31. (H.) Line 4.
On yonder lily lee.
27. (S.)
That his merrie men might not see.
33. (H) Scott deletes the stanza.
35. (H)
When stout Sir Hugh wi' Piercy met.
30. (S.)
The Percy and Montgomery met. {83a}
36. (H.)
"O yield thee, Piercy," said Sir Hugh,
"O yield, or ye shall die!"
"Fain would I yield," proud Percy said,
"But ne'er to loon like thee."
31. (S.)
"Now yield thee, yield thee, Percy," he said,
"Or else I vow I'll lay thee low,"
"To whom must I yield," quoth Earl Percy,
"Now that I see it must be so?"
Scott took this from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's MS. copy. {84a}
38. (H)
38. (S.) Scott makes a slight verbal alteration.
39. (H) Line 1.
34. (S.) Line 1.
Scott substitutes Herd's
As soon as he knew it was Montgomery.
40. (H) Hogg's broken stanza on the death of Montgomery, derived from
a lost form of the Huntiss of Chevets, named in The Complaynte of
Scotland.
35. (S.) Scott omits giving the formula common to the English of 1550
and to Herd. This was the whole of Scott's editorial alteration.
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