9^{1,3}. a _in_ came _is not closed_; _possibly_ cume. _A few changes were, as usual, made by Motherwell in printing._ #D.# 1^4. Wha _is blotted_. #E. b.# _A minute collation of a copy constructed by Scott would be useless and deceptive, and therefore only the larger variations will be noted._ 1^2. And ere they paid the lawing. 5^1. As he gaed up the Tennies bank. 6^{1,2}. O come ye here to part your land, The bonnie forest thorough. 7^{1,2}. I come not here to part my land, And neither to beg nor borrow. _After 7_: If I see all, ye’re nine to ane, (_Cf._ #F# 4^1.) And that’s an unequal marrow; (_Cf._ #G# 3^2.) Yet will I fight while lasts my brand, (_Cf._ #F# 4^3, #G# 3^3.) On the bonny banks of Yarrow. (_Cf._ #E a# 6^4.) 10^4. Wi my true love, on Yarrow. (_Cf._ #O# 1^4.) _After 10, two stanzas which are nearly_ #O# 3, 4. 11^3. ten slain men. (_Cf._ #F# 9^3.) 12^{2,3}. She searchd his wounds all thorough; She kissd them till her lips grew red. 13^2. For a’ this breeds but sorrow. (_Cf._ #F# 13^2.) 14^2. Ye mind me but of sorrow. 14^{3,4}. A fairer rose did never bloom Than now lies croppd on Yarrow. (_Cf._ #M# 11^{3,4}.) _Scott gives in a note_, III, 79, 1803, “the last stanza, as (_since?_) it occurs in most copies.” (_Cf._ #F#, #G#, #H#.) That lady, being big with child, And full of consternation, She swooned in her father’s arms, Amidst that stubborn nation. #F.# 2^3. browns, _and so again_ #G# 1^3. _A derivation from_ bruny, _mail-coat, is scarcely to be thought of_. _Apparently a corruption of_ brand, (_cf._ #E# 4^3); _but_ brand _occurs in_ #F# 4^3, #G# 3^3. #G.# 1^2. before him. 1^3. and his noble brouns. 10^3. shalt. #H.# 3, 4. The stubborn lord _in 3^3 is the wife’s father, and the race, or family, is_ stubborn _according to 10_. _Stubborn folk think opposers stubborn, no doubt; still the epithet is unlikely in 4^3._ Lad _I suppose to refer to the man who in the other versions stabs from behind_. 5^3. dern _for_ den. _The_ nine men _must be dead, as in_ #E# 11, #F# 9, #G# 6. _The_ well armd _belongs to an earlier (lost) stanza, corresponding to_ #E# 5, #F# 3, #G# 2. #I.# _Variations in Buchan’s printed copy_: 1^1. Ten lords. The lords _in my copy of the MS., but, as Dixon has also_ Ten, _I presume_ The _to be an error. Otherwise I should have read_ Th[re]e, _as in_ #B#, #C#, #D#. 4^2. As aft he’d. 7^4. thrust him thro body and mell, O. 8^3. mother to. 14^4. ower his. #J.#