32 ‘But now my sorrow’s past and gane, And joy’s returned to me, And here I’ve gowd enough forbye, Ahin this third pennie.’ 33 As Willie he gaed down the town, There he crawd wonderous crouse; He calld the may afore them a’, The nourice o the house. 34 ‘Come here, come here, my nurse,’ he says, ‘I’ll pay your bread and wine; Seas ebb and flow [as] they wont to do, Yet I’m the laird o Linne.’ 35 As he gaed up the Gallowgate port, His hose abeen his sheen; But lang ere he came down again Was convoyed by lords fifeteen. * * * * * =A.= _2. The third and fourth lines are fourth and third._ _3. There is probably a gap after the second line._ 5^1. Ffor _wanting_: _supplied from the bottom of the preceding page_. 5^4. a good-se. 7^1. Lime. 8^1, 9^2, 12^2, 18^4, 19^2, 21^1. 3. 13^1. Land selfeer. 16^2 _has_ bis _prefixed_ to it. 19^1. 2. 20^1. blime. 20^3. Scalels: _misprint_? 21^2 _has_ bis _prefixed_. 20, 21, _are written together._ 24^{2,4}, 30^{2,3}. 40. 26^3. 20^{li}_{:}. 28^4, 32^1. Lime. 30^2 _marked_ bis. 30^4. 40^1. =B.= =a.= 9^2. a; =b=, all. 14^2. o your. 14^4. But ye’ll: _cf._ =b.= 23^2. For there; _perhaps simply_ For (==Where). =b.= _1 wanting._ 2^3. on that. 2^3, 3^3, 5^3, 6^3, causey. 4^1. that sang again. 6^1. if ye, _wrongly_. _13, 14 follow 6._ _7 wanting._ 9^2. were all. 9^5. And some: gie ’m. _10-12 wanting._ 13^1. twa sheaves. 13^2. And ae glass. 13^3. And I will pay you them back again. 13^4. The day I’m heir of. 14^1. get three sheaves. 14^2. And twa glass. 14^3. But I’ll be paid: sea gangs. 14^4. For ye’ll. _15-19 wanting._ 20^{1,2}. As Willie was sitting one day alane, And nae body him wi. 20^3. He minded on. 20^4. That’s mither to him did gie. 20^{5, 6}. Bade him never open a lock wi it Ere the greatest strait he could see. _21, 22 wanting._ 23. Then he did spy a little wee lock, And the key gied linking in, And he got goud and money therein To pay the lands o Linne. _24-32 wanting._ _35, 33, 34, for 33-35._ 33^{1, 2}. When Willie he came to the ha, There he cried out wonderous crouse. 34^1. Come down, come down, nourice, he said. 34^2. Ere I pay you your. 34^3. For ye will be paid ere the seas gang dry. 34^4. For this day I’m heir. 35^1. As Willie he gied down the town. 35^3. But when that he came up again. _Both Motherwell in copying the ballad (which he in all likelihood received from Buchan), and Dixon in printing it, made a few changes: as (Motherwell) the northern_ for _in_ 2^{1, 3}, _to_ whare, _but not in_ 29^2, _where_ for _also_==where. =C.=