2^1. nonnie, nonny _is written in pencil by Motherwell between 1 and 2; no doubt as a conjectural emendation of_ Johnie, Johnie. #L.# _2, 3, 4, 15 are #M# 2–5, with slight changes_. 1^5. _“One copy here bears_ black-bird _and another_ a fause bird.” _(Finlay.)_ 13^3. Lord Orgul. _“This name is differently given by reciters.” (Finlay.)_ 15^1. Fastness _as a proper name, but evidently meant for_ faustness, falseness, _as Motherwell has observed._ #M.# Quham, quhen, quha _are printed_ wham, when, wha; zet, ze, zour, _are printed_ yet, ye, your. #N.# Motherwell’s ballad is “traditionary” to the extent that it is substantially made up from traditionary material. The text of the recited copies is not always strictly adhered to. The fifth stanza happens not to occur in the texts used, but may have come in in some other recitation obtained by Motherwell, or may simply have been adopted from Ramsay. The three last stanzas (#N#) are from some recitation not preserved in Motherwell’s relics. Neglecting unimportant divergencies, the constituent parts are as follows: 1==#H# 1^{1–3}, #G# 1^4. 2, 3==#J# 2, 3. 4==#F# 2. (5==Ramsay 4.) 6==#F# 3. 7==#I# 14. 8–10==#F# 4–6. 11==#F# 7^{1,2,4}, #H# 4^3. 12==#H# 3 (_see #E# 1^{4,5}, #L# 1^4_). 13==#F# 8. 14==#I# 5^{1–3}, #O#^4. 15==#I# 6. 16==#H# 7. 17==#J# 7. 18==#F# 11^2, #I# 3^{1,3,4}. 19, 20==#I# 4, 8. 21==#I# 9 (_see #L# 9^3_). 22==#J# 9. 23==#F# 12. 24==#J# 10. 25==#I# 10. 26==#I# 7^{1–3}, #G# 4^4. 27==#G# 13, #I# 11^{3,4}. 28==#F# 15, #G# 14. 29==#F# 16. 30, 31==#I# 15, 16. (_32 resembles #D# 10^{1,2}, 14^3,4; 33, #D# 11._) * * * * * APPENDIX * * * * * ARTHUR’S SEAT SHALL BE MY BED, ETC., OR, LOVE IN DESPAIR A new song much in request, sung with its own proper tune. Laing, Broadsides Ballads, No. 61, not dated but considered to have been printed towards the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, and probably at Edinburgh. 1 Come lay me soft, and draw me near, And lay thy white hand over me, For I am starving in the cold, And thou art bound to cover me. 2 O cover me in my distress, And help me in my miserie, For I do wake when I should sleep, All for the love of my dearie. 3 My rents they are but very small For to maintain my love withall, But with my labour and my pain I will maintain my love with them. 4 O Arthur’s Seat shall be my bed, And the sheets shall never be fil’d for me, St Anthony’s well shall be my drink, Since my true-love’s forsaken me.