halt have store;
Howard shall be Earl of Nottingham,
And so was never Howard before.

79.
'Now Peter Simon, thou art old;
I will maintain thee and thy son;
Thou shalt have five hundred pound all in gold
For the good service that thou hast done.'

80.
Then King Henry shifted his room.
In came the Queen and ladies bright;
Other errands had they none
But to see Sir Andrew Barton, knight.

81.
But when they see his deadly face,
His eyes were hollow in his head;
'I would give a hundred pound,' says King Henry,
'The man were alive as he is dead!

82.
'Yet for the manful part that he hath played,
Both here and beyond the sea,
His men shall have half a crown a day
To bring them to my brother, King Jamie.'

[Annotations:
13.4, 16.4: 'bread,' breadth.
23.3: 'arch-board,' stern (?) Cp. 29.2 and 'hatch-board,' 70.2.
28.1: 'dearly dight,' handsomely fitted out.
29.2: Cp. 23.3 and note.
47.2: _i.e._ 'wit [ye], howsoever this affair may turn out.'
53.1: 'swarved,' swarmed, climbed.
53.3: 'bearing arrow': perhaps a light arrow for long-distance
shooting, but see 56.3; and cf. _Adam Bell_, 150.3.
63.3: 'spole,' spauld, shoulder.
64.3: 'jack,' coat of mail.
66.4: 'Till' may mean 'while.']

HENRY MARTYN

+The Text+ is from a copy taken down from North Devon tradition by the
Rev. S. Baring Gould, and printed by Child; since when other versions
have been found still in circulation in England. A Sussex version,
though perhaps derived from a Catnach broadside, is given in the
_Journal_ of the Folk-Song Society, vol. i. 162.

+The Story.+--This ballad is undoubtedly a degenerate version of the
preceding, _Sir Andrew Barton_, of which name, as Child says, Henry
Martyn would be no extraordinary corruption. It is given here as an
instance of the fate which awaits a popular ballad in the process of
being sung to pieces.

HENRY MARTYN

1.
In merry Scotland, in merry Scotland
There lived brothers three;
They all did cast lots which of them should go
A robbing upon the salt sea.

2.
The lot it fell on Henry Martyn,
The youngest of the three;
That he should go rob on the salt, salt sea
To maintain his brothers and he.

3.
He had not a-sailed a long winter's night,
Nor yet a short winter's day,
Before that he met with a lofty old ship,
Come sailing alo