O world of woes, O grief of griefs, to see
This damned den wher sure brave sp’rits did dye.
197. James Grant.
These verses occur in a manuscript collection of C. K. Sharpe’s (“second collection”), with slight verbal differences. They are written in long lines not divided into stanzas. Sir W. Scott remarks, Sharpe’s Ballad Book, 1880, p. 145, “I conceive Ballindalloch, being admitted by Grant, set upon him, and that there should be asterisks between the fourth line [the second stanza] and those which follow.”
11. Away, away now, James the Grant.
12. You’ll.
13. For Ballendalloch is at your gate.
21,4. Badendalloch.
22. Nor I.
23. Set up my gat both.