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Footnotes:
[1] Later, I believe, Mr Sharp changed his opinion.
[2] L. von Schrœder in Mysterium und Mimus im Rigveda (p. 113) suggests, following A. Kuhn, that the root of the word “Morris” is the same as that of Maruts, the band of dancing warriors attendant upon Indra.
[3] Both the first volume of The Espérance Morris Book and the first volume of Mr Sharp’s Morris Book have been revised.
[4] As far as I can gather, this is the dance called “Molly Oxford” by the Field Town dancers; it seems that Mr Sharp has substituted this name owing to the fact that it is not danced to the “Molly Oxford” tune. One of the dancers repudiates the title on the ground that the characteristic figure is a spring and not a step back.