3 The little page gaed up the stair: ‘Lord Douglas, dyne wi your lady; She’ll set ye on a seat of gold, And serve ye on her bended knee.’ 4 ‘When cockle-shells turn siller bells, When mussels grow on ilka tree, When frost and snow sall warm us a’, Then I sall dyne wi my ladie.’ 5 ‘Now wae betide ye, black Fastness, Ay and an ill dead met ye die! Ye was the first and the foremost man Wha parted my true lord and me.’ * * * * * N Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. v, the last three stanzas. 1 She looked out at her father’s window, To take a view of the countrie; Who did she see but Jamie Douglas, And along with him her children three! 2 There came a soldier to the gate, And he did knock right hastilie: ‘If Lady Douglas be within, Bid her come down and speak to me.’ 3 ‘O come away, my lady fair, Come away now alang with me, For I have hanged fause Blackwood, At the very place where he told the lie.’ * * * * * O Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xvii, IX. ‘O come down stairs, Jamie Douglas, O come down stairs and speak to me, And I’ll set thee in a fine chair of gowd, And I’ll kindly daut thee upon my knee. * * * * * _Variations of_ Waly, Waly, _etc._ #a.# _Put among_ ‘Auld Sangs brushd up’ _in Ramsay’s “Contents,”_ p. 329. _ Printed in eight-line stanzas._ 4. _Burns had heard this stanza “in the west country” thus (Cromek’s Reliques,_ 1817, p. 245): O wherefore need I busk my head? Or wherefore need I kame my hair? Sin my fause luve has me forsook, And says he’ll never luve me mair. 7^3. my cry: me _in the London edition of 1733_. #b.# 1^1. up yon bank. 1^2. down yon brea. 1^3. And waly by yon river’s side. 1^4. Where my love and I was wont to gae. 2, 3 are 3, 2. 2^4. And sae did my fause love to me. 3^1. Waly, waly, gin love be bonny. 3^2. little while when. 3^3. it’s: waxes. 3^4. wears away like. 4. _Already given._ 6^1. O Martinmas. 6^4. And take a life that wearies me. #B.# 3^3. wlalking. 6^1. bells turn silver shells. #C.# _These variations in the second copy_ (I, 103) _are Kinloch’s_: 4^3. on a. 9^2. to thee. 12^2. let abee. 12^4. for thee. 13^1. father, I said. 13^3. ae kiss. 14^4. I’ll. #F.# 5^1. _For_ gentlemen _Motherwell queries,_ lairds and lords? 9^1. Earl of Marquis; March _queried by Motherwell. It is_ March _in #I#._ #I.# 5^2, 6^4. Orange, _not_ orange, _in the MS._ 6^1. _Motherwell queries_ far in _for_ foreign. #J.#