The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)

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25⁴. golden swaine. B. seam.

35³. tenting.

36³. falst.

37². 500^li_:: pay [there]. Cf. 43², 105².

43⁴. 500^l_:.

46³. rum.

47^{1, 2}, 48^{1, 2}, make a stanza in the MS., and 52^{3, 4}, 53, are written together. 47-53 have been arranged upon the supposition that two verses (about the boy’s mourning) have dropped out after 47^{1, 2}.

48^{1, 2}. A tag after d in maids, hands may not mean s. F.

53⁴. One stroke too many for oune in MS. F.

54¹. One stroke too many for bony, or too few for bonny, in the MS. F.