Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

Lord Lovel

A.  The copy sent Percy in 1770 was slightly revised by Parsons; the original was communicated in 1775.
33. along in.
44. coud speed.
63. make.
64. their mourn.
104. Parsons corrects bunch to branch.
G.  74. bell.
H. a.  101. church-steeple too, perhaps a misprint for top.
b.  This is an attempt to burlesque the broad-side by vulgarizing two or three words, as lovier, buzzum, and inserting one stanza.
24, 42. Foreign countries.
33. In a year, or two or three, or four.
41. twelve months and a day.
63. dead, the people all said.
72. to be turned.
74. Whilst.
After 1:
  Then he flung his self down by the side of the corpse,
With a shivering gulp and a guggle;
Gave two hops, three kicks, heavd a sigh, blew his nose,
Sung a song, and then died in the struggle.
101. church-steeple top.
102. they twin'd themselves into.
I.  32. 'you,' as if changed or supplied.
52. Crossed out. In a different hand, Just at the lady's chin.
74. would wad ye.
113. swifted.
134. Perhaps scrieded.

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