Note 87 — 65 LADY MAISRY

The genuineness of H, Buchan's version, may be doubted both on general and on particular grounds, and both because of its departures from the common story and because of its repeating some peculiarities of the Jamieson-Brown copy, A. If H was compiled, as I think it was, largely from A, the person that did the work may have seen the manuscript, which is not at all improbable; for the English blude of H 13 is found in the MS., A 16, and not in the copy printed by Jamieson, and so with the thistle of H 15, A 17. Buchan, or Buchan's foreman, is entitled to copyright for the invention, in H 17, of Maisry's carrying peats in her petticoat, "her ainsell for to burn;" also for English James, that little prince, 103, Adam's high tower, 203, thro Linkum and thro Lin, 374.