H. ‘The Dowie Dens of Yarrow,’ Campbell MSS, II, 55.
I. ‘Braes of Yarrow,’ Buchan’s MSS, II, 161; Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 203; Dixon, Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, p. 68, Percy Society, vol. xvii.
J. ‘The Dowie Glens of Yarrow,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford.
K. ‘The Dowie Den in Yarrow,’ Campbell MSS, I, 8.
L. ‘The Dowie Dens,’ Blackwood’s Magazine, CXLVII, 741, June, 1890.
M. ‘Dowie Banks of Yarrow,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford.
N. ‘The Yetts of Gowrie,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford.
O. Herd’s MSS, I, 35, II, 181; Herd’s Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, 1776, I, 145; four stanzas.
P. Cromek’s Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196; two stanzas.
First published in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1803 (E b). Scott remarks that he “found it easy to collect a variety of copies, but very difficult indeed to select from them such a collated edition as might in any degree suit the taste of ‘these more light and giddy-paced times.’” The copy principally used was E a. St. 12 of Scott, which suited the taste of the last century, but does not suit with a popular ballad, is from O, and also st. 13, and there are traces of F, G, M, but 5–7 have lines which do not occur in any version that I have seen.