8. The miller's daughter stood by the door, As fair as any gilly-flower. 9. here swims a swan, Very much like a drownded gentlewoman. 10. The miller he fot his pole and hook, And he fished the fair maid out of the brook. 11^1. O miller, I'll gee thee guineas ten. 12^2. pushed the fair maid in again. _Between 12 and 13 #c# has_, But the crowner he cum and the justice too, With a hue and a cry and a hullaballoo. They hanged the miller beside his own gate For drowning the varmer's daughter, Kate. _Instead of 14_: The sister she fled beyond the seas, And died an old maid among black savagees. So I've ended my tale of the west countree, And they calls it the Barkshire Tragedee. #S.# 1^2. _MS._ Or less (?). #T.# "Sung to a peculiar and beautiful air." _Allingham, p. xxxiii._ [126] Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands, IV, 126, 1862. [127] Jamieson, in his Popular Ballads, II, 315, prints the ballad, with five inconsiderable variations from the broadside, as from Musarum Deliciæ, 2d edition, 1656. The careful reprint of this book, and of the same edition, in "Facetiæ," etc., 1817, does not contain this piece, and the first edition, of 1655, differed in no respect as to contents, according to the editor of "Facetiæ." Still it is hardly credible that Jamieson has blundered, and we may suppose that copies, ostensibly of the same edition, varied as to contents, a thing common enough with old books. [128] Cunningham has re-written Scott's version, Songs of Scotland, II, 109, 'The Two Fair Sisters.' He says, "I was once deeply touched with the singing of this romantic and mournful song.... I have ventured to print it in the manner I heard it sung." There is, to be sure, no reason why he should not have heard his own song sung, _once_, and still less why he should not have been deeply touched with his own pathos. Cunningham adds one genuine stanza, resembling the first of #G#, #J#, #P#: Two fair sisters lived in a bower, Hey ho my nonnie O There came a knight to be their wooer. While the swan swims bonnie O [129] English #M# is confused on this point. The sisters live in a hall. The burden in st. 1 makes them love a miller-lad; but in 14, 15, calls the drowned girl "the bonnie miller's-lass o Binorie." [130] The sisters, #D#, #I#, walk by, up, a linn; #G#, go to a sand [strand]; #Q#, go to the stream; #R a#, walk on the bryn.