In #A#, #B#, the drowned body is found in the cleft of a rock, the clifting or clintin of a craig; in #C# 4 neath a buss of brume, that stanza belonging, as most of the copy does, to the preceding ballad; cf. #J# 14, #K# 11 of No 214. The bride ties three links of her hair, which is three quarters long, round Willie’s waist, and draws him out of the water, #B# 2, #C# 5; for the hair, cf. No 214, where also it is not advantageously used. The bride’s tearing the ribbons from her head, #D# 12, #E# 15, #F# 8, #G# 7, #H# 14, is found also in No 214, #D# 11, #I# 12, but is inappropriate there. A brother, brother John, whether the man’s or the woman’s, tells the bad news in No 214, #A# 11, #E# 9, #I# 8, #L# 11, #N# 9, 10, as here #D# 11, #E# 14, #F# 7, #G# 6, #H# 13. ‘Annan Water,’ a ballad in which a lover is drowned on his way to visit his mistress, is given in an appendix. * * * * * A Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, II, 110, 1733. 1 ‘Willy’s rare, and Willy’s fair, And Willy’s wondrous bony, And Willy heght to marry me, Gin eer he marryd ony. 2 ‘Yestreen I made my bed fu brade, The night I’ll make it narrow, For a’ the live-long winter’s night I lie twin’d of my marrow. 3 ‘O came you by yon water-side? Pu’d you the rose or lilly? Or came you by yon meadow green? Or saw you my sweet Willy?’ 4 She sought him east, she sought him west, She sought him brade and narrow; Sine, in the clifting of a craig, She found him drownd in Yarrow. * * * * * B #a.# Cromek’s Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196; eighth and ninth stanzas of a fragment sent William Tytler by Burns in 1790. #b.# Stenhouse’s edition of the Musical Museum, 1853, IV, 464. 1 She sought him east, she sought him west, She sought him braid and narrow, Till in the clintin of a craig She found him drownd in Yarrow. 2 She’s taen three links of her yellow hair, That hung down lang and yellow, And she’s tied it about sweet Willie’s waist, An drawn him out o Yarrow. * * * * * C Gibb MS., No 7, p. 37; from recitation. “Traced to Eppie Fraser, daughter of a tramp, and unable to read, _circa_ 1840.” 1 ‘Willie’s fair, an Willie’s rare, An Willie’s wondrous bonny, An Willie’s promised to marry me, If eer he marry ony.’ 2 ‘O sister dear, I’ve dreamed a dream, I’m afraid it’s unco sorrow; I dreamed I was pu’in the heather green, In the dowie dens o Yarrow.’ 3 ‘O sister dear, I’ll read your dream, I’m afraid it will be sorrow; Ye’ll get a letter ere it’s een Your lover’s drowned in Yarrow.’