| A. b. |
12. Was.
13. There was a praising.
14. In an unhappy.
21. For some ones they did praise.
24. And wanting.
31. That out did speak.
33. Says, I saw never a.
35. But what I would her favour gain.
36. With one blink of.
36, 46. eye.
41. out did speak.
42. spoke.
45. Whose favour you would never gain.
51. you,
After 5:
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'That is too good a wager, William,
Upon a woman's mind,
It is to[o] good a wager Wil[lia]m,
I'm very sure you'l tyne.' |
61. So.
63. he could neither go.
64. Nor no.
71. has wrote a broad.
73. his only.
81. read the letter over.
82. She looked.
84. enough.
93. she saw.
94. riding throw.
101. Says wanting: Come hitherward.
103. here does come.
104. For injury to me.
111. Come down, come down, said Reedesdale.
112. One sight of you I'll see.
113. my gate.
12, 13, wanting.
| 14 |
'Come down, come down, O lady fair,
One sight of you I'll see,
And bony is the rings of gold
That I will give to thee.' |
| 15 |
'If you have boney rings of gold,
mine is bony tee;
Go from my gate now, Reedesdale,
For ine you will not see.' |
| 16 |
'Come down, come down, O lady fair,
One sight of you I'll see,
And boney is the bowers and halls
That I will give to the.' |
| 17 |
'If you have boney bowers and halls,
I have bowers and halls the same;
Go from my gate now, Reedesdale,
For down I will not come.' |
18-21 wanting.
221. O lady.
223. Or then.
224. Since.
231. So he has set that bower.
232. the house it took.
24 wanting.
| 25 |
'Come hitherward,' the lady cried,
'My maidens all, to me;
For throw the smoak and throw the heat,
All throw it we must be.' |
261. their mantles.
263. And throw the smoak and throw the heat.
264. They throw it all did win.
271. had all got safely out.
272. able for.
273. Sent some of them to.
282. Have not I gaind. |
