FOOTNOTES:
[315] [fallen.]
[316] [dozing or stupid.]
[317] [complain.]
[318] [last word or burden.]
IV.
FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM.
This seems to be the old song quoted in Fletcher's Knight of the burning pestle, acts 2d and 3d; altho' the six lines there preserved are somewhat different from those in the ballad, as it stands at present. The reader will not wonder at this, when he is informed that this is only given from a modern printed copy picked up on a stall. It's full title is Fair Margaret's Misfortunes; or Sweet William's frightful dreams on his wedding night, with the sudden death and burial of those noble lovers.—
The lines preserved in the play are this distich,