Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
wae, _sad_.
waged, _staked_.
wait, _wot_, _know_.
waith, _wandering_.
wald, _would_.
wale, _choice_.
wall-wight, 306, _picked_ (waled) _strong men_, or _warriors_.
waly, _an interjection of lamentation_.
wanrufe, 246, _disquietude_.
wan up, _got up_.
wat, _wot_, _know_.
waur, _worse_.
wee, 269, _short time_.
weed, _clothes_.
weel, _well_.
weel-busket, _well trimmed_.
weel-far'd, weel-faurd, _well-favored_.
wend, 280, _weened_.
werry, 248, _weary_, _sorrowful_.
whae's aught, _who is it owns_.
whingers, "_a short hanger, used as a knife at meals and as a sword in
broils_."
wight, _strong or nimble_.
win, _get_, _go_;
win to, _attain or get to_;
win up, _get up_.
win, _to make the harvest_.
winna, _will not_.
winsome, _pleasant_.
wisna, _know not_.
worldling, 230, _pet_?
wow, _exclamation of admiration, or surprise_.
wreuch, _wretched_.
yede, _went_.
yef, _if_.
ye'se, _ye shall_.
yestreen, _yesterday_.
yett, _gate_.
ying, _young_.
your lane, _alone by yourself_.
ze, _ye_.
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Transcriber's Notes
Page 90, line 14: added missing apostrophe (In simmer, 'mid the
flowers?)
Page 93, line 34: added missing end quotation mark (And the cauld rain
on your breist.")
Page 177, line 26: added missing open quotation mark ("O come to your
bed, my dearie; ...)
Page 120, line 41: added missing open quotation mark ("But wha will bake
my bridal bread, ...)
Page 160, line 40: added missing (or uninked) comma ("She is dead, sir,
long agoe.")
Page 168, line 12: changed period to comma (Against the brave wedding of
pretty Bessee.)
Page 191, final paragraph: added closing quotation mark ( ... to no
other shrine than that of Venus.[A]")
Page 192, second paragraph: open quotation mark moved to start of
paragraph ("_As I went to Walsingham_ is quoted in Nashe's _Have with
you to Saffron-Walden_, ...)
Note that the corrections to punctuation on pages 191 and 192 are
consistent with interpreting the three paragraphs as attributed to
"CHAPPELL".
Page 224, line 206: added missing open quotation mark ("Upon thy wife
and children,)
Page 227, line 145: deleted erroneous opening quotation mark (So they
hae gane before the king,)
Page 278, line 178: added missing period ("To seal her tocher wi'
thee.")
Page 316, line 128: changed "be" to "he" (For the young Lord Arundel he
shall be.")
Page 332, line 110: changed "merehants" to "merchants" (Beare me a
letter to the English merchants there,)
End of Project Gutenberg's English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV, by Various
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