_After 12_:
‘The first wife that I did wed,
She was far abeen my degree;
She wadna hae walkd to the yetts o Drum
But the pearls abeen her bree.
‘But an she was adord for as much gold
As Peggie’s for beautie,
She micht walk to the yetts o Drum
Amang gueed companie.’
16^3. in my command, _a plausible reading_.
_After 16_:
‘But I told ye afore we war wed
I was owre low for thee;
But now we are wed, and in ae bed laid,
And ye maun be content wi me.
‘For an I war dead, and ye war dead,
And baith in ae grave laid,
And ye and I war tane up again,
Wha could distan your mouls frae mine?’
O _is added to the second and fourth lines except when the rhyme
is in two syllables, as in_ 1.
#B.#
_Title._ The Laird o Doune. _So written twice_: _at p. 75 by
anticipation_, _again at p. 78_.
1^4. daighterie (i _undotted_): daghter he?
3^1. May: _and always_.
4^4, 11^4. May _added_, _for singing_.
6^4. Sir _added for singing_.
_No division into stanzas, and no indication of gaps. The
deficiency at the end of 16^3 is noted by ..._
#D. a.#
O _is added (for singing) to the second and fourth verse of every
stanza except_ 1, 4, _which have two-syllable rhyme_.
_19 is by mistake printed twice._
#b.# O _added as in_ #a#.
2^1. me, bonny lassie.
2^3. O will ye fancy me, bonny lassie.
2^4. And lat your shearing be.
3^4, 4^4. whore _for_ miss.
4^1. ye cast.
7^4. And _wanting_.