[64] Stour, great.
[65] Muckle tinte, much loss or harm; so in MS.
[66] Something is evidently amiss or omitted here. David probably exhibited some feat of archery.
[67] Lout—to bend or bow down, pronounced loot, as doubt is doot in Scotland.
[68] Figuir—so spelt in MS.
[69] Agast—so spelt in MS.
EDITOR’S NOTES.
[(a)] p. xxix. “There came a ghost to Margaret’s door.” In some versions of “Clerk Saunders” the lady’s troth is “streeked” on a rod of glass, and so she and the ghost are freed from their plighted love.