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FOOTNOTES:
Оглавление71. Spectator, Nos. 70, 74.
72. [MS. Ashmole, 48, in the Bodleian Library. The Rev. W. W. Skeat has printed the ballad from the MS. in his Specimens of English Literature, 1394–1579. Clarendon Press Series, 1871.]
73. Subscribed, after the usual manner of our old poets, expliceth (explicit) quoth Rychard Sheale.
74. One of the earliest productions of the Scottish press, now to be found. The title-page was wanting in the copy here quoted; but it is supposed to have been printed in 1540. See Ames. [It is now believed to have been printed in 1549. See the new edition by J. A. H. Murray, printed for the Early English Text Society (Extra Series), 1872.]
75. See Pt. ii. v. 25.
76. See Pt. i. v. 99.
77. Pt. ii. v. 36, 140.
78. Who died Aug. 5, 1406, in the 7th year of our Hen. IV.
79. James I. was crowned May 22, 1424; murdered Feb. 21, 1436–7.
80. In 1460.—Hen. VI. was deposed 1461: restored and slain 1471.
81. Item. … Concordatum est, quod, … nullus unius partis vel alterius ingrediatur terras, boschas, forrestas, warrenas, loca, dominia quæcunque alicujus partis alterius subditi, causa venandi, piscandi, aucupandi, disportum aut solatium in eisdem, aliave quacunque de causa, absque licentia ejus … ad quem … loca … pertinent, aut de deputatis suis prius capt. et obtent. Vid. Bp. Nicolson's Leges Marchiarum, 1705, 8vo. pp. 27, 51.
82. This was the original title. See the ballad, Pt. i. v. 101; Pt. ii. v. 165.
83. See the next ballad.
84. Vid. Pt. ii. v. 167.
85. [Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. i. p. 198; vol. ii. p. 774.]
86. Fit. see ver. 100.
87. [should be "an avowe," a vow (see v. 157, Fit. 2).]
88. [in spite of.]
89. Ver. 5, magger in Hearne's PC. [Printed Copy.]
90. [hinder.]
91. Ver. 11. The the Persé. PC.
92. [company.]
93. Ver. 13. archardes bolde off blood and bone. PC.
94. By these "shyars thre" is probably meant three districts in Northumberland, which still go by the name of shires, and are all in the neighbourhood of Cheviot. These are Island-shire, being the district so named from Holy-Island: Norehamshire, so called from the town and castle of Noreham (or Norham): and Bamboroughshire, the ward or hundred belonging to Bamborough castle and town.
95. [high.]
96. Ver. 19. throrowe. PC.
97. [rouse.]
98. [bowmen skirmished in the long grass.]
99. [broad arrows.]
100. [wild deer.]
101. [entirely.]
102. [the bushes glanced.]
103. [above.]
104. [early.]
105. [Monday.]
106. [by.]
107. [hour of noon.]
108. [they blew a note over the dead stag on the grass.]
109. Ver. 31. blwe a mot. PC.
110. [on all sides.]
111. [slaughtered game.]
112. [quartering.]
113. [truly.]
114. [aware of.]
115. V. 42. myghtte. PC. passim.
116. [battle axe and sword.]
117. V. 43. brylly. PC.
118. V. 48. withowte … feale. PC.
119. [in the.]
120. V. 52. boys PC.
121. [since.]
122. V. 54. ned. PC.
123. [Ver. 56. Percy and Hearne print, "att his men."]
124. [glowing coal.]
125. [man.]
126. Ver. 59. whos. PC.
127. Ver. 65. whoys. PC.
128. [mean.]
129. Ver. 71. agay. PC.
130. [the one of us shall die.]
131. [earl.]
132. [apart or aside.]
133. [curse.]
134. [head.]
135. Ver. 81. sayd the the. PC.
136. [but if.]
137. [one man for one.]
138. Ver. 88. on i.e. one.
139. This is probably corrupted in the MS. for Rog. Widdrington, who was at the head of the family in the reign of K. Edw. III. There were several successively of the names of Roger and Ralph, but none of the name of Richard, as appears from the genealogies in the Heralds' office.
140. [for wot, know.]
141. [two.]
142. Fit. see vol. 2, p. 182.
143. [if you.]
144. Ver. 3. first, i.e. flight.
145. [slew.]
146. [abides.]
147. V. 5. byddys. PC.
148. [mischief, wrong.]
149. [sure.]
150. [they come.]
151. [many a doughty one they made to die.]
152. V. 17. boys. PC.
153. V. 18. briggt. PC.
154. [helmets.]
155. [Mr. Skeat suggests that this is a corruption for manople, a large gauntlet.]
156. V. 21. throrowe. PC.
157. [many fierce ones they struck down.]
158. V. 22. done. PC.
159. [strong man.]
160. Ver. 26. to, i.e. two. Ibid. and of. PC.
161. [exchanged blows.]
162. [did sweat.]
163. [Milan steel.]
164. [men.]
165. [spurted out.]
166. V. 32. ran. PC.
167. V. 33. helde. PC.
168. [promise.]
169. Wane, i.e. ane, one, &c. man, an arrow came from a mighty one: from a mighty man. [misreading for mane (?) see v. 63, fit. i.]
170. Ver. 49. throroue. PC.
171. This seems to have been a Gloss added.
172. [put.]
173. [grasped.]
174. [courser.]
175. [he never lingered nor stopped.]
176. [blow.]
177. V. 74. ber. PC.
178. Ver. 80. Say, i.e. Sawe.
179. V. 84. haylde. PC.
180. [sore.]
181. V. 87. far. PC.
182. This incident is taken from the battle of Otterbourn; in which Sir Hugh Montgomery, Knt. (son of John Lord Montgomery) was slain with an arrow. Vid. Crawford's Peerage.
183. [fight.]
184. [hewing at each other.]
185. [suffer.]
186. [hills above.]
187. Ver. 102. abou. PC.
188. V. 108. strenge … hy. PC.
189. [gentle.]
190. [Mr. Skeat reads Loumbe.]
191. V. 115. lóule. PC.
192. V. 121. in to, i.e. in two.
193. V. 122. kny. PC.
194. Ver. 132. gay. PC.
195. [widows.]
196. A common pleonasm, see the next poem, Fit. 2d. V. 155; so Harding in his Chronicle, chap. 140, fol. 148, describing the death of Richard I. says,
"He shrove him then unto Abbots thre
With great sobbyng … and wepyng teares."
So likewise Cavendish in his Life of Cardinal Wolsey, chap. 12, p. 31, 4to.: "When the Duke heard this, he replied with weeping teares," &c.
197. [mates.]
198. [complain]
199. V. 136. mon. PC.
200. [on the marches (see ver. 173).]
201. V. 138. non. PC.
202. [wail.]
203. V. 146. ye feth. PC.
204. [to, unto]
205. For the names in this and the foregoing page, see the Remarks at the end of the next ballad.
206. Ver. 149. cheyff tennante. PC.
207. [if I enjoy.]
208. [requited.]
209. [that tearing or pulling began this kick.]
210. [Monday.]
211. [better our bales, or remedy our evils.]
