Note 97 — 214 THE BRAES O YARROW
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Sometimes also with sensible prose, as 72, ‘But I find she has deceived me;’ 123, ‘I dreamed my luive had lost his life.’
The loose, though limited, rhyme in this ballad, in ‘The Bonnie House of Airlie,’ etc., does not favor exact recollection, and furnishes a temptation to invention: hence the sparrow in B 6, the arrow in D 7, the narrow in I 12, and, I fear, the harrow in L 9, which of itself is good, while all the others are bad.