And many a Scottish gay lady

Sate weeping in her bower.

12

Jack with a feather was lapt all in leather,

His boastings were all in vaine;

He had such a chance, with a new morrice-dance,

He never went home againe.


31. he spake.

The copy followed by Ritson puts st. 11 after 5. The principal variations of the Collier copy may be given, though they are without authority or merit.