[Footnote 17:  Dreams.]

     [Footnote 18:  Tautological phrase,—­“prepare and make
     ready.”]

     [Footnote 19:  Murder, destruction.]

     [Footnote 20:  Horse’s hide.]

     [Footnote 21:  Strange.]

     [Footnote 22:  Paths.]

     [Footnote 23:  Green valley between woods.]

     [Footnote 24:  Perhaps the yew-bow.]

     [Footnote 25:  Made ready.]

     [Footnote 26:  “Woe be to thee.” Worth is the old
     subjunctive present of an exact English equivalent to the
     modern German werden.]

     [Footnote 27:  Note these alliterative phrases. Boote,
     remedy.]

[Footnote 28:  As Percy noted, this “quoth the sheriffe,” was probably added by some explainer.  The reader, however, must remember the license of slurring or contracting the syllables of a word, as well as the opposite freedom of expansion.  Thus in the second line of stanza 7, man’s is to be pronounced man-es.]

     [Footnote 29:  I have lost my way.]

     [Footnote 30:  At some unappointed time,—­by chance.]

     [Footnote 31:  Stunted shrubs.]

     [Footnote 32:  Apart.]

     [Footnote 33:  “Prickes seem to have been the long-range
     targets, butts the near.”—­Furnivall.]

     [Footnote 34:  Garlande, perhaps “the ring within which the
     prick was set”; and the pricke-wande perhaps a pole or
     stick.  The terms are not easy to understand clearly.]

     [Footnote 35:  Reckless, careless.]

     [Footnote 36:  Maiden.]

     [Footnote 37:  Dangerous, or perhaps simply backward,
     backhanded.]

     [Footnote 38:  On is frequently used for of.]

     [Footnote 39:  Hillock.]

     [Footnote 40:  Voice.]

     [Footnote 41:  Rusty]

     THE HUNTING OF THE CHEVIOT

     [This is the older and better version of the famous ballad. 
     The younger version was the subject of Addison’s papers in
     the Spectator.]

     1.  The Percy out of Northumberlande,
          and a vowe to God mayd he
        That he would hunte in the mountayns
          of Cheviot within days thre,
        In the magger[42] of doughty Douglas,
          and all that ever with him be.

     2.  The fattiste hartes in all Cheviot
          he sayd he would kyll, and cary them away: 
        “Be my feth,” sayd the doughty Douglas agayn,
          “I will let[43] that hontyng if that I may.”

     3.  Then the Percy out of Banborowe cam,
          with him a myghtee meany[44],
        With fifteen hondred archares bold of blood and bone;
          they were chosen out of shyars thre.