Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

   11. The tops of the letters of this line were cut off in binding. Percy thought it had stood previously,
come here Cuzen Gawaine so gay.
Furnivall says "the bottoms of the letters left suit better those in the text" as given.
4 and 5, 8 and 9, are joined in the manuscript.
104. Half a page is gone from the manuscript, or about 38 or 40 lines; and so after 202, 284, 382, 44, 51, 681, 781.
142. they better.
173, 181. The first two words are hard to make out, and look like A vne.
182. boirne.
191. his gone.
202. The lower half of the letters is gone.
21. In Manuscript: our Lady was borne
then thought cornewall King these palmers had beene in Brittanie.
284. ? Manuscript. Only the upper part of the letters is left.
312.under thrub chadler.
35. After this stanza is written, in the left margin of the Manuscript, The 3d P art.
381. homly to my hurt. Madden read hourly.
391. The top line is pared away.
412. they words.
432. of the trubchandler.
463. then had he.
64. p', i.e. pro or per, me. Madden.
66. Attached to 65 in Manuscript
694. ? Manuscript
765,6. Joined with 77 in Manuscript
& and Arabic numerals have been frequently written out.

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