The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
59^{3,4}.
He’ll cast yon bonny castle down,
And mak a widowe o that gaye ladye.
60.
He’ll loose yon bluidhound borderers
Wi fire and sword to follow thee;
There will nevir a Murray after thysell
Have land in Ettricke Foreste frie.
61^3. Wha reck not losing.
_After 61_:
My merryemen’s lives, my widowe’s teirs,
There lies the pang that pinches me!
When I am straught in bluidie eard,
Yon castell will be right dreirie.
63^3. nobil king.
63^4. sake that.
64^3. Over God’s forbode, quoth.
_After 64^4 (added in 1803)_:
Else ere ye come to Edinburgh port
I trow thin guarded sall ye be.
65^1. Thir.
65^2. from.
66^1. said _wanting_.
66^2. Said pitie.
67^1. give thee.
67^2, 68^2. gaye _for_ fair.
67^3. Gin thoult mak me sheriffe of this.
68^3. I’se: of Ettricke Foreste.
68^6. sall thou.
70^3. they lie.
71. 1802.
Fair Philiphaugh, prince, is my ain,
But and a part of the Newark lee,
The Finnies and the Hangingshaw,
My liege, are native steads to me.
1803.
Fair Philiphaugh is mine by right,
And Lewinshope still mine shall be;
Newark, Foulshiells and Tinnies baith
My bow and arrow purchased me.
72^{1,2}. 1803.
And I have native steads to me
The Newark lee and Hangingshaw;
73^4. upwards.
73^5. was na.
=c.=
_This copy agrees closely, as to substance, with_ =a=. _After 50^4
it has two lines, partially corrupted, which do not occur in_ =a=,
_and it lacks st. 60, which, it is to be observed, does not occur
in the king’s instructions to Pringle, 54-56 (though found in the
instructions to Boyd, 14), and was therefore not to be expected.
Verbal differences are numerous, but in only a very few cases of the
least importance, and in these for the worse._
1^4, 16^2, 29^4. wild beasts.
2^1. builded of.
2^3. There’s in.
2^4. is braw.
3^1. and lady.
3^{3,4}, 31^3. keeps.
4^1. men’s in livery.
4^2. is fair.
4^4. O gin.
5^4. country.
6^1. then _wanting_.
6^4. sall be.
7^1, 26^1. spoke.
7^4. good nobles, and syne.
8^2, 45^1, 59^1. if.
8^2. yon man.
8^3, 12^3, 42^3, 51^1, 55^1. him to.
9^1, 13^3, 19^4, 23^3, 30^2, 31^4, 32^4, 40^3. gin.
9^1, 13^3. refuse.
9^2, 13^4, 23^4, 35^4. conqueist.
9^3. we’ll cast.
9^4, 14^2, 23^6, 43^2. his (thy, my) fair.
10^2. and his brother-in-law.
11^1. said the.
11^2. gae.
11^3. to fair E.
12^1. holds.
12^4. yon fair forrest of me.
13^1, 15^2, 44^3. Till.
14^1. may: I’se.
16^3. There heard he bows did.
16^4. whithering him near by.
17^1. the great.
17^3. the castle he saw.
17^4. unicorns so braw.
19^1. They were all in ane.
19^4. not royallie.
19^5. he knew.
19^6. He served.
20^1. Good mot ye.
20^2. Thy fair lady and thy.
21^1. he sent.
21^4. may your.
22^1. lands is.
22^2. And I ken.
22^3. From Soldan Turk.
22^4. king and his men was.
23^1. ye, man, to come.
23^3. ye.
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