An ye ha ane to spend.’
May, 44, 114, sir, 64, are added for singing as O is in other copies, and either one of these, or O, would naturally be appended in the other stanzas.
81. Lay not fancyour love on me. The next line shows that fane was written by mistake.
325. Findlay’s MS., p. 13, has five stanzas of the ballad, from the recitation of a woman in Kincardineshire. The five stanzas are very nearly the same as D 1, 2, 4, 5, 61,2, with the matter-of-fact conclusion, 63,4,
An a’body seemed to be content,
And she was at his will.
A stanza from another version is given at the same place which resembles E 8:
She canna wash your china cups,
Nor dress you a dish o tea, O