FOOTNOTES
Reading edition
My hounds they all go masterless, My hawks they fly from tree to tree, My younger brother will heir my lands, Fair England again I’ll never see.
Child, part ii. p. 454 et seqq. The speaker is young Beichan, a prisoner in the dungeon of a professor of the Moslem faith.
“My hounds may a’ rin masterless.”
But as Aytoun confessedly rejected such inappropriate stanzas, he may have found it in his copy and excised it.