I wad be dead or Yeull.’
37
‘I have five bonny oyes att heam,
Ther was never ane of them born,
Bat every are of them
Out of ther midder’s sides shorn.’
52. The knights knaked ther whit fingers is certainly an anticipation. This is always done for anguish: see 293,4, 301,2.
73,4. Till ther couldne ane come near her bour For the morning of they may. Perhaps moaning.
162. he had.