12 'Ye hae gien me the gowk, Annet, But I'll gie you the scorn; For there's no a bell in a' the town Shall ring for you the morn.' 13 Out and spak then Sweet Willie: Sae loud's I hear you lie! There's no a bell in a' the town But shall ring for Annet and me. * * * * * * * * * * * * #E.# _The copy in Kinloch MSS, II, 41, has been revised by Mr Kinloch. His more important changes are as follows_: 1^1. Sweet Willie. 1^3. took in labor-pains. 2^1. Gae fetch. 2^3. For but. 2^4. It's surely. 3^3. And what a woman can do, Janet. 3^4. That I. 4^4. Says, Fy. 6^{1, 3}. now chuse thee, Fair Janet. 7^2, 8^2. hollin. 10^2, 11^1, 18^3, 19^3. Marytoun. 10^4. Cam riding. 12^1. Then out. 14^4. ye let me abee. 18^1. the bridegroom then. 19^1. But out. 19^2. His heart. 20. Fair Janet was buried in Mary's kirk, Sweet Willie in Mary's quier, And out o the tane there sprang a rose, Out o the tither a brier. 21. And aye they grew, and aye they threw, Till thae twa they did meet, That ilka ane might plainly see They war twa lovers sweet. #G.# 1^3. _Var._ mourn for. _11, in Finlay, follows 13. Fourteen stanzas, taken from #C#, have been omitted._ [84] She bids Willie leave her bower while she is in travail, #C# 7; in default of bower-woman, Willie offers to bandage his eyes and do a woman's part, #E# 3, after which a stanza is doubtless lost, in which man's aid would be rejected: cf. No 15, I, 182. #F# has a strange passage, 6-10 (belonging, perhaps, to 'Leesome Brand'), in which the lady, after asking that she may have the attendance of three women, selects the top of a tree for her labor, and informs Willie that he will have to drie every pain that she herself has, which experience duly follows. [85] Danish #E# is translated by Prior, II, 99. [86] La Fidanzata Infedele, Nigra, Rivista Contemporanea, XXXI, 21, and 'L'adultera,' Ferraro, Canti p. monferrini, p. 5, are the same ballad as the Breton, but the dance is not proposed in these. 65 LADY MAISRY #A.# 'Lady Maisry,' Jamieson-Brown MS., fol. 24; Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 73. #B.# Motherwell's MS., p. 422, communicated by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe. #C.# 'Janet,' Motherwell's MS., p. 472. #D.# 'Lady Margery,' Campbell MSS, II, 70. #E.# 'Lady Marjory,' Motherwell's MS., p. 1; Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 234. #F.# The Scots [Edinburgh] Magazine, 1822, LXXXIX 734. #G.# Notes and Queries, Second Series, IX, 193. #H.# 'Young Prince James,' Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 103.