Burden after the first and the fourth line:Wi my fa ding diddle, lal low dow diddle.
Burden after the first and the fourth line:Wi my fa ding diddle, lal low dow diddle.
Burden after the first and the fourth line:Wi my fa ding diddle, lal low dow diddle.
Burden after the first and the fourth line:
Wi my fa ding diddle, lal low dow diddle.
12. hae staid.
13, 34. Michael.
14. And Jock o the Side.
21. Lady Downie has.
24. thewanting.
31. and spoke our gude auld lord.
34. and they hae taen.
42. ousen eighty and three.
51. I’ll send.
52. A’harneist wi the.
53. lounsforrogues.
6, 7wanting.
81. thenforthem.
82. maun be.
83. ye mauna.
84. the road.
91. you.
92. yetforance.
94. on each.
101. a’wanting: the wrang way shod.
103. Jock’s on his.
113. nogs on each.
133. the gate untill.
141. twa the Armstrangs wrang.
142. Wi fute or hand.
144. cast the.
154. Art thou weary.
164. to mese my waes does.
171. out and.
172. Now fear ye na.
173. here are.
181. Now haud thy tongue, my gude Laird’s Jock.
182. For ever alas this canna be.
183. was.
194. dark and.
204. be sworn we’ll.
214. a’ to.
222. Jock has.
23wanting.
282. I hae lived here threty.
291. out and.
294. come.
301. cried the Laird’s ane Jock.
302. but him.
303. I’ll guide thee.
311. Wi that: they hae.
313. quo the.
321. the other brae.
324. lads baith stout.
332. says he.
333. Then cried aloud, The prisoner take.
334. the fetters.
341. quo the.
343. bay mare.
344. She has: right dear.
351. are onto.
362. is comd.
363. ingle side.
364. twixt thee.
37wanting.
Scott changes Campbell’s readings for Caw’s now and then, and Caw’s for his own.
C.
Written continuously after the first stanza, and mostly without punctuation. The end of a stanza is indicated after 3 by the insertion of the burden. Some one, probably Percy, has attempted to show the proper separation by marks between the lines.Bhas been taken as a guide for the divisions here adopted.
91. And when they came thereends84in the MS.
112. JnºforJohn.
142. And of thy talk, etc.,is a line by itself in the MS.
163. And me.
192.Two lines in the MS.
202.Perhapsdos’.
203. Unto ℰ.
212,3, 24, 28. The lines are run together.
31. And says now John the daycontinues304in the MS.
D.
53. s....d,illegible.
71.PerhapsSwinburin.
93. ganghas been changed tohang,orhangtogang:neither is quite intelligible.
1, 2, 3are in the MS.2, 3, 1.