FOOTNOTES:

His men were a’ clad in the grene,The knight was armed capapie,With a bended bow, on a milk-white steed,And I wot they ranked right bonilie.

His men were a’ clad in the grene,

The knight was armed capapie,

With a bended bow, on a milk-white steed,

And I wot they ranked right bonilie.

195. Thereby Boyd.

204. seemis.

222. I ken.

224. his knightis.

233, 373, 581. ye.

235. hath.

253, 504. nobilis.

263. befor a.

273. James Boyd.

281. When James he.

282. He knelit lowlie on: seyd our.

303. in the forefront.

311. and a.

312. Wi the.

314. He keepis a royalle cumpanie.

321. in ae.

322. sae gaye.

324. gin.

332. frae the Southronie.

334, 654. kingis.

34.

‘Gar warn me Perthshire and Angus baith,Fife up and down and the Louthians three, (cf.B331,2)And graith my horse,’ said the nobil king,‘For to Ettricke Foreste hie will I me.’

‘Gar warn me Perthshire and Angus baith,

Fife up and down and the Louthians three, (cf.B331,2)

And graith my horse,’ said the nobil king,

‘For to Ettricke Foreste hie will I me.’

353. 1803, cuming.

364. 1802, cumand.

372. hie them.

373, 692. gae.

383,4.

The king cums on for Ettricke Foreste,And landless men we a’ will be. (Cf.B34.)

The king cums on for Ettricke Foreste,

And landless men we a’ will be. (Cf.B34.)

401. said.

412. surely mair.

Between 411,2and 413,4:

And before he gets the Foreste feir,We a’ will die on Newark Lee. (Cf.B40.)

And before he gets the Foreste feir,

We a’ will die on Newark Lee. (Cf.B40.)

413,4.

The Outlaw calld a messenger,And bid him hie him speedilye.

The Outlaw calld a messenger,

And bid him hie him speedilye.

43.wanting.

441. Andrew Murray said.

442, 612. gif: na.

444. And set.

451. if.

453. lairdwanting.

471,2.

And now he is cuming (1802, cumand) to Ettricke Foreste,And landless men ye a’ will be. (Cf.B413,4).

And now he is cuming (1802, cumand) to Ettricke Foreste,

And landless men ye a’ will be. (Cf.B413,4).

474. will I live.

482. 1802, canna: warse.

491. 1803, cuming.

492. full five.

493. the derke.

503. sovereign liege.

511. mete thee.

521, 561. gif.

522. We’ll conquess baith his landis and he.

524. Hald.

Between 52 and 53:

Then spak the kene laird of Buckscleuth,A stalworthye man and sterne was he;‘For a king to gang an Outlaw tillIs beneath his state and his dignitie.‘The man that wons yon Foreste intill,He lives by reif and felonie;Wherefore, brayd on, my sovereign liege,Wi fire and sword we’ll follow thee; (seea522)Or, gif your courtrie lords fa back,Our borderers sall the onset gie.’Then out and spak the nobil king,And round him cast a wilie ee;‘Now haud thy tongue, sir Walter Scott,Nor speik of reif nor felonie,For, had everye honeste man his awin kye,A right puir clan thy name wad be.’

Then spak the kene laird of Buckscleuth,A stalworthye man and sterne was he;‘For a king to gang an Outlaw tillIs beneath his state and his dignitie.

Then spak the kene laird of Buckscleuth,

A stalworthye man and sterne was he;

‘For a king to gang an Outlaw till

Is beneath his state and his dignitie.

‘The man that wons yon Foreste intill,He lives by reif and felonie;Wherefore, brayd on, my sovereign liege,Wi fire and sword we’ll follow thee; (seea522)Or, gif your courtrie lords fa back,Our borderers sall the onset gie.’

‘The man that wons yon Foreste intill,

He lives by reif and felonie;

Wherefore, brayd on, my sovereign liege,

Wi fire and sword we’ll follow thee; (seea522)

Or, gif your courtrie lords fa back,

Our borderers sall the onset gie.’

Then out and spak the nobil king,And round him cast a wilie ee;‘Now haud thy tongue, sir Walter Scott,Nor speik of reif nor felonie,For, had everye honeste man his awin kye,A right puir clan thy name wad be.’

Then out and spak the nobil king,

And round him cast a wilie ee;

‘Now haud thy tongue, sir Walter Scott,

Nor speik of reif nor felonie,

For, had everye honeste man his awin kye,

A right puir clan thy name wad be.’

