Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

Flodden Field

   31. he spake.
The copy followed by Ritson puts st. 11 after 5. The principal variations of the Collier copy may be given, though they are without authority or merit.
After 2:
  March out, march out, my merry men,
Of hie or low degree;
I 'le weare the crowne in London towne,
And that you soone shall see.
44. To venture life and limme.
  Then doe not goe from faire Scotland,
But stay thy realm within;
Your power, I weene, is all to weake,
And England hard to winne.
51. this sillie mome.
72. this other mome.
After 8:
  His bodie never could be found,
When he was over throwne,
And he that wore faire Scotlands crowne
That day could not be knowne.
For 12, to adapt the piece to the seventeenth century:
  Now heaven we laude that never more
Such tiding shall come to hand;
Our king, by othe, is king of both
England and faire Scotland.

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