Thomas Finlayson Henderson

Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Volume 3 Thomas Finlayson Henderson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...mellisoun you wi'.'--B. NOTE ON JELLON GRAME 0 Jellon Grame sat in SUveneood.--St. i. 1. 1. Silverwood, mentioned in this ballad, occurs in a medley Ms. song, which seems to have been copied from the first edition of the Aberdeen cantus, penet John G. Dalyell, Esq., advocate. One line only is cited, apparently the beginning of some song:--' Silverwood, gin ye wer mine.' The name also occurs in the version of' Child Maurice' in the Percy folio sis. (ed. Hales and Furnivall, ii. 502), which has certain similarities with ' Jellon Grame,' and very closely resembles it in the two opening stanzas:--' Childe Maurice hunted ithe siluer wood, He hunted it round about: And noebodye that he ffounci therin, Nor none there was without. ' He saves come hither, thou litle ffoot-page, Yt runneth lowlye by my knee, Ffor thou shalt goe to John Steward's wiffe, And pray her speake w'h Hut.' WILLIE'S LADYE ANCIENT COPY NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED 1802 Mr. Lewis, in his Tales of Wonder, has presented the public with a copy of this ballad, with additions and alterations. The Editor has also seen a copy containing some modern stanzas, intended by Mr. Jamieson, of Macclesfield, for publication in his Collection of Scottish Poetry.1 Yet, under these disadvantages, the Editor cannot relinquish his purpose of publishing the old ballad, in its native simplicity, as taken from Mrs. Brown of Falkland's Ms. Those who wish to know how an incantation, or charm, of the distressing nature here described, was performed in classic days, may consult the story of Galanthis's Metamorphosis, in Ovid, or the following passage in Apuleius: ' Eadem (Saga tcilicet qucedam), amaloris uxorem, quod in earn dicacule pro-brum dixerat,jam in sarcmamprcegnalionis, obsepto utero, et repigrato...