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Mick Pearce (MCP) Origins: Maid of Cockenzie (48) RE: Origins: Maid of Cockenzie 30 Sep 18


I've finally got around to comparing the two transcriptions and made the following changes:

1) Q12 - We both made a slight mistake in the last line. I had Volunteers, Steve had volunteers. The word is actually written as Volunters - initial capital, single e. (I new learning to spell would bite me one day!)

2) Q15 - I now agree with Steve that the word I read as moek should be mock as he had. Looking at other letter es the crossbar is pretty much horizontal, whereas what I read as the crossbar is definitely angled, so I'm now fairly confident that Steve was right and it's just part of an ink mark.

3) Q15 - The last line has ne'er as mine, rather than never as in Steve's.

4) Q17 - I'm fairly sure that at the start of the last line my or is correct, rather than Steve's Nor. While there is a faint ink smudge before or, I think the spacing suggests it is just or.

5) We differed in a few line terminal punctuation marks, but I think I've now corrected them.

I've edited these changes into my transcription above (thanks Joe!). I've also added numbers to the quatrains and indented the alternate lines as in the original. (I think Steve included the indents in his, but lost then in the html formatting; I've put them in as html non-breaking spaces  ). Note that original runs straight through without any stanza divisions. I've editorially put it into quatrains and added quatrain numbers for ease of discussion.

Mick


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