25.
25.4 ‘Seam’: Child’s emendation, adopted from the broadside copies, for ‘swain’ in the MS.
‘Do thou me off thy velvet hat
With feather in that is so fine,
All unto thy silken shirt
That’s wrought with many a golden seam.’
26.
The child before him naked stood,
With skin as white as lily flower;
For his worthy lord’s beauty