English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 7 of 10)

English and Scottish Popular Ballads (part 7 of 10)

=cunnes.= nones cunnes, I, 244, 11: of no kind. enes cunnes, I, 244, 12: of any kind.

=cunning=, V, 82, 21: craft (mystery, trade).

=curch=, =curche=, II, 131, 6; III, 472, 10: kerchief, woman’s head covering.

=cure=, III, 262, 7: pains. McNaughtoun’s cure, II, 386, 25: “McNaughtoun’s cure to ye is, Devil relieve ye.” Motherwell.

=curn=, III, 160, 19; IV, 85, 3: quantity, parcel, pack.

=curst turne=, III, 93, 34: malignant, spiteful, ferocious job, piece of work, feat.

=curstlye=, V, 53, 104: fiercely, savagely.

=curtal= (frier), III, 124 ff., 6, 7, 11, 13, etc.: (Lat. curtilarius) having charge of, attached to, the vegetable garden of a monastery. curtal dogs, 125, 34.

=cust=, pret. of cast, V, 116, 5. See =cuist=.

=custan=, p. p. of cast, III, 4, 2.

=cut=, V, 202 a: horse.

=cut=, V, 112, 7; 124, 6; 125, 5: bite, gnaw.

=cutted= (friar), III, 123, 3, 11, 13, 15, 17: short-frocked (but apparently a corruption of curtal, see III, 121 f.).

=cutters=, III, 228, 10: bravos, robbers.

=cuttie=, I, 72, 13; 74, 74: short.

=cutties=, II, 470, 49: spoons.

=cweet=, =queet=, II, 96, =I= 3: ankle.

=cypress queen=, as fair as a cypress queen, V, 164, 15: Cyprus, Cypris (Venus).

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=’d=, for ’t (it). bla’d wind, bla’d weet, II, 21, 6; doo’d, IV, 464, 16; born’d, deal’d, 465, 22, 37; 471, 41; lai’d, 520, 10; dee’d, V, 248, 12.

=dabs=, II, 167 b, =F=: pricks.

=dada=, =dadda=, II, 339, 16, 18; V, 112, =B b= 5: daddie.

=daft= (love), II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.

=dag-durk=, I, 55, 12: dagger.

=daggie=, IV, 258, 25: drizzling (dag, a slight rain).

=daghter=, =dather=, daughter.

=daghterie=, IV, 324, 1: a word of no meaning, the original being simply daughter: see V, 272 b, 1.

=daigh=, =daighe=, I, 302, =A= 10; II, 467, 42: dough.

=dail=, IV, 430, 5: (dool) the grief, the ill consequences.

=daily=, =dayly=, daily flower, I, 76, 9, 15, 18; II, 393, 2; IV, 19, 8: (Icelandic dælligr, Danish deilig) beautiful, charming.

=daily dight=, IV, 432, 6: beautifully adorned.

=dairgie=, II, 195, 41: refection given after a funeral.

=dale=, been at a, III, 161, 28, 30: dole (to mendicants), satirically.

=dam=, II, 192, 10: dame.

=damasee=, II, 327, 32: damson plum.

=dame=, addressed to an unmarried girl by her father, IV, 195, 7.

=dandily=, V, 106, =E= 5: over nice or dainty.

=dandoo=, III, 5, =C= 7, 8: dun doe?

=dane=, =done=, I, 68, 20, 24; 69, 45, 53; II, 81 f., 41, 56: done. dane him to, III, 273, 15, 27: betaken himself. See =do=.

=dang=, pret. of ding, I, 55, 12; 129, =D= 6; 130, =F= 5; 133, =M= 7, 10; II, 253, 19; 261, 9; IV, 305, 18: beat, struck, knocked, thrust, shoved. dang down, III, 460, 32. p. p., II, 282, 10: overpowered.

=danger=, do danger, III, 163, 67: exercise of the power of a superior? violence?

=dank= (moat), V, 295, 7: damp, wet.

=danting=, =danton=, IV, 287, 1 (burden); V, 267, 1 (burden): (Fr. dompter) sexual conquest.

=danton=, V, 248, 19: subdue, intimidate. See =daunton=.

=daown=, adv., V, 304, 8: down.

=dapperpy=, IV, 185, 11: diapered, of variegated cloth.

=dather=, =dother=, V, 257, 15: daughter.

=datit=, IV, 467, 15: dawtit, caressed.

dative of pronoun: III, 58, 37, 44; 60, 82; 61, 100; 65, 184; 75, 381, 391. after verbs of motion (dative of the subject): I, 244, 10, 13; 326, 1; III, 70, 281.

=daunton=, =danton=, I, 325, 6; III, 364 b: daunt, subdue, put down.

=daut=, =dawt=, IV, 104, =O=; 277, 4; 302, 2: fondle, caress, make much of, pet.

=daw=, v., II, 146, 7: dawn. p. p. dawen, II, 139, 7, 12.

=dawdy=, II, 308, 5: the unborn young of an animal.

=dawt=, =daut=, IV, 304, 3; V, 106, =D= 3: caress.

=dawtie=, V, 117 f., =B= 5, 9, 13; 173, 11: darling.

=day=, =dey=, =die=, =dye=, IV, 257, =B= 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7, 16; 262, 16; V, 265 a, 10: dairy-woman.

=day=, =dayed=, die, died.

=dayly.= See =daily=.

=de=, =dee=, =dea=, =deei=, =die=, == do: I, 165, =N= 8; 183, 24; II, 175 f., 1, 8. a dee, II, 110, 25: to do. dee’d, V, 248, 12: do it. p. p. deen. See =dee=.

=dea=, die.

=dead=, =deed=, =deid=, =dede=, =died=, n., I, 104, 14; 353, 13; 388, =A= 11; 465, 19; II, 385, 25; 505, 92; III, 387, 16, 10; IV, 36, 3; 505, 57: death.

=dead.= be dead, II, 58, 5, 7; III, 23, 25; 28, 120; 99, 50: die.

=deak=, V, 270, 7: deck.

=dean=, =den=, IV, 167, =D= 5, 6, 11: hollow where the ground slopes on both sides, valley.

=dean=, done.

=dear=, =deare=, =dere=, I, 411, 5; III, 164, =b= 67: injury.

=Dear-Coft=, II, 62, 18: Dear-Bought.

=dearly=, IV, 98, =F= 6: costly.

=dearsome=, III, 488 f., 38, 44: costly.

=dear vow=, interjection of surprise or commiseration.

=deas=, II, 189, 24: pew (stone seat at the door of the church. Chambers). Same word as =dais=. See =dice=.

=deave=, I, 389, =C= 3; IV, 69, 17: deafen.

=debate=, III, 314, 64: quarrel.

=deceivin= (tree), III, 396, =N= 3: corruption of savin (see 380 a).

=decencey=, V, 242 b, 8: corruption of bencite, benedicite.

=deck-board=, =deck-buird=, oer (over), V, 138, =B= 5, 6; 139, =c= 6, 7: overboard.

=dede=, V, 283, 8: death. See =dead=.

=dee=, =deei=, =do=. how can this dee, I, 453, 6: be allowed, borne; and so, perhaps, a’ this winna dee (wont do), II, 97, 14. a’ this winna dee, gif ony prayer can dee, II, 132, 16; 176, 10; it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13; it widne deei, V, 227, 2: avail.

=dee=, =deei=, do. See =de=.

=dee=, =deei=, die.

=deed=, death. See =dead=.

=deed=, v., I, 164, =K= 6; 165, =O= 5: died.

=deed=, indeed. by my deed, III, 262, 12: on my word.

=deed-thraw=, III, 501, 10: death-throe.

=deei=, do, avail; die. See =de=, =dee=.

=deemed=, =demed=, III, 61, 95: judged. III, 356, 35: condemned.

=deen=, I, 16, =C= 18; II, 182 a; 409, 18, 19: done (with no sense in 19).

=deerlye= (dight), III, 340, 28, 36: expensively (ornamented). III, 356, 16, 31, 35: perhaps, with great cost to the sufferer, possibly, to his hurt; lovingly, out of love, would answer in the first two cases, but not in the third.

=deft=, III, 145, 3: neat, nice-looking.

=degree=, III, 323, 58; IV, 258, 20: rank, sort. served him in his ain degree, V, 191, 19; 193, 57: rendered him respect accordant with his rank. wee shall beare no degree, III, 333, 19: shall have no position, standing. (requite, thank, show) in euerye degree, V, 84 f., 9, 14, 27: to the full extent demanded by the occasion.

=deid=, I, 105, 26; 353, 13: death. See =dead=.

=deighte=, IV, 504, 29: dight, furnished, adorned, equipped.

=delated=, III, 449 a, b; IV, 63 b: accused.

=dell=, V, 79, 32: deal, bit, whit.

=dell=, II, 345, 29: we are apparently to understand that it was a dismal dell that brought James into the world (not in itself, but from the melancholy fact of his being born there). Possibly we may understand dell ==dule, affliction. But the piece is spurious, and we need not be nice.

=delle=, I, 327, 22: perhaps, dally, talk, disport; perhaps, deal.

=demean=, IV, 41, note *; 107, 3: treat, maltreat. (in 107, 3, treat as he deserves, damage, do harm to.)

=demed.= See =deemed=.

=den=, =dean=, IV, 166, =B= 8; 168, 5, 11; 169, 3, 9, =G= 2; 174 f., 2, 7; 306 f., 12, 20, 48; V, 119, =D= 2: small valley, glen, dingle.

=den=, =dien=, V, 260, 8, 14: done.

=denay=, =deny=, V, 110, 10; 260, 3, 4: refuse.

=deol=, V, 297 b: sorrow.

=dep=, gave him a dep unto the heart, III, 281, 14: perhaps dab, Old Eng. dabbe, stroke. But Dr Davidson suggests that the line was misheard, and that what was said was, a dep’oon (wound), which seems to me very likely.

=depart=, III, 139, 27: part company.

=deputed=, III, 414, 52: consigned, handed or delivered over (used of a fugitive carried back for trial).

=dere=, =dear=(=e=), III, 99, 59: injury.

=dere-worthy=, III, 58, 36, 37; 59, 60; 61, 111; 67, 219; 68, 250; 73, 346: precious, dear.

=derf=, derf blowes, III, 422, 73: powerful.

=dernë=, I, 327, 30; III, 57, 21: secret, hidden, privy, obscure.

=descryvd=, IV, 405, 50: described.

=desse=, I, 328, 45: dais, the elevated part of the hall, on which was the table for the chief personages.

=deuylkyns=, III, 79, 73: devilish sort of.

=develling=, come, I, 302, 5: moving like the devil, whether hieing, scouring, bouncing, or what not; or, possibly, O. Fr. devalant, descending; an equivalence to daundering, sauntering, has been suggested.

=devyse=, I, 327, 16: will, pleasure.

=dey=, =die=, =dye=, IV, 257, 9; 259, 7, 17; 260, 7; 262, 16: dairy-woman. See day.

=deythe=, =dyth=, III, 112, 59: dight, prepared.

=di=, =die=, II, 132, 24; V, 35, =B= 5: do. dinna, I, 146, 6, and passim: do not. See =dinnë=.

=dice=, IV, 416, 17==deis: pew in a church.

=did=, I, 104, 3, 4: used for should.

=did= (be wrought), II, 506 a: caused.

=did him to.= See =do to=.

=did of.= See =do=.

=die=, IV, 264, 5: dey, dairy-woman. See =day=.

=die.= See =de=.

=die=, =do=, =din=, =dien=, done.

=died=, IV, 386, 19: death. See =dead=.

=died=, IV, 407, 7, 8: dead.

=dien.= See =den=, =die=.

=dight=, =dicht=, =dycht=, =deight=, =dyght=, III, 57, 19: prepared. dedys that here be dyght, III, 72, 320: done. of grain, I, 16, =B= 16; IV, 242 a: winnow. dight shoon, V, 105, =A= 11: clean. had not men to dight my men, III, 300, 18; IV, 500, 19: serve, handle. she dighted her father’s wounds, I, 101, 8; 103, =D= 6: dressed. pinnace, hachebord deerlye dight, III, 340, 28, 36; IV, 504, 29: fitted out, dill (grief) to him was dight, II, 68, 4: ordained.

=dight=, adv., bird sang fu dight, II, 261, 10: readily, freely (strange use of the word). Cf. =complete=.

=dild=, God, III, 35, 31: God ild, yield, reward (d carried on from the subject).

=dill=, II, 58, 4, 11: dule, grief.

=dimitted=, III, 447 b: discharged, released.

=din=, =dien=, done.

=din=, I, 133, 10; II, 186, 16: dun.

=dine=, I, 127, 23; II, 94, 12; 194, 13, 17; 313, 17; III, 267, 18; V, 277 f., 18, 29: dinner, meal.

=ding=, II, 62 a, 17; 261, 8; IV, 97, =F= 2; 304, 16, 17: beat, knock. ding down, II, 240, 6; III, 5, =D= 2, 6; 6, 2, 5; 8, 5; 9, 2, 7: lay low, overthrow. pret. dang, dung. p. p. dung, dang. my ain wand dings me now, IV, 97, =F= 2: I am suffering the consequences of my own folly.

=dink=, I, 74, 72: neat, trim.

=dinna=, do not.

=dinnë=, V, 229 a, 35: do (you) not. V, 229 b, 6: (disne) does not. dinner==dinna, dinnë.

=dinne=, I, 272, 25: (noise) ado, trouble.

=dint= (of arrow), III, 345, 48; 350, 48: stroke, impact.

=dirt=, v., V, 304, 2, 3: soil.

=dis=, does.

=Disaware=, V, 49, 29; 51, 51, 62: O. E. aver (O. Fr. aver, avoir) seems to be the basis of the word, which would mean stripped of wealth, sans aver (avoir); a Galterius Sine Avero is noted by Ducange.

=discared=, III, 38, 85: revoked, withdrawn (apparently for discarded).

=discharged=, IV, 63 b: revoked.

=discreene=, II, 439, 2: descry, spy out, discover.

=discreeue=, II, 58, 3, should be disceuere, diskevere, discover, reveal.

=disgrate=, V, 269, 17: disgrace.

=disgrate=, III, 58, 48: unfortunate, out of fortune’s favor. (Ital. disgraziato.)

=disna=, does not.

=distan=, IV, 329 a, after 16: (distance) distinguish.

=dittay=, IV, 245 a: indictment.

=dive=, II, 132, 25: do.

=diuel’s mouth.= He could not finde a priuy place, for all lay in the diuel’s mouth, II, 483, 4: as the devil’s mouth is depicted wide open in painted windows, etc., Professor Skeat has suggested that meaning for the phrase.

=do=, it wad na do, IV, 509 b, 13: avail. See =dee=.

=do.= See =doo=.

=do=, =doe=, doe my thy hawkes, I, 211, 20: give, deliver.

=do adowne=, III, 67, 226; 69, 263: put down.

=do away=, III, 59, 63: have done with, stop.

=do be=, I, 184, 47: are.

=do down.= See do to.

=do gladly=, III, 58, 34; 61, 103; 67, 232: make yourself happy (==make glad chere, 67, 215).

=do= (=doe=) =of=, =off=, II, 138, 13; III, 78, 449; V, 49, 23-25: put off. pret. doft, II, 490 b.

=do on=, III, 23, 27; 76, 421: put on, don.

=do to=, =do till=, with reflexive pronoun, I, 86, 30; 87 b; 115, =B= 3, 4; 182 f., 7, 11, 13, 17; 352, 32, 44; III, 72, 328: betake. So with up, down, V, 300, 5, 8.

=do up.= See =do to=, and =dop=.

=doited=, IV, 427, 10: stupid, doting.

=doll=, =dolle=, =döl=, =dule=, I, 217, 3; V, 111, 19, 21: grief.

=domineer=, in, wi, III, 268, 9; 270, 9; V, 242 b, 8: with haughtiness, superciliously. (Perhaps a corruption of III, 270, =E= 7, since the captain is said to be buke-learned in 268, 9.)

=doo= (ynnë gon), III, 91 a: cause, make.

=doo=, =dou=, =dow=, I, 163-165; 497, =L= 2; V, 40 f., 3, 9, 15, etc.: dove.

=don=, down.

=done=, how done you? III, 35, 31: old plural, how do you do?

=done upon=, V, 48, 6: put on.

=doo’d=, IV, 464, 16: do it.

=dool=, =doll=, =dule=, II, 175, 17; IV, 85, 42; V, 17, 31; 111, 19, 21: grief. See =dail=.

=dool=, dool and down, II, 271, 26: corruption of dale and down; cf. II, 175, 14; 273, 33; IV, 219, =B= 5: and elsewhere.

=doon=, II, 198 b, 2d line: a corruption, or possibly an Irish word, of which I can make nothing.

=doon=, youar begun yar doon, V, 304 b, 4.

=doorcheeks=, II, 99 b, 33: door-posts.

=dop=, III, 34 f., 6, 21: do up, open.

=dorn=, II, 300, 5: (sheets of) dornic, table-linen, ordinarily, from Dornick, the Dutch name for Tournay.

=dorty=, IV, 288, 10: pettish, peevish, saucy.

=dother=, IV, 327, 15; V, 110, 1; 237 f., 6, 7, 12, 22, etc.; 264, 7: daughter.

=dottled=, V, 94, =A= 3: in a state of dotage.

=dou=, dove. See =doo=, =dow=.

=dou=, =dow= (A. S. déah, dugon), III, 245, =B= 12; 247, 18; 370, 10, 13; IV, 472, 22: can (of physical ability). II, 78, 4; 104, 24; 105, 16; 168, 12; III, 386, 21; IV, 31, 9; 512, 12: (with negative) am unable from aversion, want of resolution, etc. dought (A. S. dohte, pret. of dugan), pret., I, 146, 20; II, 401, =C= 7; III, 465, 22; IV, 23, =A c= 18: was able, could. Subjunctive, I, 326, 18, 19 be at liberty); I, 330, =B= 3: should be able. dought, he neere dought good day, I, 434, 32: he never was good for anything a good day. But we should expect him: never a good day profited him.

=double-horsed=, III, 489, 42: with horse carrying double.

=doubt=, =doute=, =dout=, n. and v., I, 295, 35; 478 f., 19, 28; II, 52, 22; III, 57, 10; 76, 406; 125, 26; 188, 4: fear.

=doubt=, =if tho=[u], II, 449, 58: corrupt. =A= 53, without all doubt.

=doubtit=, III, 364 b: redoubted, held in awe. See =doubt=.

