of a horse; _iral_ (?).

[11] l. 34. _orphare_ = orferrie, goldsmith's work.

[12] l. 38. _raches_, dogs.

[13] l. 39. _halse_, neck.

[14] l. 40. _flane_, arrow.

[15] l. 43. See pp. 46-7 and note.

[16] l. 45. _But-if,_ unless.

[17] l. 48. For an elaborate investigation of the circumstances concerning
the _Eildon tree_, see the special section in Murray's edition.

[18] l. 49. _rathely_, quickly.

[19] l. 63. _fee_, beasts, cattle.

[20] l. 71. _sekerly_, truly.

[21] l. 79. _ware_, worse.

[22] l. 86. _byrde_, bride.

[23] l. 89. _stead_, place.

[24] l. 98. _duleful_, painful.

[25] l. 103. _gone_ = go (old infinitive).

[26] l. 104. _Middle-earth_ = Earth, the middle region in the old Northern
cosmogony.

[27] l. 107. Thomas is here addressing the Virgin.

[28] l. 111. _beteach_, entrust, hand over to.

[29] l. 114. _derne_, secret.

[30] l. 117. _mountenance_, space.

[31] l. 121. _herbere_, garden.

[32] l. 126. _bigging,_ building.

[33] l. 127. _papejoys_, popinjays, parrots.

[34] ll. 131-6. On the danger of eating fairy apples, see p. 53.

[35] l. 137. _hight_, command.

[36] l. 141. _hight_ (MS. _hye_), ? pleasure.

[37] l. 143. _pay_, please.

[38] l. 145 et sqq. See p. 46.

[39] l. 145. _fair_, pronounced as two syllables.

[40] l. 150. _rise_, brushwood, undergrowth.

[41] l. 155. _teen and tray_, pain and trouble.

[42] l. 167. _me were lever_, I had rather.

[43] l. 168. _Or that_, ere that, before that.

[44] l. 175. _dess_, dais.

[45] l. 183. _main and mood_, might and main.

[46] l. 188. _kneeland_ = kneeling. Cf. l. 191.

[47] l. 189. _fand_, found.

[48] l. 190. _sawtery_ = psaltery.

[49] l. 191. _ribib_, rebeck, lute.

[50] l. 191. _gangand_ = going.

[51] l. 196. _store_, plentiful.

[52] l. 199. _brittened_ = brittled, cut up (the deer)

[53] l. 208. This sudden and momentary change to the first person is found
in all the older MSS. See p. 47.

[54] l. 209. _thee buse_--it behoves thee. Cf. l. 234.

[55] l. 213. _cheer_, look, face.

[56] ll. 219-24. See p. 54; also Sir Walter Scott's introduction to the
ballad of _The Young Tamlane_, in _The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_.

[57] l. 220. _skill_, reason.

[58] l. 221. _To-morn,_ in the morning.

[59] l. 223. _hend_, noble, mighty.

[60] l. 226. _hethen_ = hence. Cf. sithen = since.

[61] l. 228. _rede_, advise.

[62] l. 232. Four lines of the MSS. omitted here.

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