The lost knife here in A 8–10, B 5, and in ‘Leesome Brand,’ No 15, 36–41, appears in ‘The Squire of Low Degree,’ Percy Folio, III, 267, vv. 117–126 (not in the version printed by Ritson and by Hazlitt).
‘Daughter,’ he sais, ‘ffor whose sake
Is that sorrow that still thou makes?’
‘Ffather,’ shee sais, ’as I doe see,
Itt is ffor no man in Christentye;
Ffather,’ shee sayes, ’as I doe thriue,
Itt is ffor noe man this day aliue.
Ffor yesterday I lost my kniffe;
Much rather had I haue lost my liffe!’
‘My daughter,’ he sayes, ‘if itt be but a blade,