C. Written in stanzas of four short lines.
D.
Written, as far as the imperfect text would allow, in stanzas of eight short lines.
E. In stanzas of four short lines.
b.
“Epitomized from Buchan’s Ballads, with a few alterations from the way the Editor has heard it sung.”
12. Bonnie Jean: was flower.
21. There were four-and-twenty nobles.
22. And bonnie: was flower o them there.
31. Bonnie Jean.