‘O mother dear, when we were thine,
Ye stabd us wi your little penknife.’
Down by the, etc.
31. when that ye had done.
4, 5. Wanting.
6. Burden, second line, Down by the, etc.
The copy at II, 500 b (Pepys, V, 4, No 2), is also in the Crawford collection, No 1127, and in that from the Osterley Park library, British Museum, C. 39. k. 6 (60). It is dated 1688–95 in the Crawford catalogue, and 1690? in the Museum catalogue.
The text printed II, 500 is here corrected according to the Museum copy.
21. lovd.
32. for her heaviness.