7 'Give to him this right-hand glove, Who dearly loves me Tell him to get another love. For, etc. 8 'Give to him this little penknife, Who dearly loves me Tell him to get another wife. For, etc. 9 'Give to him this gay gold ring; Who dearly loves me Tell him I'm going to my burning.' An, etc. 10 The brother did the stake make, Who dearly loved me The father did the fire set. An bonnie Susie Cleland was burnt in Dundee. * * * * * #A.# 11^1. she says. 16^1. _~blood~ I was disposed to change to ~lord~: but see #H# 13^1._ 21^{3, 4}. _As cited by Anderson from William Tytler's MS.,_ ... to green grass growing He took off his sheen. #B.# 22^4. Janet's exite: _in_ #C# 16^4 Janet's lyke. #D.# _Stanzas 8, 9, 21, are the three last of the MS._ 8^{1, 2}. _I should read ~put on~, were it not for 9^{1, 2}._ 23^3. lady lamentless. #E.# 3^3. _~If~ for ~that~ in the margin, without explanation._ 15-17. _The order in the MS. is 16, 17, 15._ _Motherwell, as often elsewhere, makes slight changes in printing, as: 11^2, ~broken~ to ~won~, though not changed in 12^2; 15^3 [17^3], ~And~ to ~And wi~, unnecessarily, see #F# 19^3._ #F.# 2-9. "Her father, brother, and sister successively address her in the same polite style, and receive the same answer; except that to the latter, instead of the information contained in the last two lines, she addresses a piece of advice." _The phrase ~stood stately~ in 2^2, most appropriate for the mother, was probably varied for father, brother, and sister._ 15-16. "He delivers his message in the approved ballad style, and the lover speaks." 20. "The few verses following contain her testamentary bequests to her relatives above mentioned; but the person from whom I got the ballad could not repeat them." #G.# 6^2. He bend. #I. a.# 1. _Given in the Appendix to Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. xix, XIV, with this slight difference in the burden_: And she dearly loved me. 3-9. at Dundee _in the burden_. 8^2. _~Penknife~ for ~wife~, in my copy of the MS._ 10. _In the Minstrelsy, from #b#:_ Her father he ca'd up the stake, Her brother he the fire did make. #b.# 1. There lived a lady in Scotland O my love and O my joy Who dearly loved an Englishman. And bonnie Susie Cleland is to be burnt at Dundee 2. The father to the daughter came: 'Will you forsake your Englishman?' For, etc. _3 is wanting._