{123a} Child, part viii. p. 518. {125a} Aytoun, in The Ballads of Scotland (vol. i. p. 211), says that his copy of Jamie Telfer "is almost verbatim the same as that given in the Border Minstrelsy." He does not tell us where he got his copy; or why the Captain's bride's speech (Sharpe, stanza xxxvi.) differs from the version in Scott and Sharpe. He gives the stanza which comes last in Scott's copy, and is too bad and enfeebling to be attributed to Scott's pen. He omits the stanza which has strayed in from other ballads,
"My hounds may a' rin masterless."
But as Aytoun confessedly rejected such inappropriate stanzas, he may have found it in his copy and excised it. {129a} Minstrelsy, vol. iii. p. 76, 1803. {130a} Further Essays, p. 112. {131a} Further Essays, p. 112. {135a} In Minstrelsy, vol. ii. p. 35 (1833). {139a} Further Essays, p. 124. {139b} Border Papers, vol. ii. p. 367. {140a} Further Essays, pp. 123, 124. {140b} Border Papers, vol. ii. p. 121. {142a} Further Essays, p.