24 ‘But I did harp them all asleep, An managed my business cunninglie; If ye make light o what I say, Come to my stable an ye’ll see. 25 ‘My music pleasd the king sae well Mair o my harping he wishd to hear; An for the same he paid me well, And also for my gude grey mare.’ 26 Then he drew out a gude lang purse, Well stored wi gowd an white monie, An in a short time after this The Wanton Brown he lat them see. 27 Sir Roger produced his ploughs o land, Sir Charles produced his thousand pounds, Then back to Henry, the English king, Restored the stately Wanton Brown. * * * * * #A. a.# “I have here given another copy of this Border Ballad, which I took from a MS. collection of Mr Henderson. It varies a little from the former [#A#], which I had from Dr Clapperton of Lochmaben.” 4^4, 13^4, 18^4. _The Wanton Brown is a mare: so #b#, and #D#, 9^4. But the Brown is a stallion in #C#, 3^4, 8^4, 13^4, and is so made to be in #A c#, 13^4, 17^3: rightly, I should suppose._ 8^2. say. 12^4. _to wanting_. #b.# _The third and fourth lines are repeated as burden._ 1^1. O heard ye of a silly harper. 1^2. Livd long. 1^3. he did. 8^1. he _wanting_. 9^2. lords gaed through. 9^4. That they forgat. 14^4. ere it. 15^2. gae. 16^1. raise. 17^1. then (_misprint_) _for_ those. 17^3. gainst. 21^3. shall. #c.# _No burden._ 1^1. O heard ye na o. 1^2. How lang he lived. 1^3. And how. 1^4. steal the Lord Warden’s. 2^2. the haste. 2^3. will neer gae weel. 3^1. hast. 3^2. That can baith lance oer laigh. 3^3. Sae set thee on the gray mare’s back. 4, 5, _wanting._ 6^2. And even: he may drie. 6^3. And when he cam to Carlisle gate. 6^4. O whae: but the Warden, he. 7^1. into my hall, thou. 7^4. I wad. 8^1. The Warden lookd ower. 8^2. said. 8^3. silly blind. 8^4. beside. 9^1. Then aye. 9^2. the lordlings footed. 9^3. But an the. 9^4. The groom had nae mind o. 10^2. were fast. 11^1 hied. 11^4. gude _wanting_. 12^1. took a cowt halter. 12^2. he did. 13^1. He turned them loose at the castle gate. 13^2. muir and moss. 13^3. neer let: bait. 13^4. But kept him a-galloping hame to her foal. 14^1. The mare she was: foot. 14^2. She didna. 14^4. A lang: before the day. 15^3. Rise up. 16^1. cloathes. 16^2. keekit through at the. 16^3. then cried. 16^4. braw brown. 17^1. haud thy tongue, thou silly wench. 17^2. morn’s: in your ee. 17^3. He’s.