Scott too gives this, but ends with a verse not in Sharpe -
And he has paid the rescue shot
Baith wi' goud and white money,
And at the burial o' Willie Scott
I wat was mony a weeping ee.
Did Scott add this? Proof is impossible; but the verse is so prosaic,
and so injurious to the triumphant preceding verse, that I think Scott
found it in his copy: in which case he had another copy than Sharpe's.
Scott (stanza xviii.) reads "Catslockhill" where the Sharpe MS. reads
"Catlockhill." In Scott's time it was a mound, but the name was then
known to Mr. Grieve, the tenant of Branksome Park. To-day I cannot
find the mound; is it likely that Scott, before making the change,
sought diligently for the mound and its name? If so, he found
"CATLOCHILL," for so Mr. Grieve writes it, not Catslockhill.
Meanwhile Colonel Elliot, we know, has no Catlockhill where he wants
it; he has only Gatliehill, unless his Blaeu varies from my copy, and
Gatliehill is not Catlockhill.
Scott gives (xlviii.) the speech of the Captain after he is shot
through the head and in another dangerous part of his frame -
"Hae back thy kye!" the Captain said,
"Dear kye, I trow, to some they be,
For gin I suld live a hundred years,
There will ne'er fair lady smile on me.
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