v. 1289. _mykyll_] i. e. much. Page 267. v. 1291. _dell_] i. e. part. v. 1293. _shroudly_] i. e. shrewdly. v. 1297. _fonde_] i. e. foolish. v. 1299. _auowe_] i. e. vow: see note, p. 109. v. 199. v. 1301. _kynde_] i. e. nature. v. 1303. _rutters_] See note on v. 757. p. 245. v. 1308. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary. —— _boke_] i. e. book. v. 1309. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. —— _loke_] i. e. look. v. 1312. _howe_] i. e. ho! stop! “Ye shall haue ay quhill you cry _ho_.” _Philotvs_, sig. B. ed. 1612. “Greit God defend I suld be one of tho Quhilk of thair feid and malice neuer _ho_.” G. Douglas’s _Palice of Honour_, p. 30. Bann. ed. Page 267. v. 1314. _scrat_] i. e. scratch. v. 1315. _So how_] i. e. So ho. v. 1317. _gadde_] Does it mean—gadding? v. 1318. _brayne seke_] i. e. brain-sick. v. 1319. _to shyre shakynge nought_] i. e. to sheer nothing. So in our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_, (v. 466. vol. i. 110), that lady pronounces a couple of stunted goslings to be “_shyre shakyng nought_,” i. e. sheer worthless. v. 1323. _perde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily. —— _ryde or go_] See note, p. 125. v. 186. Page 268. v. 1324. _slyght_] i. e. contrivance. v. 1325. _hyght_] i. e. be called. v. 1327. _wonne_] i. e. dwell. v. 1334. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 1338. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518. p. 243. v. 1339. _whylest_] i. e. till. v. 1341. _slee_] i. e. slay. v. 1342. _away the mare_] See note, p. 162. v. 110. v. 1345. _a rome ... in euery route_] i. e. a place in every crowd, assembly. v. 1347. _face and brace_] See note, p. 216. v. 33. v. 1348. _fotyth_] i. e. footeth. Page 269. v. 1353. _poyntmentys_] i. e. appointments. v. 1356. _mykyll praty_] i. e. much pretty. v. 1358. _an hoby can make larkys to dare_]—_to dare_, i. e. to be terrified, to tremble,—(it also means—to lurk, lie hid; see note on the poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 271). To _dare larks_ was an expression applied to the catching of larks by terrifying them; and there were several modes of _daring_ them. When the _hobby_ (a small hawk, see note, p. 135. v. 567) was employed for that purpose, the larks lay still in terror till a net was thrown over them. v. 1360. _almesse_] i. e. alms. v. 1363. _howe_] i. e. ho. v. 1365. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 1368. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly. v. 1370. _pety brybery_] See note on v. 1242. p. 256. v. 1373. _be_] i. e. by. Page 269. v. 1376. _trew_] i. e. honest. v. 1378. _checke_] i. e. taunt: see note on v. 300. p. 240. v. 1379. _weltyth_] To _welt_ means—to border: but qy. is _weltyth_ here used for _weldyth_, i. e. wieldeth, directeth? v. 1382. _sadnesse_] i. e. gravity, seriousness, soberness, discreetness. Page 270. v. 1389. _sorte_] i. e. set, company.