| A. |
31. Manuscript And as thé.
62. Manuscript had bee.
111. Manuscript I wilt.
121. Manuscript miste.
162. Manuscript awaw.
171. Manuscript vnbethought ... while.
19. Between 19 and 20 half a page of the
manuscript is wanting.
201. a[fter]: Manuscript blotted.
361. Manuscript bidds eue.
39. Half a page of the Manuscript is wanting. |
| B. |
The stanzas are doubled in Christie, to suit the
air. |
| C. a. |
31, 42, 72.
D. 21, 32, 6. John Cole, who had
heard an old man sing the ballad fifty years
before (Allies, p. 115), could recollect only so
much:
'Oh! lady, Oh! lady, what bringst thou here?'
Wind went his horn, as a hunter
'Thee blow another blast, and he'll soon come to thee.'
As thou art a jovial hunter
He whetted his tusks as he came along,
Wind went his horn, as a hunter
a 5, 6 stand thus in Allies:
| v |
Then he blowd a blast full north, east, west and south,
For he was, etc.
And the wild boar heard him full into his den,
As he was, etc. |
| vi |
Then he made the best of his speed unto him.
(Two lines wrongly supplied from another source.)
To Sir Ryalas, etc. |
5 has been completed from the corresponding
stanza in D, and the two verses of 6, separated above,
are put together. |
| b. |
11. Old Sir Robert.
12, was Sir Ryalas.
22. Till in a tree-top.
31. dost thee.
32. The wild boar 's killed my
lord and has thirty men gored.
Burden2. And thou beest.
41. for to see.
51. As in Allies (see above), except full in
his den.
52. then heard him full in his den.
61. As in Allies (see above), but 62
supplied by Bell.
72. Thrashed down the trees as he ramped him along.
81. 'Oh, what dost thee want of me, wild boar.'
Burden2, the jovial.
91. summer.
92. have got him.
102. cut the boar's head off quite.
112. Oh, my pretty spotted pig thou hast slew.
Burden2, for thou beest.
121. I demand them of thee.
131. dost ask.
141. long locks.
142. to tear him through.
Burden2. Though he was.
152. into twain,
161. the knight he doth lie.
162. And the wild boar's head is pictured thereby. |
| D. |
5, 6. In Allies thus:
| V |
The wild boar hearing it into his den,
Well wind, etc.
He whetted his tusks, for to make them strong,
And he cut down the oak and the ash as he came along.
For to meet with, etc. |
Stanza 5 has been completed from stanza vi
of Allies' other ballad, and 6 duly
separated from the first line of 5.
82, 9. In Allies' copy thus:
| VII |
Oh ! then he cut his head clean off!
Well wind, etc.
Then there came an old lady running out of the wood
Saying, ' You have killed my pretty, my pretty spotted pig.'
As thou art, etc. |
What stanza 8 should be is easily seen from C 10.
C 16, D 11. As imperfectly remembered by
Allies (p. 114):
| |
In Bromsgrove church his corpse doth lie,
Why winded his horn the hunter?
Because there was a wild boar nigh,
And as he was a jovial hunter. |
|
| E. b. |
"Fragment found on the fly-leaf of an old
book." Mr. H. White's papers.
12, one of these three.
18, wide countrie.
Burden2. He was.
21. was in woods.
28. With a bloody river running near she.
31. He said, 'Fair lady what are you doing there?'
38. killed my lord.
4. wanting. |
