There was not a seat in the house
But what was made of the green fell.
F.
161, 221. The Sir is an anticipation.
G.
71, 91–3. Oh.
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BONNY LIZIE BAILLIE
a. ‘Bonny Lizie Balie, A New Song very much in Request,’ Laing broadsides, No 46; no date or place. b. ‘Bonny Lizzie Bailie,’ Maidment’s Scotish Ballads and Songs, 1859, p. 13. c. ‘My bonny Lizzie Baillie,’ Johnson’s Museum, ed. 1853, IV, *451. d. ‘Lizae Baillie,’ Herd’s MSS, I, 101, and, in part, II, 121. e. ‘Lizie Baillie,’ Campbell MSS, I, 98. f. ‘Lizzie Bailie,’ Smith’s Scotish Minstrel, IV, 90. g. ‘Lizie Baillie,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 173.
a, from the collection of broadsides made by David Laing, now in the possession of Lord Rosebery, may probably have been printed at the beginning of the last century, at Edinburgh. b was taken “from a tolerably old copy printed at Glasgow.” Excepting the lack of two stanzas, the variations from a are mostly of slight consequence; two or three are for the better, c (only the beginning, stanzas 1–41) was communicated by C. K. Sharpe, from a “MS. copy of some antiquity.” d-g are of no authority. d, e are fragmentary stanzas, misremembered if not corrupted. f has ten stanzas, eight of which (some with a word or two changed) are from d. g is a washy rifacimento.
d is printed in Herd’s Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, 1776, II, 3. The copy in Johnson’s Museum, No 456, p. 469, is d without the first stanza.