The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)

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2^{3, 4}. In the MS., these go with 3: compare 20.

3². rumeth.

4^{3, 4}. These precede what is printed as 6.

5¹, 6¹, 12¹. out many.

6³. as schoole masters: compare 13³.

6^{5, 6}. These lines may be the last half of a stanza. There is nothing corresponding in the page's repetition of his master's message.

17^{1, 2}. Joined in the MS. with 18.

18⁴. then my.

21. At least one stanza must be lost after 20.

22^{1, 2} precede 21, and 22^{3, 4} make a stanza with 21^{3, 4}: the order being 22^{1, 2}, 21, 22^{3, 4}.