The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)

by Unknown

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B.

The title, 'The Broom o the Cathery Knowes,' is not prefixed to the ballad, but is given in the Index.

5⁴. Changed by Motherwell to many's the mile, as in 1.

12. Hey the broom, &c.

C.

This version, which the Rev. E. Venables has also communicated to me in manuscript, was tagged on to a fragment of 'Hugh of Lincoln.'

After 4: "Mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, etc., succeed. At last comes the own true love, who replies."

D.

2^{3, 4}. Restored from stanza 5.