18. Now all this while, in merry Carlisle, The harper harped to hie and law, And the fiend thing dought they do but listen him to, Untill that the day began to daw. 19^3. Behold the Wanton Brown was gane. 19^4. poor blind. 20^1. quo the cunning auld. 20^2. And ever allace. 20^3. I lost a. 21, 22, _alteration of_ #B# 11, 12: Come cease thy allacing, thou silly blind harper, And again of thy harping let us hear; And weel payd sall thy cowt-foal be, And thou sall have a far better mare. Then aye he harped, and aye he carped, Sae sweet were the harpings he let them hear! He was paid for the foal he had never lost, And three times ower for the gude gray mare. #B.# 1^2. in a Bell town: _see_ 13^1. 5. _The burden is here_: Sing, Fadle fidle, etc. #C.# “The following is an oral version of a ballad which appears in the first volume of the ‘Minstrelsy.’ I have written it down from the recitation of a friend who learned it many years ago from her grandfather, a Mr John Macreddie, farmer, Little Laight parish of Inch, Wigtonshire. He died in 1813, at the age of ninety-four, and is supposed to have acquired the song from tradition in his youth. On comparison, it will be found to differ in several respects from Sir Walter’s version. 11 Hill Street, Anderston, Glasgow. W. G.” #D.# 3^2, 4^2, 6^1, 18^1, oh. 10^1, at, 16^1, then, _added by Mr Murray in pencil above the line, as if on reading over what he had written down_. 18^4. _Dr Mitchell gives_: An waps. “ The ower-word,” _he adds_, “was something like the following:” Hey tum tidly Doodlem didly Hey tum tidly Doodley dan. #E.# 2^2. _The reading is perhaps_ pounds. 7^{2,3}. _Absurdity could be avoided by exchanging_ grey mare _and_ steed. 24^2. by _for_ my. 193 THE DEATH OF PARCY REED #A.# ‘A song of Parcy Reed and the Three False Halls,’ the late Robert White’s papers. #B.# ‘The Death of Parcy Reed,’ Richardson’s Borderer’s Table Book, 1846, VII, 361; J. H. Dixon, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, p. 99, Percy Society, vol. xvii, 1846.