532. there was.

533. Hop.

542. A message ye maun gang.

552, 582. four in.

574. What message.

583. erles sall gang himsell befor.

593,4.

He’ll cast yon bonny castle down,And mak a widowe o that gaye ladye.

He’ll cast yon bonny castle down,

And mak a widowe o that gaye ladye.

60.

He’ll loose yon bluidhound borderersWi fire and sword to follow thee;There will nevir a Murray after thysellHave land in Ettricke Foreste frie.

He’ll loose yon bluidhound borderers

Wi fire and sword to follow thee;

There will nevir a Murray after thysell

Have land in Ettricke Foreste frie.

613. Wha reck not losing.

After 61:

My merryemen’s lives, my widowe’s teirs,There lies the pang that pinches me!When I am straught in bluidie eard,Yon castell will be right dreirie.

My merryemen’s lives, my widowe’s teirs,

There lies the pang that pinches me!

When I am straught in bluidie eard,

Yon castell will be right dreirie.

633. nobil king.

634. sake that.

643. Over God’s forbode, quoth.

After 644(added in 1803):

Else ere ye come to Edinburgh portI trow thin guarded sall ye be.

Else ere ye come to Edinburgh port

I trow thin guarded sall ye be.

651. Thir.

652. from.

661. saidwanting.

662. Said pitie.

671. give thee.

672, 682. gayeforfair.

673. Gin thoult mak me sheriffe of this.

683. I’se: of Ettricke Foreste.

686. sall thou.

703. they lie.

71. 1802.

Fair Philiphaugh, prince, is my ain,But and a part of the Newark lee,The Finnies and the Hangingshaw,My liege, are native steads to me.1803.Fair Philiphaugh is mine by right,And Lewinshope still mine shall be;Newark, Foulshiells and Tinnies baithMy bow and arrow purchased me.

Fair Philiphaugh, prince, is my ain,But and a part of the Newark lee,The Finnies and the Hangingshaw,My liege, are native steads to me.

Fair Philiphaugh, prince, is my ain,

But and a part of the Newark lee,

The Finnies and the Hangingshaw,

My liege, are native steads to me.

1803.Fair Philiphaugh is mine by right,And Lewinshope still mine shall be;Newark, Foulshiells and Tinnies baithMy bow and arrow purchased me.

1803.

Fair Philiphaugh is mine by right,

And Lewinshope still mine shall be;

Newark, Foulshiells and Tinnies baith

My bow and arrow purchased me.

721,2. 1803

.And I have native steads to meThe Newark lee and Hangingshaw;

And I have native steads to me

The Newark lee and Hangingshaw;

734. upwards.

735. was na.

This copy agrees closely, as to substance, witha.After 504it has two lines, partially corrupted, which do not occur ina,and it lacks st. 60, which, it is to be observed, does not occur in the king’s instructions to Pringle, 54-56 (though found in the instructions to Boyd, 14), and was therefore not to be expected. Verbal differences are numerous, but in only a very few cases of the least importance, and in these for the worse.

14, 162, 294. wild beasts.

21. builded of.

23. There’s in.

24. is braw.

31. and lady.

33,4, 313. keeps.

41. men’s in livery.

42. is fair.

44. O gin.

54. country.

61. thenwanting.

64. sall be.

71, 261. spoke.

74. good nobles, and syne.

82, 451, 591. if.

82. yon man.

83, 123, 423, 511, 551. him to.

91, 133, 194, 233, 302, 314, 324, 403. gin.

91, 133. refuse.

92, 134, 234, 354. conqueist.

93. we’ll cast.

94, 142, 236, 432. his (thy, my) fair.

102. and his brother-in-law.

111. said the.

112. gae.

113. to fair E.

121. holds.

124. yon fair forrest of me.

131, 152, 443. Till.

141. may: I’se.

163. There heard he bows did.

164. whithering him near by.

171. the great.

173. the castle he saw.

174. unicorns so braw.

191. They were all in ane.

194. not royallie.

195. he knew.

196. He served.

201. Good mot ye.

202. Thy fair lady and thy.

211. he sent.

214. may your.

221. lands is.

222. And I ken.

223. From Soldan Turk.

224. king and his men was.

231. ye, man, to come.

233. ye.

243. Then.

244. will I.

252. Thir lands.

253. they sall lie.

262. Said she.

263. That any: enter before a.

264. rad for.

271. lords.

