_After 33_: The Captain went aff with his lady, _nearly as in_
#b-e#.
_The order of stanzas is deranged. Some of the variations are
clearly misremembrances._
#h.#
_Nine stanzas only._
1^1. had.
1^4. wud awa.
2^2. A month but barely twa.
2^4. from him she wudna stay.
3^4. from him she will not stay.
11^2. For any offence that.
15^1. weary, weary wanderin.
_After 15_: Had yer tongue—I’ll buy hose and shoon for you, Had
yer tongue—For your sake I’m a single man.
22^4. awa wi your Ogilvie.
_Christie’s ballad has many of the readings of #a#, and a few of
the editor’s. Of_ “two verses, as sung in the counties of Banff
and Moray, hitherto unpublished,” _one is in all copies except
#a#; the other is the inept stanza_ (_see_ #f#):
‘Oh, coarse, coarse would be the stockings,
And coarser would be the shoon,
Oh, coarse, coarse would they baith be,
You would buy for ae siller crown.’
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