‘Yett ffor the manfull part that hee hath playd,

Both heere and beyond the sea,

His men shall haue halfe a crowne a day

To bring them to my brother, King Iamye.’

B

a. Douce Ballads, I, 18 b. b. Pepys Ballads, I, 484, No 249. c. Wood Ballads, 401, 55. d. Roxburghe Ballads, I, 2. e. Bagford Ballads, 643, m. 9 (61). f. Bagford Ballads, 643, m. 10 (77). g. Wood Ballads, 402, 37. h. Glenriddell MSS, XI, 20.

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When Flora, with her fragrant flowers,

Bedeckt the earth so trim and gay,

And Neptune, with his dainty showers,