The boris hede, I dare well say,
anon after the xijth day
he taketh his leve & goth a-way,
Exiuit tunc de patria.
See other carols on the Boar’s Head, in Songs and Carols, Percy Soc., p. 42, 25; Ritson’s Ancient Songs; Sandys’s Carols, and Christmastide, p. 231, from Ritson,—a different version of the present carol,—&c.
[1.] I suppose this means the foot, the burden.