The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
#B# 11^1. Jock my man.
11^3. And but ye.
#C# 7^1. And he's.
#C# 8^1. bower-door.
#C# 8^3. and away.
[96] See The Cambrian Journal, September, 1858, pp 192-194,
communicated to me by the kind courtesy of Rev. Professor D. Silvan
Evans. As to Glasgerion's being a king's son, ballad titles count for
little.
[97] In #C# 18, p. 440,
She _wept_ the sma brids frae the tree,
She _wept_ the starns adoun frae the lift,
She _wept_ the fish out o the sea.
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YOUNG HUNTING
#A.# 'Young Hunting.' #a.# Herd's MSS, I, 182. #b.# The
same, II, 67.
#B.# 'Young Redin,' Kinloch MSS, VII, 7, Kinloch's
Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 1.
#C.# 'Young Riedan,' Harris MS., fol. 8.
#D.# Motherwell's MS., p. 377.
#E.# 'Lord William,' Scott's Minstrelsy, III, 265, 1803.
#F.# 'Earl Richard.' #a.# Motherwell's MS., p. 61,
Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 218. #b.# Motherwell's
Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xvii, one stanza.
#G.# Herd's MSS, I, 34; Herd's Scottish Songs, 1776, I,
148.
#H.# 'Clyde's Water,' Dr Joseph Robertson's Journal of
Excursions, No 1, 1829.
#I.# 'Lord John,' Motherwell's MS., p. 189.
#J.# 'Earl Richard,' Scott's Minstrelsy, II, 42, 1802,
and III, 184, 1833.
#K.# 'Young Hunting,' Buchan's Ballads of the North of
Scotland, I, 118.
#J#, Scott's version, and naturally the best known, is described by
the editor as made up from the best verses of Herd's copies, #A#, #G#,
with some trivial alterations adopted from tradition. This account is
far from being exact, for there are many lines in the edition of 1802
which are not found in Herd's copies, and in the edition of 1833 four
additional stanzas, 11, 12, 13, 28. Such portions of Scott's version as
are not found in Herd are here distinguished by a larger type. #K# is
perhaps a stall copy, and certainly, where it is not taken from other
versions, is to a considerable degree a modern manufacture by a very
silly pen.[98]
The copy in Pinkerton's Tragic Ballads, p. 84, is only the first five
stanzas of #G#, a little altered.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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