C. ‘James Herries,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 214.
D. ‘The Carpenter’s Wife,’ Kinloch MSS, I, 297.
E. ‘The Dæmon Lover,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 97.
F. ‘The Dæmon Lover,’ Scott’s Minstrelsy, II, 427, 1812.
G. ‘The Dæmon Lover,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 93.
H. ‘The Banks of Italy,’ Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs, I, 138, two stanzas.
The Pepys copy was printed for Thackeray and Passenger. Others are: Crawford, No 1114, Printed for A. M[ilbourne], W. O[nley], and T. Thackeray; Ewing, 377, for Coles, Vere, and Gilbertson; the same, 378, by and for W. O[nley]. No 71 in Thackeray’s List, printed 1685. A later copy in the Douce ballads, II, fol. 249 b, Bodleian Library, printed by Thomas Norris at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge. Another, without publisher’s name, in the Roxburghe collection, I, 502; Ballad Society, III, 200.
‘The Dæmon Lover’ was first published in Scott’s Minstrelsy, 5th edition, 1812 (F). William Laidlaw, who furnished the copy, inserted four stanzas of his own (6, 12, 17, 18, here omitted).[[143]] Motherwell, in 1827, had not been able to get more than nine stanzas (G), but afterwards secured a version of twice as many (E). Kinloch says of D, “My reciter, and others to whom I applied, assured me that they had never heard any more of it than what is given here.” Buchan, I, 313, referring to Motherwell’s fragment (G), is “happy to say ... there is still a perfect copy of this curious and scarce legend in existence, which is now for the first time given to the public” (C).@
An Americanized version of this ballad was printed not very long ago at Philadelphia, under the title of ‘The House-Carpenter.’ I have been able to secure only two stanzas, which were cited in Graham’s Illustrated Magazine, September, 1858:
‘I might have married the king’s daughter dear;’