=douce=, I, 184, 1; V, 210 a, 1: staid and sober. violence douce, II, 271, 19: corrupt; read done?

=douë=, =douey===dowie, V, 257, 7, 17: dreary, melancholy. V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9 (of bran): wretched.

=doughetë=, III, 308, 28: doughty man.

=dought.= See =dou=.

=douk=, =duck=, II, 151, =H= 6; 153, 16, 17, 19, 21: dive.

=doukers=, =duckers=, II, 151, =H= 6, 8: divers.

=doulfou=, II, 159, 23: doleful.

=dounae.= See =dou=.

=doup= (dish-doup), II, 463, 23: bottom.

=dour=(=e=), I, 117, 17: hard, severe. V, 295, 3: savage. knocks bauldly and dowr, II, 341, =R= after 3: hard, or pertinaciously.

=dout=, =doute=. See =doubt=.

=dow=, =dou=, =doo=, I, 163 f., =J= 1-6, etc.; II, 299, 22-24; 301, 14; V, 111, 18; 302, 17: dove.

=dow=, do.

=dow=, =downa=, v. See =dou=.

=dowie=, =dowy=, I, 56, =B= 11; II, 146, 19; 148, 21, 22; 189, 36, 37; IV, 33, 24; 165, 12; 166, =C= 4, 5, 6; etc.: sad, doleful, melancholy, wretched. See =douë=.

=dowilie=, I, 439, 11: sadly.

=down=, wi meikle dool and down, II, 271, 26: nonsense; corruption of, beheld baith dale and doun, =F= 33.

=down-browed=, scowling; I, 302, =A= 11.

=downfall=, =downcome= of Robin Hood, with the, III, 271, 10; 274, 30: knocked down in R. Hood’s fashion?

=dowr.= See =doure=.

=doyn=, III, 111, 39: done.

=doyt=, III, 109, 1: doth (plural).

=draff=, refuse, dirt.

=drank=, II, 30, 7: gave to drink, drenched.

=drap=, III, 281, 10, drap down: perhaps, drap[d] down; otherwise, should drop.

=draps=, drops.

=draught=, I, 432, 1: sketch, picture.

=draw=, drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation, 304 a.

=draw=, III, 6, 14, 15: move (cf. Germ. ziehen).

=draw to=, =ti=, =till=, draw to hose and sheen, II, 249, 15; 256, 9; IV, 464, 10: draw on. drew till him his hose, II, 189, 35. drew to him his sheen, II, 257, 30.

=draw up wi=, II, 114, 14: take up with, enter into intimacy, relations of love, with.

=drawght= that thowe dost drawe, IV, 503, 16: of the drawing of a bow. (So “Chaucer’s Dream,” v. 788, Morris.)

=drawn=, ere the horse was drawn and brought, IV, 346 b, =I b= 5: chosen.

=drawn= a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24: evidently means give a back-handed stroke, but the phrase sounds factitious.

=dreaded=, II, 169, 14: suspected.

=dreads=, IV, 32, =C= 7: suspicions.

=dreamed=, I was, I, 432, 1: dreamed, had a dream.

=drede=, n., III, 296, 8: doubt.

=dreder=, II, 403, 3, 4: dread, apprehension.

=dre=(=e=), =dri=, =drie=, =drye=, suffer, undergo, hold out, stand, be able. dree pine, II, 466, 35; 467, 45. doom, III, 391, 9. death, III, 391, 1. dill I drye, II, 58, 11. dreeing trying hour, I, 73, 47. as fast as they might dree, III, 286, 49: could do it; so, II, 149, 7; 255, 10; III, 106, 12; 267, 9; IV, 2, 6; 6, 13; V, 195, 13, 35; 196, 37. whylle the myghte dre, III, 298, 58; 309, 47: as long as they could hold out. draw carts, which horse were wont to drie, I, 465, 2: do, perform. drie to feel, III, 479, 5: be compelled, come to feel.

=dreel=, gie a, I, 403, 9: stir up, put into a flurry, make scud. (Old Dutch drillen, ultro citroque cursitare gyrosque agere, etc. Scottish dreel, to move quickly.)

=dreigh=, IV, 47, 4: seems to mean here, far to jump from.

=dress=, III, 336 b: redress.

=dressen=, v. the dressede into the countrey, V, 71, note †: betaken.

=drew= (her table). See =draw=.

=dri.= See =dree=.

=drie=, n., III, 415, 22: an unauthorized word of Percy’s, to mean suffering.

=drie=, =dri=. See =dree=.

=driep=, drop.

=drifts=, IV, 2, 10: droves.

=drive=, IV, 6, 19; 7, 30, 32: drive off.

=droonet=, I, 133, 13: drowned.

=droop=, droop and drowsie (of blood), IV, 220, 13: droop might be the Old English drup, sad, piteous, but a word indicating the quality or condition of the blood would be expected (as in German trübe, thick, muddy). The nearest is drubly, turbid, muddy. Cf. wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. her lothely lere is droupy and drowsy, Skelton, Elynour Rummynge, 15: downcast and drowsy. See =drousie=.

=droped=, III, 164, 88: drooped.

=drouflye=, III, 85, 22: sad. See =drousli=.

=drousie=, wan and drousie, IV, 224, 23. droop and drowsie, IV, 220, 13 (of blood): sluggish, perhaps slowly dripping. The combination occurs in Skelton’s Elynour Rummynge, 15, droupy and drowsy, with sense. See =droop=.

=drousli=, III, 82, 22, should be droufli (drouflye, or drouslye, 85, 22): (Old Eng. drof, droflie) sad.

=drowryis=, I, 415 b: love-tokens. See =drury=.

=drowsie.= See =drousie=.

=drucken=, II, 155, =A b= 3: drunken (and in =A a= 3, where there is a misprint).

=druken=, =drucken=, p. p., II, 285, 9; V, 99, 11, =C= 6; 155, =C= 2: drunk, imbibed.

=drumlie=, =-ly= (stream), IV, 185, 8, 14; (eye), IV, 368, 10; 369 b: perturbed, turbulent, turbid, gloomy.

=drunken=, p. p. of drink, II, 110, 24; 134, 26. drunken was==had drunken, IV, 46, 5, 6.

=drunkilie=, III, 490, 25: merrily (as being tipsy with pleasure?).

=drury=, IV, 58, =A b= 5: dowry. Drowry is used as synonymous with morning-gift in the Acts of James VI. Jamieson. See =drowryis=.

=drussie=, V, 257. 14: drowsy.

=drye.= See =dree=.

=drywyng=, driving.

=dub=, I, 164, =J= 3; III, 162, 49; IV, 470, 25, 26; V, 169, 9: pool.

=dubby=, IV, 257, =A= 6: dirty, having many small pools.

=ducatdowns=, =dukedoons=, IV, 128, 8; 139, =I b= 21: ducatoons. corrupted ridiculously, IV, 137, 2, to ducks.

=duck=, =douk=, II, 145, 18, 19, 22, 23: dive.

=duckers=, =doukers=, II, 145, 18: divers.

=ducks.= See =ducatdowns=.

=duddie=, I, 208, =G= 15: ragged.

=duddies=, =dudes=, V, 111, 24; 112, =B= 13; 113 =b=, 13: duds, poor clothes.

=duȝty=, III, 98, 32: doughty, valiant.

=duke=, IV, 295, =D= 5: dyke, wall.

=dukedoons.= See =ducatdowns=.

=dulchach=, =dulget=, I, 305, 1; V, 213, 1: bundle, always applied in Aberdeenshire to ill-shaped, untidy bundles of clothes carried on the person (also, bulshach).

=dule=, =dool=, I, 169, =B= 3; 442, =E= 15; II, 290, 8, 12; IV, 86, 20; 303, 14: grief.

=dulget=, I, 305, 1. See =dulchach=.

=dumped=, V, 227, 4: struck with the feet.

=dumpes=, III, 313, 50: in the modern sense, but not inelegant.

=dune=, I, 302, 2; IV, 326, 15: done.

=dune out=, V, 27, 28: worn out, used up.

=dung=, pret. of ding, beat, knock, strike, II, 132, 17. p. p., II, 62 a, 17; 392, =J= 9; 472, 20, 28; III, 161, 43; IV, 479, 4: beaten, worsted, overpowered, put down. IV, 183, 8: overwhelmed, disconsolate. dung over, V, 127, 22: knocked over, struck down. dung down, I, 345, 5: thrust down.

=Dunny’s well=, =Dunny’s dyke=, II, 189, 28: an impersonation, signifying that the washing and drying have been done in dark-colored water and on a dark-colored (dirty) wall.

=dunts=, III, 491, 13: dints, blows. See =dynt=.

=dwine=, IV, 303 f., 12, 21, 27; 304, 10: pine, waste.

=dwrf=, IV, 290, =D c= 5: dowf seems to be intended, lethargic, inert, impotent; rather than dwarf, as being puny or incomplete.

=dyd him to=, III, 72, 328: betook himself. See =do to=.

=dyde adowne=, III, 67, 226: put down.

=dye=, IV, 260, 16: dey, dairy-woman. See =day=.

=dyght=, III, 72, 320, dedes that here be dyght: prepared, concerted.

=dyght= (to the deth), III, 309, 40: done, brought.

=dyghtande=, III, 75, 388: making ready (but seems to be intended for a past participle).

=dyke===wall, IV, 295, =E= 6; 296, =F= 6. castle-dyke, II, 410, 4. garden-dyke, II, 370, 5; 371, 5. fail dyke, I, 253, 2: turf wall. hollan dyke, II, 195, 32; nettle-dyke, II, 463, 22: wall on which hollies, nettles, are growing.

=dyke=, III, 441, 36: ditch.

=dyne=, garre me ones to dyne, III, 296, 24: give me my dinner, my fill, beat thoroughly. (Able to give the greatest prince in Christendome a mortall breakfast, if he had been the king’s enemie. Holinshed’s Chronicle, III, 512, ed. 1807-8. G. L. Kittredge.)

=dynt(e)=, =dint=, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: stroke, hit, lunge, shot (of spear, arrow). See =dunts=.

=dypper=, V, 283, 5, 15: deeper.

=dysheryte=, III, 60 f., 87, 95: dispossessed.

=dyspyse=, II, 478, 6: cause to be despised.

=dyth=, =deythe=, I, 334, 7: dight, furnished or built.

E

=E an O me=, =E an O an O me=, V, 275 a, 9, 10: simple exclamations, having here the character of a refrain.

=é=, II, 217, 24: =ae=, only.

=ea=, V, 214 b, 3: to be dropped; remnant of a corrected reading.

=eaen=, V, 267, 4: even.

=eaght=, the, the eighth.

=ealky=, =elky=, =eke a=, =ylk a=, =ilka=, V, 220 f., 4, 5, 8: each (one).

=ean=, V, 165, 2: eyes. See =ee=.

=ear=, I, 395, 1; 480, 54: early.

=ear=, eer, ever.

=eare=, =ere=, =ayre=, heir.

=eare=, v., I, 15, 12: plough.

=earn=, V, 115, 6: curdle.

=eartly=, II, 494, 1: earthly.

=eased=, III, 61, 101 (of horses): cared for, attended to.

=eased we=, V, 239, 35: used (as in 33), familiar with.

=easer=, IV, 315, 14; V, 271, 14: maple (mazer). See =ezar=.

=easterling= (born), V, 54, 3, 4 (in =A=, 48, 3, 4, stranger borne). The boy learned too fast for a native. Easterling, a native of the Hanse towns, or of the East of Germany. Halliwell.

=eathe=, III, 408, 33: easy.

=eather=, V, 224, 25; 241, No 156, 6: other.

=eay=, =eayn=, V, 238, 18, 28; 248, 18: eye(s). See =ee=.

=edder-flowe=, IV, 450 a, 2: adder-morass.

=ee=, III, 4, 9; 11, =K=: eye. Pl. een, eeen, II, 158 f., 5, 8, 18; 160, 4, 7, 17. See =ean=, =eay=, =eghne=, =eyen=.

=ee= (of a cup), IV, 221, 9: may be eye, top, brim.

=ee=, the table ee, II, 409, 20 (Motherwell, table eye): seems to be nonsense; edge does not suit. =b=, the printed copy, has play.

=ee= (A. S. ege, O. Eng. eȝe, eie, etc.), IV, 3, 15: awe; an unsatisfying emendation of lee, lye (eie would be better; I have not found ee). The Campbell MS. has fee, meant, I suppose, for value.

=ee-bree=, III, 11, =K=; IV, 257, 5: eye-brow.

=een=, IV, 257, 13: one.

=een=, v., III, 495, 23, 24; IV, 517, 21: even, make of the same value.

=eenin=, IV, 169, =F= 1: evening.

=eerie=, =eiry=, I, 342, 24, 36; 355, 46; II, 466, 39; IV, 175, =N= 5; 368, =G= 8: dreary, gloomy, weird, exciting superstitious dread.

=eft=, eft agayne = eftsones, III, 83, 238; 87, 238.

=eftsones=, III, 68, 238: hereafter, another time.

=eghne=, I, 327, 23: eyn, eyes.

=eh=, IV, 512, 11: exclamation of grief.

=eight=, the eight, I, 55, 9; 56, =B= 10; =C= 5, 11: eighth.

=eihte=, I, 244, 11: possession, valuable thing.

=eild=, III, 162, 46: age.

=ein=, I, 134, 13: een, evening.

=eiry=. See =eerie=.

=eisin=, IV, 331 b, 2: serve.

=eke=, also. At I, 133, =L= 1, eke ... eke seems to be wrongly used for either ... or.

=eke a=, III, 298, 57: each (one). See =ealky=.

=elbouthe=, I, 334, 5: elbow (the th for g or ȝ).

=eldelike=, I, 334, 5: elderly.

=eldern=, =eldren=, =eldrin=, I, 350, 12, 13; II, 20, 2; 26, 2; 27, 2; 61, 2; IV, 485, 28: old.

=eldrige=, =elridge= (hill, king), II, 58 f., 14, 15, 23, 25-7, 36==Scottish elric, elvish. The eldrige king has something of the character of the ellor-gást family in Beówulf (spirits who belong outside of mankind), haunts a hill, is a pagan, no one that has coped with him has come off alive. The lady who attends him, however, seems in no way extra-human. elric hour, I, 140, =N= (Pinkerton): hour when elves, or bad spirits, are active. In Elrick’s hill, II, 62, 8, 10, etc., the adjective is improperly turned into a noun. See =elrick=.

=element=, I, 286, 44: air, sky.

=elephant=, III, 211, 2: a species of scabious is so called, according to Halliwell.

=elfin=, =elphin=, =elphan=, n. and adj., I, 15 ff.; 341, 15; IV, 456, 13: elf, elvish. I, 346, 15 (the Elfins); 350, 28; IV, 456 f., 14, 15, 19, 24: fairy-land.

=Elfins=, the, I, 346, 15: fairy-land. See =elfin=.

=elfish=, n., I, 343, 15: elf.

=elflyn=, of the elves.

=Elizium=, V, 158, 16: Elysian.

=elky=. See =ealky=.

=ell=, =ill=, =ull=, v., will.

=ellish=, III, 481, 9: ellis, ells. (h may well be dropped.)

=elphan=, =elphin=, n. and adj. See =elfin=.

=elrick=, =elritch=, adj., II, 63, 18; I, 357, 53: elvish. Elrick’s, 62 f., 8, 10, 16, 21: as a substantive. See eldrige.

=embowered=, pret., II, 503, 13: used as bower.

=eme=, III, 296, 26: uncle. emys, III, 98, 38: uncle’s.

=-en=, =-n=, =-yn=, sign of plural of verb, I, 244, 9; II, 5 b, 3; 54, 61; 445, 62; III, 13, 2, 3, 4, 8; 35, 31; 63, 134; 92, 11; 104, 7; 105, 9, 11; 277, 15; 284, 3, 8, 17; 285, 30, 32, 33; 286, 48, 49; 404, 3; 406, 28; etc.

=end=, =en=, end. hous(e)-end, -en, I, 254, variations of Twa Corbies, =b=, 1, =c=, 1; toun-end, V, 267 f., 10, 11, 24. on end, IV, 353, 18: to an end.

=-end=, termination of the present participle. sighend, I, 55 f., =B= 7, 9.

=endres daye=, þis, I, 326, 1: the other day.

=eneuch=, =enew=, I, 102, 5; III, 318, 6; 440, 10; IV, 117, 8; 384, 8: enough.

=enlured=, III, 36, 45: allured (which is the word in =b=).

=enter plea att my iollye=, III, 278, 32: unintelligible to me. iollye should probably be iollytë. The king will have the head to serve some inscrutable purpose when he is making merry.

=enterprise=, v., I, 411, 9; III, 230, 70: undertake.

=entertain=, III, 153, 18: take into service.

=envye=, III, 296 f., 12, 30: ill-will, hostility, spite.

=ere=, V, 300, 3: eer, ever.

=ere=, =eare=, =ayre=, n., heir.

=ere=, v., heir.

=ere=, II, 216, 19; 470, 44; IV, 242 a; 378, 6; 433, 31: till.

=ere syne=, II, 362, 34: ere then, before that.

=erlis=, I, 329, 60: should probably be ernis, eagle’s (herons, yrons in other texts).

=erlish=, I, 355, 49: elrish, elvish.

=ermeline=, ermine.

=ern=, IV, 490, 12: iron.

=-ës=, =-is=, =-ys=, =-us=, preserved in gen. sing., I, 69, 52; II, 25, 7; III, 40, n.; 98, 21, 35; 99, 47 f., 52; 100, 64 f.; 111, 33, 36, 42, etc. In the plural, I, 72, 15; III, 40, n.; 97, 2, 3, 20; 98, 25, 33, 37, 40-2; 100, 63, 82; 109, 1; 111, 29, 31-37, 45 f., etc.

=esk=, I, 355, 50: newt. See =ask=.

=ettled=, IV, 47, 2: purposed.

=even cloth=, I, 324, 16: smooth, with the nap well shorn.

=even down=, IV, 110, 10, 11: flat to the ground. V, 124, =B= 14: perpendicular. 225 b, No 78: straight down (of heavy rain).

=even forward=, I, 324, 3: straight forward.

=even up=, I, 305, 7: straight up.

=evening-mass=, II, 168, =A=, 4: a religious service at the end of the day (as in Romeo and Juliet, IV, 1).

=euery= syde, III, 75, 398: each side of.

