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

by Unknown

H.

5¹. Mony ane. (?)

9¹. Johnnie lap: probably an error of the copyist.

9², 18². wound: cf. 20².

21⁴. bidding.

Dixon has changed stane-auld to silly-auld in 11¹, 12¹, 20³; Cockis to Cockl’s in 17⁴; and has Scotticised the spelling.

I.

Motherwell notes a stanza as wanting after 3, some stanzas as wanting after 4, 5.

J.

“The version of the ballad here given is partly copied from those printed in the Border Minstrelsy and in the publications of Messrs Kinloch and Motherwell, and is partly taken from the recitation of a lady resident at Peebles and from a manuscript copy submitted to me by Mr Kinloch. The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh stanzas are here printed for the first time.” Chambers. The 14th stanza had been printed by Scott, F 12; the 23d, repeated here (6), by Pinkerton; the 27th is D 20. The first half of the 12th is D 13^1,2, and the remainder Chambers’s own: compare his 11 and F 11, from which it seems to have been made.