[20] Horse's hide.
[21] Strange.
[22] Paths.
[23] Green valley between woods.
[24] Perhaps the yew-bow.
[25] Made ready.
[26] "Woe be to thee." Worth is the old subjunctive present of an exact English equivalent to the modern German werden.
[27] Note these alliterative phrases. Boote, remedy.
[28] As Percy noted, this "quoth the sheriffe," was probably added by some explainer. The reader, however, must remember the license of slurring or contracting the syllables of a word, as well as the opposite freedom of expansion. Thus in the second line of stanza 7, man's is to be pronounced man-ës.
[29] I have lost my way.