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

by Unknown

After 30, inserts:

And lang and happy did they live,
But now their days are deen,
And in the kirk o sweet Saint Bride
Their graves are growing green.

Motherwell makes some alterations in his copy: as 1³, laigh to sair; 12⁴, and toil; whateer, in the second line of the second inserted stanza, above; besides others which are purely arbitrary. He has table eye in 20², where Buchan prints table play, and living, with being written over, in 26³.

C.

3¹, 8¹, 16¹. Oh.

6³. ceppit?

16^{1, 2}. gie?

There are appended to this version two stanzas of which Burton says: The reciter of this ballad is obstinate in persisting that the last two stanzas belong to it. They are evidently taken from 'The Birth of Robin Hood,' and have no connection with this ballad. See the following ballad.

FOOTNOTES:

[167] For the five hundred pounds in A 12, C 4, 5, cf. 'Leesome Brand,' A 12, 18, and the corresponding Scandinavian ballads.