=euerych=, =euerichone=, =euerechone=, =euerilkon=, =everlke ane=, I, 334, 5; III, 22, 4; 65, 174; 67, 230; 98, 30: each, each one.

=evidents=, IV, 40 b: title-deeds.

=evyll=, adv., III, 26, 93: ill. euyll go, III, 77, 429: ill walk.

=ew-bught.= See =bucht=.

=ewer=, IV, 19, 8: dug, udder.

=exaltre=, III, 90 b: axletree.

=examine=, II, 58, 15: put you to test.

=exite=, II, 125, =B= 22; excit, V, 223 a, No 65, =B= 22: amended to sight under the supposition that exit must be impossible.

=exoner=, IV, 307, 42: exonerate.

=ey=, I, 415 b: egg.

=eye= (cote with one eye), III, 360, 117: window?

=eyen=, =eyne=, I, 472, 29; III, 74, 359: eyes. See =ee=.

=eylde het the=, III, 112, 62: yield, requite thee for it.

=eylyt=, I, 241 f., 5, 7: aileth.

=eyre=, pl., III, 113, 70: years.

=ezar=, II, 271, 17; 273, 23: maple. See =easer=, =masar=.

F

=f=, in Northern Scotch, often for wh; as, fa, faa, who; fan, when; far, faer, where.

=fa=, IV, 260, 6; 261, 6: who.

=fa=, V, 118, =B= 10: fault.

=fa=, my lady cannot fa sic servants, I, 116, 11: have such fall to her, put up with. fa frae her, II, 133, =D= 1: break off, give up.

=fa=, =fae=, IV, 256, 5; 337, f 2, 3, 7: from.

=faa=, V, 275 a, 8: who.

=face=, with a, III, 180, 12: with effrontery, boldness.

=fache=, fetch.

=fact=, III, 229, 32; IV, 11, 11: offence, crime.

=fadge.= fat fadge, II, 182, 8: “a lusty and clumsy woman.” Jamieson. “fadgy, corpulent, unwieldy. fudge, a little, fat person. North.” Halliwell. “fodge, a fat person; evidently the same with fadge.” Jamieson. A dirty drab is the phrase corresponding to fat fadge, II, 194, 10 (fusom fag, IV, 469, =I= 10, 12). See =fag=, =fug=.

=fadther=, IV, 260, 7: father.

=fae=, =fay=, =fey=, =fee=, =fie=, I, 245, 6; III, 481 f., 30, 24; 489, 39; 490, 24; 492, 26; IV, 430, 2: (A. S. fǽge) destined to die.

=fae=, II, 184, 19; 196, 9: foe.

=fae=, IV, 165 f., 2, 10; 337 =f=, 2, 3, 7: frae, from. See =fa=.

=faein=, =faen=, =fawn=, fallen.

=faem=, =fame=, I, 68, 1; 70, 1; 86, 1; II, 24, 12; 25, =G= 14: foam, sea.

=faer=, IV, 262, 15; 378 f., 6, 19: where.

=fag=, I, 304, =F= 2, 3; IV, 469, =I= 10, 12: a dirty drab. Cf. fusome fug, described as a dirty drab, =B= 3-6; dirty slut, =C= 4; dirty bitch, =E= 4; filthy foul flag, =G= 4. See =fadge=, =fug=.

=faikine=, III, 199, 24: faith.

=fail=, =feall=, =fell=, I, 304, =F= 6: turf.

=fail-dyke=, I, 253, 2: turf-wall.

=fails=, II, 365 f., 2, 3, 23: falls, befalls.

=fain=(=e=), =fayn=(=e=), II, 444, 48, 57; 453, 28; III, 100, 66; 298, 50; 309, 32: glad, pleased, eager. IV, 211, 13; V, 115, 2: fond. for faine, III, 479, 40: for glad, for gladness.

=fainly=, joyfully, blithely.

=fair=, V, 26 f., 13, 39: far.

=fairlie=, =farlie=, =ferlie=, I, 324, 11; 325, =B= 9: wonder. gars me fairlie, IV, 357, 2: causes me astonishment.

=fairly= (fields), IV, 57, =D= 1: fair, looking well.

=fait=, =faitt=, =fett=, V, 224, 18, 19; 274, 10; 278, 29: white.

=faith and troth=, to be, IV, 147, 34: to be in the relation of men who have taken the engagement of mutual fidelity, sworn-brethren.

=fald=, =fall=, =fauld=, n., V, 105, =A= 3; 248, 21: fold.

=fall=, III, 76, 406: suit, become. well falls me, V, 25, 5: my luck is good.

=fall=, V, 206 b, 8: pret. of fall, unless there is ellipsis of did.

=falling=, III, 470 a: sunset.

=fallow’s deed=, I, 448, 7-10: deed of a bad fellow seems unlikely. felloun’s? farlie, strange?

=falsh=, IV, 442, 1, 10, 12: false.

=falyf=, III, 13, 4: fallow.

=fame=, =faem=, I, 68, 1; 86, 1: foam, sea.

=fa’n=, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: fallen.

=fan=, =fand=, found.

=fan=, IV, 262, 19; V, 110, 4; 116, 1; 184, 49: when.

=fancy=, fell in her, V, 272 b, 2: fell in love with her. faen deap in my fancy, 273, 12.

=fand=, found.

=fang=, III, 160, 5: fastening. (164, =b= 5, whang.) Perhaps North Scotch for whang.

=fankit=, IV, 27, 28: entangled, obstructed.

=far=, III, 513 b, 1-4: fair.

=far=, =fare=, =faur=, I, 165, =N= 1; II, 191, 23; 335, =N= 3-5; V, 224, 17, 18; 227, 8; 248, 22: where.

=fare=, go, I, 170, 4; II, 222, 21; III, 22, 6; 98, 24; 340, 23, 24; 421, 43; V, 183, 22, 32. I fare you well, II, 207, =A= 1: I bid you fare well. pret. foor. p. p. forn.

=fare=, go on, comport oneself: III, 188, 6; 357, 59.

=fare=, n., III, 160, 11, 20: going on, procedure. III, 76, 403: (in the modern sense) fortune, experience.

=fared=, favored, well-fared, well-(weel-)fard, weel-fart, well-(weel-)faird, weil-faurit, weill-(weel-)faurd, well-fard, II, 268, 21; 317, =B a= 21; 408, 26; 462, 7, 8; IV, 220, 8, 1, 4; 223, 3; 274, 2; 434, 2, 3; V, 16, 1; 154, 10; 163, 12; 177, 14: well-favored, handsome.

=farei=, =farie=, =Farie= (MS. farie), V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: should be emended to Fyvie. See V, 305 f.

=farer=, I, 369, 51; V, 91 f., 4, 8, 12, etc.; 208, 9: further.

=ffarley=, adj., ffarley thinge, III, 92, 9: strange.

=farlies=, =farleys=, =ferlies=, I, 325, =B= 9; IV, 147, 26: wonders, novelties. See =fairlie=.

=far sought=, was, V, 161, 6: required long to reach.

=fart=, weel-fart, IV, 223, 3: fared, favored. See =fared=.

=fas=, =fase=, III, 299, 6; V, 248, 5: false.

=fa’s=, IV, 399, 46: fall, 1st per. sing. pres.

=fash=, IV, 493, 21, 23; V, 238, 22: meddle, make trouble, or, perhaps, trouble yourself. fashed himself, IV, 69, 18, 19: got himself into trouble by meddling.

=fashes=, II, 238, 4: troubles (emendation for fishes; possibly we should read freshes).

=fast=, fast they bad, III, 26, 90: strenuously. stare, look, III, 62, 122; V, 82, 35: intently. weep, II, 240, 3: copiously. fast unto, III, 131, 6: close down to.

=Fastness=, IV, 103, 15: originally meant for faustness, falseness.

=fat=, =fatt=, III, 281, 4; IV, 260, 2; 357, =C= 5, 7, 9, etc.; V, 111, 18; 214 b, 5: what.

=fate they coud na fa=, II, 130 1: from it (fae it, frae it) they could not desist.

=fatten a=, V, 221, 22; 247, 2: what, what sort of.

=faue=, V, 260, 7: fie!

=fauld-dyke=, IV, 199, 11: fold-wall,

=faun=, fallen.

=faur=, V, 124, 2: where. See =far=.

=faurit=, =faurd=. See =fared=.

=fause=, false.

=fause fa thee=, III, 435, =F= 5: may treachery befall thee, be thy lot!

=fave=, V, 275 b, 8: five.

=fawe=, IV, 505, 54: fall.

=fawn=, IV, 277, 13: fallen.

=fay=, adj. See =fae=.

=fay=, III, 74, 362; 110, 13; V, 85, 16: faith.

=ffayne=, III, 297 f., 48, 50: glad. III, 100, 66: fond of, pleased with. See =fain=.

=fe=, =feea=, wage, etc. See =fee=.

=feall=, =feale=, =fail=, =fell=, IV, 262, 29: turf.

=Feansell=, =feanser=, V, 55, 30: emended to le and fell.

=fear=, II, 470, 51: frighten (us from dancing).

=fearder=, =feardest=. See =feart=.

=feare=, in, V, 15, 18: together. See =fere=.

=fearsome=, II, 394, 18: fearful.

=feart=, =feert=, III, 262 f., 11, 13, 15, 17; IV, 456, 15; 498, 12, 14, 16: frightened. fearder, III, 267, 13: more frightened. feardest, III, 162, 55: most frightened.

=feather=, IV, 512 b, 2, 9: father.

=feathern=, IV, 482 f., 4, 9, 13: feathers.

=fecht=, =feght=, v., II, 319, 16; 391, 16, 17; III, 370, 15; IV, 224, 14, 15: fight. See =ficht=.

=feckless=, I, 429, 28 (dress): weak, feeble, effectless, miserable, silly. (here==inefficacious, of no account.)

=fedred=, =ifedred fre=, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: feathered liberally, handsomely.

=fee= (A. S. feoh), I, 327, 16 (wylde fee): animals. I, 58, 2; 434, 31; II, 25, 7; 172 f., 40, 42, 45; 442, 8; 447, 8; III, 94, 51; IV, 18, 17: wealth, possessions, property, having. I, 182, 2; II, 31, =N= 4; 114, 17; 123, 15; 379, 1; 403, 9; III, 433, 12; 435, =F= 6; 436, 14; IV, 514, 21: pay, wages. II, 117, 5, 6; III, 163, 72; 299, 5: reward. I, 328, 57: tribute. gentylman of clothynge and of fee, III, 30, 165: entitled to a regular stipend. knights fee, III, 94, 51: land of the value of £20 per annum (under Edward I., II.). See =foster of the fe=, III, 28, 140. penny-fee(-fie), I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift.

=fee=, v., I, 211, 3, 4: hire. (gae fee, go hire yourself.) See =feet=, pret.

=fee=, =fey=, doomed. See =fae=.

=feed=, =feid=, III, 436, 2; 464, 2; 468, =c= 2; IV, 2, 9; 36, 3; 37 f., 3, 10: feud.

=feed=, =fode=, =food=, I, 309, =B= 1: child, man.

=feed= about your fire, II, 184, 13: the sense eat seems unlikely. Possibly, to move about, to sit or move restlessly (like feik).

=feed=, pret. of feed, V, 236, 18: fed.

=feel=, =fiel=, II, 175, 1; 176, =C= 3; IV, 262, 29: fool.

=feel daft=, II, 410, 8: foolishly fond.

=feel===fell: very.

=feere=, =fere=, =feire=, =feer=, mate, consort (fere): I, 295, 43; II, 58, 2. V, 15, 13: fellow (contemptuously). See =feires=.

=feert.= See =feart=.

=feet=, pret., IV, 355 b, =D=: hired. See =fee=.

=feeties=, V, 209 b, 4: feet.

=feght=, fight. See =fecht=.

=feid=: feud. See =feed=.

=feires=, =feiries=, I, 295, 43; IV, 2 =f=., 7, 20, 22: comrades, consorts. See =feere=.

=felaushyp=, III, 67, 229: abstract for concrete, our fellows.

=felischepe=, fellowship.

=fell=, =fail=, =feale=, =feall=, IV, 266, =E= 29: turf.

=fell=, III, 300, 9; IV, 500, 10: skin, hide.

=fell=, III, 439 f., 4, 8, 11; IV, 455, 15; V, 55, 30: high land, fit only for pastures, a wild hill. fells, III, 299 f., =C= 3, 6; IV, 26, 6; 500, 3: chain of hills.

=fell= (yard), I, 287, 63: severe, cutting. (spice), III, 388, 3: hot, biting. IV, 258, 20: strange, prodigious. fell thing to see, II, 132, 27: strange. freezes fell, IV, 93, 7; 105, 7; 514, 17: sharply, severely.

=fell=, v., II, 419, 46: kill.

=fell=, =feel=, I, 478, 14; II, 344, 15; V, 183, 20: very.

=fellen=, p. p. of fell, III, 483, 7: felled (a tree).

=fells=, befalls. well fells me, IV, 437, 25: good for me!

=felon= (the kynggis), III, 98, 21, 22: traitor, rebel.

=felt=, III, 146, 14: should be emended delt.

=fences=, cock shall crow fences three, II, 8, 10, 11: evidently bouts, coups; but I have not found this usage elsewhere.

=fend=, =fende=, V, 283, 2; 284, 22: fiend.

=fend=, v., III, 300, 12; IV, 500, 13: provision.

=fend=, III, 440, 12: defence.

=ffend.= that ffend I Godys fforbod, III, 113, 72: seems to be a double expression for deprecation,--I inhibit, protest, God forbid (see =forbode=). “I fende to Goddes forbode it should be so: a Dieu ne playse qu’aynsi il aduiengne. Palsgrave, p. 548, col. 1.” Hales and Furnivall, Percy MS., III, 554.

=fende=, III, 61, 106; 117, 8: defend.

=fer dayes=, III, 57, 16: far on in the day.

=ferd=, III, 99, 52: fear.

=fere=, fere love, IV, 219, =B= 3, 5: fair. (fair love, V, 260, =E= 5.)

=fere=, =feere=, II, 58, 2; III, 22, 5: mate, consort.

=fere=, in, on, III, 57, 27; 59, 61; 67, 231; 77, 423; 98, 38: in company, together. See =feare=.

=fferli=, I, 334, 7: fairly, civilly.

=ferlicke=, I, 334, 8: strange. See =ferly=.

=ferly=, =ferlie=, =ferley=, =farlie=, I, 325, =C= 1, 10; 329, 4; 333, 2; 424, =d= 11; III, 440, 20; IV, 455, 1, 13; 524, 10; V, 244, 8, 12: marvel, wonder, news.

=ferly=, adj., ferly strife, III, 97, 13: strange, extraordinary. See =ffarley=.

=ferra-cow=, =farrow-cow=, I, 224, =I= 9, 11; II, 261, 8: a cow not producing a calf for the current year.

=fesh=, =fess=, III, 319, 15; IV, 94, 14; 257, 1, 2: fetch.

=fet.= See =fett=.

=fetchie=, III, 520 b (note to II, 272, 22): tricky, practising fetches? Cf. wylie, st. 21.

=fetcht a race=, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a swift preliminary run.

=fett=, I, 432, 5: fetch, pret. fet, fette, III, 31, 14; 63, 145; 64, 172; 298, 67.

=fett=, V, 224, 18: white.

=ffettle=, III, 92 ff., 15, 37, 56: make ready.

=feud=, II, 279 a, 16: contest of feeling?

=feughten=, p. p. of fecht, ficht, fight, I, 109, 15.

=feume=, IV, 473, 44: foam.

=fey=, I, 245, 6; IV, 44, 4; 430, 2: destined to death. See =fae=.

=ffeyt=, faith.

=feyther=, V, 296 a: father.

=ficht=, =fecht=, =feght=, v., IV, 84 f., 16, 26, 27, etc.: fight. pret. focht, foucht. p. p. foughten, feughten.

=fie.= See =fee=.

=fie=, doomed. See =fae=.

=fiel=, =feel=, II, 176, =C= 3: fool.

=fieldert=, V, 126, 1: fieldward, away (from where they were).

=fiend thing=, IV, 23, =A c= 18: devil of a thing.

=fift=, II, 75, 6: fifth.

=file=, v., I, 135, 4: defile.

=file=, IV, 494, 33: while, till.

=fileshap=, V, 260, 16: fellowship.

=fill=, full.

=fill=, I, 403, 10: follow, pursue.

=filtt=, p. p., III, 490, 20: filed.

=fin=, find.

=fin=, craig and fin, II, 28, 27: whin, whin-stone, synonymous with greenstone, but applied to any hard rock.

=finikin=, III, 174, 18: fine, handsomely dressed.

=fire-beams=, IV, 96, 3: should be fire-boams (bombs), as at 99, =G= 8, =H= 6.

=fire-boams=, bombs. See =fire-beams=.

=firlot=, IV, 46, 3; 379, 13: the fourth part of a fou, which is a dry measure varying from two to six Winchester bushels (a Winchester bushel being of a slightly less capacity than the present imperial bushel).

=firmaty=, V, 114, 3: frumenty; in old cookery, wheat pottage, with flesh in it; hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with cinnamon, sugar, etc.

=fit=, =fitt=, =fyt=, =fytte=, II, 54, 60: song. I, 329, 62; III, 25, 51; 27, 97; 308, 24: division of a song. (A. S. fitt.)

=fit=, I, 131, =G= 4, 5; 164, =J= 6; 302, =A= 7; 472, 28; 491, 26; IV, 119, 6: foot, feet.

=fit=, III, 142, 32; V, 240, 5: ready.

=fitches= (of deer), II, 132, 19: flitches, sides.

=fite= (bread), V, 220, 6: (probably) wheat. See =white bread=.

=fitt=, III, 465, 21: it is better to read sitt, as in Caw’s text.

=fitted=, IV, 18, 9: footed.

=fitted=, II, 485, 18, 31; V, 103 a: suitably treated or served. V, 132, 2: ready, disposed.

=fittie=, IV, 450 a, 4: foot.

=fivesome=, III, 472, 3: five together.

=flaff=, IV, 470, 20: flap, fan.

=flag=, I, 305, 3, 4; V, 213, 3, 4: corruption of fag, drab, slut. See =fag=.

=flain in=, IV, 224, 23: correct to fla or flai (flew) in?

=flamboy=, V, 298, 7: flambeau, torch.

=flat=, II, 258, 45, 46: highest and lowest layer of a grave.

=flatte=, IV, 504, 32: positively determined on.

