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
10^2. For twa drifts of his sheep I gat: _corrected in Scott and
in the Campbell MS._
15^4. lee, #b# lye: _corrected to_ fee _in Campbell MS._
(ee==awe.)
16^2. shaft _is corrected to_ sharp _in Scott and the Campbell
MS._
24^4. Jersawigham’s: _cf._ #b#.
#b.# _There is a burden after the first, second, and fourth line,
variously given; as,_ Fa (La, Ta) la didle, Ta la la didle,
_etc., after the first and second;_ Fala didle, lal didle, Tal
didle, tal diddle, _after the fourth_.
2^{1,2} _wanting._
2^{3,4}. _1^{5,6} in the MS._
2^3. flee.
2^4. he is.
3^1. Then _for_ Now.
5^2. both with.
5^3. out a.
6^3. If they should all have bursen.
6^4. From.
7^4. here _wanting_.
8^1. Will.
8^2. we shall.
8^3. pound.
8^4. shall.
9^1. in.
9^4. brother’s dead (_death_).
10^2. For twa drifts of his sheep I gott.
10^3. not me.
10^4. me that he can keep.
11^3. worth other three.
11^4 _wanting._
12^{1,2} _written as 11^4_: The pick and tar was never so dark but
I’le guide you over yon hillies high.
12^{3,4} _wanting._
15^1. he was that.
15^3. slooth.
15^4. little lye.
16^2. shaft.
16^3. Gar warn.
17^1. me the morn.
17^2. see that it be by the.
17^3. Corscowthart.
17^4. ow?
18^3. beneath.
19^1. cra: da.
19^3. not.
19^4. either tane.
21^1. But H.: gates they had been.
21^3. set.
21^4. Noble he.
23^1. lumps _for_ heaps (heaps _in 23^2_).
24^3. Corscothart.
24^4. Jers a wighams.
25^1. They have tane now H. N.
25^2. bow-strings.
25^3. his heart was never so wae.
26^1. on for.
27^2. cuist.
27^3. Then every.
27^4. John of.
28^3. for fouchald.
29^3. brave _wanting_: for to.
30^1. _wanting._
32^3. had nothing.
33^1. now _for_ sweet.
33^4. Crisenty.
34^3. And keep.
35^1. cald now.
35^4. That eat and drank him a of.
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JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, I, 80, 1802; II, 3, 1833.
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