14. First written: The fairest o them a’.
74. First written: The flower amang them a’.
D.
104. bells were, in the second copy.
E.
92. a swan.
F.
Hume says, p. 5, that he first heard the ballad in early boyhood; “it was afterwards readily identified with Sir Hugh of Lincoln, though the rustic minstrel from whom I received it made no allusion to locality.” One cannot tell whether this copy is the ballad heard in early boyhood.
141. “This and the next verse are transposed.” Hume.
G. a.