Note 177 — 110 THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER
Reading edition
In K, a vulgar copy, the man is absurdly made a blacksmith's son, though a courtier. Similarly in an old stall copy of which the last stanza is cited by Buchan, II, 318:
O when she came to her father's yetts, Where she did reckon kin, She was the queen of fair Scotland, And he but a goldsmith's son.