FOOTNOTES:

[88]

But when the freare fell in the well

He coud not syng himselfe therout

But by the helpe of Christyan Clout.

(vv. 879-91.)

[89] For the class of tales referred to, see von der Hagen, Gesammtabenteuer, III, XXXV f., LXXXIII f.; Reinhold Köhler, in Jahrbuch für romanische und englische Literatur, VIII, 44-65; Clouston, Popular Tales and Fictions, II, 289-310.