8 'O deal ye well at my love's lyke
The beer but an the wine;
For ere the morn, at this same time,
Ye'll deal the same at mine.'
F
Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xx, XVIII.
As Willie and the young Colnel
Were drinking at the wine,
'O will ye marry my sister?' says Will,
'And I will marry thine.'
A.
104. very deep, in the edition of 1776.
B. a.
41. Motherwell informs us, p. 200, that the original reading was little small sword; also he stabbed in 43.
b.