[43.] ? must get a baby: or is ye = I?
[44.] sheep.
[Postscript, added after the Index had been printed.]
[Balliol MS. 354, ffl ij Cxv, or leaf 231.]
This selection contains two unusual characters:
—paired final “l” joined by a tilde-like line, shown here as łł because the more accurate form l͠l is likely to display incorrectly or not at all
—final “m” with a round flourish, shown here as m̑ although the actual curve is much larger
On the subject of this song, compare, among many others, “Whate-ever thow sey, avyse thee welle,” above, p. 244; “I hold hym wyse and wel i-tauȝt, Can ber an horn and blow it nauȝt,” in the Percy Society’s Songs and Carols, p. 23. Lydgate’s “Lyke thyn Audience, so vttyr thy Langage,” in my Polit. Rel. & Love Poems, p. 25; &c.