273. leave at.

274. Unto: bound he.

291. is ane of the: forrests.

303. that fair c.

311. There’swanting: and a.

313. There an.

314. live.

321. is in l.

322. is fair.

331. is truely his.

332. He says he: Soldanie.

333. Like as: he loss it.

342. In E. Forrest.

344. And made for.

351. to the.

352. where lay.

353. coming to this.

354. And ould.

363. Will: men take.

364. Your: sall.

372. speed them.

381. Be certain he.

382. And bid him come and.

383. Till Halliday till that he come.

384. You show.

393. Nought.

401, 441. said.

403, 693. loss.

412. if I.

413,4wanting.

421. Laird of.

424, 472. thatwanting.

442, 612. O gin it.

452. in the night ye.

454. right hastilie.

463. needs me.

471. desired ye to.

481. he’s.

482. no worse for.

491. coming oer Cadron.

494. awfu.

502. Unto.

504. First of: and then of.

After 504:

Yet I reid you send yon Outlaw till,And if you man them, come will he.(Repetition, with corruption, of 81,2.)

Yet I reid you send yon Outlaw till,

And if you man them, come will he.

(Repetition, with corruption, of 81,2.)

512. four of the best of.

513, 622. gae.

513, 553. aun sell.

514. Good reason you.

522. follow will we.

523. never after him again.

531. king he called.

532. bearer of Scotland.

533. Hoppringle.

534. on.

541, 573. Laird of.

542,3. Thou.

551. Desire.

552, 582. Bring four of the best of the (your).

554. reason in some part I.

562. good from.

574. What biddings.

581. desires you to.

584. Nae mae.

591. ye.

592. Truelie here I.

60wanting.

613. What rack of the.

623. Sirwanting.

634. sake that.

641. Siccan mercie you sal.

642. sal you.

643. said the O. syne.

651. The.

652. from.

653. sae will I loss.

661. noblemen.

662. Pitie, Outlaw: see thee.

664. Let your favour be given to.

671. my fair.

673. Why, ye will make me sheriff: the fair.

681. Will ye: your.

682. of your.

683. of Ettrick Forrest.

685. If ye be not a: to your.

686. Forfeited.

691. But alace, prince: become.

693. lands.

701. thy.

702. grant I frie.

703. where.

714. Prince, they are native lands.

724. But well their names I do not.

733. He made him.

736. a traitor to the crown.

736. should he.

741. any time.

742. Sic ane Outlaw.

744. Outlaw in the Forrest.

The MS. extant in the Philiphaugh archives exhibits, besides many differences of spelling, the following variations in reading fromcas printed by Aytoun:

51.Side note: Jas the 2d, 1454.

174. is braforso braw.

192. is fairforso fair.

214. makforman,wrongly.

223. From SoudronforFrom Soldan Turk.

242. seeforfind.

262. saidwanting,wrongly.

332. SoudonieforSoldanie.

333, 653. tyneforloss.

383. TellforTill.

404. MosaldaleforMoffat-dale.

432. anefora.

452. heforye.

482. workforworse,wrongly.

504. syneforthen.

511, 551, 581. Penman score,wrongly.

521, 561. refuseforrefuses.

562. fraeforfrom.

651. Thirforthe.

732. With hisforWith the,wrongly.

The division of stanzas has been rearranged.

52. “Reciters,”says Scott, “sometimes call the messenger the laird of Skene.”

21==8.

213. thewanting.

214. in the.

22==9.

224. land.

24==11.

244. come to.

353. Carhead.

50, 54.Passing over the king’s taking off his cap to an outlaw, which is monstrously‘beneath his state and his dignitie,’I can make nothing of the line which succeeds in each of these stanzas.

521. scoreforcore.

14.Displaced. James Boyd should of course come in before James Pringle.

