| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| Wher's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid | Where's Bead? Go you, and where you find a maid | MW V.v.49 |
| That ere she sleepe has thrice her prayers said, | That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said, | MW V.v.50 |
| Raise vp the Organs of her fantasie, | Raise up the organs of her fantasy, | MW V.v.51 |
| Sleepe she as sound as carelesse infancie, | Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. | MW V.v.52 |
| But those as sleepe, and thinke not on their sins, | But those as sleep and think not on their sins, | MW V.v.53 |
| Pinch them armes, legs, backes, shoulders, sides, & shins. | Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins. | MW V.v.54 |
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| Pray you lock hand in hand: your selues in order (set: | Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set; | MW V.v.77 |
| And twenty glow-wormes shall our Lanthornes bee | And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be, | MW V.v.78 |
| To guide our Measure round about the Tree. | To guide our measure round about the tree. | MW V.v.79 |
| But stay, I smell a man of middle earth. | But stay – I smell a man of middle earth. | MW V.v.80 |
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| Come: will this wood take fire? | Come, will this wood take fire? | MW V.v.88.2 |