14^1. I came not here: _obscured in the process of binding_.
20. _This must be a mixture of two stanzas. The third line has no
sense, and is not much improved by reading_ temper good, _as in
#C# 17^1._
#E.#
_Written mostly in long lines, without separation of stanzas,
sometimes without a proper separation of verses. The division
here made is partly conjectural._
2^1. She courted him.
3^4. entreid _or_ entried: _indistinct_.
6, 7^{1,2}.
His father an his mother came they came a
but he came no
It was a foul play Lochinvar
As his comrades sat drinkine at the wine
7^3. ... on.
13^2. Lodged _for_ Loved.
16^3. Gae man glass me your.
17^{2,3}.
between them tva man
Man I see, _etc._
#F.#
23^1. _We have had a similar verse in the north-Scottish version
of_ ‘Hugh Spencer,’ No 158, #C# 11: O bridles brak and great
horse lap.
#H.#
11^4. It was awful foul foul play. Awful _was probably a
misunderstanding of_ a foul.
#I.#
8^3. Lank-a-Shires.
14^3. He _is written over_ And.
15^1. bank, _the original reading, is changed to_ heuch.
#J.#
12^1. Oh.
15^4. go _is written over_ ride. _Motherwell made two slight
changes in his printed copy._
#K.#
1^4. my mony.
2^1. Loch-in-var; _and always_.
3^1. South sea bank.
7^1. the South sea bank.
10^3. For _for_ Where: _probably a misprint, perhaps a
preservation of the northern_ f _for_ wh.
13^3. the brigs broken, _wrongly repeated_.
16^2. When we, _preserved from_ 12^2.
23^3. Englishman.
#L.#
“The story of the ballad was that Lochinvar went to Netherby with
a band of men dressed in green, whom he concealed near the
tower, and with whose assistance he forcibly abducted the young
lady.”
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