Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

' 'f39«NOTES,—91, Say slean, saw (how) slain.93. Stele, steel head. Halyde, hauled, pulled.94. Sat, an error for set; see 1. 87. So also, in 1. 95, sete should he. set.95. Sad and sar, heavy and sore; cf. 'as sad As lump of lead;'Spenser, F.Q. ii. 1. 45-96. This is even better than the more familiar line in the later version'The grey goose winge that was there-on in his harts bloodewas wett.'97. Freake, man. Wone, for o?ie. Stour, combat.98. Whylle, &c., whilst they could hold out.99. An owar, an hour; see 1. 15.100. Evensonge, the English name for vespers.loi. The tocke, they took; after which some words are missing. Iadd the fight, because to tahe the fight is an expression found in OldEnghsh, and suits the context.105. Hy, miswritten for he; see 1, 8,106. Repeated from 1. 9.107. Agerstone. Sir W. Scott supposes Agerstone or Haggerston tohave been one of the Rutherfords, barons of Edgerston [or Edgerstown,between Jedburgh and the Che\iot Hills], a warlike fam.ily long settledon the Scottish border, and retainers of the house of Douglas, This is,however, clearly wrong, for Agerstone' ' is called a companion of LordPercy. There is a place called Haggerston, a little way inland, nearlyopposite to Holy Island. Two of the 'Akerstons' are mentioned inthe Ballad of Bos\Vorth Feilde, Percy Folio MS. iii. 245.loS. The hinde, put for the bende, i. e. gentle, courteous. Hartley isnear the Northumbrian coast, just north of T}-nemouth.Hearone, Heron. Sir W. Scott, in Note L. to Mamiion, speaks ofSir William Heron, of Ford, and refers us to Sir Richard Heron'sGenealogy of the Heron Family. There is a place called Ford notfar to the south-west of Haggerston.109. Lojimle, l^wmXty, always hitherto printed /o?/^/^ (and explainedLovel), though the MS. cannot be so read, the word being written ''Myloule.'Lord Lumley ' is mentioned in the Ballad of Scotish Feilde, PercyFol. MS. i. 226, 1. 270; and again, in the Ballad of Bosworth Feilde,id. iii. 245, 1. 250.no. Rughe; the later version has Sir Ralph Rebhy, whom Sir W.Scott identifies with Ralph Neville, of Raby Castle, son of the first Earlof Westmoreland, and cousin-german to Hotspur.iir. Wetharryngton ; later version, Witherington. There is a placecalled Widrington, inMorpeth.Northumberland, near the east coast, to the north