Note 47 — Part III.
Reading edition
Portion of an old song, long popular among the Scottish peasantry. It bore the name of ‘For the Sake of Somebody,’ and is believed to have suggested Burns’ song with the same title. The old song is to be found in The Tea-Table Miscellany; and there the last four lines of the first double stanza are:—
‘I am gawn to seek a wife, I am gawn to buy a plaidy; I have three stane of woo; Carling, is thy daughter ready?’