4 ‘Go saddle me my bonny brown, For the grey is not so speedy, And away we’ll go to the Misty Mount, And overtake my lady.’ 5 They saddled him his bonny brown, For the grey was not so speedy, And away they went to the Misty Mount, And overtook his lady. 6 And when Lord Garrick he got there, ’Twas in the morning early, And there he found his lady fair, And she was wet and weary. 7 ‘And it’s fare you well, my dearest dear, And it’s fare you well for ever, And if you don’t go with me now, Don’t let me see you never.’ * * * * * #A.# _Variations of Finlay_, II, 39 ff. _Inserted after 2:_ ‘O come with me,’ says Johnie Faw, ‘O come with me, my dearie; For I vow and I swear, by the hilt of my sword, That your lord shall nae mair come near ye.’ Then she gied them the beer and the wine, And they gied her the ginger; But she gied them a far better thing, The goud ring aff her finger. 4^2. Wi my. 4^3. But this. 6^3. For I vow and I swear, by the fan in my hand. 7^2. _And wanting._ 9^2. _Otherwise_: The brown was neer sae ready. 10^3. but ane. 10^4. For a. _Herd has in 10^{3,4}_ but ane, For. _Pinkerton follows Herd, with changes of his own in 1, 10, and the omission of 7. The copy in Johnson’s Museum is Herd’s, with changes: in 10^{3,4},_ are a’ put down for ane, The Earl of Cassilis’ lady. _Ritson follows Ramsay, except that in 6^2 he has_ And I’ll, _found in Herd; perhaps also in some edition of the Tea-Table Miscellany._ #B. a.# “Some lines have been omitted on account of their indelicacy:” p. 308 b. _The reference is no doubt to a stanza corresponding to #A# 7, or perhaps to a passage like 5–7._ #b.# _Only 1, 2, 5, 10–13, are preserved._ 1^1. gipsies cam to oor ha-door. 1^4. doon stairs cam oor gay leddie. 2^2. afore. 2^3. An whan they. 2^4. cuist the glamour. 5^1. my gay mantle. 5^2. me my. 5^3. For I maun leave my guid lord at hame. 5^4. An follow the. 10^1. They travelld east, they travelld wast. 10^2. They travelld. 10^3. to the. 10^4. By that time she. 11^1. I crost this. 11^2. An my guid man. 11^3. Noo I maun put. 11^4. An follow. 12^1. Whan her guid lord cam hame at nicht. 12^2. He spierd for his gay. 12^3. The tane she cried an the ither replied. 12^4. She’s aff. 13^1. the brown, he said. 13^2. The black neer rides. 13^3. For I. 13^4. Till I’ve brought back. #C.# 4^1. _Originally_ plaid _was written for_ cloak; _evidently by accidental anticipation._ 5^3. fit _altered perhaps from_ fut; _printed_ fit.