Poem by Sir E. Dyer (Vol. i., p. 355.).—"My mind to me," &c. Neither the births of Breton nor Sir Edward Dyer seem to be known; nor, consequently, how much older the one was than the other. Mr. S., I conclude, could not mean much older than Breton's tract, mentioned in Vol. i., p. 302. The poem is not in England's Helicon. The ballad, as in Percy, has four stanzas more than the present copy, and one stanza less. Some of the readings in Percy are better, that is, more probable than the new ones.
"I see how plenty surfeits oft."—P.
suffers.—Var.
"I grudge not at another's gain".—P.
pain.—Var.
"No worldly wave my mind can toss."—P.
wants.—Var.
These seem to me to be stupid mistranscriptions.
"I brook that is another's pain."—P.
"My state at one doth still remain."—Var.