Written, like all the other pieces in the collection, without division into stanzas or verses.
23. Demefon; contracted at the edge.
93. was tell.
112. Read side?
142. Perhaps her tee.
105. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington.
P. 426 f. Of the Italian ballad there are many more versions, but it is needless to cite them. Add for Spanish: ‘La Ausencia,’ Pidal, Asturian Romances, Nos 31, 32, p. 152 f.
107. Will Stewart and John.
P. 433 b, 2d paragraph. Beating of daughters.
Elizabeth Paston, a marriageable woman, was “betyn onys in the weke, or twyes, and som tyme twyes on a day, and hir hed broken in to or thre places.” (1449.) Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, I, 90.