Were my gude lord but here this day, As he’s awa wi Charlie, The dearest blude o a’ thy kin Wad sloken the lowe o Airly. _Another copy is said in the editor’s preface to begin thus_: The great Argyle raised ten thousand men, Eer the sun was waukening early, And he marched them down by the back o Dunkel, Bade them fire on the bonnie house o Airlie. #c.# _Made over from a copy resembling #B#, #C a#._ 4. _Two stanzas here, as in #B#: kisses are dropped for propriety._ 5, 6. _The last half of these is substantially preserved in #c# 7, 8._ #d.# _A blending, perhaps not accidental, of various copies; mainly of #A g#, #C b#, #C c#._ 1, 2. _Nearly #A g# 1, 2._ 3. _Nearly #c# 3._ 4^{1,2}. _Nearly #A g# 4^{1,2}._ 4^{3,4}. _Nearly #c# 4^{3,4}._ 5. _Nearly a compound of #A b#_ (Finlay) _5_ and _#c# 5; cf. #B# 5._ 6. _Cf. #b# 4 (5 above), #c# 7._ 7. _Nearly #c# 8._ 8. _#b# 6 altered_. _The stanza cited by Christie at p. 296 is the spurious conclusion_ of _#c#._ 200 THE GYPSY LADDIE #A.# ‘Johny Faa, the Gypsy Laddie,’ Ramsay’s Tea-Table Miscellany, vol. iv, 1740. Here from the edition of 1763, p. 427. #B. a.# The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany (vol. lxxx of the Scots Magazine), November, 1817, p. 309. #b.# A fragment recited by Miss Fanny Walker, of Mount Pleasant, near Newburgh-on-Tay. #C.# ‘Davie Faw,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 381; ‘Gypsie Davy,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, 1827, p. 360. #D.# ‘The Egyptian Laddy,’ Kinloch MSS, V, 331. #E.# ‘The Gypsie Laddie,’ Mactaggart’s Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824, p. 284. #F.# ‘Johnny Faa, the Gypsey Laddie,’ The Songs of England and Scotland [P. Cunningham], London, 1835, II, 346. #G. a.# ‘The Gypsie Loddy,’ a broadside, Roxburghe Ballads, III, 685. #b.# A recent stall-copy, Catnach, 2 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. #H.# ‘The Gipsy Laddie,’ Shropshire Folk-Lore, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, p. 550. #I.# Communicated by Miss Margaret Reburn, as sung in County Meath, Ireland, about 1860. #J. a.# ‘The Gipsey Davy,’ from Stockbridge, Massachusetts. #b.# From a lady born in Maine. #K.# ‘Lord Garrick,’ #a#, #b#, communicated by ladies of New York. The English ballad, though derived from the Scottish, may perhaps have been printed earlier. A conjectural date of 1720 is given, with hesitation, to #G a#, in the catalogue of the British Museum.