20.
20.1, 21.1: The MS. gives ‘boy’ for ‘bird.’
‘Is there never a bird in a’ this wood
That will tell what I can say;
That will go to Cockley’s Well,
Tell my mither to fetch me away?’
21.
There was a bird into that wood,
That carried the tidings away,
And many ae was the well-wight man