_Obtained from recitation "many years ago" wrote Mr White in 1873, by James Telfer, of Laughtree Liddesdale, in some part of the neighboring country: the copy has the date 1818. #c# is said by the editor to have been taken down from the recitation of an old fiddler in Northumberland, but when and by whom he does not tell us. The three are clearly more or less "corrected" copies of the same original, #c# having suffered most from arbitrary changes. Alterations for rhyme's sake, or for propriety's, that are written above the lines or in the margin of #a# 2, 5, 8, 19, are adopted in #c# without advertisement._ _Burden._ #b.# I the brave night sae early: #c.# I the brave nights so early: #d.# I (_or_ O) the life o the one, the randy. 1^1. #c.# Brand, _and always in_ #c#. 1^2. #a.# daughters. #b.# He's courted. 2^1. #c.# years that tide; that tide _is written over_ of age _in_ #a#. 2^2. #c.# When sae. 4^2. #c.# But thou. 5^2. #b.# best o these. #c.# best of tho. of tho _is written over_ o them a _in_ #a#. 6^2. #b, c.# have met. 7^1. #c.# Till at last they met. 7^2. #c.# He's aye for ill and never. 8^1. #b.# O Earl Bran. #c.# Now Earl Brand. Now _in the margin of_ #a#. 8^2. #b, c.# Slay this. 9^2. #b.# man that wears. #c.# carl that wears, carl ... wears _written over_ man ... has _in_ #a#. 10. #b.# O lady fair, I'll no do that, I'll pay him penny, let him be jobbing at. #c.# My own lady fair, I'll not do that, I'll pay him his fee 11^2. #b.# where have stoln this fair. #c.# And where have ye stown this fair. 13. #b.# She is my sick sister, Which I newly brought from Winchester. #c.# For she is, I trow, my sick sister, Whom I have been bringing fra Winchester. 14^1. #c.# nigh to dead. 14^2. #b, c.# What makes her wear. 15^1. #c.# If she's been. 15^2. #b, c.# What makes her wear the gold sae high. 16^1. #c.# When came the carl to the lady's yett. 16^2. #b.# rapped at. #c.# He rudely, rudely rapped thereat. 17^2. #b.# maids playen. #c.# a playing. #d.# She's out with the fair maids playing at the ball. 18^1. #b.# mistkane (?): 18^2. #b, c.# Ye may count. b^2. young Earl. 19. #c.# I met her far beyond the lea With the young Earl Brand, his leman to be: _In ~a lea~ is written over ~moor~, and ~With the young~, etc., stands as a "correction."_