A. a.

13. wellfar’d May.

21. fair May: rare May.

24. as thee May.

17. This stanza looks like a spurious addition.

b. Kinloch has taken fourteen of the seventeen stanzas of a (all but 1, 2, 17) into his printed copy, with a change of a word here and there (not here noticed), as was his way. The remaining ten stanzas must be from recitation, if Kinloch is to be understood strictly.

1.

The laird o Drum is a-wooing gane;

It was on a morning early;

And he has fawn in wi a bonnie may,