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Communicated by Miss Margaret Reburn, as heard in County Meath, Ireland, about 1860.

1 'How do you like my rug?' he said, 'And how do you like my sheets?And how do you like my false ladie, That lies in your arms asleep?'

2 'Well I like your rug my lord, And well I like your sheets;But better than all your fair ladie, That lies in my arms asleep.'

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1. 1. • 3². in pale.
      • 6². geight.
      • 6³. wilt wed.
      • 9². or sinn.
      • 17³. thou fair.
      • 29⁸. on upper.
   2. • 1⁴. Their masses and mattins.
      • 2². omits private.
      • 3². pale.
      • 3⁴. among.
      • 4⁴. I have.
      • 5⁴. Yet word I never durst.
      • 6². daintily bedight.
      • 7¹. lady fair.
      • 7². you shew.
      • 7⁴. will I.
      • 8¹. All this was heard by.
      • 8³. Quo he, though I am my ladies page.
      • 8⁴. my lord.
      • 9². Although I lose a limb.
      • 9³. whereas.
      • 10⁴. thy none.
      • 1⁴. omits will.
      • 14³. when as the.
      • 14⁴. Away, thou little Musgrave.
      • 15³. Bernards horn.
      • 16⁴. to fold.
      • 17¹. the perch.
      • 17³. thy fair.
      • 18². lighted upon a stone.
      • 19⁴. Doest find my lady so sweet.
      • 20³. hunder'd pound.
      • 21⁴. That I killed.
      • 25³. not do.
      • 25⁴. Though I.
      • 26¹. omits That: heart.
      • 27². ne're were.
      • 28². on a.
2. • 5⁴. Musgerue. 6 is written in the MS. after 8, but a marginal note by the scribe directs this stanza to be put two higher than it is written. Furnivall.
   • 8⁴. awaw.
   • 9³. out 3.
   • 11². Between here and 12³ half a page is gone.
   • 13⁴. all 3.
3. 1. The lamentable Ditty of Little Mousgrove and the Lady Barnet. … London, printed for H. Gosson. Stanzas of eight lines.
   2. London: printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger.
   3. A Lamentable Ballad of the Little Musgrove and the Lady Barnet. … London, printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.
   5. London: printed by and for W. O., and are to be sold by the Booksellers.
   1. 15³. might lay. After 16: The second part.
   2. • Musgrove throughout.
      • 1¹. light wanting.
      • 1². more be.
      • 2⁴. which did to the.
      • 3². some came. c. pale.
      • 3⁸. The next: the lady.
      • 3⁴. c. among.
      • 4¹. upon.
      • 4³. well thou perceived.
      • 5¹. The most wanting.
      • 5³. b. reply.
      • 6³. that you please.
      • 7². my love.
      • 8¹. b. my life: my death.
      • 8². will lye.
      • 8⁴. c. my love to thee.
      • 9³. come.
      • 9⁴. While: doe wanting.
      • 10³. So he: doe wanting.
      • 11¹. he said.
      • 13¹. ran this.
      • 13³. b. He then.
      • 13³. his own.
      • 14². c. he did.
      • 14⁴. bent his.
      • 15². to the.
      • 15³. b. my say. c. may say.
      • 16². there wanting. c. did make.
      • 16³. upon.
      • 16⁴. doth.
      • 17². that thou. b. telst.
      • 17³. to wanting.
      • 18². as wanting. b. to wanting.
      • 18³. shall be set up.
      • 18⁴. thou shalt.
      • 19². thou hearest of. c. And a.
      • 19³. Never stay a pair of gallows to make. b. to wanting.
      • 19⁴. me on.
      • 20¹. Lord Barnet calld his merry men all.
      • 20³. was so.
      • 21¹. he said.
      • 21⁴. b. his deed.
      • 22¹. to make no noise.
      • 22². all…on wanting.
      • 22³. horn.
      • 23¹. c. of them that.
      • 23³. him notice: was come.
      • 23⁴. wind the.
      • 24¹. did sound.
      • 24³. if he.
      • 26⁴. into the.
      • 27³. awake: did espy. b. then he.
      • 27⁴. the beds.
      • 28². cloathing.
      • 28³. c. never shall.
      • 28³. England fair.
      • 28⁴. That I.
      • 29¹. b. Here is two swords.
      • 29². c. The choice: Musgrove shall.
      • 29³. shall.
      • 30¹. good wanting.
      • 30^{1, 3}. that wanting.
      • 31². did wanting.
      • 31³. And with: furious wise.
      • 32⁴. she's the better skin: c. she is.