“I had the first copy from Miss Harper, Kildrummy; but fearing imperfections, I made application, and by chance got another copy from the Rev. R. Scott, Glenbucket. These I blended together and formed a very good copy; but I have taken the liberty of altering the order of some of the stanzas, and in particular, taking out the ninth and making it the eleventh, and changing some of the words to make it more agreeable.” p. 97. Original readings in 22, specified by Laing, have been restored, and his 11 put back to 9. What follows 16 has the title, Variation.
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LIZIE LINDSAY
A. ‘Lizie Lindsay.’ a. Jamieson-Brown MS., Appendix, p. ii. b. Jamieson’s Popular Ballads. II, 149.
B. ‘Donald of the Isles,’ Kinloch MSS, I, 237. Aytoun’s Ballads of Scotland, 1859, I, 277.
C. ‘Donald of the Isles,’ Kinloch MSS, I, 253.
D. ‘Lizzy Lindsay,’ from a Note-Book of Dr Joseph Robertson, January, 1830, No 6.
E. ‘Bonny Lizie Lindsay,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 102.
F. ‘Lizzie Lindsay,’ Whitelaw’s Book of Scottish Ballads, p. 51.
G. ‘Leezie Lindsay,’ Notes and Queries, Third Series, I, 463.
Of A a Professor Robert Scott says, in the letter in which it was enclosed: “You will find above, all I have been able to procure in order to replace the lost fragment of ‘Lizie Lindsay.’ I believe it is not so correct or so complete as what was formerly sent, but there are materials enough to operate upon, and by forcing the memory of the recorder more harm than good might have been done.” Jamieson says of b: “Transmitted to the editor by Professor Scott of Aberdeen, as it was taken down from the recitation of an old woman.[[128]] It is very popular in the northeast[north-east] of Scotland, and was familiar to the editor in his early youth; and from the imperfect recollection which he still retains of it he has corrected the text in two or three unimportant passages.”