=flattered=, =flottered= (on the faem), II, 25 =G= 14; 27, 22: flitted, floated (O. Eng. floteren, Germ. flattern).

=flattering= (toung), II, 144, 8: fluttering, waggling. flattering tongue that flutters, II, 154, 21.

=flaugh=, =flaw=, pret. of fly, I, 286, 56; 397, =E= 8; II, 314, 9.

=flaw=, tell me without a flaw, V, 41, 28: lie.

=flay=, frighten. See =fley=.

=flay= (A. S. fléon), fly. pret. flaw, flaugh.

=fleachy=, II, 470, 53: infested with fleas.

=flear=, =fleer=, I, 454, 11; IV, 392, 7; 410, 26: floor.

=flee=, v., V, 304 b, 4: flay. pret. fleed.

=flee=, not a, IV, 53, 12: not a whit (fly, for a small thing). I count him lighter than a flee, etc., III, 480, 23; 482, 19; 488, 26 (flea); 490, 15. left him not a flee, IV, 53, 12.

=fleechin=, I, 424, d 11; II, 32, =Q= 2: wheedling, cajoling.

=fleed=, pret., V, 304 b, 4: flayed.

=fleed=, =flied=, V, 257, 7, 17: frightened. See =fleg=.

=fleed=, IV, 348, 14; 349, 9: flood.

=fleer=, I, 69, 39; 298, 4; 452, 14: floor. See =flear=.

=fleet=, flute.

=fleg=, =fley=, =flay= (A. S. flégan, Old Eng. fleyen), V, 253 b, No 203, 3: frighten.

=flesse=, V, 283, 18: flesh.

=flex=, V, 283, 11, 21: flax.

=fley=, =flay=, III, 457, =A= 2; 474, 36: frighten. pret. fleed, flied. See =fleg=.

=flight=, I, 21, note *: dispute and scold.

=flink=, care a flink, V, 259, 3: care a whit.

=flirry=, I, 424, d 10: blossom.

=flo=, =flon(e)= (A. S. flá, flán), I, 327, 10; III, 13, 5, 15: arrow.

=flotterd.= See =flattered=.

=flourishd=, I, 398, 13: adorned.

=flow=, IV, 79, 14: moss with a spring in it, morass.

=flower=, I, 352, 3, 4: get flowers for, or deck with flowers.

=flutters=, II, 154, 21: waggles,

=flyte=, =flight=, III, 414 b: dispute, debate, scold (here Percy’s word, replacing flout and mock).

=forward=, V, 283, 4: compact.

=focht=, pret. of fecht, ficht, fight, IV, 167, =C= 10. p. p. feughten, foughten.

=fode.= See =feed=.

=folde=, pret., III, 76, 407: folded.

=folle=, foal.

=folye=, I, 327, 17: a very unlikely word (unless we may understand it to have the meaning of Old Fr. foler, errer çà et là). Another text has balye (Fr. baillie), which gives a good sense, under thine own control, in thine own custody. (folye, in 17, may be caught from 18.)

=fone=, II, 196 b, 2, 8: foes.

=fond=, fond to see him sleep, II, 269, 26: doted, was foolishly happy? (But probably corrupt: cf. fondly seen thee sleep, 271, 30.)

=food=, III, 287, 61: man. See =feed=.

=ffooder=, II, 46, 41: (cf. Ger. fuder, cart-load, the largest or one of the largest measures for corn, liquids, and other things), here, tun, as is clear from auger, 41.

=foonshief=, V, 206 a, 8: foundation, bottom sheaf of a stack.

=foor=, V, 99, =C= 4: fared, went.

=foote=, goe two foote, III, 188, 6: corrupt for fold; cf. 267, 9.

=for=, =ffor=. ye (yes), for God, nay, for God, III, 61, 105, 107; 69, 259, 267, 269, 271; 76, 413, 414: by.

=for=, II, 124, 38: before.

=for=, IV, 21, 6; 438, 9; V, 16 f., 2, 5, 29: where.

=for= when but would be expected, II, 58, 11, 13; 59, 22 (see II, 57 b). for and, V, 76, 25; 144, 9.

=for no, I=, 183, 25; II, 256, =K= 3: phrase of refusal, obscurely elliptical, after the manner of why, no; or corruptly for fye, no (cf. II, 158, 2).

=forbears=, I, 206, 2; II, 63, 19: forefathers.

=forbode=, =forbott=, ouer Goddes, III, 29, 162; 123, 18; V, 199 a, 64: God forbid, against God’s prohibition; so A. S. ofer cinges bebod, against the king’s order; ofer dryhtnes word, against the word of the Lord, etc. Elliptically, God’s forbod, as III, 37, 79; 180, 16. III, 113, 72: see =ffend=.

=forbye=, =forebye=, I, 402, 1; II, 154, 8, 9; IV, 224, 17; 433, 16: near by. I, 86, 33; II, 70, 22: apart, aside. IV, 203, 2: further.

=forbye=, =forebye=, =forby=, I, 305, 1; IV, 203, 2; V, 17, 32; 213 a, 1: besides.

=force=, no, III, 57, 13; 67, 227: no matter.

=forces.= for (thro, V, 306, 8) a’ her father’s forces, V, 166, 11: in spite of all her father could do?

=fordoo=, destroy.

=fore=, first fore love, II, 191, 22, 25, 28, 29: earlier.

=forebye.= See =forbye=.

=fforefend=, III, 340, 26; 407, 5: avert, forbid.

=forehammer=, I, 21 b, 12; III, 474, 34: sledge-hammer, the large hammer, which strikes before the smaller.

=foremost man=, 1, 146, 12; IV, 412, 19: apparently the bridegroom’s “best man.”

=forenent=, =fornent=, I, 221 f., =E= 7, 17; 504, 7; IV, 77, 3; 288, =F= 2; 451 a, 3, 5: over against, in the face of.

=foresteed=, V, 237, 28: protection, protector.

=foret=, I, 244, 10: forth.

=forfaulted=, V, 194, 68, 73: forfeited.

=forfouchald=, IV, 4 b, 28: very much tired. (Scottish wauchle, forwauchld, forfaughlit.)

=forfoughen=, IV, 3, 28: tired out with fighting.

=forgone=, forgo.

=foriete=, forgotten.

=forked=, I, 492, 7; IV, 445, p. 100, =B= 7: of blood from a wound, issued in divided jets.

=forl=, V, 116, 2; 117, 3: whorl, fly of a spinning-rock.

=for-lee=, she’ll come in att your formast an gee out att yer forlee, IV, 377, 5; V, 275 b, 5: she’ll cross your bows and sail round you, coming out at your fore-lee or lee-bow.

=forlorn=, I, 450, 8; II, 114, 15, 16; III, 124, 13; 212, 16: lost. has him forlorn, II, 147, 17: causatively. II, 123, 13; V, 41, 23: destroyed, killed. I, 183, 42; III, 145, 9; V, 210 b, 2: destitute, deserted.

=forn=, p. p. of fare, II, 29, 6, 9. be weel forn: see that ye have fared well, eat and drink heartily.

=fornents=, =forenent=, =fornent=, II, 197 a, 15: opposite to, directly against.

=forren=, foreign.

=forsake=, forsake a ring, I, 192 a: let go, part with. forsake that I haue promised, III, 29, 156: withdraw from. forsake this sorowe, III, 73, 341: decline to have to do with this sad matter. II, 454, 52: decline as adversary in a combat. III, 360, 106: refuse an appointment. IV, 172, 1; 173, =K= 2: refuse suitors. III, 149, 33; IV, 181, 2: give up, renounce.

=forth=, find forth, III, 148, 17; choose forth, III, 440, 9: out. thou maye well fforth for to pay mee, II, 444, 58; thou mayst well forth, thou shalt pay me, 449, 63; (=b=, mayst forthwith): go on, or, make out?

=fforthi=, I, 329, 60: therefore.

=forth withall=, III, 127, 16 (play): forthwith.

=forthynketh=, III, 28, 137: repenteth.

=fortune be my chance=, III, 308, 21==my hap it were, 311, 16.

=forward=, III, 284, 11: van.

=forward=, V, 283, 4: compact.

=foster of the fe=, III, 28, 140: “A person who had for some service to the crown a perpetual right of hunting in a forest on paying to the crown a certain rent for the same.” Halliwell.

=fot=, I, 141 b, 10: fetched.

=fothe=, III, 112, 51: foot.

=fou=, II, 25, 8; 26, 11: a firlot, which see.

=fou=, V, 270, 9: how.

=fou=, =fow=, full. fou drunken, II, 144, 4.

=foucht=, pret., II, 391, 21: fought. IV, 200, 1: toiled. p. p. foughten, II, 418, 32; III, 277, 22; 281, 14; 333, 30.

=fouie=, IV, 20, 10: well off, “possessing a comfortable independence.” Jamieson.

=fouled=, a bill was fouled against him, III, 463 a: (equivalent to) found; he was indicted as guilty.

=foumart=, IV, 389 b: polecat.

=found=, III, 23, 15: provided for.

=foure-eard foole=, II, 483, 7: as denoting a double ass?

=fousome=, =fusom=(=e=), I, 302, =B= 3, 5, 6; 304, 2, 3: (fulsome) disgustingly filthy.

=fow=, =fou=, II, 273, 35; III, 490, 13; IV, 168, =D= 14, 15: full.

=fowd=, V, 304 b: sheep-fold.

=fowk=, I, 245, 6: folk.

=frae=, =fray=, from. be frae, IV, 433, 21: remain away from.

=fraine=, v., I, 334, 6, 7, 10: question.

=frame=, IV, 78, 4: succeed. sae weel we frame: we are doing, or beginning so well.

=frank=, of horses kept in a close, you keep them all both frank and free, II, 450, 64: apparently, fat. Free is a much abused word, and the only apt meaning here would be, liberally treated. In =A= 444, 59, you keepe them ranke and royallye.

=ffrankely=, II, 440, 13: freely.

=free=, n., I, 334, 8: (complimentary term for man) noble, etc.

=free=, adj., is used in a great variety of senses, and is often indefinite and hardly more than a rhyme word: bounteous, gracious, of noble birth or rank, independent, unrestricted, exempt, spirited, valorous, beautiful, precious, excellent in any way. The danger will be in assigning too positive a meaning to the word. of Mary, III, 420 f., 29, 44. lady, ladies free, I, 324, =A= 8; 328, 52; 464, 5; V, 87, 39; 279 a. a true-love free, IV, 461, 22. God make you safe and free (your own master?), I, 427, 2; II, 177, 28; 421, 22. castles free, I, 465, 6; 474, 21. lands sae free, I, 474, 25. tocher free, II, 380, 33; 383, 26; 385, 27. Clymme of the Clowgh so fre, Little John so free, III, 26, 96; 154, 2. freyke fulle fre, III, 308, 30. of courage free, V, 86, 31. chrystall free, II, 52, 17. gold soe free, V, 49, 23. gowd and jewels free, I, 474, 23. silver free, II, 69, 9; 445, 64; 450, 70. money ffeyre and ffre, III, 113, 82. metal free, III, 300, 7; 368 f., 12, 14; IV, 372, 7; (nonsense in IV, 404, 29). staff of oke so free, III, 138, 15. Less definite are the following: Couentrye faire and free, Derby Hills so free, Cannongate-side so free, III, 284, 17; 323, 10; 386, 10; seas so free, IV, 498, 6; water soe free, V, 51, 68; forest frie, V, 191 f., 8, 12, 23, 28, 34; learning my lesson free, I, 438, =B= 7; chariot, coach, free, I, 475, 44; IV, 410, 29; 462, 35. horses kept free, II, 450, 64: liberally. going free, IV, 289, 7: not under control, running off. free of grace, V, 20, 24: void of grace, cf. 43.

=free=, adv., arowes ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: in handsome style. ring she brake so free, I, 470, 26: generously (cf. II, 450, 64).

=freely=, adj., freely feed, I, 309, =B= 1: of noble birth, or beautiful.

=freely= (naked), I, 508, 10: entirely.

=freits=, III, 434, 23: superstitious notions concerning omens.

=freke=, =freck=, =freake=, =freyke=, III, 298, 58; 308, 30; 309, 32, 47: bold man, man. (A. S. freca.)

=frem=, foreign.

=frembde=, adv., frembde bested, III, 63, 138: in the position of a stranger (other readings, frend, friend).

=frese=, frese your, our, bowes of ewe, III, 67, 215; 80, 215: seems to be corrupt. The interpretation in Donaldson’s Supplement to Jamieson, where “to frese a bow” (cited as if a phrase in full use) is said to mean unbend, slack, would be entirely inappropriate here, since three men are to make a desperate attack on two hundred and fifty (bende your bowes, st. 218). =f=, =g= have, bend we, the required sense. Chese will not do; they have but one bow each. leese==loose is possible, or dress, or even, free.

=frichtit=, frighted.

=frienged=, =fringed=, gray, III, 481, 7; IV, 2, 5: referring to mane and fetlocks, or perhaps to long fetlocks only.

=frightened= the boar will, I, 214, 3: afraid, etc.

=frith=, =frythe=, =firthe=, V, 191 f., 14, 24: enclosed land, wood.

=froom=, V, 296 a: from.

=froth-mill=, I, 305, 13: “wauk-mill, or fulling-mill, from the froth of the soap.” But the expression seems not to have been heard of, and froth-mill is more probably corrupt for frozen mill. See next word.

=frozen mill=, V, 213, 10: mill of which the lade, or canal conveying the water, is frozen.

=frush=, IV, 185, 13: brittle.

=frythe=, I, 329, 3: enclosed land, preserve, deer-park, wood. See =frith=.

=fue=, few.

=fug=, I, 302, 3, 5: slut, filthy woman. See =fag=, =flag=.

=fuird=, II, 471, 6: =ford=

=fule=, fowl.

=full=, IV, 356, =B= 1: proud.

=fun=, =fune=, V, 215, 15; 248, 9: whun, whin, furze.

=fundid=, I, 334, 8: went. (A. S. fundian.)

=fur=, II, 188, 12; III, 474, 41: furrow.

=fusom=, =fusome=, =fousome=, I, 302, =B= 3, 5, 6; 304, =F= 2, 3; IV, 469, 10, 12: offensive, disgusting (fulsome).

=fusty bandyas=, V, 72 b: a drinking-formula.

=fute=, =whute=, v., III, 123, 15: whistle.

=fynde=, III, 308, 24: Professor Skeat would read fyne, end.

=fynly=, III, 70, 284: goodly.

=fyt=, =fytt=, =fytte=. See =fit=.

G

=ga=, =gaa=, =gaw=, I, 420, 9, 10; 421, 9, 10; 423, 6, 7; V, 216, 9, 10: gall.

=ga=, =gaa=, I, 146, 5; V, 166, 8; 221, 16; 227, 6; 247, 3; 278, 25: go. See =gang=, =gae=.

=ga=, =gaa=, IV, 513 a, 4; V, 221, 14; 242 a, 8; 268, 23: gave.

=gab=, n., I, 302, B 12: 422, 13: mouth.

=gab=, v., II, 149, 17: prate.

=gab=, n., I, 277 f.: joke, sportive brag.

=gabber reel=, I, 217, 8, 13: evidently a sprightly air. The root may be Icelandic gabb, mockery. Perhaps simply gabber, jabber.

=gaberlunyie=, V, 115 f., 6-10; 119, 8, 9: beggar’s wallet.

=gad=, =gaud=, I, 342, 33; 344, 32; 348, 13, 19; 356, 42; III, 505, 21: bar.

=gad=, =gade=, IV, 493 f., 13, 26: went.

=gaddie=, IV, 273, 1==gaudie: showy, dashing.

=gae=, =gai=, =gay=, =ga=, =gaa=, =gee=, =gie=, I, 69, 49, 62; 71, 39, 50; II, 304, 17; 468, 14; V, 166, 7; 278, 24: go. pret. gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude. p. p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed. pres. p. gain, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawen, etc. See =gang=.

=gae=, =gang=, =go down=, IV, 12, =C= 6, 7; 518, 2: be hanged.

=gae=, IV, 493 f., 23, 32: give.

=gae=, pret. of gie, I, 69, 55-58, 68; 71, 45-47; 75, 42; 108, 15: gave.

=gae=, =gay=, =gey=, adv., V, 266, 9: (gay) pretty, rather.

=gaed=, =gade=, =gad=, =gaid=, pret. of gae, go, I, 102, =D= 4; 103, =E= 3; 131, =G= 10; 439, 14, 15; II, 140, 17, 18; III, 453, 10; IV, 395, 6; 494, 26; V, 117, 11; 238, 27; 274 b, 6; 278, 24.

=gaed=, p. p., II, 70, 21; III, 473, 30: gone,

=gaen=, =gain=, =gane=, p. p. of gae, I, 70, 19; 108, 12; II, 468 f., 15, 18, 22; IV, 507, 2; V, 237, 5: gone.

=gaen=, =gain=, p. p. of gie, gae, give, I, 469, 23 (gaen the table, given a knock); III, 271, 13; V, 183, 34. So perhaps II, 212, 15; cf. gain, fifth word below.

=gaeng.= See =gang=.

=gae-through-land=, IV, 428, 13: vagrant.

=gai.= See =gae=.

=gaid.= See =gaed=.

=gain.= See =gaen=.

=gain=, =gaine=, =gaing=, =gan=, =gaen=, =gane=, =gaun=, =gawn=, =gawen=, pres. p. of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466, 15; II, 151, =H= 2, 4; IV, 257, 8; V, 247, 15; 256, 6. gan, etc., II, 144, 12; IV, 210, 3; 507, 2.

=gain=, II, 212, 15, ye’s gain as much at mine: will get, receive. (But will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps possible.)

=gain= (him at the law), IV, 286, 3: Icel. gegna, to proceed against?

=gain=, =gane= (Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25, 8; 26, 11 (with ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369, 15: suit my case.

=gaing.= See =gain=, pres. p.

=gair=, pay meat and gair, V, 268, 27: gear, clothes an arms? or money (a variation of pay meat and fee)?

=gair= (of clothes). See =gare=.

=gait=, III, 266 b; 272, 5; IV, 265, =A b= 10: way, road. See =gate=.

=galerie=, V, 140, =f=. 1, 5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful form).

=Galiard=, III, 459 f., 1, 4, etc.: sobriquet of a freebooter of a gay (perhaps dissipated) character.

=galla.= See =gallowe-tree=.

=gallage=, V, 247, 20: gallows.

=gallaly=, =galalie=, V, 136 f., 1-3, etc.; 141, =d= 1: galley, prolonged for metrical convenience.

=gallan=, =gellant=, =gillan=, IV, 260, 4; 315 f., 1, 4-7, 18: gallant, gayly or finely dressed.

=gallio=, V, 141, 2, 3, etc.==galley O.

=gallowe=, sing. (like A. S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92, 18. Cf. next word.

=gallows=, the highest, I, 150, 13: one elevated above a triangular framework, for special offenders; der höchste Galgen; see Grimm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch, Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the highest that is to be had.

=gallows-pin.= See =pin=.

=gallow-tree= (A. S. galgtréow; O. Eng. galwetre), III, 24, 43; 180, 17; 358, 71; 368, 10. gallou-, gallage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V, 247, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24.

=gam=, game.

=game=, had god game, V, 80, 46, 47: sport, amusement.

=gamene=, I, 328, 52: game, sport.

=gamon=, II, 59, 25: gamen, amuse himself.

=gan=, =gane=. See =gain=, pres. p.

=gan=, =gon=, with infinitive: began, did.

=gane=, II, 26, 11: serve, suffice. See =gain=.

=gane=, p. p. of gae, go. See =gaen=.

=gane=, III, 281, 14: p. p. of gae, give. See =gaen=.

=gane frae=, IV, 378, 3: gone ahead of, left behind.

=gang=, =gange=, =gaeng=, =gieng=, I, 55, =A= 5; 57, 4; 68 =f.=, 21, 37, 46; 75, 36, 39; 217, 16; II, 175, 13; 468 =f.=, 13, 14, 38, 39; III, 75, 397; V, 16, 2, 5: go, walk. pret. yede, yeede, yeed, yed, ȝede, yode, yod, youd. p. p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gude, good. inf. also, gon, gone. p. p. ganged: III, 362, 102. See =gae=.

=gang=, =gae=, =go down=: IV, 11, 9, 12; 12, =C= 6, 7; 518, 2: like the Scottish be put down, be hanged.

=gantrees=, II, 369, 11; 370, 11: barrel-stands.

=gar=, =gaur=, I, 100, 8; 127, 15; 130, 8; 397, =D= 9, 11, 13; II, 115, 30, 31; 153, 16; 358, 17, 22-24: (Icel. göra) make do, cause. as auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5, =D= 1: do lay, lay. So II, 106, 11; 107, 19; 216, 3, 4.

=garded=, III, 117, 16: looked at.

=gare=, =gair=, =gore=, properly, a triangular piece of cloth inserted in a garment to give width at that part; in Old English often coat or gown. low down by his (her) gare is a frequently recurring expression which may be taken literally, down by that part of a garment where the gore would be==low by his knee, II, 197, 18. In, your ain hand sewed the gare (of a shirt), II, 379, 13; 389, 5; 395, 12 (following ain hand sewed the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly important enough, and perhaps is to be understood side: cf. rive it (sark) frae gore to gore, gair by gair, I, 439, 4; 440, 5, 7; 441, 6, 7; 442, 5, 6; II, 294, 31, 32. So also in, frae breast to gare, I, 438, =B= 4, probably, though the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae gair to gair, IV, 416, 17; the brown bride pat her hand in att Annë’s left gare, V, 224, 20. penknife, sword, brand, down by (below) his (her) gare, I, 451, 9; II, 98, 40; 144, 6; 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38. keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465, 34. she hung’t (cup of wine) low down by her gare, II, 369, 10 (recklessly and absurdly; the cup is in her hand in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a gare, I, 388, =A= 8, 9, =B= 6, gare must be a strip large enough to make a bandage for the head.

=gare=, III, 98, 24: ready.

=garl=, II, 129, 18; V, 223 a, No 66, 18: gravel (suspicious word).

=garlande=, III, 93, 31; rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a circular wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod. In III, 93, 31, this can be nothing more than an extemporized circlet of twigs.

=garlings=, II, 366, 24: garlands.

=garmarcie=, =garmercy=, III, 33, 130; 81, 34: gramercy.

=garned=, the bride she garned round about, IV, 410, 23, is a misprint of Buchan’s for gazed, which stands in the original MS.

=garrett=, III, 332, 16: watch-tower, look-out.

=gars=, =garse=, IV, 221, 11; 467, 7: grass.

=gartan=, =garten=, =gartin=, IV, 169, 10; 170, =H= 6; 175, =M= 8; 176, =N= 14, =P= 2; 490, 12: garter. (Gael. gairtein.)

=garthes=, girths.

=gast=, guest.

=gate=, =gait=, =get=, I, 225, 8; II, 311 f., 2, 15, 21; 402, 10; III, 92, 11; 477 f., 11, 15 (ford); 480, 24; IV, 3, 21; V, 99, =C= 4: way, road. water-gate, V, 250, 12: round by the water. in this gate, II, 73, 26: in such a way or condition. to the gate (get) has gain, IV, 493, 5; V, 237, 5: has gone away. tuke the gate, II, 30, 7; IV, 392, 9: started, departed.

=gaucy=, IV, 271, =B= 1; V, 152, 3: lusty, jolly.

=gaud.= See =gad=.

=gaudie=, =gaudy=, =gawdie=, IV, 273, 12, 13, of speech: with a stately or pompous air. 274, =D= 19; 297, 13: showy, conspicuous. 274, =E= 1: dashing. gaudy locks, 285, 10, 19: bright-colored. 356, =B= 1: ostentatious.

=gaule=, I, 272, 11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.

=gaun=, =gawn=, =gawen=, I, 22, =A= 1, =B= 1; III, 473, 21-24; 479, 8; IV, 261, 8; 511 a, 6; 513 a, 3: going.

=gaunt=, IV, 20, 12: yawn.

=gaur=, =gar=, I, 73, 36; IV, 226, 11: make.

=gavellock=, =gavlock=, III, 470 b; 493, 10: iron lever.

=gavil-post=, II, 227 a: gable-post.

=gaw.= See =ga=.

=gawdie.= See =gaudie=.

=gawen=, =gawn=. See =ga=, and =gaun=.

=gay.= See =gae=.

=gay=, =gae=, =gey=, adv., II, 184, 16; IV, 271, 9; 329, =c= 20; V, 266, 9: pretty, rather.

=gaze=, IV, 313, 10: gauze.

=ge=, ye.

=ge=, give. See =gie=.

=gear=, =geare=, =geere=, =geir=, =gier=, I, 411, 5; II, 182, 5; 184, 9; 185, 38; III, 440, 12; 459, 3; IV, 6 f., 5, 19, 29; 469, 10; V, 170, 3, 4: goods, property, often cattle. silken gear, I, 145, 22: clothes. III, 440, 7, 18, 19; 446 b: fighting equipments. the less gear and the mair, III, 8, 23: smaller game and greater. pay meat an gair, V, 268, 27: clothes and arms? or money? III, 341, 47; 404, 1; IV, 505, 51; 506, 66: business, affair.

=geat.= See =get=.

=gecks=, gien the, II, 105 f., 20, 21: made a fool of. Geck in German, the northern languages and English, fool; in Scottish, according to Jamieson, “sign of derision, gibe, cheat.” See =gowk=.

=gee=, give. See =gie=.

=gee=, =gie=, IV, 508, 2; V, 238, 22: go. pret. gied, gid, ged. See =gae=.

=geere.= See =gear=.

=geet=, IV, 494, 37: get, progeny, child.

=geid=, pret. of gie, give, II, 277, =A= 8. See =gied=.

=gein=, p. p. of gie, IV, 316, 18.

=geir.= See =gear=.

=gell=, V, 221, 20 (unnecessarily changed to kell): congeal, freeze. (Aberdonian.)

=gellant=, gallant. See =gallan=.

=gen=, V, 247, 10: given.

=gen=, gen Pasche, II, 146, 9: against, for, Easter.

=general=, with the, III, 176, 2: people in general (in public).

=genty=, I, 421, 10: elegant of form or dress, but here refers to gentleness of disposition.

=gep=, =gip=, III, 138, 11; 140, d 11==gup, go up, get up (properly, a call to a horse). marry gep, interjection of contempt==marry, come up.

=gereamarsey=, III, 111, 37: gramercy.

=gerss=, I, 450, 5; II, 248, 9, 15; 464, 8, 10: grass.

=get=, IV, 493, 5: gate, road (to the get he’s gane, has gone away). See =gate=.

=get=, =gett=, =geat=, II, 470, 56-8; V, 238, 13, 24: progeny, brat.

=getterne=, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.

=geve=, give. See =gie=.

=gey=, adv. gey sad, II, 184, 15, 16: pretty, rather. See =gay=.

=ghesting=, I, 284, 17, 18: guesting, lodging.

=gie=, go. See =gae=.

=gie=, =gi=, =ge=, =gee=, =gae=, =geve=, =give=. gie, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; 206, 26, 30; 207, 30. =gi=, I, 68 f., 26, 69, 70; IV, 493, 21. ge, gee, IV, 222, 19; 493, 15; V, 228, 10; 248, 4, 5, 21, 22. pret. gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied. p. p. gin, gine, geen, gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve on (like take)==strike, III, 127, 53. gien, II, 232, 13: struck.

=gied=, =gid=, =ged=, pret. of gae, gie, go, I, 74, 3; 80, 5; 310, 10, 12, 14; II, 75, 11; 357, 7; III, 434, 27.

=gied=, =geed=, =geid=, pret. of gie, give, I, 79 f., 24, 28; 439, 3; II, 408 f., 3, 4; IV, 512 b, 8.

=gien=, =gine=, =gin=, =gein=, =geen=, =gen=, p. p. of gie, give: I, 100, 25; 467, 25; IV, 316, 18; 509 a, 13; 510, 16; 513, 12; V, 215, 13; 219, 23; 224, 20; 229, 30; 247, 10; 306 b, 3. V, 219, 23: given (a blow) to.

=gieng=, II, 61, 3: gang, go.

=gier.= See =gear=.

=gif=, =giff===if, I, 70, 16; II, 21 =B= 10; 28, 3; III, 285, 22.

=giff-gaff=, I, 21 b, 14: give and take, tit for tat.

=gile=, III, 482 11: jail.

=gill=, a steep, narrow glen.

=gillan=, V, 272 b, 1: gallant. See =gallan=.

=Gilliecrankie=, be a, IV, 268, 22: a Gilliecrankie woman, live in Gillecrankie (see 20), be a Highlander. =g= reads, hae a Killycrankie, that is, a domestic battle, or row.

=gillore=, III, 136, 34: galore, in plenty.

=gilt=, III, 370, 10: money.

=gimp=, I, 387, 1; II, 220, 1, 3: jimp, slender.

=gin=, =gine=, =ginne=, V, 125, 9: a contrivance. specially, the apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107, 4; II, 241, 23; III, 492, 6; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; 446, =b= 3, 4; door and window, IV, 480, 4, 5. chappit (knocked) at the gin, I, 465, 11; IV, 445 f., 3, 4. lift the gin (that is the lever for raising the latch), II, 158, 4; 165, 4, 7, altered to pin. II, 158, 4, in the margin of the MS., and pin stands in 7 of the same piece. Otherwise, chin.

=gin=, I, 108, =B= 3, like the gin: corrupt, compare =A= 4.

=gin=, II, 23, =E= 8; 271, 34; 286, 3; IV, 412, 11; 485, 15; V, 243, 17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313, 14; IV, 138, =M= 1; 166, =C= 6; 392, 12: by the time that.

=gin=, conj., I, 5, =C= 8; 68, 21, 22; 70, 15; 72, 24; 310, 4, 5; 466, 4, 5; 468, 5, 8; 478, 4, 5, 8-10: if.

=gin=, =gine=, given.

=gine=, =ginne=, n. See =gin=.

=gip.= See =gep=.

=gird=, III, 35, 19: blow, stroke.

=girded out=, =guirded=, V, 76, 23; 82, 37: cracked, let.

=girdle=, I, 403, 12: griddle.

=girds=, II, 70, 27; IV, 481, 6: hoops.

=girn=, I, 344, 31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69, 18: (of men hanged) grin.

=girth was the gold-twist to be=, III, 490, 16, see 486 b. girth should probably be graith, but admitting this, the sense is not clear, and further corruption may be suspected. We may understand, perhaps, that after the rescue the mare was to have a caparison of gilded chains. Or we may read, her graith was used the gold-twist to be.

=gitter=, V, 243, 16: gutter.

=giue=, II, 442, 7, 10:==gif, if.

=gives=, II, 448, 26: misgives.

=gladdynge=, III, 70, 297: gladdening (cheering in later texts).

=glaive=, =glaue=, IV, 491, 11; V, 235, 32: sword. See =glaue=.

=glamer=, =glamour=, =glamourie=, =glaumry=, IV, 65, 2; 66, 2; 67, 2; 68, =D= 2, =E= 2; 70, =F= 2, etc.; 367, 8; V, 301, No 200: a charm deluding the eye. IV, 310, 14: glitter, gleam.

=glance=, III, 394, =K= 6; 397, 5; IV, 508 a, 8: shine.

=glaned=, IV, 406, 14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone.

=glar=, I, 494, 18: mire.

=glashet=, I, 434, 36: (O. French, glacer, glachier) darted, flashed.

=glasse=, III, 340, 32; 344, 30, 31; 349, 31; IV, 504, 36: lantern, ship-light.

=glaue=, =glaive=, III, 105, 20: (in this place) a cutting weapon fixed to the end of a pole. See =glaive=.

=glaumry.= See =glamer=.

=glazen=, of glass.

=gleat= (Icelandic glit), I, 100, 28: glitter.

=glede=, =gleed=(=e=), I, 285, 28; 287, 67; 342, 34; III, 308, 14; IV, 379, 14; V, 184, 42: glowing coal. II, 115, 29; 140, 18; V, 27, 46: fire. See =glyde=.

=glee= (==glue), I, 68, 9, 12: glove.

=gleid=, =gley=(=e=)=d=, IV, 56, =B= 3; 58, 3, 4, 9, 10; 135, 23, 24: squint-eyed.

=glen=, set her on the glen, IV, 284, 25; take her to the glen, 286, 29; set her to the glen, 287, 18: because, the roadways running usually through glens, this amounts to a public exposure.

=glent=, I, 105 a, 28: glitter, glancing. wi a glent, II, 119, 19; IV, 467, 14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise, in a glent).

=glent=, III, 307, 6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).

=gley=(=e=)=d.= See =gleid=.

=glided=, I, 333, 3: glittered, glinted.

=glintin=, IV, 450 b, 6: gleaming, flashing.

=glister=, IV, 510, 5: shine.

=gloamin=, III, 319, 23: twilight, evening.

=gloe=, III, 455, 8, 9, 11: glove. See =glee=.

=gloom=, IV, 94, 9: frown, morose look.

=gloom=, I, 302, =A= 11, =B= 9; 303, =C= 6; IV, 337, =g= before 20: frown, look sullen.

=glore=, II, 319, 13: glory.

=glove=, cut my glove, etc., II, 105, 18: lovers were wont to cut a glove and each take a part. S. W. will take in his hand the half of his glove which represents Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played at the glove, III, 448, 5: some game for braw gallants, unexplained; possibly, spearing a glove when riding rapidly.

=glove tee.= See =tee=.

=glowd=, =glowde=, II, 454 f., 54, 58: glided.

=glowred=, IV, 429, =a= 15: stared.

=glue=, II, 147, 12: glove. See =glee=, =gloe=.

=glyde=, II, 375, 19: spark. See =glede=.

=go=, =goe=, =goo=, =gone=, III, 64, 160; 71, 302; 77, 429; 105, 22; 432, 19: walk. go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16: go, depart. go down, IV, 13, 2, 3; 14, 2: be hanged (cf. =gae down=). goe vppon his death, V, 53, 99: pass upon the question of.

=gockies=, II, 470, 48: deep wooden dishes.

=god=, =godde=, III, 113, 72, 78, 80: property, goods.

=God=, omitted, O save and you may see, III, 181, 19; 184, 16.

=God=, II, 46, 51; III, 29, 146; 59, 62, 63; 61, 92; 68, 240; 75, 391; 101, 90; 105, 23 (mood, wrongly for my God?); 359, 103; 444, 16, 17: the second person in the Trinity.

=God a marsey=, =God amercy=, =God have mercy=, III, 111, 39; 138, 22; 149, 41; 445, 30; V, 76, 10; 77, 39; 80, 51, 53; 81, 13; 83, 55: gramercy (not Dieu merci, thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is impossible in most of the cases).

=God beffore=, V, 79, 19: before God (attestation). Cf. for God. But perhaps God before (and God before) is always to be distinguished from before God, and to be understood as, God my guide or helper; which sense seems to be required in Shakspere’s Henry V, I, II, 307, III, VI, 165; Percy MS., Hales & Furnivall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v. 57. [So, and God to-forn, in Chaucer, Troilus, I, 1049; II, 431. Cf. also King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 47; Peniworth of Witte, Englische Studien, VII, 116, v. 287; Weddynge of Syr Gawen, v. 640, Madden, p. 298^3; etc.]

=God’s peny=, V, 14, 5; 15, 27: an earnest-penny, to bind a bargain.

=Godzounds=, V, 93, 4, 8, 12, etc.: God’s wounds.

=gogled=, III, 179, 7: joggled, waggled.

=golden-knobbed= (gloves), II, 133, 6: ornamented with golden balls or tassels. (siller-knapped, 134, 8, 13.)

=golett= of þe hode, III, 99, 49: throat, part covering the throat.

=gon=, =gone=, infin. of go, III, 24, 45; 35, 32; 66, 204; 67, 223; 71, 316; 74, 363; 77, 435; 111, 28.

=gon=, gon gae, I, 333, 3: did go.

=gone=, subj. of gon, go, III, 67, 219.

=good=, =gude=, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.

=Good=, V, 199 b, 20: =God.=

=Good-ben=, III, 267, =A= 10. If ben is to stand, it must be benison abridged. Good benison be here, quoth he, makes a satisfactory line. Compare =B= 9, =D= 9.

=good-brother=, IV, 168, 9: brother-in-law.

=good b’w’ye=, III, 134, 6: God be wi you, good-bye.

=goodman=, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 1, 5, etc.; 98, 2, 3: master of a house.

=good-mother=, IV, 412, 19: mother-in-law.

=good-son=, IV, 283, 10: son-in-law.

=goodwife=, III, 274, 33, 35; V, 91, 2, 6, etc.; 98, 1, 2: mistress of a house, housewife.

=goold=, V, 296 a: gold.

=gorgett=, III, 422, 75: defense for the neck, here a part of a jack.

=gorgett=, II, 45, 32: a neckerchief. (“Nearly==wimple in Edward I.’s time; in 15th century, neckerchief.”)

=gorney=, journey.

=goud===gan, did, IV, 20, 12, 13. (Cf. begoud==began.)

=goud=, =gowd=, n. and adj., I, 127, 12; 135, 9-12; 351, 35; 429, 28: gold.

=gouden=, =gowden=, I, 127, 21, 22; 145, 23: golden.

=goudie=, =goudy=, V, 110, 7; 267 b, 10; 268, 19: golden, yellow (locks).

=goun-teall.= See =gown-tail=.

=goupen=, I, 356, =D b= after 23: hollow of the hand.

=gouernor=, I, 286, 40: director, guardian.

=gowans=, I, 55, =A= 1: daisies.

=gowany=, I, 315, 12: covered with daisies.

=gowd.= See =goud=.

=gowk=, II, 111, 12: (cuckoo), fool. gien me the gowk, made a fool of me. See =gecks=.

=gown of green=, gien her a, II, 472, 2: defloured. got on the, I, 350, 11: strangely used for to be with child; properly, she got a gown of green eight months before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown, literally, as at I, 358, 40.

=gown-tail=, =gooun-teall=, II, 31, =M= 4; 472, 19; V, 235, 4: lower part of the skirt of a gown.

=goy=, joy.

=graid=, great.

=graie dogs=, III, 7, 1: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs, rough greyhounds.

=grain=, sitt in a graine, I, 210, 5: fork of a tree. III, 267, 21; 269, 14; V, 243, 17: branch of a tree.

=graith=, n., IV, 86, 8: equipment (horse and arms).

=graith=, v., V, 192, 34; 198 b, 34: make ready. p. p. graithed, IV, 2, 5; 27, 26: equipped in defensive armor. golden graithed behin, II, 191, 18; gowden-graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343, 4; shod wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194, 16, 20: properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod before and gold behind, 183, 16; 185, 23; V, 224, 14, shod seems to be meant here. So in the patched-up ballad IV, 410, 18. The horse silver-shod before and gold-shod behind is a commonplace; see II, 266, 1; 267, 1.

=graithing= (gowd), IV, 410, 18: harness or caparison, behind horse. But see =graith=, v.

=grammarye=, =grammeree=, V, 294 b, 2: grammar, learning. II, 53, 36, 41; 54, 55; 55, 68: magic. Gramery==grammar, learning, occurs three times in the Towneley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to have been heard of in the sense of magic till we come to Percy’s Reliques. Percy suggests that the word is probably a corruption of the French grimoire, a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not appear until the 16th century and was preceded by gramoire (Littré). Gramaire in the 13th-15th centuries has the sense of magic: see the history of grimoire in Littré. Godefroi interprets gramaire savant, magicien.

=grandmother over=, IV, 70, =G= 2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.

=grange-house=, III, 360, 116: farm-house.

=grat=, II, 70, 25; 323, 26, 27; IV, 7, 35; V, 156, 11, 13, pret. of greet, weep.

=gravat=, II, 283, 21; V, 240, 14: cravat.

=graveld green=, II, 158, 1: a green with gravel walks? Probably corrupt: in yonder green, =B=, garden green =G=.

=gravil=, I, 350, 18, 19 (pile o the gravil): expounded by Donaldson, Supplement to Jamieson, p. 304, as “the plant graymill or gromwell, of the genus Lithospermum, anciently used in the cure of gravel, hence its name. Said to be used also in producing abortion.” I fear this is somewhat conjectural or even arbitrary. The pile seems to be simply some downy plant (velvety moss) which grows on stones; indeed we are expressly told this, IV, 456, 9, 12: ‘a flower, it grows on gravel greay,’ ‘the pile that grows on gravel green.’ (We have gravel green and gravel grey in the ordinary sense again, I, 347, 1.)

=greaf=, grave.

=greahondes=, =grehoundis=, greyhounds.

=great=, I, 252, 3, 5: groat.

=great=, IV, 373, 15; V, 176, 16: intimate, high in favor.

=grece=, harte of, III, 27, 105: a fat hart.

=gree=, III, 61, 108 (made the gree): paid my dues. (make gre in Old English, to discharge obligation; Old Fr. gre, gret, from gratum.)

=gree=, from them take the gree, IV, 248, 16: prize, superiority. (Lat. gradus.)

=greecy= (ghost), II, 390, 27: frightful (grisly).

=greeme=, I, 69, 51: (groom) young fellow. See =grome=.

=greet=, =greit=, I, 186, =B= 3; 359, 1, 2; 448 f., =B= 1, 5; II, 77, 30; III, 384, 4; 387, 6; 391, 5; V, 36, =C= 3: weep, cry. pret. grat.

=greete=, III, 105, 26: grit, gravel, sand.

=greeter=, V, 183, 17: weeper.

=greeting=, weeping.

=grefe=, III, 69, 268; 83, 268: 87, 268: offence, displeasure. a-grefe, III, 69, 268: in displeasure.

=grehoundis=, greyhounds.

=greit=, =greet=, weep, cry.

=grenner=, compar., V, 283, 9, 19: greener.

=gret=, pret. of greet, address, III, 111, 40.

=grett wurdes=, III, 297, 31: high, haughty words.

=grevis=, III, 307, 6: groves. See =grief=.

=grew=, grow.

=grew=, V, 113 b, 7: greyhound. See next word.

=grew hound=, =grew=(=e=)=hund=, I, 328, 47; II, 70, 24; 79, 37: Dr. J. A. H. Murray says Greek hound; “still called in Scotland a grewe, which was the older Scotch for Greek.” Grew==Greek is well known in Middle English, and greyhound (Icelandic greyhundr) may have been changed to grewhound under its influence.

=grey= (meal), oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30: barley-(bere-)meal, as distinguished from oat-meal (==white meal).

=grief=, V, 151, =F= 1: grove. (tier should be tree.) See =grevis=.

=grien=, III, 397, =Q= 2: yearn, long.

=griesly=, =grisly=, =grizly=, I, 298, 4: 300 a; V, 234 b, 31: frightful.

=grievd=, pret., III, 162, 58: injured.

=grimlie=, =grimly=, II, 45, 19, 31; 199 a; 201, 7: grim, terrible.

=grind=, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29: an apparent corruption for graith, graithed, accoutre, adorn. Cf. II, 191, 18; 194, 16, and many other places.

=grinding=, I, 130, 1; 134, =O= 1: this word of the refrain may be suggested by the mill.

=grips=, IV, 53, 13: clutches, fastenings. See =signots=.

=grisel=, =grissell=, III, 369, 20, 23: gray horse.

=grisly=, II, 397, =A= 30: terrible. See =griesly=.

=grit=, =grite=, =gryte=, IV, 312, 9; 445, b 1: great.

=grit oats=, IV, 20, 14: great, or improved oats as distinguished from the sma corn or oats of the early part of the century.

=grith=, III, 101, 86, 87: (peace) remission of hostility, “charter of peace.” neither grith nor grace, 358, 65.

=grizly=, IV, 398, 21: frightful. See =griesly=.

=grome=, =groom=, =greem=, I, 75, 40; 77, 20; 342, 40; 345, 38; 355, 52; 371, 3; III, 56, 4; 67, 224: man, young fellow.

=gross=, II, 267, 13; 268, 18: big, burly.

=ground=, the grounds o my pouches, V, 306, 9: bottoms (V, 165, 6 has, the boddoms of my pakets).

=ground-wa-stane=, III, 433, 12, 13: foundation-stone. (A. S. grundweall, fundamentum.)

=growende=, ground.

=grumly= (A. S. gramlíc, gromlíc), (of the sea) II, 22, 10: furious. (of a seal) II, 494, 2: fierce-looking. (Jamieson: muddy, turbid.)

=grun=, ground.

=gryming=, IV, 6, 7; V, 249, 7: sprinkling, thin covering.

=grype=, II, 45, 19, 31: griffon (also vulture).

=grysely=, III, 298, 60: frightfully.

=gryte=, great: I, 127, 22. See =grit=.

=gude=, gued==God, II, 94, 17; V, 221, 24.

=gude=, =guid=, =gueed=, good.

=gude=, =good=, pret. of go, III, 464, 4; V, 153, 1.

=gude father=, =gude faythir=, I, 301, 1; 302, 1; 303, =C= 1: father-in-law.

=gudemother=, II, 284, 10: mother-in-law.

=gude neighbours=, I, 352, 8: euphemism for fairies.

=gudeson=, =guidson=, II, 463, 20; IV, 309, 3; 310, 6: stepson, son-in-law. wrongly used of an own son, II, 219, 9.

=gued=, =gueed=(=e=), I, 68, 10, 14; V, 221, 24: good.

=gued=, God. See =gude=.

=guid=, good.

=guide=, =gyde=, n., I, 101, 9; 102, 7; IV, 174, 19; 425, 5: one who has charge, etc., custodian. I shal be þe munkis gyde: III, 98, 35: take charge of him. death is her guide, II, 191, 29: has her in hand. this sword shall be thy guide, V, 49, 28: shall settle thy case. IV, 309, 2: escort, convoy.

=guide=, v., I, 481, 44; II, 152, =I= 2; III, 459, 21: treat, use.

=guiding=, gude, I, 303, =C= 3: thrifty management.

=guidson.= See =gudeson=.

=guildery=, guildery maids, V, 301 b, 5: guildry is Scottish for guild, but this makes small sense here.

=guilt=, all of guilt, II, 46, 43: of gilding or gilt metal, all begilt.

=guirded=, V, 77, a b 23. See =girded=.

=gull=, III, 217, 44: a fool.

=gunies=, guineas.

=gurious=, II, 380, 31: (same as gruous, grugous) grim, grisly (or, ugly).

=gurly=, (sea) II, 26, 14; IV, 366, 7: grim, surly, growling. gurrl(e)y fellow, IV, 489, 24, 25: gruff, surly.

=gutter-hole=, I, 164, =K= 3: the place where filth from the kitchen is thrown.

=gyde=, be þe munkis, III, 98, 35: take charge of the monk. See =guide=.

=gyff=, =gif=, if.

=gyll=, II, 478, 4: opprobrious term for woman, here referring to levity.

=gyrde=, pret., III, 66, 211: girt.

=gyst=, III, 13, 10: gettest.

=ȝare=, III, 98, 24: ready. See =yare=.

=ȝates=, =ȝatis=, III, 99, 61, 62: gates. See =yate=.

=ȝe=, V, 283, 1: ye.

=ȝe=, III, 97, 6: yea.

=ȝede=, III, 99, 60: went. See =yede=.

=ȝelpe=, III, 14, 16, 17: brag.

=ȝeluer=, compar., V, 283, 11, 21: yellower.

=ȝeman=, =ȝoman=, III, 99, 58; 100, 74; 101, 86, 87: yeoman.

=ȝete=, III, 100, 82: ate.

=ȝeue=, III, 13, 12, 14: give. ȝouyn, 14: given.

=ȝone=, I, 327, 11, 12; 328, 38-44; III, 13, 1: yon.

=ȝowe=, I, 328, 53: you.

H

=ha=, =hae=, =hay=, I, 299, 7, 9, 11; 330, =A= 6, =B= 6; 331, =C= 3, 6; =D= 6; 332, =F= 5; II, 74, =E= 6; 145, 27; V, 215, 9; 219, 20, 21; 221, 16, 22: have. See =haed=, =haet=.

=ha=, hall, I, 101, 14; 133, =M= 1; II, 371, 8; 387, 13; IV, 84, 5; V, 209 a, the last 2: house, manor-house. hall, IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2, must be hold, as in other versions; but in IV, 514, 15, 16, would be house, unless an error for hale, whole.

=haad=, v., II, 338, =R= 11: hold. See =hand=.

=hachebord=, =hatchbord=, III, 340, 36; 342, 70: would most naturally be interpreted gunwale, or side of the ship, and so archborde, 340, 23. But in 36 Sir Andrew lies at the hache-bord (which is hached with gold), and stern would be a better meaning for hachebord in that place, the high stern of the old ship being a conspicuous place for a captain to lie. See =archborde=. Barton lies a larborde in the York copy, IV, 504, 38, which is quite loose.

=hached=, the hache-bord is hached with gold, III, 340, 36: gilt (possibly inlaid).

=haches=, =hatches=, III, 341, 54, 57: deck, properly a frame of crossbars laid over an opening in a ship’s deck. (Skeat.)

=had=, ellipsis of, V, 274, 10, [had] rather [have] wedded, and [have] tralled, I [had] rader.

=had=, =haad===hold. See =haud=.

=hadden=, p. p., I, 402, 4, 6: held.

=hadno=, had not.

=hads=, hads slaine, III, 358, 61: the s in hads is perhaps caught from slaine. Other readings are had, hadeste.

=hae=, have. See =ha=.

=hae=, II, 97, 18: correct to has; cf. drees, 17.

=haed=, II, 110, 33: had.

=haely.= See =haly=.

=haet=, =hayt=, =haȝt=, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 110, 20; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath.

=hafe-gate.= See =half-gate=.

=hagg-worm=, II, 503: a monstrous snake.

=haghty=, V, 219, 21: haughty.

=ha-house=, manor-house.

=haik ye up=, IV, 219, 13: keep you in suspense (from hake, a frame on which fish are hung to be dried?), or, haik, to drag up and down to little purpose (Jamieson), “bear in hand,” delude with false hopes?

=hail=, III, 163, 77: whole, wholly. See =hale=.

=hail=, II, 151, =H= 1; 256, =K= 5: conceal. See =heal=.

=hailing= (Old Eng. halen==Germ. ziehen, draw, move), denoting rapid motion, driving, rushing. wind come hailing, II, 22, 9. ship come hailing, IV, 402, 15, 25. went hailing to the door, hailing ben the floor, hailing through the closs, IV, 422 f, 11, 15, 18; V, 279 a, No 257, 11. Of tears and blood falling fast, tears came hailing down, II, 407, 14; drops o blude came hailing to the groun, II, 418, 31. See =halling=.

=hailing at the ba’=, II, 269, 8: playing foot-ball. Hail the ba is specifically drive the ball to or beyond goal.

=haill.= See =hale=.

=hailsed=, I, 333, 2: greeted.

=hain=, II, 92, 17, strong participle of have (haven), wald hain==would (have) had.

=haind grass=, II, 465, 7 (spared, preserved): grass kept from cutting or pasturing.

=hair=, hire.

=haisling=, IV, 46, =B= 9, come haisling to the town; cf. =hailing=, proceeding. (Perhaps miswritten; Hill Burton’s hand is not always careful.)

=halch=, =halch vpon=, I, 294, 18, 20; III, 419 f., 7, 37: salute, bestow a salutation on.

=hald.= See =hauld=, hold.

=hale=, =haill=, =hail=, =haylle=, =hell=, II, 28, 23; 80, 15; III, 296, 23; IV, 379, 11; 380, 20; 381, 8; 382, 13; V, 276, 14, 15: whole, in sound condition. III, 163, 77; 299, 3: wholly.

=Haleigh=, as he was walking the Haleigh throw, I, 76, =E= 6: ha-lee, the lea of the hall?

=halfendell=, III, 75, 382: the half part.

=half-gate=, =hafe-gate=, II, 313, 14, 16: half-way.

=halke=, III, 74, 366: corner, hiding-place.

=hall=, house, manor-house. See =ha=.

=hall=, either in archbord or in hall, he wold ouercome you, III, 340, 29: hull?

=hall=, hold. See =hauld=.

=hall=, IV, 514, 15, 16: perhaps written for hale; in any case meaning whole.

=hallan=, V, 99, 2: in cottages a wall between the fireplace and the door, to shelter from the air (extending only as far as is thought requisite for that purpose).

=halld.= See =hauld=.

=hallë=, V, 236, 23: hollo! or, perhaps, simply halle==hail.

=halled=, V, 270, 11: hailed, saluted.

=halleen=, V, 197, 9: holly. See =hollen=.

=halling=, come halling to the town, V, 277 f., 15, 25. See =hailing=.

=hallow=, =haly=, II, 175, 16; 239, 1: holy.

=hallow=, good hallow, II, 270, 10: a form of salutation; perhaps, God hallow, sanctify, cleanse us from sin! perhaps simply an elliptical Good saint! I have not met the phrase elsewhere, and it seems no longer to be familiar in Scotland.

=Hallowday=, I, 342, 25; 507, 1; III, 246, =E= 1: saints’ day, All Saints.

=hallow seat=, I, 367, 7: a saint’s place.

=hals-bane=, =hass-bane=, =hause-bane=, =hase-bane=, I, 394, 8: neck-bone.

=halse=, I, 327, 10: neck. See =hause=.

=haly=, =haely=, =hallow=, II, 104, 22; 175, 16; 179, 13; 239, 1; 417, 13; III, 262, 5: holy.

=halycon=, come halycon to the town, III, 434, =E= 3: in a rollicking, or a boisterous, turbulent way. North Eng. hallacking, making merry; Scottish hallach, hallokit, crazy.

=halyde=, hauled.

=hame=, bring hame, bear a child. See =bring=.

=hame=, =home=, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5: was born.

=hame=, gae hame, III, 398, =A c= after 3: that is, to the heaven where you belong. seek your lover hame, IV, 174, 11: go for and bring.

=hame-gaun=, I, 72 f., 11, 66: home-going (to go home),

=hamesucken=, IV, 244 b: invasion of a private house.

=hand=, att hand of, III, 278, 30: nearly, about; cf. Old Eng. nearhand. (stroke) behind his hand, II, 63, 24: seems to be intended for backhanded.

=hand for hand=, III, 465, 34; 466, 48: in a fair match? (hand to hand, 468, 48.)

=hand=, lokyde at his hand, III, 307, 10: probably, shading his eyes with his hand; possibly, looked aside. Cf. lookit aneath (below) the sun, III, 5, =D= 7; 6, 6; 8, 6.

=hand=, on the upper, II, 245, 29: side, uppermost (see II, 247, 32; 254, 22).

=hand=, out of, III, 440, 25: forthwith? (The line seems to be corrupted; without resource, unable to help themselves, hors de combat, would give an easier sense if allowable.) Should we read: as many as was, out of hand?

=hand-write=, III, 455, 8, 9, 11; V, 300, 10, 16, 19: handwriting.

=hang=, pret. of hing, to hang, I, 327, 23 (hange); 448, 5; 451, 9; II, 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38.

=hang down=, III, 483, =D= 9: unintelligible to me, whether hang or gang. ding down? (drown my mare and thee, III, 492, 26; 493, 15.)

=hanging well=, III, 440, 17: draw-well of which the bucket is raised and lowered by a pole or beam turning on an upright post? By some understood as, a well near the place of execution.

=hankit=, I, 224, =J= 2, 8: tied tight.

=hansell=, haffe hansell for the mare, III, 111, 32: have a present, the more you buy? have the first purchase (which was thought lucky) for the larger part (of the ware)? (Doubtful.) III, 284, 10: reward. V, 112, =B b= 9: used in Galloway of a piece of bread given before breakfast (Jamieson); here apparently of a draught of ale given early in the morning.

=hantle=, II, 337, 11: a large number.

=hap=, =happing=, cover, coverlet: IV, 65, 7; 258 f., 5, 20.

=hap=, v., I, 15, 18; 299, 5; IV, 233, 2: cover, wrap.

=hap=, v., IV, 483 b, after 12: hop.

=happer=, hopper.

=happing.= See =hap=.

=harbengers=, III, 198, 2: harbingers, officers who preceded the king in a progress to provide accommodation for the court.

=harl=, harl her thro the lin, I, 303, =D= 4: drag. See =haurld=.

=harme=, III, 357, 50: sorrow.

=harnessed= (men), III, 62, 133: equipped.

=harns=, V, 201, note ‡: brains, harn-pan, brain-pan, skull.

=harried=, =haryed=, pret. and p. p., III, 295, 4, 6; 296, 12; IV, 6, 9, 14, etc.; V, 250, 9, 13: plundered. See =herry=.

=harte of= =gre=(=e=)=ce=, III, 27, 105; 124, 3, 4: a fat hart.

=hartinge=, IV, 504, 31: encouragement.

=hart-roote=, II, 241, 27: (Icel. hjarta-rœtr, pl., Old Eng. heorte rotes, heart-roots, -strings) term of affection.

=has be=, I, 86, 24: as if for future (see =s=, =us=, etc.); but shall in 7, 16, and sall in =b=.

=hase=, halls.

=hase=, =hass=, neck, throat. See =hause=.

=hase-bane=, =hass-bane=. See =hause-bane=.

=hast=, V, 78, 12: am in haste (as well as þow hast, hastest).

=hastëly=, =hastilye=, III, 74, 376; 75, 392; 405, 20: immediately, soon, promptly.

=hat=, pret. of hit, I, 299, 5; III, 350, 50.

=hatches===deck: III, 335 b; IV, 505, 57. See =haches=.

=hather=, III, 424 b; 425 a: heather.

=haud=, =had=, =hawd=, =haad=, =howd=, I, 21 b, 3, 4; 74, 75; 341, 12; 354, 17; 421, 4, 8, 11; II, 70, 17; 74, =D= 7; 463, 24, 25; III, 491, 9; V, 296, 1, etc.; 304 b, 3: hold, keep. pret. had, II, 371, 7. p. p. hadden, I, 402, 6; hauden, II, 161, 7.

=haud me unthought lang=, IV, 260, 10: keep me without the time seeming long, interested, entertained.

=haugh=, low ground, properly on the border of a river: III, 9, =G= 10; 483, 5; IV, 3, 17; 77, 3; 273, =C= 7; V, 250, 20, 21.

=hauld=, =hald=, =halld=, =hall=, =hold=, III, 281, 1; 371, 33; 433, 1, 2; 434, 1, 2; 436, 1; IV, 513 b, 1, 2; V, 247, 1, 2: place of shelter, stronghold, quarters. See =hold=.

=hauld=, I, 359, 9, gang by the: walk by taking hold of things. gang by haulds, III, 162, 46.

=hauping=, II, 463, 16: hopping, hobbling.

=haurld===harld, V, 99, =C= 5: dragged.

=hause=, =hase=, =hass=, =halse=, I, 149, =H= 1; 327, 10; II, 165, 22; 319, 3; 366, 38; III, 163, 75; V, 184, 44: neck, throat.

=hause-bane=, =hase-bane=, =hass-bane=, =hals-bane=, I, 394, 8; 395, =B= 3; II, 146, 14; 147, 15; IV, 165, 15; 447 b, after 13; 448 a, 2d stanza; V, 204 b: neck-bone.

=have=, ellipsis of. would been, I, 169, 7. I wad taen, I, 356, 54, 55. shuld I slain, II, 169, 7. ye widna kept, III, 390, 10. I woud not swum, III, 489, 42. I should, might, enjoyd, IV, 135, 23; 137, 32. he woud guarded me, IV, 148, 55. they taen, IV, 221, =D= 7. as muckle as wald bocht, IV, 386, 18. I seen’t, IV, 465, 31. euer I seene, V, 53, 105. seem[d] to worn, V, 55, 26. he’ll learned, V, 196, 53. had rather lost, V, 302, 17.

=have===proceed, go. have in (to water), have over, III, 128, 76, 77.

=have===provide or procure that a thing is done. hae me hame, II, 82, 54; hae me to the town, II, 122 f., 4, 28: take.

=have in=, had him in, II, 216, 8: had him in my possession (Germ. innehaben)?

=have= (on the skynne), III, 127, 60: get a blow.

=haw=, green haw sea, II, 28, 21; IV, 379, 10, 14; 380, 19: bluish. “azure; pale, wan;” Jamieson. (A. S. hæwen, glaucus, caeruleus. Old Eng. hawe, haa.) green raw sea, II, 30, 6, is a corruption; I have been lately informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw. In haw bayberry kame, IV, 471 f., 2, 4, there is again corruption; as in the same passage of other versions.

=hawd.= See =haud=.

=hay=, II, 160, 18: for hae, has.

=hay=, went forth to view the hay, IV, 233, 1; 238, 1: to see how the hay was coming on, as a way of taking the air.

=hay=, IV, 225, 15; V, 261 a, No 221, =G= 22; hays, 16: in Maidment’s text, lea, leas, probably right, hays making no reasonable sense.

=haylle=, III, 296, 23: whole, entire. See =hale=.

=hayt=, =haȝt=, I, 415 b; III, 109, 5; 111, 41; 113, 78: hath. See =haet=.

=he=, =him=, =she=, =her=, with proper names (almost always him, her): like Icelandic hann, hón (hún) (“so frequent in modern conversational usage that a person is scarcely ever named without the pronoun,” Vigfusson.) out and spak he Sweet Willie, II, 108, 19; 185, 33. sighing said he Love Robbie, 370, 8. up and raise he Sweet Willie, 108, 15. up and raise he the bridegroom, 108, 13. up and stands she Fair Annie, 189, 32. whare it is him Sir Colin, 61, 1; so 147, 16. out it speaks him Young Bondwell, I, 479, 41; so II, 418, 25; 419, 37, 53. sighing says him Brown Robyn, II, 371, 8, 9. leugh him Childe Vyet, 134, 21. out it spake her Dow Isbel, II, 97, 21; so 418, 34. out spoke her Lady Frendraught, IV, 44, 12. out waked her May Meggie, 188, 14. it was her May Catheren, II, 145, 25. sighan says her Susë Pay, V, 219, 17. Etc., etc. Cf. Chaucer in, he Iakke Straw, he Theodomar, he Pluto,==perhaps, ille; but not, him Arcite, Knight’s Tale, 352, 475.) with the objective case: as, sought her Lady Maisry, II, 114, 3, 4, 10; 154, 11, 24, 26, 27; 370, 18; etc. (Him, her, with verbs of motion may possibly be a relic of the old use of a dative, and such cases are not included.)

=he=, I, 242, 12; III, 13, 4, 8: they.

=he=, =hee=, III, 307, 4: high.

=header=, heather.

=heal=, =healle=, =hail=, I, 453, 9; II, 145, 26; 146, 9, 10; 154, 13, 14; 155, 37: conceal.

=healy=, =hooly=, adj., gentle.

=healy=, =heely=, =hooly=, slowly, gently: II, 94, 15; 110, 22, 23.

=heans=, hens.

=heard=, V, 253 f., No 203, =D= 2, 8: hired.

=hearten=, IV, 444, 32: encourage.

=heathen= (child), II, 246, 13: unbaptized.

=heathennest=, I, 284, 15: heathendom.

=heather-cow=(=e=), I, 302, =A= 9; 304, =E= 8, =F= 8; 305, 14; V, 173, 8; 174, =C= 2; 213, 8; heather-crow, I, 301, note *: tuft or twig of heather.

=heather-knaps=, V, 173, 8: heather hillocks, knolls.

=hech and how=, III, 392, 13: to utter these interjections of grief.

=heckle=, IV, 247, 12; 248, 17: hackle, flax-comb (board set with sharp steel spikes).

=hecks=, IV, 319, =I=, 5: racks.

=hee.= See =he=.

=heely=, II, 220, 21: slowly. See =healy=.

=heer=, =heir=, =heire=, I, 301, 3; 303, =C= 3; 304, =E= 2: the sixth part of a hank of yarn, 240 threads.

=hegehen=, I, 333, 3: eyen, eyes.

=heght=, IV, 179, =A= 1: promised.

=heigh a ween=, =and Oh a ween!= interjections of grief, II, 504, 27. a ween is probably I ween.

=height=, =heihte=, =hight=, =hith=, =heiste=, =hette=, I, 244, 10; IV, 503, 11, 14; V, 288, 18: was, is, called.

=heir=, =heire=. See =heer=.

=heiste.= See =height=.

=hele====heal=, conceal.

=hell===whole, staunch, tight, V, 276, 14, 15. See =hale=.

=hell=, heel.

=helt=, IV, 457, 22: pret. of hile: hailed.

=heme=, III, 434, 27, 28: home.

=hempten=, V, 87, 11: hempen.

=hend=, =hendë=, =heynd=, =hind=, =hindy=, III, 57, 25: noble, gracious. lady hende, of the Virgin, III, 68, 251. hend soldan, II, 59, 36, 37: noble, of rank. III, 110, 27; V, 49, 12: friendly, kindly. I, 71, 41(?); 329, 57: fine-looking. III, 98, 41: civil. See =hind=.

=hende=, I, 71, 41 (gallant hende): hind, young fellow? The adjective, of noble rank, courteous, kindly, is less likely.

=hent=, III, 110, 14; 123, 8, 10: caught, took.

=hepe=, III, 66, 204: hip (as II, 273, 35), berry of the wild rose.

=herbere=, I, 327, 32: garden.

=herkeneth=, =herkens=, imperative plural, III, 81, 317; 109, 2.

=herowed=, herowed hell, III, 25, 63: harried, despoiled. See =harried=, =herry=.

=herry=, II, 261, 7; III, 473, 23; IV, 26, 2: harry, pillage, rob. See =harried=.

=hersed=, V, 156, 15: rehearsed, repeated praise of?

=hership=, IV, 41, note *: plundering.

=he se=. See =-s= as sign of future.

=het=, eat.

=het=, hot.

=hethyn=e, I, 329, 58: hence.

=hett=, I, 271, 5: bid.

=hette=, I, 224, 10: is called. See =height=.

=heuch=, =heugh=, I, 312, 13; II, 503 f., 11, 15, 28; IV, 231, =I= 15: steep hill or bank, glen with steep overhanging sides.

=heved=, I, 243, 7; III, 70, 290 (?): head.

=hewen=e, V, 283, 15: heaven.

=hey=, I, 438, =B= 1: interjection of pleasure, displeasure, pain, excitation. (Not the dance which is called the hay.)

=heye=, III, 482, 21: hie.

=heyer=, =hyer=, compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.

=heynd=, III, 110, 27: friendly, kindly. See =hend=, =hind=.

=heyng=, pret. of hang, V, 78, 4.

=heyt war howte!= III, 111, 28: heyt! is a well-known call to horses, as in Chaucer (get up!), and war-oute is a term used in driving, according to Halliwell’s Dictionary.

=hi=, I hi, III, 349, 46: have. I hinna, II, 469, 28: have not.

=hich=, high.

=hide=, II, 467, 44, 50: should probably be heed, as written by Motherwell.

=hie=, =hye=, n., I, 328, 37; II, 164, 9, 12; III, 99, 50: haste.

=hie=, she smiled hie, V, 51, 55: with a smile not confined to her mouth, but mounting higher.

=hiean=, II, 147, 2: hying.

=hiesed=, IV, 424, =b= 7, 8: hoised, lifted, dragged.

=high-gate=, V, 239, =O= 4: high-road.

=highman=, I, 203, =C= 16, 17. In =a= 16, the reading is hymen, which is in itself plausible, but not ballad-like. If highman is right, the meaning would seem to be, the chief man of the occasion, the bride-groom.

=hight=, III, 441, 30: is, was, called. See =height=.

=hight=, III, 309, 34: I promise. pret. heght, hight, III, 407, 17.

=hile=, v., IV, 456, 17: hail. pret. helt, 457, 22.

=hill-gate=, IV, 249, =F= 4: hill-road.

=hilt=, V, 76, 21: flayed.

=him.= him, hym come, I, 244, 10, 13, 17; up stod him, 15, 16: dative of subject after verb of motion. stert hym, III, 62, 120. wente hym, III, 62, 126. rade him, IV, 2, 5. ar the coc him crowe, I, 244, 18.

=hin-chill=, V, 278, 33. See =hind-chiel=.

=hinchman=, III, 320, =A b= 16: henchman, servant (man who stands at the hinch, haunch).

=hind=, =hinde=, =hindy=, =hynde=, adj., courteous, gracious, gentle, kindly: I, 430, 5, 9; II, 177 f., 20, 35; III, 310, 52; 358, 69. See =hend=.

=hind=, =hynde=, n. (A. S. hína, O. Eng. hine, servant), youth, chiel, callant, seems often to be used as an epithet==young (but this may possibly be hind==kindly courteous, etc., in some cases). Hynde Etin, I, 369 f., 3, 5, etc. (called Young Akin in =A= 367, 6, etc., Young Hastings the groom in =C=, 371, 3). Hind Henry, II, 305 f., 6, 18, etc.; Hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8, etc. hind-chiel, hin-chill, hynd-chiel, I, 367, 3; II, 83, after 38; IV, 432, 15; V, 278, 33. hind-greeme, I, 69, 51. hind-squire, I, 452, =C= 10; 453, 7; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. hine-squar, V, 278, 29 (called young squar in 18). In all three, both parts signify young fellow.

=hind=, gane hind away, II, 248, 5==hyne away, far away.

=hindy.= See =hind=.

=hing=, II, 194, 22, 27; 239, 6; III, 299, 6; V, 226, 4: hang. pret. hang, hanget. p. p. hanged, hangit.

=hingers=, V, 40, 4: hangings.

=hinna=, I hinna will, II, 469, 28: I have not will, I wish it may not.

=hinnie=, =hinny=, =honey=, IV, 66, 15; 69, 15; 70, 12; 72, =I= 5: term of affection.

=hinnie-mark=, =honey-mark=, IV, 479, 7: mole? (cf. Germ. honigflecken, yellow spot.)

=hinny-drap=, II, 283, 5: mole?==hinnie-mark.

=hire=, a yearl’s hire, II, 191, 20: rent, revenue.

=hirewoman=, IV, 202, =J= 3: female servant. hired your han, IV, 240, 14, if right, must mean, she would have paid you to do it. Other copies, kissed.

=hirn=, I, 334, 9: corner.

=hirpling=, II, 474, 8; 476, 3: halting.

=hisn=, V, 293, 14: his.

=hith=, I, 334, 7: hight, am called. See =height=.

=ho=, who.

=hochis=, III, 306 =b=, note *: hocks.

=hoe=, IV, 19, 7: (as a singular of hose) stocking.

=hoes=, IV, 486, 7, 8: as plural of hoe (?).

=hog=, II, 258, 32; IV, 325, 6, 7; 328, 3, 4; 332, 13; 469, 10, 12: young sheep that has not yet lost a fleece.

=hog-rubber=, IV, 208 =a=: (seemingly) a fellow employed to rub down hogs, or fit for such business.

=hoised=, =hoisd=, =hoist=, I, 206 f., 9, 11; IV, 248, 2, 5; V, 132, 7, pret. of hoise, heave, lift, drag.

=hoky-gren= (burnt like), II, 145, =A= 27: hoakie, “a fire that has been covered up with cinders, when all the fuel has become red.” Jamieson. A branch or stem in such a fire? or good to make such a fire with? Scott has, hollins grene.

=hold=, =holde=, =hauld=, II, 216 f., 4, 27, 29; III, 358, 74; 430, 1; 435, 1: housing, quarters, place of shelter, lodging. thirty horsses in one hold, II, 444, 59: perhaps place of keeping (450, 64, in one close). See =hauld=.

=hold=, =holde=, v., III, 97, 11; 176, 5, 6: wager.

=holde=, III, 61, 93, 107: retain (legally).

=hole-house=, I, 305, 3; V, 213, 3: said in depreciation of an humble sort of house (hole of a house), as a divot-house, a turf-cottage. (Still in use. W. Walker.)

=hollan=, =hollin=, holland, linen.

=Hollan=, =Hollans=, boats, I, 467, 18, 22: Dutch boats. Dutch fishing-luggers are to be seen in great numbers on the Scottish coast in summer.

=hollan=, =holland=, of holly, hollan dyke, II, 195, 32: wall planted on the top with holly.

=hollen=, =hollin=, I, 294 f., 15, 27; II, 153, 29; V, 191 f., 3, 18: holly. (Perhaps hollin’s, V, 194, 2, should be hollins.)

=hollie=, V, 111, 16: (slowly) softly. See =hooly=.

=hollin=, holland.

=holm=, =holme=, =houm=, =howm=, III, 460, 38; 488 f., 31, 34, 41; IV, 522, 4, 10: low ground on a river-bank.

=holpe=, pret. of help, III, 342, 76. See =hope=.

=holtes=, III, 296, 14; 357, 53: woods.

=holydame=, by my, III, 209, 7: halidom. Originally halidom in oaths meant reliques of saints; my halidom seems to be used in the sense of sacred oath. (Printed holy dame in three copies, and very likely often so understood.)

=hom=, V, 304 b, 2, 4: home.

=hom=, III, 308, 26: them.

=home=, =hame=, came, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5; was born. See =bring hame=.

=hondert=, =hondreth=, =hondrith=, hundred.

