[29] He was not even that, according to G 4, which has the silly reading,
For I was never a good seaman,
Nor ever intend to be.
So in a mixed ballad which will be put with 'Young Allan.'
[30] I have not felt called upon to say anything of the attempt of the late Mr Robert Chambers to prove 'Sir Patrick Spens', a piece of literary work of the last century, by arguments which would make Lady Wardlaw author not only of most of the romantic Scottish ballads, but also of a good part of the ballads of Europe. The flimsy plea of Mr Chambers has been effectually disposed of by Mr Norval Clyne, The Romantic Scottish Ballads and the Lady Wardlaw Heresy, Aberdeen, 1859, and by Mr James Hutton Watkins, Early Scottish Ballads, Glasgow, 1867.
[59]
SIR ALDINGAR
[A]. 'Sir Aldingar,' Percy MS., p. 68; Hales and Furnivall, I, 166.
[B]. 'Sir Hugh le Blond,' Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, III, 51, 1803.
[C]. 'Sir Hugh le Blond,' Dr Joseph Robertson's Note-Book, January 1, 1830, p. 6.