[10] P. 101, l. 8. _the tune of Watton Town's End_. See Chappell's _Popular
Music_, 218-20.
[11] P. 105, l. 18. _bombasting_, puffing up, frothing.
[12] P. 106, l. 1. _Obreon_. The 1639 edition spells the name in the
ordinary way, but it may be noted that the Pepysian copy of the broadside
ballad (p. 144), begins--
"From Obreon in fairyland."
[13] P. 108, l. 16. _the tune of What care I how fair she be?_ This is the
tune to George Wither's famous--
"Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair?"
See Chappell's _Popular Music_, 315.
[14] P. 109, l. 5. _the tune of The Spanish Pavin_. (Pavin = Pavan.) See
Chappell, op. cit., 240.
[15] P. 110, l. 13. _the tune of The Jovial Tinker_. See Chappell, op.
cit., 187.
[16] P. 110, l. 25. _ax_ = ask. The form "ax" was in use till the end of
the sixteenth century, and continues in dialect.
[17] P. 111, l. 13. _the tune of Broom_. See Chappell, op. cit., 458; but
this song does not fit the metre.
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_The Romance of Thomas of Erceldoune._
(Fytte I.)
See pp. 45-7. In preparing the text, I have reduced in as simple a manner
as possible the fifteenth-century spelling to modern forms. Dr. J.A.H.
Murray's parallel texts (see note on p. 46) have been consulted, but mainly
I have followed the oldest of them--that of the Thornton MS.
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