[141] Mallet's Edwin and Emma is founded on this ballad. See his "Ballads and Songs," edited by F. Dinsdale, esq., LL.D., F.S.A.
[142] The author of the ballad, whom the late Mr. Denham, of Piersebridge, learnt from his father, was the then master of Bowes grammar-school. His name does not appear.
[143] This verse is not in Mr. Bell's copy, in his "Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England."
[144] "Remote in Yorkshire, near to Bowes."—Bell.
[145] Bell has "whose;" and the following line reads thus:—
"Repute for virtue did excel."
"Now anxious Martha sore distress'd,
A private message did him send,
Lamenting that she could not rest."—Bell.