_Syne_, then. _Tabbit_, benumbed. _Tapsle-teerie_, topsyturvy. _Ted_, toad. _Thairms_, strings. _Thowless_, thoughtless. _Thraw_, twist. _Tint_, lost. _Tirl_, to uncover. _Tocher_, dowry. _Toss_, toast. _Towmond_, a year. _Trig_, neat, trim. _Tryst_, appointment. _Tyced_, made diversion. _Vauntit_, boasted. _Weel_, will. _Whigmigmorum_, political ranting. _Wile_, choice. _Wist_, wished. _Wizen_, the throat. _Wow_, vow. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY. [Illustration: THE MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL; BY CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D. F.S.A. SCOT. VOL. II. ALTRIVE. _THE RESIDENCE OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD._ EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO THE QUEEN.] * * * * * [Illustration: [Signature: James Hogg] THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD Lithographed from an original Portrait in the possession of his widow by Schenck & McFarlane, Edinburgh.] * * * * * THE MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL; OR, THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND OF THE PAST HALF CENTURY. WITH Memoirs of the Poets, AND SKETCHES AND SPECIMENS IN ENGLISH VERSE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MODERN GAELIC BARDS. BY CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D. F.S.A. SCOT. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. II. EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY. M.DCCC.LVI. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PAUL'S WORK. TO JOHN BROWN, ESQ., OF MARLIE. My dear Sir, I dedicate to you this second volume of "THE MODERN SCOTTISH MINSTREL," as a sincere token of my estimation of your long continued and most disinterested friendship, and of the anxiety you have so frequently evinced respecting the promotion of my professional views and literary aspirations. I have the honour to be, My dear Sir, your most obliged, and very faithful servant, CHARLES ROGERS. Argyle House, Stirling, _December 1855._ INTRODUCTION TO The Modern Gaelic Minstrelsy.[1]