But she gied them a far better thing,
The goud ring aff her finger.
42. Wi my.
43. But this.
63. For I vow and I swear, by the fan in my hand.
72. And wanting.
92. Otherwise: The brown was neer sae ready.
103. but ane.
104. For a.
Herd has in 103,4 but ane, For. Pinkerton follows Herd, with changes of his own in 1, 10, and the omission of 7. The copy in Johnson’s Museum is Herd’s, with changes: in 103,4, are a’ put down for ane, The Earl of Cassilis’ lady. Ritson follows Ramsay, except that in 62 he has And I’ll, found in Herd; perhaps also in some edition of the Tea-Table Miscellany.