186. KINMONT WILLIE 469 (Additions and Corrections: IV, 516.) 187. JOCK O THE SIDE 475 188. ARCHIE O CAWFIELD 484 (Additions and Corrections: IV, 516.) ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 496 114 JOHNIE COCK #A.# Percy Papers, Miss Fisher’s MS., No 5, 1780. #B.# ‘Johnny Cock,’ Pieces of Ancient Poetry from Unpublished Manuscripts and Scarce Books, Bristol, 1814, [John Fry], p. 53. #C.# ‘Johnny Cock,’ Pieces of Ancient Poetry, etc., p. 51. #D.# ‘Johnie of Cockerslee,’ Kinloch’s annotated copy of his Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 38 _bis_. #E.# ‘Johnie o Cocklesmuir,’ Kinloch MSS, VII, 29; Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 36. #F.# ‘Johnie of Breadislee,’ Scott’s Minstrelsy, I, 59, 1802. #G.# ‘Johnnie Brad,’ Harris MS., fol. 25. #H.# ‘Johnnie o Cocklesmuir,’ Buchan’s MSS, I, 82; Dixon, Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, p. 77, Percy Society, vol. xvii. #I.# ‘Johnie of Braidisbank,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 23. #J.# Chambers, Scottish Ballads, p. 181. #K.# Finlay’s Scottish Ballads, I, xxxi: one stanza. #L.# Harris MS., fol. 25 b: one stanza. #M.# Froude, Thomas Carlyle, II, 335, New York, 1882, supplemented by Mrs Aitken: one stanza. The first notice in print of this precious specimen of the unspoiled traditional ballad is in Ritson’s Scotish Song, 1794, I, xxxvi, note 25: the Rev. Mr Boyd, the translator of Dante, had a faint recollection of three ballads, one of which was called ‘Johny Cox.’ Before this, 1780, a lady of Carlisle had sent a copy to Doctor Percy, #A#. Scott, 1802, was the first to publish the ballad, selecting “the stanzas of greatest merit” from several copies which were in his hands. John Fry gave two valuable fragments, #C#, #B# (which he did not separate), in his Pieces of Ancient Poetry, 1814, from a manuscript “appearing to be the text-book of some illiterate drummer.”[1] I have been able to add only three versions to those which were already before the world, #A#, #D#, #G#; and of these #D# is in part the same as #E#, previously printed by Kinloch. Pinkerton, Select Scotish Ballads, II, xxxix, 1783, has preserved a stanza, which he assigns to a supposititious ballad of ‘Bertram the Archer:’[2] ‘My trusty bow of the tough yew, That I in London bought, And silken strings, if ye prove true, That my true-love has wrought.’ This stanza agrees with #J# 6, and with #A# 18, #H# 19 in part, and is very likely to belong here; but it might be a movable passage, or commonplace.