[816] [Reprinted by the Percy Society in the sixth volume of their publications.]
[817] [man.]
[818] [exact.]
[819] Shakespeare (who alludes to this ballad in his Love's Labour's Lost, act iv. sc. 1.) gives the beggar's name Zenelophon, according to all the old editions: but this seems to be a corruption; for Penelophon, in the text, sounds more like the name of a woman.—The story of the King and the Beggar is also alluded to in K. Rich. II act v, sc. 3.
[820] Ver. 90. i.e. tramped the streets.
[821] Ver. 105. Here the poet addresses himself to his mistress.
[822] V. 112. Sheweth was anciently the plur. numb.
[823] An ingenious friend thinks the two last stanzas should change place.
