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352 NOTES, 24 4. doTvna = am not able ; * occasionally denoting want of inclination, even reluctance or disgust.* Jamieson. — * I cannot bear to look upon your face.* 26 2. Many mae = * many more,* — * many others.* 29 3, 4. Cf. Twa Brothers, 7 ff. 30. See note to Fair Margaret and Sweet William^ 17 ff. LADY MAISRY. Printed by Jamieson, Popular Ballads: see Child, III, 112 ff. 1 3. Maisry is for Margery, Marjory. 2 2. fl* ^/« >&/«</= all kinds of. 6 I. * Kitchen-boy.* 11 1. Who is it that owns {aught) to whom belongs? 20 4. sat = salt. 22 3. He waited not to knock or call. 23 3. lighter = delivered. THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL. This is the version E of Child, Ballads^ III, 221 f., from Mrs. Brown*s recitation (1800), and in good part (see Child, p. 226, for changes) that printed by Scott in his Minstrelsy as The Lass of Lochroyan. Lochryan * lies in Galloway,* says Scott ; and he notes that Burns has * celebrated ' the same story. See Works of Burns, Globe Edition, p. 181, Love Gregory, a slight and not very impressive song. 10. Said by the *fause mother* who personates Love Gregor while he sleeps. 17 3. him : substantive dative, and not reflexive ; cf. raise in 24 4. 18 2. gars me greet = makes me weep. WILLIE AND LADY MAISRY. Printed by Motherwell in his Minstrelsy; Child, III, 167 ff. — Compare Clerh Saunders, the ballad which precedes it in Professor Child's collection. — Maisry is here substituted for Margery. Digitized by LjOOQIC