[48] l. 190. sawtery = psaltery.

[49] l. 191. ribib, rebeck, lute.

[50] l. 191. gangand = going.

[51] l. 196. store, plentiful.

[52] l. 199. brittened = brittled, cut up (the deer)

[53] l. 208. This sudden and momentary change to the first person is found in all the older MSS. See p. [47].

[54] l. 209. thee buse—it behoves thee. Cf. l. 234.

[55] l. 213. cheer, look, face.

[56] ll. 219-24. See p. [54]; also Sir Walter Scott's introduction to the ballad of The Young Tamlane, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

[57] l. 220. skill, reason.