A.
101, 121, 141, or for nor; cf. 81.
122. “O Parcy Reed, etc. (same as stanza 8, save at end, thee and me).” The same abridgment and remark at 102, 142, but the last words are there given as me and thee. Uniformity is to be expected.
161. fare thou: cf. 163, 171.
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THE LAIRD OF WARISTON
A. ‘The Laird of Waristoun,’ Jamieson’s Popular Ballads, I, 109.
B. ‘Laird of Wariestoun,’ Kinloch MSS, VII, 217; Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 49.
C. ‘Death of Lord Warriston,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 56.
Birrell’s Diary, under the date of July 2, 1600, has the following entry: “John Kinland [Kincaid] of Waristone murderit be hes awin wyff and servant-man, and the nurische being also upone the conspiracy. The said gentilwoman being apprehendit, scho was tane to the Girth Crosse upon the 5 day of Julii, and her heid struck fra her bodie at the Can-nagait fit; quha diet verie patiently. Her nurische was brunt at the same tyme, at 4 houres in the morneing, the 5 of Julii.” P. 49.