The lady is daughter of the Earl of York, #D#; her brother is the Duke of York (a somewhat favorite personage in ballads), #B#; her mother is daughter of the Duke of York, #G#, and her father is the Lord of Murray. Her husband is the Earl of March, #I# (and #F#?). Had she foreseen the event of the marriage with Douglas, she would have staid at Lord Torchard’s gates (Argyle’s, Athol’s, Lord Orgul’s) and have been his lady, #G#, #H#, #I#, #L#, or in fair Orange green and have been his (Orange’s?) #K#. (Orange gate appears in #D#, also, and so it may be Orange wine, and not orange, that Jamie Douglas is invited to drink in #I# 5.) A handsome nurse makes trouble in #F# 6, but nowhere else. It is not Blackwood that whispers mischief into the husband’s ear in #J# 4, but a small bird; a black bird, fause bird, in two of Finlay’s three copies, a blackie in the other, #L#. In #E# 7 the lady will not wash her face, comb her hair, or have fire or light in her bower: cf. Nos 69, 92, II, 156, 317. In #I# 15, when the lady had returned to her father’s and the tenants came to see her, she could not speak, and “the buttons off her clothes did flee;” “an affecting image of overpowering grief,” says Chambers. See also ‘Andrew Lammie.’ #D# 10–15, #N#, are palpable and vulgar tags to a complete story. James Douglas comes to his father-in-law’s house with his three children, and sends a soldier to the gate to bid his lady come down; he has hanged false Blackwood, and she is to come home: #N#. In #D# the hanging of Blackwood is not mentioned; Douglas calls for wine to drink to his gay lady, she takes a cup in her hand, but her heart breaks.[73] #A#-#M# have all from one stanza to four of a beautiful song, known from the first quarter of the eighteenth century, and printed fifty years earlier than any copy of the ballad.[74] This song is the lament of an unmarried woman for a lover who has proved false, and, as we find by the last stanza, has left her with an unborn babe. #A#, #C# have this last stanza, although the lady in these copies has born three children (as she has in every version except the fragmentary #E#).[75] WALY, WALY, GIN LOVE BE BONY. #a.# Ramsay’s Tea-Table Miscellany, the second volume, published before 1727; here from the Dublin edition of 1729, p. 176. #b.# Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, second edition, 1733, I, 71; four stanzas in the first edition, 1725, No 34.[76] 1 O waly, waly up the bank! And waly, waly, down the brae! And waly, waly yon burn-side, Where I and my love wont to gae! 2 I leand my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree; But first it bowd, and syne it brak, Sae my true-love did lightly me.