relsy_, Vol. I, p. 46.]

[Footnote 48: Henderson's edition of _Minstrelsy_, Vol. I, p. xix.]

[Footnote 49: Henderson's edition of _Minstrelsy_, Vol. I, pp. 167-8.]

[Footnote 50: The matter may be traced in Child's collection of
ballads, or more easily in the latest edition of the _Minstrelsy_,
edited by T.F. Henderson and published in four volumes in 1902. Mr.
Henderson's views of ballad origins are quite in accord with Scott's
own, but he notes the points at which Scott failed to follow any
originals. There seems to be some reason to believe, however, though
Mr. Henderson does not say so, that Scott wrote _Kinmont Willie_
without any originals at all, except the very similar situations in
three or four other ballads. See the introduction by Professor
Kittredge to the abridged edition of Child's ballads, edited by
himself and Helen Child Sargent.

It is unnecessary to give here any detailed account of Scott's
procedure, as the matter has been thoroughly worked out by students of
ballads. A few examples may be given as illustrations, however. In
_The Dowie Dens of Yarrow_ (Henderson's edition, Vol. III, p. 173) 28
lines out of the 68 are noted by Mr. Henderson as either changed or
added by Scott. Scott writes (beginning of fifth stanza), "As he gaed
up the Tennies bank" for "As he gaed up yon high, high hill," and we
find from a note of Lockhart's that _The Tennies_ is the name of a
farm belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch. In the sixth stanza Scott
changes the lines,

"O ir ye come to drink the wine
As we hae done before, O?" to
"O come ye here to part your land,
The bonnie forest thorough?"

In the seventeenth stanza he changes,

"A better rose will never spring
Than him I've lost on Yarrow?" to
"A fairer rose did never bloom
Than now lies cropp'd on Yarrow."

In _Jellon Grame_ (Vol. III, p. 203), Mr. Henderson notes changes in
15 different lines, and points out 2 whole stanzas, out of the 21,
that are interpolated. In the _Gay Goss-hawk_ (Vol. III, p. 187) 6
stanzas out of 39 are noted as probably wholly or mainly by Scott, and
30 stanzas were changed by him. Sometimes his alterations occurred in
every line of a stanza. It is probable that Scott changed _Jamie
Telfer_ enough to make the Scotts take the place of prominence that
had been held by the Elliotts in the original form of the story. See
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