[Annotations: 4.4: ‘Englyshe-wood,’ Inglewood, reaching from Carlisle to Penrith, in Cumberland. 5.1: ‘lith,’ hearken. 9.2: ‘pryme,’ about 9 a.m. Cp. 72.2. 15.3: ‘found,’ provided for. 18.4: ‘meed,’ reward. 26.4: ‘brest,’ burst, was broken. 29.3: ‘brenne,’ burn. 32.4: ‘wreke,’ avenge. 35.1: ‘Lever,’ rather. 35.2: ‘renne,’ run. 35.3: ‘wode,’ fierce. 36.3: ‘in prece,’ in a press, crowded. 45.3: ‘wight,’ active. 48.4: ‘teene,’ sorrow. 50.3: ‘borowe,’ redeem, liberate. 56.4: ‘thronge,’ pressed, hastened. 61.2: ‘lordane,’ sluggard: ‘wode,’ mad. 68.4: ‘stound,’ time. 69.3: ‘squyers’: an earlier text gives ‘swerers.’ 72.2: ‘pryme’; see 9.3, note. 87.1: Horns blown to call the citizens to support the civil authorities. 89.4: ‘stoure,’ fight, disturbance. 91.4: ‘at a braide,’ in a moment. 93.3: ‘letteth,’ hinders. 94.3: ‘lynde,’ tree: cp. 101.2. Here perhaps it means linden. 96.4: ‘meynë,’ troop, company. 104.2: ‘no bote,’ no boot, _i.e._ no advantage. 105.1: ‘launde,’ lawn, glade, clearing. 105.3: ‘a hart of grece,’ a fat hart (Fr. graisse). 108.2: ‘lease,’ falsehood. Cp. 115.2, 132.2, 134.3, _et passim_. 113.1: ‘presily,’ promptly. 114.3: ‘shent,’ scolded, blamed. 125.4: ‘belyfe,’ immediately. The word is spelled in many ways. 128.3: ‘pay,’ satisfaction. 136.1: ‘rewth,’ pity. 137.2: ‘forthynketh me,’ seems serious to me, troubles me. 139.3: ‘catchipolles,’ sheriff’s officers. 140.3: ‘fosters of the fe,’--‘a person who had for some service to the crown a perpetual right of hunting in a forest on paying to the crown a certain rent for the same.’ --Halliwell. 144.1: prepared themselves instantly. 150.3: ‘bearyng arowe,’ ? a very long arrow, such as requires to be carried in the hand. Cf. _Sir Andrew Barton_, 53.3. 155.1: ‘And,’ if. 158.3: ‘outmet,’ measured out. 165.2: ‘fe,’ money.] JOHNNY O’ COCKLEY’S WELL +The Text+ is taken almost entirely from a copy which was sent in 1780 to Bishop Percy by a Miss Fisher of Carlisle; in the last half of the first stanza her version gives, unintelligibly: ‘But little knew he that his bloody hounds Were bound in iron bands’: and I have therefore substituted lines from a later text. The correction in 20.1 and 21.1 is also essential.