4 Now word is to the king himsell,
On throne where he did sit,
That his ae dochter goes wi child
To John that little Scot.
A.
Written in stanzas of two long lines in the Jamieson MS.
42, 272. MS. will?
83. I wist.
153. plates.
The first stanza is given thus by Anderson in Nichols's Illustrations:
Johnie was as brave a knight
As ever sailed the sea,
And he is to the English court,
To serve for meat and fee.
The Abbotsford copy omits stanzas 4, 9, 34. Most of the many changes are, beyond doubt, arbitrary, but the following are more or less countenanced by other versions.