Part 32 (2/2)

[13]'Skails:' dissipates.

[14]'Begaired:' dressed out.

[15]'Pend:' arch.

[16]'Spraings:' streaks.

[17] 'Steir:' stir.

[18] 'Caller:' cool.

[19] 'Rin:' run.

[20] 'Woltering:' tumbling.

[21] 'Drown:' drone, be idle.

[22] 'Freshure:' freshness.

[23] 'Fauld:' fold.

[24] 'Tapish'd:' stretched as on a carpet.

[25] 'Beare:' sound, music.

[26] 'Rayons dure:' hard or keen rays.

[27] 'Gleid:' fire.

[28] 'Whun:' whinstone.

[29] 'Caller:' cool.

[30] 'Brothing:' burning.

[31] 'Ule:' oil.

[32] 'Dings:' beats.

[33] 'Reek:' smoke.

[34] 'The mavis and the philomeen:' thrush and nightingale.

[35] 'Cushats:' wood-pigeons.

[36] 'Crood:' coo.

[37] 'Gloamin:' evening.

[38] 'Endlong:' along.

[39] 'Cruives:' cages for catching fish.

[40] 'Creels:' baskets.

[41] 'Scouts:' small boats or yawls.

[42] 'Weills:' eddies.

[43] 'Gild:' throng.

OTHER SCOTTISH POETS.

About the same time with Hume flourished two or three poets in Scotland of considerable merit, such as Alexander Scott, author of satires and amatory poems, and called sometimes the 'Scottish Anacreon;' Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, father of the famous Secretary Lethington, who, in his advanced years, composed and dictated to his daughter a few moral and conversational pieces, and who collected, besides, into a MS. which bears his name, the productions of some of his contemporaries; and Alexander Montgomery, author of an allegorical poem, ent.i.tled 'The Cherry and the Slae.'

The allegory is not well managed, but some of the natural descriptions are sweet and striking. Take the two following stanzas as a specimen:--

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