Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) / Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

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And ye that bide behinde,
Have ye none other trust:
As ye of claye were cast by kinde,55
So shall ye 'turne' to dust.[804]

FOOTNOTES:

[786] Harl. MSS. num. 1703, § 25. [Called in that MS. "The Image of Death." There is another copy in the Ashmolean Library (MS. Ashm. No. 48.)] The readings gathered from that copy are distinguished here by inverted commas. The text is printed from the "Songs, &c. of the Earl of Surrey and others, 1557, 4to."

[787] [behoof.]

[788] [meet or fit.]

[789] Ver. 6. be, PC. (printed copy in 1557.)

[790] [crutch.]

[791] V. 10. Crowch perhaps should be clouch, clutch, grasp.

[792] Ver. 11. Life away she, PC.

[793] V. 18. This, PC.