9. Given thus in Kinloch's annotated copy of his Ancient Scottish Ballads; derived, from Motherwell:
The king called doun his merry men,
By thirties and by three;
Lord Thomas, that used to be the first.
The hindmost man was he.
D.
32. altered, wrongly, to But lain with a.
92. shrrill.
F.
O is added, in singing, to every second and fourth verse.
13, 4. Thus in Motherwell's Note-Book, p. 27:
Seven long years was past and gone
When our Scotish king came home. O
16. Given thus in Kinloch's annotated copy of his Ancient Scottish Ballads, as the concluding verse of Mr Motherwell's copies and that of Buchan: