The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
41^2. #b#, #c#, #d#, #e#. from off. #f.# cap of steel.
41^3. his spear.
42^1. #b#, #d#, #e#, #f#. Now. #c.# Nay. #b#-#f#. broad swords.
42^2. and he.
43^1. #b#, #d#, #e#, #f#. Now. #c.# Nay.
43^3. #f.# now _wanting_.
44^3. #d#, #e#. Were this to be.
45^3. #b#, #c#, #f#. it is. #d.# has wounded.
46^4. That not one.
47^1. Oh.
47^2. #b#, #d#, #e#. doth.
47^4. #d#, #e#, #f#. first to.
48^1. #b#, #c#. struck, #b#-#f#. mould hill.
48^2. #b#, #c#, #d#, #e#. Then he leapd. #f.# And he leapt.
#b#-#f#. feet.
48^4. sword leapd he.
49^1. #b#, #d#, #e#, #f#. Now. #c.# Nay.
49^2. then Robert (#d#, #e#, #f#, Sir Robert) Bewick came. #c.#
see _wanting_.
50^{1,2}. #d#, #f#. _Wanting_.
50^3. #b#, #c#, #d#, #e#. Father, could you not drink. #f.# could
not you drink.
50^4. And letten: my bully.
51^1. #f.# Now.
52^1. leave of, off: these bold.
52^2. they were.
53^1. #b#, #c#, #d#, #e#. Robert, #b.# Berwick.
54^1. #d#, #e#, #f#. laird.
55^1. Lauderdale.
55^2. #d.# horses set.
55^4. well he would have.
56^2. #b#, #d#, #e#, #f#. to you _wanting_. #f.# I will.
56^3. #f.# But _wanting_.
56^4. #b#, #c#. two old.
_Readings found only in #f# which have an editorial character._
6^3. he shall.
12^4. And sure I cannot say that of thee.
13^3. thou shalt.
13^4. Till with Bewick thou canst.
22^4. And O he did become.
29^4. Bully _wanting_: I’m hither come to fight with thee.
38^2. psalm-book from his pouch.
44^3. Is this to be thy deadly wound.
53^1. And now up spake Sir Robert Bewick.
54^1. With that up spake my good laird.
#g.#
(_Only partially collated._)
1^2. he is.
2^2. Billy Bewick.
2^4. leave (==live).
5^2. billy, _and always_.
5^{3,4}. _Wanting._
6^4. see with Bewick he can. _Cf._ 13^4.
7^4. good wine, _as in_ #a#, #c#.
10^{1,2}. _Wanting._
10^4. you will take.
12^4. cannot be.
13^{1,2}. would.
13^3. thou shall.
14^2. should spoken be. _Cf._ 30^2.
20^1. my brother.
20^2. think that were.
22^1. good ould jack.
24^1. leave of.
25^1, 36^1, 40^1, 42^1, 43^1, 44^1. Nay.
25^1. had teacht.
28^1. my billey.
30^1. my billy.
30^4. have teacht.
31^4. by thou.
35^1. thou _for_ O.
36^2. will.
36^3. Nay _for_ But.
37^1. then _wanting_.
38^1. from of his back.
38^2. book from his shoulders.
39^2. tear.
39^4. in feald to fight.
40^4. Sure _wanting_.
41^1. jacket from.
41^3. sword _for_ spear: _much better_.
48^1. mould hill.
48^2. feet.
48^4. lept.
50^4. my billy.
51^3. sunney side.
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