And kissed her right tenderlie:
‘Ye’re welcome here, my ain true love,
Sae dearly welcome ye’re to me!’
* * * * * *
73. doolfu: l struck out.
At the end: “Some verses are wanting at the conclusion.”
The following stanza, entered by Scott in the quarto volume “Scottish Songs,” 1795, fol. 29 back, Abbotsford library, N. 3, is much too good to be lost:
Young Bechin was in Scotland born,
He longed far countries for to see,