‘O doctor, dear doctor, lay me down on the ground.’
7
Her bones were all broken and laid at her feet,
And they anointed her body with the ointment so sweet,
And ay as they weeped they wrung their hands sore,
For the fair flower of England will flourish no more.
173. Mary Hamilton.
P. 379. Stanzas 1, 2, 10 of C are printed in Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 315, and 4, 9 of L at p. 316.
380 a, line 13. Say Stewart, or stewart.
384. A a. Found in a small MS. volume, with the title “Songs” on the cover, entirely in Sharpe’s handwriting, p. 29. The only variations, besides a few in spelling, are these: