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
24^3. Then.
24^4. will I.
25^2. Thir lands.
25^3. they sall lie.
26^2. Said she.
26^3. That any: enter before a.
26^4. rad for.
27^1. lords.
27^3. leave at.
27^4. Unto: bound he.
29^1. is ane of the: forrests.
30^3. that fair c.
31^1. There’s _wanting_: and a.
31^3. There an.
31^4. live.
32^1. is in l.
32^2. is fair.
33^1. is truely his.
33^2. He says he: Soldanie.
33^3. Like as: he loss it.
34^2. In E. Forrest.
34^4. And made for.
35^1. to the.
35^2. where lay.
35^3. coming to this.
35^4. And ould.
36^3. Will: men take.
36^4. Your: sall.
37^2. speed them.
38^1. Be certain he.
38^2. And bid him come and.
38^3. Till Halliday till that he come.
38^4. You show.
39^3. Nought.
40^1, 44^1. said.
40^3, 69^3. loss.
41^2. if I.
41^{3,4} _wanting_.
42^1. Laird of.
42^4, 47^2. that _wanting_.
44^2, 61^2. O gin it.
45^2. in the night ye.
45^4. right hastilie.
46^3. needs me.
47^1. desired ye to.
48^1. he’s.
48^2. no worse for.
49^1. coming oer Cadron.
49^4. awfu.
50^2. Unto.
50^4. First of: and then of.
_After 50^4_:
Yet I reid you send yon Outlaw till,
And if you man them, come will he.
(_Repetition, with corruption, of 8^{1,2}._)
51^2. four of the best of.
51^3, 62^2. gae.
51^3, 55^3. aun sell.
51^4. Good reason you.
52^2. follow will we.
52^3. never after him again.
53^1. king he called.
53^2. bearer of Scotland.
53^3. Hoppringle.
53^4. on.
54^1, 57^3. Laird of.
54^{2,3}. Thou.
55^1. Desire.
55^2, 58^2. Bring four of the best of the (your).
55^4. reason in some part I.
56^2. good from.
57^4. What biddings.
58^1. desires you to.
58^4. Nae mae.
59^1. ye.
59^2. Truelie here I.
60 _wanting_.
61^3. What rack of the.
62^3. Sir _wanting_.
63^4. sake that.
64^1. Siccan mercie you sal.
64^2. sal you.
64^3. said the O. syne.
65^1. The.
65^2. from.
65^3. sae will I loss.
66^1. noblemen.
66^2. Pitie, Outlaw: see thee.
66^4. Let your favour be given to.
67^1. my fair.
67^3. Why, ye will make me sheriff: the fair.
68^1. Will ye: your.
68^2. of your.
68^3. of Ettrick Forrest.
68^5. If ye be not a: to your.
68^6. Forfeited.
69^1. But alace, prince: become.
69^3. lands.
70^1. thy.
70^2. grant I frie.
70^3. where.
71^4. Prince, they are native lands.
72^4. But well their names I do not.
73^3. He made him.
73^6. a traitor to the crown.
73^6. should he.
74^1. any time.
74^2. Sic ane Outlaw.
74^4. Outlaw in the Forrest.
=d.=
_The MS. extant in the Philiphaugh archives exhibits, besides many
differences of spelling, the following variations in reading from_ =c=
_as printed by Aytoun_:
5^1. _Side note_: Jas the 2d, 1454.
17^4. is bra _for_ so braw.
19^2. is fair _for_ so fair.
21^4. mak _for_ man, _wrongly_.
22^3. From Soudron _for_ From Soldan Turk.
24^2. see _for_ find.
26^2. said _wanting_, _wrongly_.
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