is all the same hand. The air in your house is the air

(65) No doubt the original word in these places was SACK, as in Chappell's copy - but what would a peasant understand by SACK? Dryden's receipt for a sack posset is as follows:-

'From fair Barbadoes, on the western main, Fetch sugar half-a-pound: fetch sack, from Spain, A pint: then fetch, from India's fertile coast, Nutmeg, the glory of the British toast.' MISCELLANY POEM, V. 138.

(66) Corrupted in modern copies into 'we'll range and we'll rove.' The reading in the text is the old reading. The phrase occurs in several old songs.

(67) We should, probably, read 'he.'

(70) This is the only instance of this peculiar form in the present version. The miners in the Marienberg invariably said 'for to' wherever the preposition 'to' occurred before a verb.

(71) Three is a favourite number in the nursery rhymes. The following is one of numerous examples:-

There was an old woman had three sons, Jerry and James and John: Jerry was hung, James was drowned, John was lost and never was found; And there was an end of her three sons, Jerry, and James, and John!

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