154. cannons fair.
Scott (also).—31. lands.
None of the readings in Aytoun given in the notes at p. 53 were derived from Sharpe’s copy except A 83, and all of them may now be dropped.
199. The Bonnie House o Airlie.
P. 56. In a small MS. volume with the title “Songs” on the cover, entirely in Sharpe’s handwriting. A a is found at p. 24 (with some variations, undoubtedly arbitrary) prefaced with these words: “This song [referring to a copy presently to be given], like most others, would suffer amendment: here follows a copy somewhat improved. I have availed myself of a fragment in a former page of this work, and introduced a stanza [9] marked *, picked up in Perthshire.” Had A a been known to be an “improved” copy, it would not have been made so prominent.
The fragment (of slight value) was “from the recitation of Miss Oliphant of Gask, now Mrs Nairn” (afterwards Lady Nairne). It is (p. 21)—disregarding things misunderstood or avowedly added:
‘Come down, come down, my lady Ogilvie,
Come down, and tell us your dower:’
‘It’s east and west yon wan water side,
And it’s down by the banks of the Airly.