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24. For thee it blows little good: the boastful tone rouses quick resentment.

28. The 're my attendants: in another version we have the dramatic touch of Robin's standing forth, a good yeoman undisguised" in a doublet of red veluett" as soon as his men arrive.

29. They hangd the proud sheriff: no choice of escape is offered him here, but in the London edition of the gar land, we read:

"O take them, O take them," says great master sheriff,

"O take them along with thee;

For there's never a man in all Nottingham

Can do the like of thee."

a', all.

A

a, I (as in a wat, I know). aboone, aboon, above. ae, one, single.

ae, aye, always. aff, off.

ails ye at, troubles ye at. ain, own.

airn, iron. alane, alone. amblit, ambled.

GLOSSARY

-an, -ane, -and, -en, etc., annexed to the definite form of the superlative of the adjective (preceded by the, her, etc.), or to numerals, or following separately, seems to be an, one: the firstan, nextan, firsten, nexten, that samen. The history of this usage has not been made out.

ance, once.

and, superfluous, as in "when that I was and a little tiny boy." The same usage in German, Swedish, and especially Dutch ballads. auld, old.

ava, of all, at all.

awa, away.

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bedone, worked, ornamented. belive, beliue, soon, immediately. bent, bents, a kind of coarse grass, here fields covered with that grass.

bide, stay, endure.

bigly (Icelandic, byggiligr, habit
able), commodious, pleasant to
live in, frequent epithet of bower,
of a bier: handsomely wrought.
billie, comrade, brother; "a term
expressive of affection and famil
iarity."
birk, birch.
blaw, blow.

blude, bluid, blood.
bode-words, messages.
bold, sharp, brisk.
boote, help.
boots, profits.

bore, hole, crevice.

borrow, v., set free, deliver, ransom. bot, but. bot and: see but and. boun, bowne, v., make ready, go.

awet, know. Perlas await, de- boun, bon, bowne, adj., bound,

scry.

ready. See boun, v.

awkwarde stroke, a backhanded bower, bowr, chamber.

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baith, both.

joined with a name, it denotes the

upper part of a country, as the Braes of Angus." Jamieson.

brae, brow.

braid, breadth. Adj., broad.

bale, ill, trouble, mischief, harm, braid (broad) letter, either a letter

calamity, destruction.

ballup, front or flap of breeches.

on a broad sheet or a long letter, brake, fern.

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brim, sea. The brim of a precipice do on, put on, don.

may be meant. broken men, men under sentence of outlawry, or who lived as vagabouds and public depredators, or were separated from their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamie

son.

doen, betaken.

do to, do till, with reflexive pro noun, betake.

dois, does.

dowie, dowy, sad, doleful, melan
choly, wretched.
drap, drop.

broo, water in which something has dre(e), dri, drie, drye, suffer.

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curch, curche, kerchief, woman's fairlie, farlie, ferlie, wonder.

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fell, high land, fit only for pastures, gownd, gown.

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gae, go. pret., gaed, ged. pres. p., halden, held.

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