b.
The printed copy seems to have been made up from a and Kinloch’s other versions.
1. Preceded by these two lines, taken from D:
As I cam in by Athol’s yetts,
I heard a fair maid singing.
12. And I wat it weel does set me.
32. ye’ll omitted. 33. drink the lass’ health.
34. That’s coming to pay the. (This stanza occurs in Motherwell’s Note-Book, p. 46, where it is credited to a MS.)
After 3:
He hied him doun to yon change-house,