_The variations are as follows:_ 1^2. Delamare, _and always_. 2^1. pray let. 2^2. now _for_ we’ve. 2^4. with flax seed. 3^1. the poor men’s. 4^2. or _for_ our. 5^1. it _wanting_. 6^2. in his. 6^3. the stroke. 6^4. broke. 7^1. The sprang. 8^2. he laid. 8^3. to the. 9^4. must won: my liege _wanting_. 10^1. bliss. 10^3. the king. 208 LORD DERWENTWATER #A.# ‘Lord Dunwaters,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 331; ‘Lord Derwentwater,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 349. #B.# ‘Lord Derwentwater,’ Notes and Queries, First Series, XII, 492. #C.# Bell’s Rhymes of Northern Bards, 1812, p. 225, three stanzas. #D.# ‘Lord Derntwater,’ Kinloch MSS, I, 323. #E.# ‘Lord Derwentwater,’ Notes and Queries, Fourth Series, XI, 499. #F.# ‘Lord Arnwaters,’ Buchan’s MSS, II, 478. #G.# ‘Lord Dunwaters,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 126. #H.# ‘Lord Derwentwater’s Death,’ Shropshire Folk-Lore, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, p. 537. #I.# The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xcv, 1825, Part First, p. 489. Three stanzas of this ballad were printed in 1812 (#C#). #I# followed in 1825, a full copy, which would have been a very good one had it been given as taken down, and not restored “to something like poetical propriety.”[86] The editor of the “old song” observes that it was one of the most popular in the north of England for a long period after the event which it records, and a glance at what is here brought together will show that the ballad was at least equally popular in Scotland. #I# is repeated in Richardson’s Borderer’s Table-Book, VI, 291, and in Harland and Wilkinson’s Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, 1882, p. 265. Mr J. H. Dixon, in Notes and Queries, 4th Series, XI, 389, says that the ballad “originally appeared in the Town and Country Magazine.” ‘Lord Derwentwater’s Goodnight,’ Hogg’s Jacobite Relics, II, 30, 268, was both communicated and composed by Robert Surtees. ‘Derwentwater,’ Cromek’s Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, 1810, p. 127, is from the pen of Allan Cunningham. It is repeated in Hogg’s Jacobite Relics, 1821, II, 28, and in Cunningham’s Songs of Scotland, 1825, III, 192, etc.; also in Kinloch MSS, V, 413, with two lines to fill out an eighth stanza. (Translated by Loève-Veimars, p. 375.) ‘Young Ratcliffe,’ Sheldon’s Minstrelsy of the English Border, p. 400, is another ballad of the same class.