Note † — BOOK I.
Reading edition
[xvii_887, 888] H expands these two lines into eight.
Throughout England full cruelly, Burning and wasting right rigorously, When that they have heard tythings tell Of this great Siege that was sa fell: That they all skailed were and gane, Unto England hame againe: Sa that their folks relieved were And set now free from all danger.
Skeat relegates this expansion of two lines to a footnote, and rightly.