[900] [slaughtered game.]
[901] [Ver. 42. the tender deere, f. MS.]
[902] [fortune.]
[903] [Ver. 92. it is, f. MS.]
[904] [V. 98. I stand, f. MS.]
[905] [Ver. 105. bend their bowes, f. MS.]
[906] The 4 stanzas here inclosed in brackets, which are borrowed chiefly from the ancient copy, are offered to the reader instead of the following lines, which occur in the Editor's folio MS.
To drive the deere with hound and horne,
Douglas bade on the bent;
Two captaines moved with mickle might
Their speres to shivers went.
[907] [field.]
[908] [Ver. 129-132. This stanza in the MS. is far superior to the poor one in the text.