Child 183A (a) is taken from Alexander Laing's The Thistle of Scotland, 1823, p.106: (b) is from Alexander Whitelaw, A Book of Scottish Ballads, 1845, p.248; "from an Aberdeen newspaper of about 1815", differing from (a) as follows:

Verse 1,line 2: Turn, turn
Verse 1, line 3: If you
Verse 2, line 2: That winna
Verse 3 omitted
Verse 4, line 1: But omitted
Verses 5 and 6 omitted.

After verse 4 appears the additional verse Joe quotes above, which belongs here, in 183A, not in 183B as the layout of Joe's table suggests.

183B is from John Finlay's Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, II, 89, 1808; "as recollected by a lady and communicated by Sir Walter Scott". The asterisks denote a suspected missing verse.