{111} We here, and in a subsequent verse, find ‘daughter’ made to rhyme with ‘after;’ but we must not therefore conclude that the rhyme is of cockney origin. In many parts of England, the word ‘daughter’ is pronounced ‘dafter’ by the peasantry, who, upon the same principle, pronounce ‘slaughter’ as if it were spelt ‘slafter.’ {125a} Added to complete the sense. {125b} That is, ‘said he, the wild boar.’ {129} Scott has strangely misunderstood this line, which he interprets— ‘Many people did she _kill_.’ ‘Fell’ is to knock down, and the meaning is that she could ‘well’ knock down, or ‘fell’ people. {130a} Went. {130b} The meaning appears to be that no ‘wiseman’ or wizard, no matter from whence his magic, was derived, durst face her. Craven has always been famed for its wizards, or wisemen, and several of such impostors may be found there at the present day. {130c} Scott’s MS. reads Ralph, but Raphe is the ancient form. {130d} Scott reads ‘brim as beare,’ which he interprets ‘fierce as a bear.’ Whitaker’s rendering is correct. Beare is a small hamlet on the Bay of Morecambe, no great distance, as the crow files, from the _locale_ of the poem. There is also a Bear-park in the county of Durham, of which place Bryan might be an inhabitant. _Utrum horum_, &c. {130e} That is, they were good soldiers when the _musters_ were—when the regiments were called up. {131a} Fierce look. {131b} Descended from an ancient race famed for fighting. {131c} Assaulted. They were, although out of danger, terrified by the attacks of the sow, and their fear was shared by the kiln, which began to smoke! {131d} Watling-street, the Roman way from Catterick to Bowes. {132a} Lost his colour. {132b} Scott, not understanding this expression, has inserted ‘Jesus’ for the initials ‘I. H. S.,’ and so has given a profane interpretation to the passage. By a figure of speech the friar is called an I. H. S., from these letters being conspicuously wrought on his robes, just as we might call a livery-servant by his master’s motto, because it was stamped on his buttons. {133} The meaning here is obscure. The verse is not in Whitaker. {134} Warlock or wizard. {135a} It is probable that by guest is meant an allusion to the spectre dog of Yorkshire (the _Barguest_), to which the sow is compared. {135b} Hired. {137} The monastery of Gray Friars at Richmond.—See LELAND, _Itin._, vol. iii, p. 109. {141} This appears to have been a cant saying in the reign of Charles II. It occurs in several novels, jest books and satires of the time, and was probably as unmeaning as such vulgarisms are in general. {142} A cake composed of oatmeal, caraway-seeds, and treacle. ‘Ale and parkin’ is a common morning meal in the north of England.