_The stanzas are not divided in Cromek. Between 14 and 15 the following nineteen couplets have been omitted._ First blew the sweet, the simmer wind, Then autumn wi her breath sae kind, Before that eer the guid knight came The tokens of his luve to claim. Then fell the brown an yellow leaf Afore the knight o luve shawed prief; Three morns the winter's rime did fa, When loud at our yett my luve did ca. 'Ye hae daughters, ye hae seven, Ye hae the fairest under heaven. I am the lord o lands wide, Ane o them maun be my bride. I am lord of a baronie, Ane o them maun lie wi me. O cherry lips are sweet to pree, A rosie cheek's meet for the ee; Lang brown locks a heart can bind, Bonny black een in luve are kind; Sma white arms for clasping's meet, Whan laid atween the bridal-sheets; A kindlie heart is best of a', An debonnairest in the ha. Ane by ane thae things are sweet, Ane by ane in luve they're meet; But when they a' in ae maid bide, She is fittest for a bride. Sae be it weel or be it wae, The youngest maun be my ladie; Sae be it gude, sae be it meet, She maun warm my bridal-sheet. Little kend he, whan aff he rode, I was his tokend luve in the wood; Or when he gied me the wedding-token, He was sealing the vows he thought were broken. First came a page on a milk-white steed, Wi golden trappings on his head: A' gowden was the saddle lap, And gowden was the page's cap. _15-21 have been allowed to stand principally on account of 18._ _There is small risk in pronouncing 24, 25, 42, 43, 80, 81 spurious, and Cunningham surpasses his usual mawkishness in 83._ #E# _is written in four-line stanzas_. 19. mother, _in the margin_. 20. lady, _in the margin_. #F. a.# 7^2. _MS_. Till [Still?]. _7^2 and 8, 17 and 18^1, 20^1 and 21, 23^1 and 24, 32 and 33^2, 50^1 and 51, are respectively written as a stanza in the MS._ 12^1, 41^1. _Motherwell conjectures_ Would I wait, or would I away. 13^1, 42^1. _Motherwell conjectures_ Would I away, or would I wait. 14^2, 43^2. _MS. ~green sleeves~: but see 51^1, and also #E# 22^1, #G# 24^2, 28^2._ 29^2, _above you do not know't is written know ~not who till~, apparently a conjecture of Motherwell's._ 30^2, _sometimes recited_ Till owre the bed this lady he flang. 53^1. _MS._ abroad. #b.1.#