186. Kinmont Willie.
P. 470 b, at the end of the first paragraph. Strike out 1639. Spottiswood’s account begins at the same page, 413, in the edition of 1655.
188. Archie o Cawfield.
P. 484. B b was first printed in the second edition of the Minstrelsy, 1803, I, 195.
The following is the copy from which Scott derived the stanzas introduced into this later edition of the ballad. It will be observed that ‘luve of Teviotdale’ is the reading of 42, and not a correction of Scott’s, as suggested at 486 b.
‘Archie o Ca’field, Variations,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 90, Abbotsford; in the handwriting of John Leyden.
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The one unto the other did say,
‘Blythe and merry how can we be,
When the night is billie Archie’s lyke-wake,