v. 1758. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
Page 283. v. 1772. _Where as_] i. e. Where.
v. 1778. _parde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily.
v. 1786. _taken_] i. e. committed, consigned.
v. 1802. _lowte_] i. e. bow, pay obeisance.
v. 1822. _Well were_] i. e. In good condition were.
Both words signify—embrace; with this distinction, that the former means properly—to throw the arms round the neck.
v. 1829. _I befole thy brayne pan_] i. e. I befool thy skull, head: see note, p. 100. v. 31.
Page 285. v. 1830. _By our lakyn_] See note on v. 341. p. 240.
v. 1831. _My hawke is rammysshe_] “_Ramage_ is when a Hawk is wilde, coy, or disdainfull to the man, and contrary to be reclamed.” Latham’s _Faulconry_ (_Explan. of Words of Art_), 1658.
v. 1836. _iarfawcon_] See note, p. 134. v. 557.
v. 1841. _for God auowe_] So presently, v. 1851, “I make God _auowe_:” see note, p. 109. v. 199.
v. 1842. _Thy wordes hange togyder as fethers in the wynde_] An expression which occurs again in our author’s _Speke, Parrot_, v. 295. vol. ii. 14. So too in a comedy (before quoted), _The longer thou liuest, the more foole thou art_, &c. _Newly compiled by W. Wager_, n. d.;
“A song much like thauthour of the same, _It hangeth together like fethers in the winde_.”
v. 1848. _a losell lede a lurden_] i. e. one good-for-nothing fellow lead another: see note, p. 209. v. 138, and note on v. 423 of the present poem, p. 242.
v. 1849. _sowter_] i. e. shoemaker, cobbler.
v. 1850. _Cockes harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1853. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1854. _I shall gyue you a gaude of a goslynge that I gaue_] _Gaud_ is found in the sense of—jest, trick, toy, &c.: but the line (perhaps corrupted) is beyond my comprehension.
Page 285. v. 1859. _Sadylgose_] i. e. Saddle-goose.
Page 286. v. 1860. _garre_] i. e. make, cause.
v. 1864. _to grame_] i. e. to be angry,—or perhaps to grieve; the word being found in both senses.
v. 1886. _payntyd_] See note, p. 176. v. 583.
v. 1887. _demenour_] i. e. director: see note, p. 134. v. 553.
Page 287. v. 1891. _largesse_] i. e. liberality.
v. 1896. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69.
v. 1900. _clokys_] i. e. claws—clutches; see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Cleuck_.