(book i. no. i.) was printed off, confirms the accounts there given of the "stagge" and
the "roe."
- The four stanzas here inclosed in brackets, which are borrowed chiefly from the
ancient copy, are offered to the reader instead of the following lines, which occur it
the editor's fol MS.
"To drive the deere with hound and horne,
Douglas bade on the bent;
Two captaines moved with mickle might
Their speres to shivers went."- Sc. the Curfew bell, usually rung at 8 o'clock: to which the modernizer apparently
alludes, instead of theEvensong-bell, or bell for vespers of the original author, before
the Reformation. - For the surnames, see the note above.
8.i.e."I, as one in deep concern, must lament." The construction here has generally
been misunderstood. The old MS. readswofull dumpes.