27^2. gaire is, _I suppose_, gear.
#D.# #b.#
_Burden._
1. The wally o ‘t, the wally o ‘t.
3. the ranting o ‘t.
4. Our lady lies alane.
1^3. at it.
3^1. It’s I.
4^1. As sure as you’re Jean.
4^2. And I am.
4^3. I’ll cause.
5^1. To cause.
5^2. I think would be.
5^3. give to such a rogue as you.
5^4. Who never could it win.
6^1. So he must go.
6^2. Amang the nobles a’.
6^3. And there before good witnesses.
7^2. was called Miss Anne.
9^3. she says _wanting_.
8–12
A servant girl there was found out,
On whom to show his skill;
He gave to her a hundred pounds,
To purchase her good-will.
And still he cried, Look up, Peggy,
Look up, and think no shame,
And you shall have your hundred pounds
Before I lay you down.
Now he has lain him down wi her,
A hundred pounds in pawn,
And all the noblemen cried out
That Errol is a man.
‘Tak hame your daughter,’ Errol said,
‘And tak her to a glen,
For Errol canna pleasure her,
Nor can no other man.’
#c.#
_Burden._
1. And the.
3. And the thing we.
4. Is, Errol’s na a man.
1^1, 2^1. O Errol is.
1^2. Into the simmer time.
1^3. The apples they grow.
1^4. And the pears they grow green.
3^4. bore the.
4^1. Tho your name be Dame Cathrine Carnegie.
4^2. mine Sir Gilbert.
4^3. sell Kinnaird.
4^4. tocher gude to.
5^1. If ye gar my father sell Kinnaird.
5^2. ‘T will be a crying.
5^{3,4}. To tocher onie weary dwrf, That canna tocher win.
6^1. The lady is.
6^2. A’ for.
6^4. His ainsell.
7^1. O up bespak.
7^2. Lady Ann.
7^3. she says _wanting_.
_After 7, two stanzas which are clearly a spurious interpolation._
8^1. Errol has got (But _wanting_).
8^3. has chosen a weel-faurd may.
8^4. Come. _After 8_ (==10):
‘Look up, look up, my weel-faurd may,
Look up, and think na shame;
I’ll gie to thee five hundred merk
To bear to me a son.’
9^1. He’s tane the lassie by the han.
9^3. there _wanting_.
9^4. Afore.
_After 9_:
When they war laid in the proof-bed,
And a’ the lords looking on,
Then a’ the fifteen vowd and swore
That Errol was a man.
11^1. But they hae keepit this lassie.
11^3. And at the end o nine lang months.
11^4. A son to him she bare.
_After 11_:
And there was three thairbut, thairbut,
And there was three thairben,
And three looking oure the window hie,
Crying, Errol’s provd a man!
And whan the word gaed thro the toun,
The sentry gied a cry,
‘O fair befa you, Errol, now!
For ye hae won the day.’
‘O I’ll tak off my robes o silk,
And fling them oure the wa,
And I’ll gae maiden hame again,
Awa, Errol, awa!’
12^1. Sir Carnegie.
12^2. till the glen.
12^3. he _wanting_.
12^4. nane o Errol’s.
(_12 is found in Kinloch’s MSS,_ VII, 95, _with_ Sir Carnegie
_beginning the line._)
_After 12_:
And ilka day her plate was laid,
Bot an a siller spune,
And three times cried oure Errol’s yett,
‘Lady Errol, come and dine.’
_Kinloch gives the following as a variant. It is found in
Kinloch’s MSS_, VII, 95:
Seven years the trencher sat,
And seven years the spune;
Seven years the servant cried,
‘Lady Errol, come and dine.’
_Burden, at the end._ 3. ye ca. 4. Lady Errol lies her leen.
#E.#
_Sharpe made these changes in his Ballad Book_:
3^4. the toss.
4^2. He’s led her oer the green.
4^3. he kist.
7^1. Your name is.
7^2. And I’m.
12^3. shall not.
#F.#
1^1, 2^1, 6^1. Oh.
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