A 14–16 might perhaps be better put after the drowning, as in C.

B.

Readings inserted by Motherwell in a copy of his Minstrelsy.

43,4.

My malison and deidly curse

Shall bear ye companie.

After 7:

He swam high, and he swam low,

And he swam to and fro,

Until he gript a hazel-bush,