Part 108 (1/2)

[3] 'Lift:' sky.

[4] 'Linn:' a waterfall.

[5] 'Blate:' bashful.

[6] 'Pensylie:' sprucely.

[7] 'A-jee:' to one side.

[8] 'Owrelay:' cravat.

[9] 'Dorty:' pettish.

[10] 'Dawted wean:' spoiled child.

[11] 'Tarrows at its meat:' refuses its food.

[12] 'f.e.c.kless:' silly.

[13] 'Orp:' fret.

[14] 'Glowers:' stares.

[15] 'Barlichoods:' cross-moods.

[16] 'Skaith:' harm.

[17] 'Feil:' many.

[18] 'Fasheous:' troublesome.

[19] 'Scads itself wi' brue:' scalds itself with broth.

[20] 'Deil gaes o'er John Wabster:' all goes wrong.

[21] 'Toom:' empty.

[22] 'Speat:' land-flood.

[23] 'A dyvour:' bankrupt.

[24] 'Mows:' jest.

[25] 'Rowth:' plenty.

[26] 'Maiks:' mates.

[27] 'Hag-abag:' huckaback.

[28] 'White bigonets:' linen caps or coifs.

[29] 'Dozins:' dwindles.

[30] 'Airt:' quarter.

We come now to another cl.u.s.ter of minor poets,--such as Robert Dodsley, who rose, partly through Pope's influence, from a footman to be a respectable bookseller, and who, by the verses ent.i.tled 'The Parting Kiss,'--

'One fond kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart, Till we meet, shall pant for you,' &c.--

seems to have suggested to Burns his 'Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;'

--John Brown, author of certain tragedies and other works, including the once famous 'Estimate of the Manners and Principles of Modern Times,' of which Cowper says--

'The inestimable Estimate of Brown Rose like a paper kite and charmed the town; But measures planned and executed well s.h.i.+fted the wind that raised it, and it fell:'