Of Love, and eke in service of the Flour.'


NOTE II.

PAGE 35 (43); line 13.--

".... persevering to the last,
From well to better."

'For Knightes ever should be persevering
To seek honour without feintise or slouth
Fro wele to better in all manner thing.'
CHAUCER:--_The Floure and the Leafe_.



NOTE III.

PAGE 37 (45).--_The Horn of Egremont Castle_. This Story is a
Cumberland tradition; I have heard it also related of the Hall of
Hutton John an ancient residence of the Huddlestones, in a
sequestered Valley upon the River Dacor.



NOTE IV.

PAGE 58 (64).--_The Seven Sisters_. The Story of this Poem is from
the German of FREDERICA BRUN.