171. MS. vnbethought ... while.
19. Between 19 and 20 half a page of the MS. is wanting.
201. a[fter]: MS. blotted.
361. MS. bidds eue.
39. Half a page of the MS. is wanting.
[B].
The stanzas are doubled in Christie, to suit the air.
[C].
a. 31, 42, 72. D. 21, 32, 6. John Cole, who had heard an old man sing the ballad fifty years before (Allies, p. 115), could recollect only so much:
'Oh! lady, Oh! lady, what bringst thou here?'
Wind went his horn, as a hunter
'Thee blow another blast, and he'll soon come to thee.'
As thou art a jovial hunter