188. _I prophicied_: MS. _of prophicie_ breaks the rime scheme.

190. Psalm cvii. 16 'For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the

bars of iron in sunder.'

205 ff. The rimes _saide_: _braide_: _ferde_: _grathed_ are bad. For the

last two read _flaide_ = 'terrified', and _graid_, a shortened form of

_graithed_.

208. _and we wer moo_, 'if we were more', 'even if there were more of

us'.

220. _as my prisoune_ might be taken closely with _here_: 'in this place

as my prison'. The Towneley MS. has _in_ for _as_. Better would be

_prisoune<s>_ 'prisoners'.

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