A. a.
13. quhar.
51. quha.
53. zeir.
111. have owre, have owr.
b.
In this copy Sir Andrew Wood replaces Sir Patrick Spens throughout.
84. They wat thair heads aboone.
At the end of version B Herd says: The foundation of the preceding song seems to have been the same story with that under the title of 'Sir Andrew Wood' in the former volume [of 1769]. In the Relicks of Antient Poetry is a copy somewhat different from either. We cannot suppose, after this, that Herd took his copy from Percy and altered it, and yet, excepting the variations noted above, and haff for have in 111, the copies are the same to a letter. If Herd's copy was one of the two used by Percy, what was the other? Was there, after all, but one copy again, as in the case of '[King Estmere]'?
B.