Chapter XCI

_The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard_ (George Routledge & Sons, 1897). By permission of the author. This is one of the songs in the comic opera _Utopia, Limited_.

XCII-XCIII

Both from _A Jubilee Greeting at Spithead_ (John Lane, 1897). By permission of the author.

XCIV-XCVII

The first three numbers are from _Poems and Ballads_, 3rd series (Chatto & Windus, 1889). The first is part viii. section ii. of _The Armada_.

As to the second, Drumossie Muir (l. 16), in Inverness-shire, was the scene of the battle of Culloden (1746).

l. 17. _ayont._ Beyond.

25. _mool._ Mould.
_laps._ Wraps.

40. _wotsna._ Knows not.

45. _weird for dreeing._ To ‘dree a weird’ is to abide a fate.

47. _thole._ To endure.

65. _Wansbeck._ A Northumberland stream.

69. _thae._ Those.

The fourth number is from the dedicatory lines in _Astrophel and Other Poems_ (Chatto & Windus, 1894). By permission of author and publishers.