When will we meet and marry?’
‘When peace and truth come to this land,
Nae langer, love, we’ll tarry.’
305. The Outlaw Murray.
P. 186 a. Mr Macmath writes (Dec. 24, 1895) that he has examined two boxes of MSS belonging to the late Mr George Wilson and found not ‘The Song of the Outlaw Murray,’ but ‘The Song of the Rid Square,’ in a transcript (perhaps early rather than late) of the 17th century. He thinks that by a slip of memory on Mr Wilson’s part ‘The Outlaw Murray’ was mentioned instead of this.
Fragments.
P. 202 b, last stanza. Mr Macmath has given me the following variation, communicated (with a story of a wife carried off by fairies) by J. C. to The Scottish Journal, II, 275, 1848.
O Alva woods are bonnie,
Tillycoultry hills are fair,
But when I think on the braes o Menstrie