"So hard he smote the iron pot,
It came down plume and all;
Then with bare head away Robin sped,
And himself was _fit_ to fall.

"Robin a devil he _way'd_[6] him home,
And if for his foes he seek,
I think that again he will not come
To _late_[7] them in Kendal kirk."[8]

Y.A.C.

[2] The unlettered bard has probably confused "styx" with the
kindling, "yelding," of hell-fire.

[3] Flame.

[4] I have often wondered what namsac (so pronounced) could
be, but since I have seen the story as told by "H.J.M." it is
evidently "namesake."

[5] Probably crook in the original, to rhyme with Jock.

[6] "I way'd me" is yet used in parts of Yorkshire for "I went."

[7] "To late" is "to seek;" from _lateo_, as if by a confusion
of hiding and seeking.]

[8] "Kirk" is not a very good rhyme to "seek;" perhaps it should
be "search" and "church".]