Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

High Spencer's Feats in France

A.  43. 100.
51,3. They.
61. walls? There is a tag at the end of this word in the Manuscript. Furnivall.
164. of 3.
174. Manuscript, tylpe, with the l crossed at top. Furnivall.
181,3. 2d.
182. I should read berry-browne were it not for verry blacke in 192.
191,3. 3?.
253. 3.
262. 30tye.
273. 5 to 4.
291. 2?.
304. 13 or 14.
324. No emendation of this unintelligible line occurs to me.
332. 4.
333. therof.
334. 2 or 3: cf. 304, and observe the metre.
353. for on: seitt or settt.
And for & always.
C.  144. too: pronounced tee.
15. The shepherd's son was the Queen's own son: comment of the reciter. I do not understand the last two lines; indeed they are obviously corrupt.

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