_1^{3, 4}, 2 are cited by Jamieson in the Scots Magazine, October, 1803, p. 698, as the beginning of a fragment [Gray's], with only this variation_: Glenkindie was ance the best harper. _He has, therefore, combined the two versions here._ _Stanza 4, as published, is the first of_ "another copy [_Scott's_], in which the story is complete, but, it having been written from the recitation of a poor old woman in Aberdeenshire, the diction has been much humbled. It begins: 'I'll gie you a robe, Glenkindy, A robe o the royal pa, Gin ye will harp i the winter's night Afore my nobles a'.' _(~Robe~ is misprinted ~rolu~)._ _After 4 follows this stanza, which, with but a word or two of difference, is the first of '~Brown Robin~,' where, no doubt, it belongs, but not here_: And the king but and his nobles a' Sat birling at the wine, And he wad hae but his ae dochter To wait on them at dine. _10 may not be in the right place, and should, perhaps, be put just before Gib gets his deserts. Some such stanza would come in well between 20 and 21 of #A#._ _After 25 follows 29, manifestly with no right. If this commonplace is retained, it must come at the end._ _After 29 (27 in Jamieson) follow these three stanzas, the first a superfluous and very improbable repetition; the second altered by Jamieson_, "to introduce a little variety, and prevent the monotonous tiresomeness of repetition," _the last as little in traditional style as the second_. He'd harpit a fish out o saut water, The water out o a stane, The milk out o a maiden's breast That bairn had never nane. He's taen his harp intill his hand, Sae sweetly as it rang, And wae and weary was to hear Glenkindie's dowie sang. But cald and dead was that lady, Nor heeds for a' his maen; An he wad harpit till domis day, She'll never speak again. #C.# _8 follows 2 in the MS._ _A fragment in Kinloch MSS, III, 147, sixteen stanzas, in the writing of John Hill Burton, is thus made up: #B# 1, 2, #C# 2, #B# 6, 7, #C# 4, 5, #B# 11, #C# 6, #B# 14, #C# 7, 8, #B# 17, 18, #B# 19^{1-3} and #C# 9^4, #B# 20; with the following variations, probably arbitrary._ _Variations from_ #B# 1^1. a gude harper. 1^3, he was the. 1^4. on string. 2^1. o the sea-flood. 2^2. o the. 2^3. And milk. #C# 2^3. Except it was. #B# 7^4. streek down. #C# 4^3. Untill. #C# 5^1. Now might. #C# 5^2. a man had slain==#B# 10^2. #C# 5^3. Indeed ye micht.