174; (Esthonian) Neus, Ehstnische V. L., 390 ff, and Fosterländskt Album, I, 13, Prior, Ancient Danish Ballads, II, 341. [12] 'Capt. Wedderburn's Courtship,' 12: What's higher than the tree? (heaven). Wojcicki, Pieśni, I, 203, l. 11, 206, l. 3; What grows without a root? (a stone). 2 THE ELFIN KNIGHT #A.# 'A proper new ballad entituled The Wind hath blown my Plaid away, or, A Discourse betwixt a young [Wo]man and the Elphin Knight;' a broadside in black letter in the Pepysian library, bound up at the end of a copy of Blind Harry's 'Wallace,' Edin. 1673. #B.# 'A proper new ballad entitled The Wind hath blawn my Plaid awa,' etc. Webster, A Collection of Curious Old Ballads, p. 3. #C.# 'The Elfin Knicht,' Kinloch's Anc. Scott. Ballads, p. 145. #D.# 'The Fairy Knight,' Buchan, II, 296. #E.# Motherwell's MS., p. 492. #F.# 'Lord John,' Kinloch MSS, I, 75. #G.# 'The Cambrick Shirt,' Gammer Gorton's Garland, p. 3, ed. 1810. #H.# 'The Deil's Courtship,' Motherwell's MS., p. 92. #I.# 'The Deil's Courting,' Motherwell's MS., p. 103. #J.# Communicated by Rev. Dr Huntington, Bishop of Western New York, as sung at Hadley, Mass. #K.# Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes of England, p. 109, No 171, 6th ed. #L.# Notes and Queries, 1st S., VII, 8. Pinkerton gave the first information concerning #A#, in Ancient Scotish Poems ... from the MS. collections of Sir Richard Maitland, etc., II, 496, and he there printed the first and last stanzas of the broadside. Motherwell printed the whole in the appendix to his Minstrelsy, No I. What stands as the last stanza in the broadside is now prefixed to the ballad, as having been the original burden. It is the only example, so far as I remember, which our ballads afford of a burden of this kind, one that is of greater extent than the stanza with which it was sung, though this kind of burden seems to have been common enough with old songs and carols.[13] The "old copy in black letter" used for #B# was close to #A#, if not identical, and has the burden-stem at the end like #A#. 'The Jockey's Lamentation,' Pills to Purge Melancholy, v, 317, has the burden, 'Tis oer the hills and far away [_thrice_], The wind hath blown my plaid away. The 'Bridal Sark,' Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, p. 108, and 'The Bridegroom Darg,' p. 113, are of modern manufacture and impostures; at least, they seem to have imposed upon Cromek.