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
3^2. rest _struck out before_ lave.
4^1. Up _struck out before_ Out. Faughan Wood, _here and_ 7^1;
_in_ 12^1, Faughan Wood.
7^1. Up the then.
9^1. gude _struck out before_ red, _and_ red _written over_.
15^1. _Originally_ down by; down _struck out_.
15^2. _Originally_ in by; in _struck out. These last two changes,
and others, seem to be editorial._
_1–5, 12–14, 16, with variations, are 1–5, 14–16, 20 of the later
edition of the ballad in Scott’s Minstrelsy. Slight alterations,
such as Scott was accustomed to make, do not require notice._
Scott, 3^{1,2}. He told na _in the Minstrelsy: almost certainly an
arbitrary change, and not a good one, since it makes the
hardship to Lauderdale the less._
4^1. Lochinvar (_also in_ 14^1) _for_ Lord Faughanwood;
_introduced from_ #D#.
15^2. clad in the Johnstone grey: _for which no authority is
known_.
16^3. Leader lads _for_ ladies gay: _probably a conjectural
emendation_.
20^4. For fear of sic disorder: _presumably a change for rhyme_,
disorder _suggested by_ 2^4.
#D.#
9^1. 24.
12^1. It’s _is of later insertion, perhaps editorial._
14^1. I came not here: _obscured in the process of binding_.
20. _This must be a mixture of two stanzas. The third line has no
sense, and is not much improved by reading_ temper good, _as in
#C# 17^1._
#E.#
_Written mostly in long lines, without separation of stanzas,
sometimes without a proper separation of verses. The division
here made is partly conjectural._
2^1. She courted him.
3^4. entreid _or_ entried: _indistinct_.
6, 7^{1,2}.
His father an his mother came they came a
but he came no
It was a foul play Lochinvar
As his comrades sat drinkine at the wine
7^3. ... on.
13^2. Lodged _for_ Loved.
16^3. Gae man glass me your.
17^{2,3}.
between them tva man
Man I see, _etc._
#F.#
23^1. _We have had a similar verse in the north-Scottish version
of_ ‘Hugh Spencer,’ No 158, #C# 11: O bridles brak and great
horse lap.
#H.#
11^4. It was awful foul foul play. Awful _was probably a
misunderstanding of_ a foul.
#I.#
8^3. Lank-a-Shires.
14^3. He _is written over_ And.
15^1. bank, _the original reading, is changed to_ heuch.
#J.#
12^1. Oh.
15^4. go _is written over_ ride. _Motherwell made two slight
changes in his printed copy._
#K.#
1^4. my mony.
2^1. Loch-in-var; _and always_.
3^1. South sea bank.
7^1. the South sea bank.
10^3. For _for_ Where: _probably a misprint, perhaps a
preservation of the northern_ f _for_ wh.
13^3. the brigs broken, _wrongly repeated_.
16^2. When we, _preserved from_ 12^2.
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