+The Text+ is that of Herd's MS. and his _Scots Songs_. Other versions
vary very slightly, and this is the oldest of them.
There is a fourteenth-century MS. (in the Cotton collection) containing
a poem not unlike _The Wee Wee Man_; but there is no justification in
deriving the ballad from the poem, which may be found in Ritson's
_Ancient Songs_ (1829), i. p. 40.
Scott incorporates the story with _The Young Tamlane_.