Wi’ silver bason and silver kemb,
To kemb my heady upon her knee;
But or I had kiss’d her ugly mouth,
I’d rather ’a’ toddled about the tree.
12.
12.2 ‘the seely court,’ i.e. the fairies’ court.
12.3 ‘gowany,’ daisied.
But as it fell out on last Hallow-even,
When the seely court was ridin’ by,
The queen lighted down on a gowany bank,