10 ‘Wi kauk and keel, I’ll win your bread, And spindles and whorles for them wha need, Whilk is a gentil trade indeed, To carry the gaberlunyie, O. I’ll bow my leg, and crook my knee, And draw a black clout oer my eye; A criple or blind they will ca me, While we shall be merry and sing.’ 3^2. my dady’s, Dublin, 1729, London, 1730, 1733. FOOTNOTES: [93] And may have been omitted by Ramsay because he “kept out all ribaldry” from the Tea-Table Miscellany. This is not a Tea-Table Miscellany, and I have no discretion. [94] I owe my knowledge of all of these three copies to Mr Baring-Gould. He informs me that the ballad which he took down is sung throughout Cornwall and Devon. [95] Other copies, which are rather numerous, much less: Norrenberg, Des dülkener Fiedlers Liederbuch, p. 10, No 13; Peter I, 182; Uhland, No 285, p. 737; Haupt u. Schmaler, I, 102, No 67; etc. See Hoffmann’s notes, pp. 46, 47; Barack, Zimmerische Chronik, 2d ed., II, 111, and Liebrecht’s note, Germania, XIV, 38; Schade, Weimarisches Jahrbuch, III, 259 ff., 465 ff. [96] For this older piece, see Ebsworth, Bagford Ballads, I, 216. There is no adventure; the subject is the beggar’s way of life. 280 THE BEGGAR-LADDIE =A.= ‘The Shipherd Boy,’ “Old Lady’s Collection,” No 35. =B.= ‘The Beggar’s Dawtie,’ Murison MS., p. 85. =C.= ‘The Beggar-Laddie,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 249. =D.= ‘The Gaberlunzie Laddie, or, The Beggar’s Bride,’ Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs, I, 100. =E.= ‘The Shepherd’s Bonny Lassy,’ Kinloch MSS, V, 249, II, 17. This is a sort of ‘Gaberlunyie-Man’ with a romantic conclusion, resembling that of ‘Lizie Lindsay.’ A pretended beggar, who is for the time acting as shepherd’s swain, induces a young lady, or young woman of good standing, to follow him as his beggar-lassie. They come to a hall (his father’s, =A=, =D=, =E=, brother’s, =C=), he knocks loudly, four and twenty gentlemen welcome him in, and as many ladies the lassie, and she is thenceforth a knight’s or squire’s lady. There is corruption in all the copies,[97] and the rhyme is frequently lost. =A= 2 (=B= 3, =C= 3, =D= 7, =E= 5) is taken almost bodily from ‘The Gaberlunyie-Man,’ 10. =D= is not the better for being a mixture of three copies. =D= 4 anticipates the conclusion, and it is inconceivable that any meddler should not have seen this. =D= 14 is caught from ‘The Jolly Beggar.’ A The “Old Lady’s Collection,” No 35; north of Scotland. 1 Shiperd-boy, what is yer trade? Or what way do ye wine yer bread? Or what way do ye wine yer bread, Fan the kipeng nout gies over? 2 ‘Spindels an forls it is my trade, An bits o sticks to them who need, Whilk is a gentell trade indeed; Bony lassie, cane ye lea me?’ 3 ‘I lea you as I supos Rachell loved Jacob of old, As Jason loied his flice of gould, Sae dearly do I lea ye.