[10.] Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript, edited by J. W. Hales and F. J. Furnivall, 4 vols., 1867-8. Printed for the Early English Text Society and subscribers.
[11.] Additional MS. 27, 879.
[12.] Cp. Love’s Labour’s Lost:—
Armado. Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?
Moth. The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now ’tis not to be found.
[13.] Professor Gummere (The Beginnings of Poetry) is perhaps the strongest champion of this theory, and takes an extreme view.
GLASGERION
Ther herde I pleyen on an harpe
That souned bothe wel and sharpe,
Orpheus ful craftely,