11. =neibor.= Neighboring. Milton, in "Comus," uses the expressions: "Some neighbor woodman," "some neighbor villager"; and Shakespeare says: "A neighbor thicket" ("Love's Labour Lost"), and "neighbor room" ("Hamlet"). 12. =deposit.= Pronounced here _dep´o-zit_. 13. =penny-fee.= Fee, wages, from A.-S. _feoh_, cattle. "Cattle," says Bosworth, "was the first kind of property; and, by bartering, this word came to signify money in general." So, too, the word _penny_ is from A.-S. _penig_, Icelandic _peningr_, cattle. The word _penny_, as in this country the word _dollar_, is used indefinitely for _money_. 14. Observe that in quoting the words of the Cotter the poet partially drops the Ayrshire dialect and uses a purer English. 15. =ben.= Within. The inner part of the house; from O. E. _binnan_, within. Its opposite is _but_, the outside of the house. 16. =kye.= Cattle, from O.-E. _cu_, or _kie_. _Kine_ is derived from the same root, and probably _cow_. 17. =hawkie.= This word, says Hales, "denotes, properly, a cow with a white face. So, in Northumberland, _bawsand_ was used of an animal with a white spot on its forehead, and _crummie_ of a cow with crooked horns." 18. =sin' lint was i' the bell.= Since flax was in bloom. That is, the cheese was a year old last flax-blossoming time. 19. =ha'-Bible.= The hall Bible--the Bible kept in the best room. 20. =bonnet.= This word in Scotch denotes a man's head-covering. In early English it was used in the same sense. 21. =beets.= Feeds,--that is, gives fuel to the flame. "It warms me, it charms me, To mention but her name; It heats me, it beets me, And sets me a' on flame." --_Burns's Epistle to Davie, a brother poet._ The word is probably from A.-S. _betan_, to better, to mend; from which, also, we have the words _beat_, to excel, _better_, _best_, etc. 22. Burns refers the reader to Pope's "Windsor Forest" for this quotation. He probably had in mind the line in the "Essay on Man": "Hope springs eternal in the human breast." 23. =sacerdotal stole.= A long, narrow scarf with fringed ends, and richly embroidered, worn by the clergy upon special occasions. =Sacerdotal=, from Lat. _sacerdos_, a priest. =Stole=, from Lat. _stola_, a long dress worn by Roman women over their tunic and fastened with a girdle. 24. Pope's "Essay on Man," Epistle iv, line 247. 25. William Wallace (1270-1305), the Scotch national hero was, like Burns, a native of Ayrshire. VOCABULARY.