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

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20³. By the faith o my body, then said the king.

20⁴. a lusty.

21¹. gaed out.

21². sae gay.

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BROWN ADAM

[A]. 'Brown Adam,' Jamieson-Brown MS., fol. 17.

[B]. 'Broun Edom,' Harris MS., fol. 27 b, No 26.

[C]. 'Brown Adam the Smith,' Buchan MSS, I, 46.

'Brown Adam' was No 14 of the fifteen ballads furnished William Tytler by Mrs Brown in 1783: Anderson, in Nichols's Illustrations, VII, 178. The ballad was first printed in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, II, 16, 1802, with the omission of Mrs Brown's second stanza, and some changes. Scott remarks that he had seen a copy printed on a single sheet.