3 Johne Tamson peeped and poorly spake Untill he did his ain men see; ‘O by my sooth,’ quo Johne Tamson, ‘Methinks I see a coming tree.’ * * * * * * * 4 And they hae hanged that grim Soudan, For a’ his mirth and meikle pride, And sae hae they that ill woman, Upon a scrogg-bush him beside. * * * * * 15^1. two months _in all the copies_; _cf._ 8^1. 19^4. lye. _Motherwell’s MS. has a few variations, but these may be attributed to Motherwell. All excepting one, which is an error of the pen, appear in the Minstrelsy._ 5^4. in your. 14^4. has. 15^2. part on. 16^3. into the. 19^4. lay. 20^3. Then. (20^4. _Minstrelsy_, When.) 20^4. gate. 21^2. sit to. 22^3. I’ll. 25^1. have, _error of the pen_. 25^4. wale. 26^2. ladie _for_ wife, _to avoid couplets_. 28^3. foes. FOOTNOTES: [1] He has introduced the main points of the story (in fact =B= 2, 3) into his ballad of ‘Lord Soulis,’ Scott’s Minstrelsy, 1833, IV, 244. [2] Especially by A. Vesselofsky, Slavic Tales concerning Solomon and Kitovras, etc., St Petersburg, 1872 (in Russian); Neue Beiträge zur Geschichte der Salomonssage, Archiv für Slavische Philologie, VI, 393 ff., 548 ff., 1882; V. Jagić, Archiv, etc., I, 103 ff., 1876; F. Vogt, Salman und Morolf, 1880, Zur Salman-Morolfsage, Paul und Braune’s Beiträge, VIII, 313 ff., 1882. See these for tales containing portions of the same matter in various combinations, and for a discussion of an Oriental derivation. [3] G. Paris, in Romania, VII, 462, IX, 436; Cligès, ed. Foerster, p. xix. [4] Rybnikof, II, Nos 52, 53, III, No 56. See Jagić, as above, pp. 103-6; Miss I. F. Hapgood, Epic Songs of Russia, p. 282, who combines the three texts. [5] Jagić, Archiv, I, 107 f.; Vesselofsky, the same, VI, 406. [6] Cf. =B= 3^4. Methinks I see a coming tree. [7] Karadschitsch, Volksmärchen der Serben, 1854, No 42, p. 233. [8] Von der Hagen u. Büsching, Deutsche Gedichte des Mittelalters, 1808, I, 62, vv. 1605-1848. [9] Vogt, Salman und Marolf. [10] Os livros de Linhagens, in Portugaliæ Monumenta Historica, Scriptores, 1856, I, 180 f., 274-7. The latter account was printed by Southey in the preface to his ballad ‘King Ramiro’ (1802), Poetical Works, 1853, VI, 122, and a passage from the other. Kemble, Salomon & Saturnus, p. 19, 1848, remarks on the resemblance of the story of Ramiro to that of Solomon. For historical names and facts in the Portuguese _sage_, see Baist in Zs. f. romanische Philologie, V, 173.