After 182: etc., as above.
After 20: etc., as to father, mother, etc. The verses not written out (and not printed in the Minstrelsy) have been supplied accordingly.
302. bells altered in the MS. from mass.
263. clothe.
293. In the Minstrelsy Motherwell has substituted England for Scotland.
346. Motherwell prints dead ere syne.
D.
In his Note-Book, p. 27, Motherwell says that he got this copy of the ballad from Agnes Laird; in the MS., p. 415, from Agnes Lyle. Page 26 of the Note-Book shows that Laird is right.
E.
The edition of 1833 inserts stanza 13, and substitutes for 27, 28 the following: