collection, III, 42: Herrmann, as above, col. 49. Another form of
love-test is very popular in Hungary, of which Herrmann gives eight
versions. In one of these, from a collection made in 1813, Arany and
Gyulai, I, 189 (Herrmann’s IV), the story is told with the conciseness
of the English ballad. A snake has crept into a girl’s bosom: she
entreats her father to take it out; he dares not, and sends her to her
mother; the mother has as little devotion and courage as the father, and
sends her to her brother; she is successively passed on to
sister-in-law, brother-in-law, sister; then appeals to her lover, who
instantly does the service. This is the kernel, and perhaps all that is
original, in versions, I (of Herrmann), col. 34 f., contributed by
Kálmány; II, 36 f., contributed by Szabó; V, col. 38, Kálmány, Koszorúk
az Alföld vad Virágaiból, I, 21, translated into German by Wlislocki,
Ungarische Revue, 1884, p. 344; VIII, col. 39, Kálmány, Szeged Népe, II,
13. In Herrmann, VI, col. 38, Kálmány, Koszorúk, II, 62; VII, col. 38
f., Kálmány, Szeged Népe, II, 12; and III, col. 37 (a fragment), young
man and maid change parts. In I, III, V (?), VI, VII, the father says he
can better do without a daughter (son) than without one of his hands,
and the youth (maid) would rather lose one of his (her) hands than his
(her) beloved.[326] In I the snake has been turned to a purse of gold
when the maid attempts to take it out; in II, according to a prose and
prosaic comment of the reciter, there was no snake, but the girl had put
a piece of gold in her bosom, and calls it a yellow adder to experiment
upon her family; in VII, again, there is no snake, but a rouleau of
gold, and the snake is explained away in like manner in a comment to
VIII. Even the transformation in I is to be deprecated; the money in the
others is a modern depravation.
A brief ballad of the Transylvania Gipsies, communicated and translated
by Wlislocki, Ungarische Revue, 1884, p. 345 f., agrees with the second
series of those above. A youth summons mother and sister to take a
reptile from his breast; they are afraid; his sweetheart will do it if
she dies. A very pretty popular Gipsy tale to the same effect is given
by Herrmann, col. 40 f.
A Roumanian ballad, ‘Giurgiu,’ closely resembling the Magyar I, VII,
from Pompiliu Miron’s Balade populare române, p. 41, is given in
translation by Herrmann, col. 106 ff.; a fragment of another, with parts
reversed, col. 213.
A man, to make trial of his blood-relations, begs father, mother, etc.,
to take out a snake from his breast, and is refused by all. His wife
puts in her hand and takes out a pearl necklace, which she receives as
her reward: Servian, Vuk, I, No 289, Herzegovine, No 136, Petranović,
Serajevo, 1867, p. 191, No 20; Slavonian, Stojanović, No 20. (W. W.)
There are many variations on this theme, of which one more may be
specified. A drowning girl given over by her family is saved by her
lover: Little-Russian, Golovatsky, II, 80, No 14, 104, No 18, 161, No
15, 726, No 11; Servian, Vuk, I, Nos 290, 291; Bulgarian, Dozon, p. 98,
No 61; Polish, Kolberg, Lud, 1857, I, 151, 12^a. Again, man is saved by
maid: Little-Russian, Golovatsky, I, 114, No 28; Waclaw z Oleska, p.
226. (W. W.)
96. The Gay Goshawk.
P. 356 a. (1.) (2.) (4.) are now printed in Mélusine, II, 342, III, 1,
II, 341. (15.) (16.) ‘La Fille dans la Tour,’ Victor Smith, Chansons du
Velay et du Forez, Romania, VII, 76, 78. (17.) Bladé, Poésies p. rec.
dans l’Armagnac, etc., p. 23, ‘La Prisonnière.’
There is an Italian form of ‘Belle Isambourg’ in Nigra, No 45, p. 277,
‘Amor costante.’
356 b. For other forms of ‘Les trois Capitaines,’ see, French,
Puymaigre, I, 131, 134 and note; Tiersot, in Revue des Traditions
populaires, III, 501, 502; Rolland, III, 58 ff., _a_, _b_, _d_; Italian,
Marcoaldi, p. 162, ‘La Fuga e il Pentimento;’ Nigra, No 53, p. 309,
‘L’Onore salvato.’
357 b, second paragraph.
On messenger-birds, see Nigra, p. 339 f., and note.
A girl feigns death simply to avoid a disagreeable suitor. Proof by
fire, etc.; cf. #C# 23 f., #D# 7 f., #E# 27 f., #F# 1–3, #G# 36–38.
Servian. (1.) Mara, promised to the Herzog Stephen, and wishing for good
reasons to escape him, pretends death. Stephen is incredulous; puts live
coals into her bosom, then a snake; she does not flinch. He then tickles
her face with his beard; she does not stir. Stephen is convinced and
retires; Mara springs from the bier. Her mother asks her what had given
her most trouble. She had not minded the coals or the snake, but could
hardly keep from laughing when tickled with the beard. Vuk, I, 551, No
727. (2.) The suitor tests the case by thrusting his hands into the
girl’s bosom, fire, snake. The first is the worst. Vuk, Herzegovine, No
133. (3.) The same probation, with the same verdict (in this case the
girl loves another), Petranović, Srpske n. pjesme, Serajevo, 1867, No
362. Cf. Rajković, p. 176, No 211.—Bulgarian. Proofs by snow and ice
laid on the heart; a snake. She stands both. Miladinof, No 68, cf. No
468. In the same, No 660, the girl holds out under ice and snake, but
when kissed between the eyes wakes up.—Bohemian, Erben, p. 485, No 20,
‘The Turk duped,’ and Moravian, Sušil, No 128, the tests are lacking.
(W. W.)
Three physicians from Salerno pour melted lead in the hands of Fenice,
who is apparently dead. (She has taken a drug which makes her
unconscious for a certain time. Her object is to escape from her husband
to her lover, Cligés.) The lead has no effect in rousing Fenice.
Crestien de Troies, Cligés, ed. Förster, vv. 6000–6009, pp. 246, 247.
Förster cites Solomon and Morolf (Salman und Morolf, st. 133, ed. F.
Vogt, Die deutschen Dichtungen v. Salomon und Markolf, I, 27, _molten
gold_), and other parallels. Einleitung, pp. xix-xx. Cf. Revue de
Traditions pop., II, 519. (G. L. K.)
100. Willie o Winsbury.
P. 398. There is a ‘Lord Thomas of Wynnesbury ’ in the Murison MS., p.
17, which was derived from recitation in Aberdeenshire, but it seems to
me to have had its origin in the stalls, resembling #I#, which is of
that source.
101. Willie o Douglas Dale.
Pp. 407, 409, #A# 14^2, #B# 12^2, ‘An lions gaed to their dens,’ ‘And
the lions took the hill.’ “Lions we have had verie manie in the north
parts of Scotland, and those with maines of no less force than they of
Mauritania are sometimes reported to be; but how and when they were
destroied as yet I doo not read:” Holinshed, I, 379.
102. Willie and Earl Richard’s Daughter.
P. 412 b. #A# is translated by Anastasius Grün, Robin Hood, p. 57;
Doenniges, p. 166; Knortz, L. u. R. Altenglands, No 18; Loève-Veimars,
p. 252.
105. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington.
II, 426 b, 428. The tune of 105 #b# is, I have a good old woman at home:
of #f#, I have a good old wife at home.
#Italian.# ‘La Prova,’ Nigra, No 54, p. 314, #A-D#. ‘Il Ritorno,’
Giannini, p. 154.
106. The Famous Flower of Serving-Men.
P. 428. The Roxburghe copy, III, 762, Aldermary Church-Yard, is in the
Ballad Society’s edition, VI, 567. The Euing copy, printed for John
Andrews, is signed L. P., for Laurence Price: Mr J. W. Ebsworth, at p.
570.
109. Tom Potts.
P. 441 b. #B. b.# Ritson’s copy was “compared with another impression,
for the same partners, without date.”
I have failed to mention, but am now reminded by Mr Macmath, that the
ballad of ‘Jamie o Lee’ is given, under the title ‘James Hatelie,’ by
Robert Chambers in the Romantic Scottish Ballads, their Epoch and
Authorship, 1859, p. 37, Lord Phenix appearing as simple Fenwick.
112. The Baffled Knight.
P. 480 b. Spanish #C#, ‘El Caballero burlado,’ is now printed in full in
Pidal, Asturian Romances, No 34, p. 156.
481 b. Add: ‘La Marchande d’Oranges’ in Rolland, V, 10. (Say Rolland, I,
258.)
Tears. Add: Rolland, II, 29, _e, g, h_.
Varieties. There may be added: Mélusine I, 483==Revue des Traditions
pop., III, 634 f.; Romania, X, 379 f., No 18; Bladé, Poésies p. de la
Gascogne, II, 208.
482 a. #Italian.# Nigra, No 71, p. 375, ‘Occasione mancata,’ #A-F#. See
also ‘La Monacella salvata,’ No 72, p. 381, and ‘Il Galante burlato,’ No
75, p. 388.
482 b. The ballad, it seems, is by _Madame_ Favart: see Rolland, II, 33,
_k_. Add: _l_, _ib._, p. 34, and Poésies pop. de la France, MS., III,
493.
483 b. Danish #A# is translated by Prior, III, 182, No 126.
113. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry.
P. 494.
“On the west coast of Ireland the fishermen are loth to kill the seals,
which once abounded in some localities, owing to a popular superstition
that they enshrined ‘the souls of thim that were drowned at the flood.’
They were supposed to possess the power of casting aside their external
skins and disporting themselves in human form on the sea-shore. If a
mortal contrived to become possessed of one of these outer coverings
belonging to a female, he might claim her and keep her as his bride.”
Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore, chiefly
Lancashire and the North of England, p. 231. (G. L. K.)
506 a, last paragraph but one. So in Douns Lioð, Strengleikar, ed.
Kayser and Unger, p. 52 ff. (G. L. K.)
VOL. III.
116. Adam Bell, etc.
P. 17 b. I have omitted to mention the Norwegian ballad ‘Hemingjen aa
Harald kungen’ in Bugge’s Gamle Norske Folkeviser, No 1, p. 1.
44. ‘A Robynhode,’ etc.
In the Convocation Books of the Corporation of Wells, Somerset, vol. ii,
“under the 13th Henry 7, Nicholas Trappe being master, there is the
following curious entry, relative, apparently, to a play of Robin Hood,
exhibitions of dancing girls, and church ales, provided for at the
public expense.
“‘Et insuper in eadem Convocatione omnes et singuli burgenses unanimi
assensu ad tunc et ibidem dederunt Magistro Nicolao Trappe potestatem
generalem ad inquirendum in quorum manibus pecuniæ ecclesiæ ac
communitatis Welliæ sunt injuste detentæ; videlicet, provenientes ante
hoc tempus de Robynhode, puellis tripudiantibus, communi cervisia
ecclesiæ, et hujusmodi. Atque de bonis et pecuniis dictæ communitati
qualitercunque detentis, et in quorumcunque manibus existentibus. Et
desuper, eorum nomina scribere qui habent hujusmodi bona, cum summis,
etc.’” H. T. Riley in the First Report of the Historical MSS Commission,
1874, Appendix, p. 107.
The passage in the Wells Convocation Records is perhaps illustrated by
an entry in the Churchwardens’ Accounts of the Parish of
Kingston-upon-Thames, cited by Ritson, Robin Hood, 2d ed., I, cxviii,
from Lysons, Environs of London, 1792, I, 228:
“16 Hen. 8. Rec^d at the church-ale and Robynhode all things
deducted
3 10 6.”
With this may be compared the following:
“Anno MDLXVI, or 9 of Eliz., payde for setting up Robin Hoodes bower
0 18”
(Churchwardens’ Accompts of St. Helen’s [at Abingdon, Berks],
Archæologia, I, 18). This latter entry is loosely cited by Ritson, I,
cxiv, 2d ed., as dating from 1556. Ibidem may be found his opinion as to
R. H.’s bower (n. *). Hampson, Medii Ævi Kalendarium, I, 265, quotes
this entry, also with the wrong year. He has no doubt about the Bower:
“An arbour, called Robin Hood’s Bower, was erected in the church-yard,
and here maidens stood gathering contributions.” I, 283. (All the above
by G. L. K.)
117. A Gest of Robyn Hode.
P. 46 b, note. The Sloane MS. cited by Ritson as No 715 is No 780 (which
is bound up with 715) and is “paper, early xviith century:” Ward,
Catalogue of Romances, etc., I, 517. This correction is also to be made
at p. 121 b, note; pp. 129 a, 173 b, 175 b.
51 b, sts 62–66.
The late Miss Hamilton McKie, New Galloway, told me this story:
A sturdy beggar, or luscan, came to a farm-house among the hills and
asked quarters for the night. The gudewife, before entrusting him with
the bedclothes in which to sleep in one of the outhouses, required a
pledge or security for their return. He said he had none to offer but
his Maker, and got his night’s lodging. In the morning he walked off
with the bedclothes, but, becoming bewildered in a mist, he wandered
about the whole day, and in the evening, seeing the light of a house,
made towards it and knocked at the door. A woman opened it and said,
“Your Cautioner has proved gude!” He had come back to the same house.
Mactaggart gives the story in his Gallovidian Encyclopedia, p. 325, but
without the trait of the security. (W. Macmath.)
147. Robin Hood’s Golden Prize.
P. 210. The signature to a, L. P., is for Laurence Price: Ebsworth,
Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 64.
150. Robin Hood and Maid Marian.
P. 218 (and 43–46).
Mr H. L. D. Ward, in his invaluable Catalogue of Romances, etc., while
treating of Fulk Fitz-Warine, has made the following important remarks
concerning the literary history of Maid Marian (p. 506 f.).
“There were three Matildas who were popularly supposed to have been
persecuted by King John. The most historical of these was Matilda de
Braose. She was imprisoned, with her son and her son’s wife, in 1210,
some (Matthew Paris and others) say at Windsor, but another chronicler
says at Corfe Castle (see a volume published by the Soc. de l’Hist. de
France in 1840), and they were all starved to death. The second was
Fulk’s wife Mahaud, who was the widow of Theobald Walter. The third was
the daughter of Robert Fitz-Walter. The only authority that can be
quoted for the story of the third Matilda is the Chronicle of Dunmow, of
which one copy of the 16th century remains, in the Cotton MS.,
Cleopatra, C. iii. (ff. 281–7), but which was probably begun by Nicholas
de Brumfeld, a canon of Dunmow in the latter part of the 13th century.
It is there stated that, when Robert Fitz-Walter fled to France in 1213,
his daughter took refuge in Dunmow Priory, where John, after a vain
attempt at seduction, poisoned her. Now all these three Matildas may be
said to appear in the two plays known as _The Downfall_ and _The Death
of Robert Earle of Huntington_, by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle,
which are first mentioned in Henslowe’s _Diary_ in February and
November, 1598. Two of them indeed appear in their own names, Matilda de
Braose (or Bruce) and Matilda Fitz-Walter; and the one is starved at
Windsor and the other is poisoned at Dunmow in the second play. But in
the first play Matilda Fitz-Walter escapes the solicitations of John by
joining her newly-married husband in Sherwood, where they are called
Robin Hood and Maid Marian. This is clearly owing to a combination of
the second and third Matildas. It may have been effected by the course
of tradition, or it may have been the arbitrary work of a single author.
But if the romance of Fulk Fitz-Warin had been known to either Munday or
Chettle, other portions of it would almost certainly have appeared in
plays or novels or ballads. Now Munday introduces the piece as a
rehearsal, conducted by John Skelton the poet, who himself plays Friar
Tuck, with a view to performing it before Henry VIII. And it is not at
all unlikely that it was really founded upon a May-day pageant devised
by Skelton, but not important enough to be specified in the list of his
works in his _Garlande of Laurell_. We know that Skelton did write
Interludes, of which one still remains, _Magnyfycence_: and Anthony Wood
tells us that at Diss in Norfolk, where Skelton was rector, he was
‘esteemed more fit for the stage than the pew or pulpit.’ Thus there was
no man more likely than Skelton to devise a new Robin Hood pageant for
his old pupil, Henry VIII. And again, there was no man more likely to
celebrate the story of Matilda Fitz-Walter, for the patron of his living
was Robert Lord Fitz-Walter, who was himself a Ratcliffe, but who had
inherited the lordship of Diss through his grandmother, the last of the
old Fitz-Walters.[327] But whether Skelton may have read the then
accessible poem about Fulk, afterwards described by Leland, or whether
either he or Munday may have received the story in its composite form,
it is pretty evident that the two reputed objects of King John’s desire,
Matilda Walter and Matilda Fitz-Walter, have become blended together
into the Maid Marian of the play.”
155. Sir Hugh, or, The Jew’s Daughter.
P. 235 a. Bells ringing of themselves (in ballads). Pidal, Asturian
Romances, ‘Il Penitente,’ Nos 1, 2, pp. 82, 84; Nigra, ‘Sant’ Alessio,’
No 148, A, B, p. 538 ff., and see p. 541.
161. The Battle of Otterburn.
P. 294. St George our Lady’s knight.
A nemnede sein Gorge our leuedi kniȝt:
Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ed. Kölbing, v. 2817, p. 129; Maitland Club ed.,
v. 2640. (G. L. K., who also gave me the case in Roister Doister.)
“Now holy St George, myne only avower,
In whom I trust for my protection,
O very Chevalier of the stourished Flower,
By whose Hands thy Sword and Shield hast wone,
Be mediator, that she may to her Sone
Cause me to hear Rex splendens songen on hye,
Before the Trinitye, when that I shall dye.”
Poem on the Willoughbies of Eresby, in the form of a prayer to St George
put into the mouth of one of the Willoughby family, Dugdale, Baronage of
England, 1676, II, 85, 86. Dugdale does not date the MS. The male line
of the Willoughbies became extinct in 1525.
(3. flourished? 4. thou thy?) (G. L. K.)
169. Johnie Armstrong.
P. 371 f. #B# #a#, #b# are signed T. R., the initials of a purveyor or
editor of ballads for the popular press. #B# #a# of ‘Robin Hood and the
Butcher,’ No 122, and #a# of ‘Robin Hood and the Beggar,’ I, No 133,
bear the same signature: see pp. 116, 156 of this volume. No such
rhymster as T. R. shows himself to be in these two last pieces could
have made ‘Johnie Armstrong,’ one of the best ballads in English.
178. Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon.
P. 423. “The Donean Tourist,” by Alexander Laing, Aberdeen, 1828, p.
100, has a very bad copy, extended to fifty-nine stanzas.
182. The Laird o Logie.
P. 449. ‘Young Logie’ is among the ballads taken down by Mrs Murison in
Aberdeenshire, p. 88 of the collection. The copy is imperfect, and
extremely corrupted. Lady Margaret is the daughter of the king (who is
not called by that name), but is confused with her mother, who
counterfeits her consort’s han-write and steals his right-han glove, as
is done in #D#. Three ships at the pier of Leith, and three again at
Queen’s Ferry.
184. The Lads of Wamphray.
P. 458. Mr Macmath has pointed out to me a case in Pitcairn’s Criminal
Trials, I, 397 f., in which “Jok Johnstoun, callit the Galzeart, Jok J.,
bruþer to Wille of Kirkhill,” with a Grahame, a couple of Armstrangs,
and their accomplices, are accused of the theft of twelve score sheep
from James Johnstoune, in February, 1557. We can make no inference as to
the relation of Jok the Galliard to the Galliard of our ballad. There
were generations of Jocks and Wills in these families, and the sobriquet
of The Galliard, as Pitcairn has remarked, “was very prevalent.” He
cites a “Gilbert Ellote, callit Gib the Galzart,” III, 441, under the
date 1618.
To be Corrected in the Print.
I, 7 b, last line but three of text. _Read_ Fordringer.
71 a, 33^2. tell thee, ed. 1802; tell to thee, ed. 1833.
132 b, 7^2. _Read_ Lord John.
159 a, 3^{1,2}. to your, in the MS.
186 a, Notes to #A b#. _Add_ 2^2. slung at.
256 a, 1^4. _Read_ Machey _for_ May-hay.
274 b, note [261]. _Read_ Romania IX.
356 b, #D c# 1^3. _Read_ O go not.
400 a, #I.# _Read_ II, 360.
469 a, 22^3. _Read_ your _for_ yonr.
482 a, #D# 16, 17, 5th line. _Read_ Hine.
489 a, between 67 a and 84 b. _Insert_ 6. Willie’s Lady.
503 a. The title of #I# is ‘Hynd Horn.’
504 b, between 226 a and 231. _Insert_ 21. The Maid and the
Palmer.
II, 70 a, 18^4. Fall, ed. 1802; fell, ed. 1833.
104 a, 19^{1,2}. _Read_ pat.
129 a, 11^1. _Read_ ‘O here I am’ the boy says.
135 a, #A. a.# 11^1. _Drop._
176 b, 11^3. _Read_ Gae.
179 b, note to #B# 7^2. _Drop._
192 a, 7^4. _Read_ maun. 8^2. _Read_ Ye’r seer. 9^2. _Drop_ the
brackets.
193 a, 20^4. _Read_ ye never gat. 22^2. _Drop_ the brackets. 25^2.
_Read_ dreams.
193 b, 28^1. _Read_ Ge (==Gae) _for_ Ye.
226 a, 229 a, ‘Sweet William’s Ghost,’ #A.# _Read_ 1750 _for_
1763.
239 a, #B# 3^1. _Read_ O she.
272 f. _Read_ (_according to the text of 1755_): 2^1. will I. 7^4.
gar thy.
10^2. to thy.
18^3. maun cum.
22^1. _Note_: “perhaps fetchie” nurse.
23^4. hes he.
26^1. sits.
26^3. means a’ those folks.
26^4. mother she.
27^1. And when he cam to gude grene wod.
27^3. first saw.
27^4. Kemeing down.
28^2. Than, _misprint for_ That.
34^4. they lay.
35^4. hip was.
39^2. ill deed.
275 b. _Read, v._ 17, You see his heid upon my. v. 20, that did,
_apparently a misprint for_ that thocht.
The only variations in the other copy are: 26^3, these _for_ those;
thocht _for_ did, in v. 20 of p. 275 b.
276 a. #A. a.# _Read_ 1750 _for_ 1763 _twice_.
276 b, 4th line of the preface. _Read_ Annandale. 13th line of the
preface. _Read_ our old. 2^1. _Read_ man (ed. 1750).
310 a, third paragraph, line seven. _Read_ authenticatable.
343. _Read_ (ed. 1755): 2^3. And there. 3^3. And mantel. 12^1. I
have. (_Drop_ the notes to 3^3, 5^1.)
348 b, #G#, #H#. _Read_ Reifferscheid.
352 b, #D# 5^4. MS. has And free.
378 a, last line. _Read_ Andrew Small.
381 b, 20^3. _Read_ Scotch.
393 a, 14^2. _Read_ shook.
405 b, notes. 16 belongs to #I# and should be on p. 406.
437 b, translations. _Read_ #E# is translated by Grundtvig, etc.;
#D# by Afzelius, etc.
462 a, 26^4. _Read_ sned _for_ sued.
478, first line after the title. _Read_ 56 b _for_ 27 b.
481 b, third paragraph, sixth line. _Read_, 27.
500, #20#, first line. _Read_ #O# _for_ #M#. English #N#, #O#
should be #O#, #P#.
502 b, #34#, first line. _Read_ Decurtins _for_ Decurtius.
506 b, #44#, 400 a. _Drop_ #Q#, etc.. Note to 401, _drop_ Revue
des Traditions, etc..
513 a, seventh line from bottom. _Read_ quam.
III, 6 a, 12^1. _Read_ Braidisbauks.
11, #M.# _Say_: Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle, II, 171, 1881,
Froude’s Life of Carlyle, II, 416, 1882. In line 2, _read_, O
busk and go with me, me.
46 b, line 9. _Read_ S. S. _for_ S. G.
95 b, note [86]. _Say_: Jock o the Side, #B# 13, 14, #C# 10, III,
480, 482.
(The following are mostly trivial variations from the spelling of the
text.)
I, 71 b, 51^1. Oh, ed. 1802; O, ed. 1883.
80 b, 14^1. _Read_ f[e]ast.
132 a, 5^1. _Read_ father[s].
133 a, #M#. _Read_ Deer.
137 b, #S# 4^2. _Read_ cam.
256 b, 3^2. _Read_ O. 4^2. _Read_ rocked.
302 a, #B#^{1,2}. _Read_ Whare.
321 b, 7^4. _Read_ doun.
325 a, 3^3. _Read_ Heavn. 6^2. _Read_ danton.
331 a, #C# 2^4. _Read_ thrie. #D# 2^3. _Read_ micht.
441 a, 1^6. _Read_ warsell. 4^3. _Read_ bloody.
468 a, 4^1. _Read_ stock. 10^2. _Read_ saftly. b 13^2. MS. has
bone. 16^3. _Read_ Beachen.
481 a, 31^2. _Read_ dazled.
500 a, 10^4. _Read_ down.
508 a, 7^4. _Read_ by.
II, 32 a, #P# 1^4. _Read_ aboon.
70 a, 19^4. _Read_ cheik. 20^2. _Read_ smil’d. b, 30^4. _Read_
tine.
90 b, 26^1. _Read_ won, _twice_.
108 a, 2^4. _Read_ die. b, 11^3. _Read_ mony.
130 a, 3^3. _Read_ Gil. 4^3. _Read_ Jill.
131 a, 17^3. _Read_ han. b, 19^3. _Read_ ain.
152 a, 4^3, 5^1. _Read_ grene.
153 b, 22^3. _Read_ grene.
161 a, 7^1, 8^1. _Read_ tane.
192 a, 5^4. _Read_ An. 7^3. _Read_ askin.
193 b, 26^1. _Read_ bour.
240 a, note. _Read_ Madden.
272 f. _Read_ (ed. 1755): 1^1. Gill Morice. 5^2. said. 6^3. red.
8^3, 16^3, 17^3, 24^3, 26^1, 36^3. guid grene wod. 9^2, 18^2.
slive. 10^2, 15^2. Tho. 11^1. micht. 11^2. near. 11^2, 20^2.
coud. 12^3. I’s. 13^3. whar he. 14^2. woud. 15^8. stracht. 17^4.
Even. 21^4. welcom. 21^4, 39^4. me. 22^2. lie. 22^4. she. 23^2.
he. 24^4. with. 26^1. Gill. 26^2. whistld. 26^4. tarrys. 27^2,
36^2. miekle. 27^2. cair. 28^2. well. 29^4, 31^1, 31^4, 33^3,
34^1. heid. 30^3. bodie. 33^4. town. 34^4. there. 35^3. ance.
37^1. credle. 39^2. die.
275 a, last line but three. _Read_ Wi, pearce. L. l. but one,
naithing, heid. Last line, coud. b, v. 3. day[s]. 7. been. 8.
me. 15. teirs, wensom. 18. bluid. 22. comly. 25. driry.
321 b, note [152]. _Read_ Balcanqual.
331 b, 3^1. _Read_ nurice.
343. _Read_ (ed. 1755): 1^4, favord. 5^1. spack. 6^3. bot. 7^3.
bin. 9^1. coud. 9^4, 14^4. die.
352 b, 3^3. _Read_ pown.
363 b, 11^1. _Read_ ladie’s.
364 a, 20^1. _Read_ ladye’s.
389 a, 8^3. _Read_ You’r.
390 b, 29^2. _Read_ hir. 51. _Read_ bouer.
391 a, 12^1. _Read_ Whan.
396 a, 1^2. _Read_ blithe.
404 b, 9^1. _Read_ Whan.
473 b, 17^3. _Read_ mony.
475 a, 11^3. _Read_ down, _twice_.
478. _Read_: 1^2, on _for_ an. 4^1. s_ir_. 6^2. do. 14^1. a[t]
London. 15^1. medans. 17^1. leyne.
483, 1^3. _Read_ wel. 6^4. _Read_ beene.
III, 2 a, note, line 5. _Read_ Bennet.
5 a, #D# 5^2. _Read_ Lincolm. b, 10^1. _Read_ there.
8 b, 24^1. _Read_ betide.
253 b, #R#, v. 3. _Read_ dochter.
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