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By Sidgwick, Frank
1.4: Folio:-- 'where cappe & candle yoode.' Percy in the _Reliques_
(1767) printed 'cuppe and _caudle_ stoode.'
1.6: 'wood,' mad, wild (with delight).
3.2: 'blin,' cease.
4.4: _i.e._ durst never speak my mind.
6.1: 'home'; Folio _whom_.
7.3,4: These lines are reversed in the Folio.
9.1: 'lither,' idle, wicked.
10.2: 'thrilled,' twirled or rattled; cp. 'tirled at the pin,' a stock
ballad phrase (Scots).
12.2: 'yode,' went.
14.4: 'time': Folio _times_.
17.3: Folio _you are_.
22.2: Another commonplace of the ballads. The Scotch variant is
generally, 'And striped it thro' the straw.' See special section
of the Introduction.
23.1,2: 'till,' to, against.]
Artist: Sidgwick, Frank
Year: 1850