way.'

107.
The lady of Learne, she was for sent
Throughout Scotland so speedily,
To see these two children set up
In their seats of gold full royally.

[Annotations:
9.2: The line is partly cut away in the MS.: I follow the
suggestion of Hales and Furnivall.
10.4: In the MS. the line stands: 'To learn the speeches of all
strange lands.'
12.3: 'hend,' kindly, friendly.
13.4: 'mere' = more.
21.2: 'lend,' grant.
22.3: 'Even,' MS.
23.1: etc. 'Do thou off,' take off.
23.3: 'cordivant' = cordwain, leather from Cordova, in Spain. See
_Brown Robin_, 17.4, First Series, p. 161.
25.4: 'Seam': Child's emendation, adopted from the broadside
copies, for 'swain' in the MS.
37.2: The last word added by Child: ep. 43.3, 104.2.
39.4: A popular proverb.
42.4: Cp. the horror of 'churles blood' in _Glasgerion_, 9.5,6
(First Series, p. 5).
60.1: 'Where thou was,' MS.
63.4: The MS. reads '... robbed a 100: 3,'
67.4: 'eye': the MS. gives _knee_.
68.1: 'after' is superfluous (cp. 74.1), and is probably caught up
from the next line.
70.2: 'let,' stop.
78.4, 79.4: 'these': the MS. gives _this_ in each instance:
'months' is probably to be read as a dissyllable, either as
'moneths' or 'monthes.'
85.4: 'Wroken,' avenged.
101.4: 'sod,' soused: cp. _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, I.3, line 21;
'lead,' cauldron: cp. _The Maid and the Palmer_, 9.2, p. 154.
'Salting-leads' are still in use.
104.4: 'pounds' inserted to agree with 43.4.]

THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON

+The Text+ is formed by a collation of six broadsides printed between
1672 and 1700: they do not, however, present many variations. Here, if
anywhere, one would demand licence to make alterations and improvements.
In stanza 12 the rhymes are almost certainly misplaced; and the last
stanza is quite superfluous. It would be much more in keeping with
ballad-style to end with the twelfth, and many of the variants now sung
conclude thus. This ballad is still extremely popular, and not only has
it been included in many selections and song-books, but it is also still
in oral tradition.

+The Story+ is simple and pre-eminently in the popular vein.
Counterparts exist elsewhere in the languages derived from Latin, and in
Romaic.

THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON

1.
There was a youth, and a well-be