17^1. said our. 17^2. said Richard. 17^4. wondrous fat. 17^5. But prethee. 18^1. not then said. 18^3. him then. 18^6. seek out. 19^1. they espy’d. 19^6. should have been. 20^1. fearfull and. 20^4. would have cut off. 20^5. But his kind curtesie there to. 20^6. him a living. 21^1. came home. 21^3. and pastime. 21^4. this his progresse along by. 21^5. this he. 21^6. Mansfields sport. 22^3. our last. 22^4. both be my guests. 22^6. with this. 23^1. kings pleasantnesse. 23^3. there was sent: on the. 23^4. Which had many times been in. 23^6. message orderly. 24^2. owne _wanting_. 24^4. gallant young. 24^5. he greets you all. 25^2. this is. 25^3. said, faith. 25^4. to be _wanting_. 26^3. here’s: great _wanting_. 26^5. to your. 27^5. in each. 27^6. gift: great _wanting_. 28^1. When as: thus did. 28^3. we must: though wee sell. 29^2. charges for. 29^4. else _wanting_. 30^1. rode they. 30^5. hand. 31^2. his brave. 32^1. how should. 32^2. mine own. 32^3. doe _wanting_: me that prethee Dick. 32^4. How we: did make. 32^5. happie: then. 32^6. our king. 33^1. laught. 33^2. both by. 33^4. so orderly. 33^6. the folks were sate at the side-board. 34^1. in princely. 34^3. jesting then they. 34^5. wine, ale. 34^6. you all for your country cheere. 35^3. I doe think. 35^6. ’Tis. 36^1. Why, art thou angry. 36^3. ale and wine. 36^4. Y’are. 37^2. If a man could get one hot. 37^3. hose. 37^4. for _wanting_. 37^5. made a. 37^6. ’Tis: you must. 38^5. Here with. 38^6. their hearts. 39^1. did the king give. 39^3. ladies free. 39^5. she will. 40^6. bid you. =b= _is printed with the long lines broken into two_. FOOTNOTES: [60] 1599, August 28, two plays, being the first and second part of [Thomas Heywood’s] ‘Edward the IIIJ^{th} and the Tanner of Tamworth,’ etc. Arber, III, 147. [61] See an appendix to this ballad. White’s edition has verbal variations from the earlier, and supplies three lines and a half-line which have been cut off in the Bodleian copy of Danter. Heber had a copy of ‘King Edward 4th and the Tanner,’ printed by Edward Allde (1602-23), whether the “history” or the “ballad” does not appear. [62] Printed by Ritson, Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, 1791, p. 57. Given in an appendix. [63] “Seemingly,” says Mr Chappell, “not one bound up with the collection of ballads.” Selden, in the second edition of his Titles of Honor (for so he chooses to spell), 1631, p. 836, remarks: Nor is that old pamphlet of the Tanner of Tamworth and King Edward the Fourth so contemptible but that wee may thence note also an observable passage wherein the use of making Esquires by giving collars is expressed. He then quotes two stanzas from the history: ‘A coller! a coller!’ our king gan cry; Quoth the tanner, It will breed sorrow; For after a coller commeth a halter, I trow I shall be hangd to morrow.