[2] The unlettered bard has probably confused "styx" with the
kindling, "yelding," of hell-fire.
[3] Flame.
[4] I have often wondered what namsac (so pronounced) could
be, but since I have seen the story as told by "H.J.M." it is
evidently "namesake."
[5] Probably crook in the original, to rhyme with Jock.
[6] "I way'd me" is yet used in parts of Yorkshire for "I went."
[7] "To late" is "to seek;" from _lateo_, as if by a confusion
of hiding and seeking.]
[8] "Kirk" is not a very good rhyme to "seek;" perhaps it should
be "search" and "church".]
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