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By Sidgwick, Frank
1.2: 'birling,' drinking: cf. 7.1.
3.1: 'bigly,' commodious: see _The Gay Goshawk_, 19.1.
3.3: 'shot-window,' here perhaps a shutter with a pane of glass let
in.
7.1: 'birl'd,' plied: cf. 1.2.
7.4: Cf. _Fause Footrage_ 16.4: a popular simile.
7.5: 'stown,' stolen: 'yates,' gates.
10.4: 'gare,' gore; _i.e._ by her knee: a stock ballad phrase.
11.4: 'gantrees,' stands for casks.
12.3: 'sic,' such: the MS. gives _sick_: 'steer,' disturbance.
13.4: 'marys,' maids.
15.4: 'gains for,' suits, is meet (Icelandic, _gegna_). Cf. Jamieson's
version of _Sir Patrick Spence_:--
'For I brought as much white money
As will gain my men and me.'
17.4: 'cordwain,' Cordovan (Spanish) leather.
21.2: 'gay': the MS. gives _gray_. This is Child's emendation, who
points out that the sun was up, 8.2.]
Artist: Sidgwick, Frank
Year: 1850