2^1. by and by: _cf._ #E# 2. 2^2. No one, no not a slave: _cf._ #E# 2. #I.# 18. _The remainder of four stanzas appended by_ G. H. _is omitted._ 209 GEORDIE #A.# ‘Geordie,’ Johnson’s Musical Museum, No. 346, p. 357, 1792. #B.# “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford, 1802. #C. a.# ‘The Laird of Geight, or Gae.’ #b.# ‘The Laird of Geight.’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford, 1813–15. #D.# ‘The Laird of Gigh, or Gae,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford, 1813–15. #E. a.# Kinloch MSS, V, 130. #b.# ‘Geordie,’ Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 192. #F.# ‘Geordie Lukely,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 367. #G.# ‘Geordie,’ ‘Geordie Lukelie,’ Motherwell’s Note-Book, p. 17, p. 10. #H.# ‘Will ye go to the Hielans, Geordie?’ Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs, II, 44. #I. a.# ‘Gight’s Lady,’ Buchan’s MSS, II, 143. #b.# ‘Laird (Lord?) of Gight,’ Kinloch MSS, VI, 1. #J.# ‘Gight’s Lady,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 133. #K.# Motherwell’s MS., p. 400, two stanzas. #L.# ‘Geordie,’ Cunningham’s Songs of Scotland, II, 186, two stanzas. #M.# ‘Geordie,’ ‘Geordie Lukely,’ Motherwell’s Note-Book, p. 2, one stanza. #N.# ‘Geordie,’ Motherwell’s Note-Book, p. 20, one stanza. “Of this,” says Motherwell, “many variations exist among reciters,” and his remark is borne out by what is here given. The copy in Cunningham’s Songs of Scotland, II, 186, is #A# retouched, with st. 5 dropped and two stanzas (#L#) inserted from recitation. The texts of Christie, #I#, 52, 84, are #J# abridged and #E b#. Of #J# Christie says that he heard in 1848 a version sung by a native of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, who had it through her grandmother and great-grandmother, which differed only in being more condensed and wanting the catastrophe, and in having Badenoch’s lady for Bignet’s, and Keith-Hall and Gartly for Black Riggs and Kincraigie. Geordie Gordon, #A#, of Gight (Gigh), #B b#, #C#, #D#, #I#, of the Bog o Gight, #H#, is in prison, on a charge endangering his life. He sends a message to his wife to come to Edinburgh. She rides thither with the utmost haste, and finds Geordie in extremity. She is told that his life may be redeemed by the payment of a large sum of money. She raises a contribution on the spot, pays the ransom, and rides off with her husband.