#I.# ‘Braes of Yarrow,’ Buchan’s MSS, II, 161; Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 203; Dixon, Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, p. 68, Percy Society, vol. xvii. #J.# ‘The Dowie Glens of Yarrow,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford. #K.# ‘The Dowie Den in Yarrow,’ Campbell MSS, I, 8. #L.# ‘The Dowie Dens,’ Blackwood’s Magazine, CXLVII, 741, June, 1890. #M.# ‘Dowie Banks of Yarrow,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford. #N.# ‘The Yetts of Gowrie,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford. #O.# Herd’s MSS, I, 35, II, 181; Herd’s Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, 1776, I, 145; four stanzas. #P.# Cromek’s Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196; two stanzas. First published in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1803 (#E b#). Scott remarks that he “found it easy to collect a variety of copies, but very difficult indeed to select from them such a collated edition as might in any degree suit the taste of ‘these more light and giddy-paced times.’” The copy principally used was #E a#. St. 12 of Scott, which suited the taste of the last century, but does not suit with a popular ballad, is from #O#, and also st. 13, and there are traces of #F#, #G#, #M#, but 5–7 have lines which do not occur in any version that I have seen. #A# had been somewhat edited before it was communicated to Percy; the places were, however, indicated by commas. Several copies besides #O#, already referred to, have slight passages that never came from the unsophisticated people; as #J# 2, in which a page “runs with sorrow,” for rhyme and without reason, #L# 2^3, and #L# 12^{3,4}, which is manifestly taken from Logan’s Braes of Yarrow.[96] #N# has been interpolated with artificial nonsense,[97] and is an almost worthless copy; the last stanza may defy competition for silliness. #M# 1, 3, and #N# 4, 6, 7, belong to ‘The Duke of Athole’s Nurse.’ So also does one half of a fragment sent by Burns in a letter to William Tytler, Cromek’s Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 194–8, which, however, has two stanzas of this ballad (#P#) and two of ‘Rare Willie’s drowned in Yarrow,’ No 215. The fragment in Ritson’s Scotish Songs, 1794, I, lxvii, is #O#. Herd’s MSS, I, 36, II, 182, have the following couplets, evidently from a piece treating the story of this ballad: O when I look east my heart is sair, But when I look west it’s mair and mair, For there I see the braes of Yarrow, And there I lost for ay my marrow.