Note 236 — GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE.
Reading edition
Who was it, dear son? So in the ballad-poem of "Adam Bell," &c.—
"Ye myght have asked towres and towne, Parkes and forestes plentie, None so pleasaunt to my pay, she said; Nor none so lefe to me." [—Hazlitt's Popular Poetry, ii. 160.]