22^3. the causer of my life. 22^4. plays. 23^3. borders. #c.# Printed for P. Brooksby [_torn off_] West-smith-field. 2^4. he _wanting_. 5^3. of thy. 9^3. Then cry’d _wanting_. 10^4. of the. 11^3. thy fact. 12^2. Garlard. 13^1. other. 21^3. ware. 22^3. the causer of my life. 22^4. plays. 23^3. borders. #d.# 2^2. the same serime. 8^1. again. 8^2. compast. 9^{2,3}, 12^2. Garland. 9^3. Then cry’d. 10^1. the _wanting_. 11^4. it _wanting_. 13^1. other. 14^3. will I. 17^4. they _wanting_. 22^3. cause of the loss. #e.# _No imprint._ 2^2. rid _wanting_: the same. 2^3. he could. 5^2. my _for_ thy. 7^1. as _wanting_. 8^2. compast. 9^{2,3}. Garland. 9^3. Then cry’d. 10^1. to town. 10^4. calld to. 11^2. for to. 13^1. other. 14^3. will I. 18^4. With his. 19^4. come. 22^3. of the loss of. #B.# 8^4. blin’ _in Johnson’s Museum_: blink _in Cromek_. #D.# Sir Hugh in the Grime’s Downfall, or, A New Song made on Sir Hugh in the Grime, who was hangd for stealing the Bishop’s Mare. London: Printed and sold by L. How. (About 1770?) 5^2. did leet: _cf._ #A# 18^2. 10^4. biding. 14^1. tonge. 192 THE LOCHMABEN HARPER #A. a.# ‘The Blind Harper of Lochmaben,’ Glenriddell MSS, XI, 42, 1791. #b.# ‘The Blind Harper,’ Johnson’s Museum, No 579, 1803. #c.# ‘The Lochmaben Harper,’ Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 1802, I, 65; 1833, I, 422. #B.# ‘Lochmaben Harper,’ Glenriddell MSS, XI, 39. #C.# ‘The Auld Harper,’ The Edinburgh Topographical, Traditional, and Antiquarian Magazine, 1849, p. 58. #D.# Macmath MS, p. 35. #E.# ‘The Jolly Harper,’ Buchan’s MSS, I, 35; Dixon, Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, Percy Society, vol. xvii, p. 37. The Stationers’ Registers, 22 July, 1564–22 July, 1565, Arber, I, 260, have an entry of a fee from Owyn Rogers for license to print “a ballett intituled The Blende Harper, etc.”; and again, the following year, Arber, I, 294, of a fee from Lucas Haryson for license to print “a ballet intituled The Blynde Harpers, with the Answere.” Nothing further is known of this ballet. Boyd, the translator of Dante, had a recollection of a ballad of a Scotch minstrel who stole a horse from one of the Henries of England: Ritson, Scotish Song, I, xxxvi, note 25, 1794.