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420. See a short Memoir at the end of this Ballad, Note †‡†.

421. Sign C. ii. b.

422. Sign C. i. b.

423. Odyss. a. 105.

424. See vol. ii., note subjoined to 1st part of Beggar of Bednal, &c.

425. See the Essay on the Antient Minstrels (Appendix I.)

426. Even so late as the time of Froissart, we find minstrels and heralds mentioned together, as those who might securely go into an enemy's country. Cap. cxl.

427. Bartholini Antiq. Dan. p. 173. Northern Antiquities, &c., vol. i. pp. 386, 389, &c.

428. See also the account of Edw. II. in the Essay on the Minstrels, and Note X.

429. Ver. 3. brether, f. MS.

430. [the one.]

431. V. 10. his brother's hall f. MS.

432. V. 14. hartilye, f. MS.

433. He means fit, suitable.

434. [shining.]

435. [advise me.]

436. Ver. 27. many a man … is, f. MS.

437. [they got ready?]

438. [harnessed.]

439. [garments.]

440. [leaning.]

441. V. 46. the king his sonne of Spayn, f. MS.

442. [refused.]

443. [she will.]

444. [pagan.]

445. [believeth.]

446. [robe of state.]

447. [bereave.]

448. Ver. 89. of the King his sonne of Spaine, f. MS.

449. [soldiers or knights.]

450. [stopped.]

451. sic MS. It should probably be ryse, i.e. my counsel shall arise from thee. See ver. 140.

452. sic MS.

453. See at the end of this ballad, note ⁂.

454. [fond of fighting.]

455. [gate.]

456. [he left? or he let be opened?]

457. Ver. 202. to stable his steede, f. MS.

458. [lazy or wicked.]

459. [soldier or fighting man.]

460. [approach him near.]

461. i.e. entice.

462. [laughed.]

463. i.e. a tune, or strain of music.

464. Ver. 253. Some liberties have been taken in the following stanzas; but wherever this edition differs from the preceding, it hath been brought nearer to the folio MS.

465. [quickly.]

466. [sword.]

467. [fight.]

468. [or grammar, and hence used for any abstruse learning.]