The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
24^3. the _for_ hys. #f.# He went.
24^4. #f.# the surest.
25^1. Alice like a louer true.
25^2. #f.# Tooke a.
25^3. #d#, #f#. Said he shall die that commeth. #e.# Said he shall
dye.
26^1. right good.
26^2. of a.
26^4. burst.
27^4. had beene neere the.
28^2. #d.# _second_ thy _wanting_. #e.# thine arrowes. #f.# the
bow and arrowes.
29^2. #d#, #e#. Sith no better it will be.
29^3. burne: saith. #f.# burne there.
29^4. and his.
30^1. #f.# The _for_ they: _and often_.
30^2. #d#, #e#. vp _wanting_. #f.# fledd on.
30^3. then, _and generally_. #e#, #f#. said faire.
30^4. #e.# we here shall. #f.# here wee shall.
31^1. a _for_ hys.
31^2. _second_ on _wanting_. #d.# was on.
31^3. And there: he did let downe.
31^4. His wife and children.
32^1. #f.# Haue you here.
32^2. #d#, #f#. _second_ my _wanting_.
32^{1,2}. #e.# _wanting_.
32^3. #f.# Gods loue.
33^2. #d#, #f#. agoe. #e.# go.
33^3. the _wanting_. about _for_ vpon.
33^4. #f.# burnt.
34^1. fell vppon.
34^{3,4}. and sayde _begins the fourth line_.
35^1. #e#, #f#. had I.
35^2. runne.
35^3. #e.# amongst. #d#, #f#. my.
35^4. So: burne.
36^1. buckler then.
36^2. #f.# amongst.
36^3. people thickest were.
37^1. man abide. #e#, #f#. strokes.
37^2. #e.# run.
37^3. #f.# Then the: att him. #e.# doore.
37^4. that yeoman. #f.# And then the.
38^1. both _wanting_.
38^2. in a.
38^3. #d#, #e#. then said. #d#, #f#. hye _wanting_.
39^2. #e.# gallowes thou shalt haue.
39^3. #d.# al _wanting_.
40^1. There. #f.# helpe yett.
40^3. #f#. a 100^d men.
41^1. arose.
41^2. #f.# can he.
41^3. #d.# them to: full _wanting_. #e#, #f#. to shut close.
42^3. #d#, #e#. he set vp. #f.# There he new a paire of gallowes
he sett vpp.
42^4. #f.# Hard by the.
43^2. meant.
44^1. the _wanting_. #f.# The litle.
44^3. #f.# seene William.
44^4. #e.# gaue.
45^1. at a creuice of.
45^2. wood he ran (ron, runn). #f.# And _wanting_.
45^3. #e.# he met. #e#, #f#. wighty yeomen.
46^1. #e#, #f#. said the.
46^2. #e#, #f#. You.
46^3. #e#, #f#. tane. #e.# doomd.
46^4. #d.# Already. #e#, #f#. And ready to be hangd.
47^2. saw.
47^3. #d#, #e#. might haue tarried heere with vs. #f.# He had
better haue tarryed with vs.
47^4. #e.# as _wanting_.
48^1. haue dwelled.
48^2. these _for_ the. #f.# shaddoowes greene.
48^3. haue _wanting_: at rest.
48^4. #d#, #f#. of all.
49^2. he had.
50^1. #e.# we go. #d.# wighty yeomen. #e#, #f#. iolly yeomen.
50^2. longer.
51^1. #f.# bold yeomen.
51^2. #f.# All in a mor[n]inge of May.
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