a woman in a very ill preserved ballad in Motherwell's MS., p. 320.
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SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST
[A]. 'Sweet William's Ghost,' Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany, "4th volume, 1740;" here from the London edition of 1763, p. 324.
[B]. Herd's MSS, I, 177, II, 49, stanzas 27 ff.
[C]. 'Marjorie and William,' Motherwell's MS., p. 262, 'William and Marjorie,' Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 186.
[D]. Dr Joseph Robertson's Note-Book, 'Adversaria,' p. 86.
[E]. 'Sweet William and May Margaret,' Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 241.
[F]. Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 83, stanzas 26 ff.