404. twa struck out.

65. Lady Maisry.

P. 112 b. I. “Mrs Baird says that this ballad was printed in the Saltmarket [Glasgow] by the Robertsons about seventy years ago.” Note by Motherwell in a copy of his Minstrelsy.

113, note §. ‘Galancina’ also in Munthe, Folkpoesi från Asturien, No 3, Upsala Universitets Årsskrift, 1887.


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‘Lady Margery,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 71, MS. of Thomas Wilkie, p. 71, Abbotsford. “From the recitation of Janet Scott, Bowden, who sung a dysmal air, as she called it, to the words.”

This version resembles D. 12, 13, may be caught from ‘Lord Derwentwater:’ see No 208, E 8, 9, F 9, 10. Omens are not in place after the positive information given in 11.

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Lady Margery was the king’s ae daughter,