Note 110 — 215 RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE
Reading edition
Professor Veitch has remarked on the incongruousness of this stanza in Blackwood’s Magazine, June, 1890, p. 739 ff. Something like it, but adjusted to the circumstances of a maid, occurs in the ballad which he there prints as the “Original Ballad of the Dowie Dens.” See No 214, p. 174, L 19.