The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)

by Unknown

And standing at the cross,

There she saw all the coblers’ wifes,

Sat greeting at the cross.

15^3,4. Originally, For I am come to, etc., Weeded for to be.

A marginal note by Motherwell, opposite the last line, but erased, has A rich wedding to sie.

16¹. stair altered from close.

19, 20. Written in the margin, after those which follow.

23^3,4 and And, 23⁵, are of later insertion.

E.

For the seven stanzas after 15, see No 95, II, 346.