That verra day afore it was night,
Death made young Dysie cold.
B. Written without division into stanzas or verses.
32. to bed.
84. didde lea.
C. “Mary Johnston, our dairymaid at Hoddam Castle, used to sing this. It had a very pretty air, and some more verses which I have now forgot.” Sharpe’s Ballad-Book, 1880, p. 128.
D. A little scotticized by Buchan in printing, and still more by Dixon.
92. tasse is tarse in my transcript; probably miscopied.