FOOTNOTES:[103]That the four copies ofaare transcripts from writing, and not from oral recitation, will be obvious when we observe their correspondence. The first thirty stanzas ofa,b, have the same lines in the same order, and with an approach to verbal agreement. There is not so close a concurrence after 30, but still a virtual concurrence, excepting thatbinserts sixteen lines between 52 and 53 which the other copies lack.chas throughout the same lines asa, in the same order (with verbal differences), excepting thatcintroduces two lines after 504(which are a repetition, with corruption, of 81,2), and thatarepeats 43 at 60, whichcdoes not.dhas only a few verbal variations fromc.[104]Plummer’s letter follows the ballad in the second volume, but is not given in the first.[105]Rather 1708. Sir James Murray was appointed an ordinary Lord of Session October 28, 1689, and took his seat as Lord Philiphaugh November 1. In 1702 he was appointed Lord Clerk Register, and this place he held, except a short interval, till his death, July 1, 1708. (T. Craig-Brown, History of Selkirkshire, II, 345 f.)[106]I mean Soldan Turk,c223, for Soudron,a,b,d, and Soldanie,c332, for Soudronie, Southronie,a,b. (Soudan Turk, alsoB263, Souden Turk,C33, 53.) Nothing is easier than the corruption of Soudron into Soudan, upon which change the addition of Turk would be all but inevitable. The corruption would be likely to be made by one who had heard of an irruption of Saracens (or, if you please, Moors) into Galloway. (See note, p. 190.) The winning of Ettrick Forest by and from the Southron is historical, and this pretends to be an historical poem.[107]“The feud betwixt the Outlaw and the Scots may serve to explain the asperity with which the chieftain of that clan is handled in the ballad.” Were it not for these words in Scott’s preface, I should have been inclined to think that this humorous episode came from the hand of the editor of ‘Kinmont Willie.’ It is quite in Scott’s way, and also in contrast with the tone of the rest of the narrative. If the author of the ballad was capable of this smartness, he ought to have been aware that the Outlaw (not to say the king), after all his bluster, cuts a ridiculously tame figure in the conclusion. I now observe that the line ‘Wi fire and sword we’ll follow thee’ is inA a, 522, and nearly the same inc; which suggests that something may have been lost in the MS.[108]A223,4might be a reminiscence of ‘Johnie Armstrong,’C273,4, III, 371.C33,4(from recitation) agrees strikingly with the stanza cited III, 363, note *; but this fact is of not the least importance. Mr Macmath notes thatA a13, ‘The hart, the hynd, the dae, the rac,’ occurs in Alexander Montgomerie’s Cherrie and the Slae, Edinburgh, 1597.[109]Mr David MacRitchie, in his very interesting Ancient and Modern Britons, a book full of novel matter and views, accepts the ballad as “partly true,” apparently to the extent “that this ‘outlaw’ was as yet an actual, independent king, and that modern Selkirkshire was not a part of Scotland:” and this whether the king of Scotland was James IV or an earlier monarch, II, 136-139. This is pitting the ballad against history.[110]Craig-Brown, II, 336-338.[111]History of Selkirkshire, II, 355-357; see also p. 338.[112]An account varying as to the place where the Outlaw was slain specifies Scott of Haining as the author of his death. John Murray, the Sheriff, was killed in 1510, and Andrew Ker and Thomas Scot were charged with the act, traditionally put to the account of Buccleuch and his clan, and, in particular, of Scott of Haining. (Craig-Brown, II, 338.)[113]See Mr MacRitchie’s Ancient and Modern Britons, I, 156 ff., 136 ff., for these monsters, often described as black, in which sense, it is maintained, Murray (Morrow, Moor) is frequently to be understood.[114]More of this Murray in Historical and Traditional Tales, Kirkcudbright, 1843, p. 112.[115]“Sometimes it [the crest] represents some valiant act done by the bearer; thus McClelland of Bombie did, and now Lord Kirkcudbright does, bear a naked arm supporting on the point of a sword a More’s head, because, Bombie being forfeited, his son killed a More who came in with some Sarazens to infest Galloway, to the killer of whom the king had promised the forfeiture of Bombie, and thereupon he was restored to his father’s land.” Sir George Mackenzie, The Science of Herauldry, 1680, p. 90. (This reference and those to Mactaggart and the Kirkcudbright Tales were given me by Mr W. Macmath in 1883.)[116]That it was not originally intended to insert ‘The Outlaw Murray’ in this collection will be apparent from the position which it occupies. I am convinced that it did not begin its existence as a popular ballad, and I am not convinced that (as Scott asserts) “it has been for ages a popular song in Selkirkshire.” But the “song” gained a place in oral tradition, as we see fromB,C, and I prefer to err by including rather than by excluding.

[103]That the four copies ofaare transcripts from writing, and not from oral recitation, will be obvious when we observe their correspondence. The first thirty stanzas ofa,b, have the same lines in the same order, and with an approach to verbal agreement. There is not so close a concurrence after 30, but still a virtual concurrence, excepting thatbinserts sixteen lines between 52 and 53 which the other copies lack.chas throughout the same lines asa, in the same order (with verbal differences), excepting thatcintroduces two lines after 504(which are a repetition, with corruption, of 81,2), and thatarepeats 43 at 60, whichcdoes not.dhas only a few verbal variations fromc.

