395. she will.
406. bid you.
b is printed with the long lines broken into two.
FOOTNOTES:
[60] 1599, August 28, two plays, being the first and second part of [Thomas Heywood’s] ‘Edward the IIIJth and the Tanner of Tamworth,’ etc. Arber, III, 147.
[61] See an appendix to this ballad. White’s edition has verbal variations from the earlier, and supplies three lines and a half-line which have been cut off in the Bodleian copy of Danter. Heber had a copy of ‘King Edward 4th and the Tanner,’ printed by Edward Allde (1602-23), whether the “history” or the “ballad” does not appear.
[62] Printed by Ritson, Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, 1791, p. 57. Given in an appendix.
[63] “Seemingly,” says Mr Chappell, “not one bound up with the collection of ballads.”
Selden, in the second edition of his Titles of Honor (for so he chooses to spell), 1631, p. 836, remarks: Nor is that old pamphlet of the Tanner of Tamworth and King Edward the Fourth so contemptible but that wee may thence note also an observable passage wherein the use of making Esquires by giving collars is expressed. He then quotes two stanzas from the history:
‘A coller! a coller!’ our king gan cry;