6^2. And even: he may drie.
6^3. And when he cam to Carlisle gate.
6^4. O whae: but the Warden, he.
7^1. into my hall, thou.
7^4. I wad.
8^1. The Warden lookd ower.
8^2. said.
8^3. silly blind. 8^4. beside.
9^1. Then aye.
9^2. the lordlings footed.
9^3. But an the.
9^4. The groom had nae mind o.
10^2. were fast.
11^1 hied.
11^4. gude _wanting_.
12^1. took a cowt halter.
12^2. he did.
13^1. He turned them loose at the castle gate.
13^2. muir and moss.
13^3. neer let: bait.
13^4. But kept him a-galloping hame to her foal.
14^1. The mare she was: foot.
14^2. She didna.
14^4. A lang: before the day.
15^3. Rise up.
16^1. cloathes.
16^2. keekit through at the.
16^3. then cried.
16^4. braw brown.
17^1. haud thy tongue, thou silly wench.
17^2. morn’s: in your ee.
17^3. He’s.
18.
Now all this while, in merry Carlisle,
The harper harped to hie and law,
And the fiend thing dought they do but listen him to,
Untill that the day began to daw.
19^3. Behold the Wanton Brown was gane.
19^4. poor blind.
20^1. quo the cunning auld.
20^2. And ever allace.
20^3. I lost a.
21, 22, _alteration of_ #B# 11, 12:
Come cease thy allacing, thou silly blind harper,
And again of thy harping let us hear;
And weel payd sall thy cowt-foal be,
And thou sall have a far better mare.
Then aye he harped, and aye he carped,
Sae sweet were the harpings he let them hear!
He was paid for the foal he had never lost,
And three times ower for the gude gray mare.
#B.#
1^2. in a Bell town: _see_ 13^1.