They drank thair wine, they did not spare,
Even in the good lord’s sight;
Now he is o’er the floods so gray,
And Lord Maxwell has ta’en his goodnight.
END OF THE THIRD SERIES
APPENDIX
THE JOLLY JUGGLER
The Text is from a manuscript at Balliol College, Oxford, No. 354, already referred to in the First Series (p. 80) as supplying a text of The Nut-brown Maid. The manuscript, which is of the early part of the sixteenth century, has been edited by Ewald Flügel in Anglia, vol. xxvi., where the present ballad appears on pp. 278-9. I have only modernised the spelling, and broken up the lines, as the ballad is written in two long lines and a short one to each stanza.