{234} Corrupted in modern copies into ‘we’ll range and we’ll rove.’ The reading in the text is the old reading. The phrase occurs in several old songs. {237} We should, probably, read ‘he.’ {243} Peer—equal. {247} The road or street. {249} This is the only instance of this peculiar form in the present version. The miners in the Marienberg invariably said ‘for to’ wherever the preposition ‘to’ occurred before a verb. {250} Three is a favourite number in the nursery rhymes. The following is one of numerous examples:— There was an old woman had three sons, Jerry and James and John: Jerry was hung, James was drowned, John was lost and never was found; And there was an end of her three sons, Jerry, and James, and John!