WILLIE O' WINSBURY

+The Text+ is from the Campbell MSS.

+The Story+ was imagined by Kinloch to possess a quasi-historical

foundation: James V. of Scotland, who eventually married Madeleine,

elder daughter of Francis I., having been previously betrothed 'by

treaty' to Marie de Bourbon, daughter of the Duke of Vendome, returned

to Scotland in 1537. The theory is neither probable nor plausible.

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