Stanza 4.--Boy with thi blac berd--Barbenoire or Bocca-Negra, pirate of Genoa; rede = advise; blin = cease; were on = fight against; domp = plunge; lout = bow low to. P. 4. =The Pilgrims’ Sea Voyage.= From a MS. in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Edited by J. F. Furnivall for the Early English Text Society in 1867; also printed in Halliwell’s _Early Naval Ballads_, p. 1. Date of MS. temp. Henry VI. A translation is given by Clowes, _The Royal Navy_, i. 344. On p. 5, line 15, ‘lyle’ is a misprint for ‘lyke.’ Stanza 1.--Gramys = troubles. Stanza 2.--Hissa = hoist away: French ‘hissez’; crake = talk. Stanza 3.--Taylia = haul aft the sheet. Stanza 4.--No nere = steer no nearer the wind. The note of interrogation is clearly wrong. Stanza 5.--Trussa = haul on the truss; probably the French ‘troussez.’; Wartake = French ‘uretacque’ (Jal); defined by Falconer as ‘the preventer fore tack.’ Cf. _Inventories of Henry VII._, p. 71. Stanza 6.--Pery = a squall; Thou canst no whery = thou understandest not a ship. P. 6. =Sir Andrew Barton.= Text in Hales and Furnivall, _Bishop Percy’s Folio MS._, iii. 399, and in Child, _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, iii. 334. There is also a later broadside version which is printed in _A Collection of Old Ballads_, 1723, i. 159, and in _Roxburghe Ballads_, i. 10. Percy’s _Reliques_ contains a composite version. Bishop Percy’s MS. is said to belong to the reign of Charles I., but the version of this ballad it contains probably belongs to an earlier period. It apparently attributes to Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, who died in 1624, the exploit of his kinsman, Sir Edward Howard, who died in 1513, a kind of confusion which is not uncommon in ballads handed down by tradition. Contemporary narratives give no account of Sir Edward Howard’s tactics, and the details given are probably the invention of the author of the ballad. The reference to ‘beams’ in stanzas 7 and 9 on p. 9 has been explained in many different ways. One explanation is that it refers to some primitive form of ram, such as that described by De la Roncière in his _Histoire de la Marine Française_, i. 256. Another is, that the ‘beams,’ also termed in the MS. ‘beanes’ or ‘beaves,’ were heavy weights designed to be dropped on the enemy’s ship. It seems more likely that some apparatus for grappling the enemy’s ship was meant. ‘He clasped me to his archborde’ says the merchant in stanza 3 on p. 9. ‘Archborde’ is explained by Hales and Furnivall in a note to mean the side of a ship, and to be the same as hatch-bord.’ _Bishop Percy’s Folio MS._, iii. 407. The two following stanzas from Percy’s _Reliques_, i. 335, ed. 1893, will serve to fill the gap on p. 10 of the text: