And tossed him overboard, to float on the tide,
For sinking the French gallio.
Gallio may be surmised to be properly galley O.
The other copy in Buchan’s MSS, II, 414, is only the foregoing a little retouched or regulated. It has throughout Gallolee for Gallio. The first line of the burden is, Sing, Low, the Lowlands low.
41. where stood he.
63. could dee.
101. give to me my fee.
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I spied a ship, and a ship was she,