2^3. were a hundred.
4^3. or.
_After 4_, _cf._ #A# 4^{1,2}:
But up then spak the auld gudewife,
And wow! but she lookd wondrous yellow.
5^{1–3}. follow him.
5^4. I’ll bide.
7^1. out frae.
7^2. And by the side o Antermony.
7^4. Wi him his.
8^2. sadly _for_ sorry.
10^1. It’s they.
11^4. wi the.
12^1. There’s mair than ae bed in.
16^2. on them.
16^3. It’s I.
#C.# #b.#
8. _In a letter of John Hamilton’s to Sir W. Scott, dated August
17, 1803 (“Scotch Ballads,” etc., No 116), this stanza is given
thus_:
My palace stands on yon burn-brae,
My bow is bent an arrows ready;
My name is Donald, in the Isle of Sky,
Although I be but a Highland laddie.
_Scott probably trusted to his memory when making the following
note to a, printed in Sharpe’s Ballad Book, ed. 1880_:
‘I have a dirk and a gude claymore,
My bow is bent and my arrow ready;
My castle stands in the Isle of Skye,
Although I am but a Highland laddie.’
“The above stanza, which I got from the late Mr Hamilton,
music-seller in Edinburgh, seems to belong to ‘Glasgow Peggie.’”
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