Part 37 (2/2)

1208. _vsyt_, used.

1209. _suppos the best that lewis_, even though (it were) the best that lives.

1217. _on slep_, asleep. The prefix _a-_ in English is due to the Saxon _on_.

1221. _al to-hurt_, etc. See note in Glossary on the word _To-kerwith_.

1225. _sauch_, saw; _rewit_, rued, pitied.

1233. _one syd a lyt_, a little on one side.

1236. _our mekill_, over much.

P. 37, l. 1240. _yarof_, thereof.

1241. _ruput_, repute, think.

1242. _ablare_, abler, readier.

1253. Insert a comma after _thret_, and destroy that after _lowe_. The meaning perhaps is, ”But what if he be appealed to and threatened, and (meanwhile) his heart be elsewhere set to love.” Observe that _and_ is often the third or fourth word in the sentence it should begin. See l. 2833.

1258. _?he tyne yowr low_, you lose your love.

1260. _conclusit_, ended.

1265. _mokil_, much.

1268. _of new_, anew, again.

1273. _pan_, pain.

NOTES TO BOOK II.

P. 38, l. 1279. _thocht_, anxiety.

1284. _apperans_, i.e. vision, as in l. 364.

1295. _aqwynt_, acquainted; Burns uses _acquent_.

1297. _com_, coming.

P. 39, l. 1316. ”So far out of the way you go in your course.” Compare l. 1797.

1317. ”Thy s.h.i.+p, that goeth upon the stormy surge, nigh of thy revels (i.e. because of thy revels) in the gulf it falls, where it is almost drowned in the peril.”

1321. ”In the wretched dance of wickedness.” See the curious uses of the word ”daunce” in Chaucer.

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