Oh dear Anne, how I love you!
The birds of the air, fly together pair and pair,
Bear witness, dear Anne, how I love you!’
J.
134. the queen’s berry.
262. crimes. I suppose crimes is to be meant.
K.
“Of the preceding ballad [F], Agnes Lile says she has heard her father sing a different set, all of which she forgets except this, that there was nothing said of ‘a bold bluidy wretch,’ and in place of what is given to him in this version [F 10, 11], there were the two following stanzas.” Motherwell’s MS., p. 370 f.
23. 5000.