widdershins, _the contrary way_, _round about_. wide, _wade_. wight, _strong_, _agile_. win, _arrive_, _reach_, _come_, _get_. winna, _will not_. winsome, _charming_, _attractive_. woe, _sad_. won up, _got up_. wood, _mad_; wood-wroth, _mad with anger_. worth, _be_; wae worth you, _sorrow come upon you_. wow, _alas_. wraith, _wroth_. wrongous, _wrong_. wull, _will_. wyte, _punish_, _blame_. yae, _every_. yare, _ready_. yeats, yetts, _gates_. yestreen, _yesterday_. yird-fast, _fixed in the earth_. yode, _went_. yont, _beyond_, _further off_. Yule, _Christmas_. ze, zet, zour, &c., _ye_, _yet_, _your_. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Irregular and inconsistent spellings have been retained as in the original. Typographical errors such as wrongly placed line numbers and punctuation have been corrected without comment. Where changes have been made to the wording these are listed as follows: Page 10, line 33: added missing opening quotation mark ("But look that ye tell na Gib your man,...) Page 38, line note 157: reference originally read "177". Page 55, line 47, 48: added missing quotation marks (Lye yont, lye yont, Willie," she says, / "For your sweat I downa bide O.") Page 97, line 97: added final comma ("Now haud your tongue, my lord," she said, ...) Page 118, line 58, 59: removed unnecessary quotation mark ("Get up, and let me in!-- / Get up, get up, lady mother," he says, ...) Page 119, line 71: deleted duplicate "the" (Out o' the lady's grave grew a bonny red rose). Page 184, line 50: deleted erroneous closing quotation mark (Says, "What means a' this mourning?) Page 189, line 41 and page 396: "dapperpy" appears in the text but is "dapperby" in the Glossary (O he has pou'd aff his dapperby coat, ...) Page 227, line 41: added open quotation mark ("And quhat wul ze leive to zour bairns and zour wife,) Page 263 line 16: added missing period (A playing at the ba'."--) Page 270, line 24: changed "Doan" to "Doun" (Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie) Page 300: added missing closing quotation mark (... taken place in Bothwell church." SCOTT.) Page 338, line 11: changed "Majorie" to "Marjorie" (That Lady Marjorie she gaes wi' child, ...) Page 347: heading "Book IV" removed. Note that it does not appear in the Table of Contents and there are several references to ballads and page numbers after this point as part of the Appendix. Note also that Volume 3 starts with "Book III (continued)". Page 352, line 42: added closing quotation mark ("Where leav'st thou thy youthful daughter, / Merry son of mine?") Page 401, changed "widdershius" to "widdershins" (widdershins, _the contrary way_, _round about_.)