[104]Plummer’s letter follows the ballad in the second volume, but is not given in the first.

[105]Rather 1708. Sir James Murray was appointed an ordinary Lord of Session October 28, 1689, and took his seat as Lord Philiphaugh November 1. In 1702 he was appointed Lord Clerk Register, and this place he held, except a short interval, till his death, July 1, 1708. (T. Craig-Brown, History of Selkirkshire, II, 345 f.)

[106]I mean Soldan Turk,c223, for Soudron,a,b,d, and Soldanie,c332, for Soudronie, Southronie,a,b. (Soudan Turk, alsoB263, Souden Turk,C33, 53.) Nothing is easier than the corruption of Soudron into Soudan, upon which change the addition of Turk would be all but inevitable. The corruption would be likely to be made by one who had heard of an irruption of Saracens (or, if you please, Moors) into Galloway. (See note, p. 190.) The winning of Ettrick Forest by and from the Southron is historical, and this pretends to be an historical poem.

[107]“The feud betwixt the Outlaw and the Scots may serve to explain the asperity with which the chieftain of that clan is handled in the ballad.” Were it not for these words in Scott’s preface, I should have been inclined to think that this humorous episode came from the hand of the editor of ‘Kinmont Willie.’ It is quite in Scott’s way, and also in contrast with the tone of the rest of the narrative. If the author of the ballad was capable of this smartness, he ought to have been aware that the Outlaw (not to say the king), after all his bluster, cuts a ridiculously tame figure in the conclusion. I now observe that the line ‘Wi fire and sword we’ll follow thee’ is inA a, 522, and nearly the same inc; which suggests that something may have been lost in the MS.

[108]A223,4might be a reminiscence of ‘Johnie Armstrong,’C273,4, III, 371.C33,4(from recitation) agrees strikingly with the stanza cited III, 363, note *; but this fact is of not the least importance. Mr Macmath notes thatA a13, ‘The hart, the hynd, the dae, the rac,’ occurs in Alexander Montgomerie’s Cherrie and the Slae, Edinburgh, 1597.

[109]Mr David MacRitchie, in his very interesting Ancient and Modern Britons, a book full of novel matter and views, accepts the ballad as “partly true,” apparently to the extent “that this ‘outlaw’ was as yet an actual, independent king, and that modern Selkirkshire was not a part of Scotland:” and this whether the king of Scotland was James IV or an earlier monarch, II, 136-139. This is pitting the ballad against history.

[110]Craig-Brown, II, 336-338.

[111]History of Selkirkshire, II, 355-357; see also p. 338.

[112]An account varying as to the place where the Outlaw was slain specifies Scott of Haining as the author of his death. John Murray, the Sheriff, was killed in 1510, and Andrew Ker and Thomas Scot were charged with the act, traditionally put to the account of Buccleuch and his clan, and, in particular, of Scott of Haining. (Craig-Brown, II, 338.)

[113]See Mr MacRitchie’s Ancient and Modern Britons, I, 156 ff., 136 ff., for these monsters, often described as black, in which sense, it is maintained, Murray (Morrow, Moor) is frequently to be understood.

[114]More of this Murray in Historical and Traditional Tales, Kirkcudbright, 1843, p. 112.

[115]“Sometimes it [the crest] represents some valiant act done by the bearer; thus McClelland of Bombie did, and now Lord Kirkcudbright does, bear a naked arm supporting on the point of a sword a More’s head, because, Bombie being forfeited, his son killed a More who came in with some Sarazens to infest Galloway, to the killer of whom the king had promised the forfeiture of Bombie, and thereupon he was restored to his father’s land.” Sir George Mackenzie, The Science of Herauldry, 1680, p. 90. (This reference and those to Mactaggart and the Kirkcudbright Tales were given me by Mr W. Macmath in 1883.)

[116]That it was not originally intended to insert ‘The Outlaw Murray’ in this collection will be apparent from the position which it occupies. I am convinced that it did not begin its existence as a popular ballad, and I am not convinced that (as Scott asserts) “it has been for ages a popular song in Selkirkshire.” But the “song” gained a place in oral tradition, as we see fromB,C, and I prefer to err by including rather than by excluding.

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