Some shed it on their fhoulder,

Some shed it on their thigh;

And hee that could not hit his mouth,
Was fure to hit his eye.

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175

Thus

Thus boar's head, horn and mantle
Were this fair couple's meed:
And all fuch constant lovers,
God fend them well to speed.

Then down in rage came Guenever,
And thus could fpightful say,
"Sir Cradock's wife moft wrongfully

"Hath borne the prize away.

"See yonder fhameless woman,
"That makes herfelfe fo clean;

"Yet from her pillow taken

"Thrice five gallants have been.

180

185

"Of fpeech she is too bold,

"Of carriage all too free;

"Sir king, fhe hath within thy hall

"A cuckold made of thee.

200

« All

"All frolick light and wanton

"She hath her carriage borne:
"And given thee for a kingly crown

"To wear a cuckold's horne."

A Friend very converfant with British Antiquities, just nårə informs me that the flory of the BOY AND THE MANTLE is taken from what is related in some of the old Welsh MSS, of Tegan Earfron, one of King Arthur's mistresses. She is faid to have possessed a mantle that would not fit any immodeft or incontinent woman ; this (which, the old writers fay, was reckoned among the curiofities of Britain) is frequently alluded to by the old Welsh Bards.

CARLEILE, fo often mentioned in the Ballads of K. Arthur, is probably a corruption of CAER-LEON, an ancient British city on the river Ufke in Monmouthshire, which was one of the places of K. Arthur's chief refidence.

THE END OF BOOK THE THIRD,

VOL. I.

Y

A GLOS

OF THE OBSOLETE AND SCOTTISH WORDS IN

VOLUME THE THIRD.

Such words, as the reader cannot find here, he is defired to look for in the Gloffaries to the other volumes.

Bauld. s. bold.

Bedeene. immediately.
Bedone. wrought, made up.
Beere. s. bier.

Ben. s. within, within doors.
Bent. s. long grass; also, wild
fields, where bents,&c.grow.
Bernes. barns.
Befeeme. become.
Befhradde. cut into fhreds.
Befhrew me a leffer form of
imprecation.
Blee. complexion.
Blent. blended.
Blinkan, blinkand. s. twink-
ling, Sparkling.
Blinks. s. twinkles, fparkles.
Blinne. ceafe, give over.
Blyth, blithe. fprightly, joyous.
Blyth. p. 73. joy, Sprightliness.
Bookefman. clerk, fecretary.
Boon. favour, request, petition.

Banderolles. reamers, little Bore. born.

flags t.

Bower,

But pag. 288. Ver. 8. probably alludes to " An Ancient Order of Knighthood, called the Order of the Band, inftituted by Don Alphonfus, king of Spain,.. to wear a red ribband of three fingers breadth." See Ames Typog. p. 327.