THE TWA SISTERS O' BINNORIE. Mainly after Aytoun. There are many versions of this ballad in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland, varying widely in titles, refrains, and indeed in everything save the main events of the story. A broadside copy appeared as early as 1656. Ballads on the same subject are very popular among the Scandinavian peoples, and traces of the story are found as far away as China and South Africa. _Twined_, parted. _Make_, mate. _Gar'd_, made. Although Lockhart would have the burden pronounced Binnŏrie, a more musical effect is secured by following Jamieson and pronouncing Binnōrie. THE DEMON LOVER. After Scott. Buchan has a version under title of _James Herries_, the demon being here transformed into a lover who has died abroad and comes in spirit guise to punish his "Jeanie Douglas" for her broken vows. Motherwell gives a graphic fragment. _Ilka_, every, _Drumly_, dark. _Won_, dwell. RIDDLES WISELY EXPOUNDED. Mainly after Motherwell. There are several broadsides, differing slightly, of this ballad. Riddling folk-songs similar to this in general features have been found among the Germans and Russians and in Gaelic literature. _Speird_, asked. Unco, uncanny. Gin, if. Pies, magpies. Clootie, see Burus's Address to the Deil. "O thou! whatever title suit thee, Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie," etc. SIR PATRICK SPENS. After Scott. There are many versions of "The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence," as Coleridge so justly terms it, the fragment in the Reliques being un-surpassed among them all for poetic beauty. Herd's longer copy, like several of the others, runs song-fashion: "They had not saild upon the sea A league but merely nine, O, When wind and weit and snaw and sleit Cam' blawin' them behin', O." Motherwell gives the ballad in four forms, in one of them the skipper being dubbed Sir Patrick, in another Earl Patrick, in another Young Patrick, and in yet another Sir Andrew Wood. Jamieson's version puts into Sir Patrick's mouth an exclamation that reflects little credit upon his sailor character: "O wha is this, or wha is that, Has tald the king o' me? For I was never a gude seaman, Nor ever intend to be."