The first, second, and fourth verse, perhaps, certainly the second and fourth, should have the trochaic ending which we find in stanzas 2, 5. It may have been supplied ad libitum.
296. F a. Preserved in a small MS. volume with the title “Songs” on the cover, entirely in Sharpe’s handwriting, p. 27.
297. I. A stanza from the authority of Nannie Blake, an old servant at Peebles: Robert Chambers, in Sharpe’s Ballad Book, 1880, p. 131.
‘Fair Rosewoodie is a’ my ain,
My father left it to me so lately;
Gin ye’ll consent to be my ain,
I’ll gie ye’t a’, my Ritchie Storie.’
235. The Earl of Aboyne.
P. 314. C. Here given as it stands in “The Old Lady’s Collection,” No 8.
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