17^2. _MS. also_, My satine hat. 20^2, _MS. also_, The world wide, let them go beg. #b.# 7^2. the mother. #b.# 14^1. into yon stair. _Variations of Aytoun's copy, sts. 1-8, 14, 15, 18, 19 from Herd, 1776_: 1^1, three sisters; 2^2, 3^2, 4^2 _omit_ fair; 5^1, O ye maun; 6^1, And ye; 7^1, O I have; 8^1, And I have ask'd your sister; 8^2, your brother; 14^2, Give me a kiss; 15^2, When wi his knife. #H.# "I have heard this song, to a very good tune not in any collection, with the above variations--the chorus, of the whole as in the above two verses." _Herd's note in his MSS._ [143] Aytoun, 1-8==Herd, 1776, 1-8: 9-13==Jamieson, 11-15: 14, 15==Herd, 11, 12: 16, 17==Jamieson, 18, 19: 18, 19==Herd, 13, 14: 20-24==Jamieson, 21-25. 12 LORD RANDAL #A.# From a manuscript copy, probably of the beginning of this century. #B.# 'Lord Donald,' Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 110. #C.# Motherwell's MS., p. 69. #D.# Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1803, III, 292. #E.# Halliwell's Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, p. 261. #F.# 'Lord Ronald, my Son,' Johnson's Museum, No 327, p. 337. #G.# Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, p. 319. #H.# From recitation, 1881. #I.# 'Tiranti, my Son.' #a.# Communicated by a lady of Boston, #b.# By an aunt of the same. #c.# By a lady of New Bedford. #d.# By a lady of Cambridge. #e#, #f#, #g#. By ladies of Boston. #J.# 'The Bonnie Wee Croodlin Dow,' Motherwell's MS., p. 238. #K. a.# 'The Croodlin Doo,' Chambers, Scottish Ballads, p. 324. #b.# 'The Wee Croodlen Doo,' Chambers, Popular Rhymes, 1842, p. 53. #c.# Johnson's Museum, by Stenhouse and Laing, IV, 364*. #L.# 'Willie Doo,' Buchan's MSS, II, 322, and Ballads, II, 179. #M.# 'The Croodin Doo,' Chambers, Popular Rhymes, 1870, p. 51. #N.# Kinloch MSS, V, 347. #O.# 'The Croodlin Doo.' From a manuscript belonging to the Fraser-Tytler family.