Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

   & is printed and, wherever it occurs.
28. Manuscript might be read branches.
52. all heate.
64. 2 nut-shells.
84. his wiffe.
92. biled. "Query the le in the manuscript" Furnivall.
184. Perhaps the last word was originally tout, as Mr. T. Wright has suggested.
193. lauged.
214. 20 markes.
222. willignglye.
332. Manuscript perhaps has cleare altered to clene.
334. fiueteeene.
371. A litle.
372. Perhaps, as Percy suggested, two lines have dropped out after this, and the two which follow belong with the next stanza.
401, 413. kiues.
411. Arthus.
442. sone on.

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