=honey=, term of endearment. See =hinny=.

=honey-mark=, II, 282, 12: mole? See =hinnie-mark=, =hinny-drap=.

=honey month=, she has turned the honey month about, to see if he was coming, IV, 320, =J= 2: inexplicable.

=hongyr=, V, 283, 16: hunger.

=honour’s gate=, II, 163, 21: (honour, a manor, the mansion-house of a manor) an imposing gate, such as would be put at the principal entrance to a mansion-house. W. Macmath.

=hooding.= See =huddin=.

=hook=, IV, 19 f., =C= 3, 8: loop.

=hook-tooth=, I, 18, =F= 9: tooth of a sickle with serrated edge.

=hooly=, adj., II, 107, 9: slow, gentle.

=hooly=, =hoolie=, =hollie=, =huly=, adv., slowly, softly: I, 451, 12; II, 108, 10; 111, 10; III, 393, 14. See =healy=.

=hope=, =houp=, IV, 25, 4; 27, 12; 184, 2, 3: “a deep and pretty wide glen among hills.” Jamieson.

=hope=, pret., V, 103, =A c= 14: holp, helped. See =holpe=.

=hope=, I, 327, 12; 449, 17; II, 311, 6; V, 54, 3: expect, think.

=hore=, =hoar=, gray, grenë wode hore, holtes hore, III, 65, 176; 357, 53: gray as to trunks.

=horne and lease=, III, 360, 113. See =Pegge=, Archæologia, III, 1, 1775, “Of the horn as a charter or instrument of conveyance.” Professor Gross, of Harvard College, has favored me with the following case: “Pro quo officio [i. e. coroner and escheator of the Honor of Tutbury] nullas evidentias, carta vel alia scripta, proferre possit nisi tantum cornu venatorium.” The possession of this horn still conveys the right to hold the office. Cf. J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, London, 1890, I, 73-79.

=horse-brat=, I, 302, =B= 10: horse-cloth (horse’s sheet, horse-sheet, of =A= 13, =F= 4).

=hose=, I, 285, 38: embrace, hug (halse, Scottish hawse).

=hosen=, =hose=, III, 65, 193: stockings (not breeches; see 196).

=hosens=, IV, 257, 3: stockings without feet.

=hostage=, III, 271, =F= 10; hostage-house, 4, 5, 8, 9: inn.

=hosteler-ha=, III, 270, =E= 3, 4, 5, 7: inn.

=hostess-house= (==hostage-house), IV, 175, =N= 4: inn.

=hostler=, III, 266 f., 4, 6, 9, 10; V, 153 f., =A= 3, 4, =B= 3-5; 156 b, =B=: innkeeper.

=hostler-wife=, IV, 508 1; V, 154, 3: woman keeping an inn.

=houk=, V, 218, 5: dig. Pret. and p. p. houked, houket, houkit, howket, etc., I, 184, 9; 220, =A= 2, =B= 4, =C= 4; 221 f., =E= 7, 17; III, 500 b, 8; IV, 451 a, 3, 5; V, 210, 9.

=houl=, III, 247, 5: hold.

=houm=, =howm=, =holm=, I, 394, 14; III, 370, 5; IV, 168, =E= 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12; 523, 3, 5: level low ground on a river-bank.

=hound=, IV, 19, 4; 20, 9: chase, drive.

=houp=, =hope=, IV, 2, 13: (A. S. hóp) sloping hollow between two hills.

=hour=, whore.

=house=, V, 273, No 237, 20: hose.

=housen=, II, 3, 10; 5 b, 2: house (sing.).

=house-end=, =-en=, I, 254, =b= 1, =c= 1: gable.

=housle=, =houzle=, II, 46, 46; III, 330, 13: give the sacrament.

=houzle=, III, 105, 22, 23: communion.

=hove=, hove hole, I, 304, =F= 2: a hole which one haunts or lives in.

=hoved=, III, 296, 20: hung about, tarried.

=hoved on=, III, 358, 69: moved on (hied, 362, 69).

=hoves=, V, 227, 4: hoofs.

=how=, how soon, III, 450 a: so soon as.

=how=, =howe=, n., III, 164, =b= 49; 316 a, last line; IV, 110, 10; 303, 7: hollow, sometimes, plain.

=how=, adj., IV, 476 a, 4: hollow.

=how=, III, 392, 11, 13 (as verb): exclamation of grief.

=howbeit=, III, 450 a: although.

=howd=, hold. See =haud=.

=howded=, V, 124, =C= 15: swung.

=howk=, =howked=, etc. See =houk=.

=howm.= See =houm=.

=howre=, V, 78, 5, 6; 79, 28, 33, 35; 80, 37: our.

=howther o dirt=, II, 184, 13: a mass of dirt.

=howyn=, own.

=hoyse=, =hoise=, II, 26, 8: hoist.

=huddin=, =hooding= (hud, hod, to hide), IV, 262, 30; 266, 15: covering, coverlet.

=huddle=, II, 246, =B= 7: (hide) cover, protect (Scot. hiddle, hide).

=huggar=, I, 303, =D= 5: stocking without a foot.

=huggell=, II, 244, 16: hug, or, perhaps, a variety of huddle.

=huly=, =hooly=, =healy=, II, 168, =B= 4; 169, 12; 216, 2; IV, 413, 18; 436, 8: slowly, softly.

=humming=, III, 136, 30: heady, strong, as causing a hum in the head.

=hunder=, =hundre=, =hunner=, =huner=, =hundredth=, hundred.

=hunger=, =hungre=, v., II, 382, 4; 386, 4; 387, 2; 391, 2: starve.

=hunkers=, V, 213, 9==clunkers, clots of dirt.

=hunt’s ha=, I, 298, 2: hunting-house or lodge.

=husbande=, =husbonde=, III, 57, 13; 295, 1: farmer, husbandman. III, 58, 46: economist, manager.

=hussyfskap=, =husseyskep=, V, 98, =A= 3, =B= 3: housewifery (she was making puddings). But perhaps, specifically, hussyskep, a sort of basket or bin of straw, formerly used, especially in ruder districts, for holding corn or meal. In like manner, a “platted hive of straw” is called a bee-skep. G. F. Graham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 181.

=hy=, =hye=, =hyght=, on, vpon, III, 296, 9; 297, 31, 47, 48; 359, 91: in a loud voice. on hy, hye, III, 309, 51; 297, 45: on high, up, erect. on hyght, III, 297, 34: on high.

=hye=, =hie=, n., I, 328, 37; III, 99, 50: haste.

=hyer=, =heyer=, compar., V, 283, 5, 15: higher.

=hyf=, V, 283, 4: if.

=hyghte=, I, 328, 36: promise, hyght, p. p., III, 297, 29: promised; III, 77, 442: vowed.

=hym=, wente hym, stert hym, III, 62, 120, 126: dative of subject after verb of motion. See =him=.

=hyndberry=, I, 177, =A c=: raspberry or brambleberry.

=hynd-chiel.= See =hind=.

=hynde=, n., III, 64, 164: fellow. hynde Henry, II, 306 f., 6, 8, etc.; hynde squire, V, 25 f., 2, 13, 19, etc. See =hind=, n.

=hynde=, adj., II, 177 f., 20, 35: gentle, or the like. See =hind=, adj.

=hyne=, II, 314, =C= 3: (up) behind.

=hyne=, II, 314, =C= 3: hence, away.

=hypped=, III, 77, 429: hopped.

I

(See also under =J=, =Y=.)

=I=, II, 59, 34; 160, 10-16; 264 f., 4, 18; III, 185 f., 3, 4, 15, 23; 203, 18; 287, 59; 356, 28: ay.

=i=, abridgment of in, passim.

=i=, abridgment of with: IV, 465, 23.

=i-bouht=, bought.

=ickles of ice=, III, 154 =f= 1: icicles.

=i-dyght=, =y-dyght=, III, 62, 131, 132: furnished, adjusted. III, 75, 392: made ready.

=if=, apparent ellipsis of, II, 62, 9, with honour that ye do return.

=i-fedred=, feathered.

=i-flawe=, III, 13, 6: flayed.

=ile=, =oil=. ’inted (anointed) bar with ashen ile, V, 305 =a=, 6: gave her a beating with an ashen cudgel.

=ilk=, =ilke=, same. of that ilk, III, 451, note *: having a title the same as the surname: as, Wemys of Wemys. in that ilke, I, 287, 72: in that same; III, 105, 14: at that same moment.

=ilka=, I, 107, 7; 302, =A= 9, 11, 12; 474, 40: each, either. ilka ane, ilkone, II, 185, 25; III, 97, 16: each one.

=ilkone.= See =ilka=.

=ill=, =ell=, =ull=, will.

=ill-bukled=, V, 276, 18: badly run down at the heel. See =baucheld=. (Unless ill be for old.)

=ill-far’d=, I, 342, 41: ill-favored.

=ill-fardly=, V, 115, 9: ill-favoredly, in an ugly way.

=ill-wordie=, V, 243, 15: unworthy.

=im=, am.

=impale=, V, 182, 5: make pale.

=imy=, I, 243, 7: in my.

=in=, IV, 464, 3; V, 277, 5, 9: an, and, if.

=in o===in (in some part of?), III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 19, 3; 517, 19.

=in one=, II, 186, 1; 187, 8; 196 =e= 1, 7; into ane, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18: anon, or, at once==in a single answer. In, riddle both of us into ane, the intention was, perhaps, together, simultaneously; and so, all in one, III, 4, 7; both as one, II, 187, 2.

=inbearing=, II, 28, 15: obtrusive, over-officious, inter-meddling (with the object of thereby ingratiating oneself).

=infeft with=, =in=, I, 478, 5, 10; IV, 350, =B b=, 4, 5; V, 274, 6, 7; convey (land, money) to, put in possession of. inheft (o), IV, 349, =B= 4, 5: mistakenly for infeft.

=in-fere=, together. See =fere=.

=ingle=, III, 484 a, 36; V, 45 1: fire.

=inheft=, IV, 349, =B= 4, 5, for infeft =b=, to invest with a possession in fee.

=inn=, =inne=, III, 117, 11; 118, 8; 200, 6, 7; 212, 5: lodging.

=i-nocked=, III, 62, 132: nocked, notched.

=inowe=, III, 57, 13; 58, 43: enough.

=instiled=, III, 227, 3: styled, intitled.

=’inted=, V, 305 a, 6: anointed. See =ile=.

=intil=, =intill=, I, 68, 28; 69, 36; 302, =A= 11, IV, 171, 1: into, in.

=into=, I, 70, 20; 71, 29; 127, 5; 440, 13-15; IV, 263, 35: in. into his age, IV, 359, 12: at, of.

=into ane=, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18: anon, in a single answer, or simultaneously. See =in one=.

=intoxicate=, pret., II, 47, 8: intoxicated.

=i-pyght=, III, 63, 136: put.

=ir=, are.

=irale= (stane, as the rhyme shows the reading should be), I, 326, 9: an undetermined stone mentioned in romances.

=ire=, thro, II, 408, 17: seems to mean, as resenting the covering (not ballad-like). wi ire, II, 411, 10, is sufficiently incongruous.

=irke= with, V, 15, 14: tired, weary of.

=is=, III, 440, 11: has.

=-is=, =-ys=, termination of 3d pers. pres. indic., he stendis louys: III, 98, 22; 101, 88.

=I’se=, IV, 506, 68: I am.

=istow=, I, 175 f., 4, 10, 16: is thou, art thou.

=it= (==O. Eng. his), its. defile it nest, III, 445, 32.

=ith=, in the.

=’ith=, with.

=ither=, IV, 210 a; V, 306, 15: other. IV, 110, 9: one another.

=I wat=, =a wat=, =I wot=, =I wad===surely: I, 107, 1; 471, 11; and very often. See a==I.

=I wis=, IV, 405, 1: probably to be taken as assuredly, since we have I wot in that sense in 7.

=i-wis=, =i-wisse=, =i-wys=, II, 46, 43; 265 f., 9, 26; III, 27, 104; 277, 17; 359, 84: surely, indeed. As to i-wis that, III, 277, 18, 19, it is to be remembered that a superfluous that is common in the Percy MS.

=I wist=, III, 187, 32: for iwis, indeed. Perhaps the Scottish I wat, surely, has influenced the form.

=iyen=, =iyn=, III, 57, 23, 28; 59, 58: eyen, eyes.

J

=Jack=, IV, 112, 4; 113, 5: insolent fellow.

=iacke=, III, 342, 64: (here) coat of mail, cf. 58, 59, 60. soldans iack, III, 422, 75. An ordinary soldier’s jack (III, 440, 18; 465 f., 33, 42, 49; IV, 147, 41) consisted of two folds of stout canvas, or some quilted material, with small pieces of metal enclosed. Fairholt. Old Robin, II, 241, 21, puts a silke cote on his backe was thirteen inches folde.

=jail-house=, V, 300, 16: jail.

=jamp=, pret. of jump, II, 121, 21: jumped.

=iapis=, III, 59, 63: japes, jests, waggery, trifling.

=jauel=, V, 81, 11: a term of abuse, good-for-nothing, idle fellow. Prompt. Parvulorum, gerro. “He called the fellow ribbalde, villaine, iauel, backbiter, sclaunderer, and the childe of perdition.” Utopia, Arber, p. 53.

=jaw=, =jawe=, I, 127, 10; 128, 8; II, 21, 8; 24, 11; 29, 10-12: wave.

=jawing=, jawing wave, II, 223, =F= 7; IV, 472, 16: surging.

=jawing=, n., IV, 462, 24: surging.

=jee=, I, 389, 7; IV, 476, 5: move, stir.

=jelly= (jolly), I, 69, 51; 298, 2; 452, 10; II, 403, 5; IV, 413, 20: handsome, pleasant, jovial. Jamieson: “upright, worthy, excellent in its kind.”

=ietted=, III, 199, 19; V, 86, 30: moved in state or with pride.

=jimp=, =gimp=, =jump=, adj., I, 330, 8; 333, 6; II, 216, 18, 20; 217, 1, 3; 221, 1, 3; 225, =J= 1; IV, 212, 1; 272, 2: slender, slim.

=jimp=, adv., II, 74, =D= 3: tightly, so as to make slender.

=jo=, II, 103, 5: sweetheart.

=jobbing= (of faces), III, 219, 14: billing (like doves).

=jobbing at=, I, 104 b, 10: jogging. The at is difficult. The old prefix means off, away, but is not separable.

=Jock Sheep=, =John Sheephead=, II, 480 a; IV, 290, 23: a man deficient in virility (?). V, 206 a, 9: simpleton, of one who has been stultified or outwitted.

=iollye=, III, 278, 32: should probably be iollytë. See enter plea.

=joukd=, V, 9, 12: bent forward. See =juks=.

=jow= (of bell), II, 277, =A= 8: stroke.

=juks=, V, 110, 5: bows, obeisances. See =joukd=.

=jule=, jewel.

=jully-flowers=, gilly-flowers.

=jumbling=, V, 102 =B= 13: mudding, fouling.

=jumly=, IV, 182, =F= 9: turbid.

=jump=, V, 267 b, 5: jimp, slender.

=jumpted=, IV, 519 a, 3: jumped.

=justle=, III, 280, 26: joust, tilt.

=justler=, III, 280, 31, 32: jouster, tilter.

=justling=, III, 279, 12, 14, 16: jousting.

K

=kail=, =kale=, colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot, IV, 86, 13: cut him up. broth made of greens, especially of coleworts: II, 467, 41; III, 300, 12; 388, 3; IV, 500, 13. See =kell=.

=kaily= lips, I, 302, =A= 10: covered with kail, and so repulsive.

=kaim=, =kame=, =keem=, comb.

=kaivle=, II, 298 f., 3, 19: lot. See =kavil=.

=kale=. See =kail=.

=kame=, =keem=, comb.

=kamen=, combing.

=kane=, I, 353, 15; 356, 56: tribute (originally a duty in the form of a part of the produce, paid by an occupant of land to his superior).

=kauk=, V, 116, 10: chalk.

=kavil=, =kaivle=, =kevel=, =cavil=, I, 71, 36, 38: lot.

=kay=, =key=, kine.

=keach=, V, 123, 17: perturbation, shaking up.

=kean=, v., V, 110, 4: ken.

=kebars=, I, 332, =F= 6; II, 227 a: rafters.

=kebbuck=, IV, 323, 5: cheese.

=keckle-pin=, burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155, 38: that is, I suppose, like heckle-pin, the sound of the k being carried on from like. Mr William Forbes, of Peterhead, suggests the following explanation: The pins used to hold the straw raips which hold down the thatch on cob or mud huts; being driven into the top of the walls close to the eaves, they are always dry and ready to burn. The mass of interlaced straw is called a hackle. Used all over East Aberdeenshire.

=keeked=, =keekit=, I, 303, =D= 1; 304, =E= 3: peeped.

=keel=, V, 116, 10: red chalk.

=keem=, =kem=, =kemb=, =kame=, comb.

=keen=, v., V, 238, 18; 278, 38: ken, know.

=keen=, armour, II, 62, 10: no sense except for arms of offense (as in Old Eng.).

=keen= (of tying), II, 162, =D= 3: strong or hard.

=keen(e)=, II, 45, 26; 46, 39; V, 192 f., 27, 57: bold. spak sharp and keene, III, 394, =K= 3: cuttingly, poignantly.

=keep=, catch. See =kep=.

=keep up=, V, 114, 12: keep under custody, safe from the hands of others, lock up. See =kept up=.

=keep=(=e=) =with=, II, 411, 15; III, 36, 41: stay, live with.

=keepit= a bower, II, 407, 8: frequented, lived in.

=keepit=, IV, 215, =A= 2: heeded, observed.

=keist=, =kiest=, =kest=, =kyst=, pret. of cast, I, 69, 46; 241, 3.

=kell=, II, 264 f., 5, 12; 364, 30; V, 161, 7: a cap of network for women’s hair.

=kell.= lang kell, V, 110, 9, 10. See =lang kell=.

=kelter=, kelter-coat, V, 54, 20: made of kelt, black and white wool mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fairholt’s Costume in England, where a kelter-coat is cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, generally of native black wool. Jamieson.

=keltit=, IV, 493, 5: kelted, tucked.

=kem=, =kemb=, comb.

=kemp=, =kempe=, =kempy=, I, 301, 1; 302, 6, =B= 1; 303, =C= 1, 9; 309, 3, 5; II, 53 f., 25, 31, 55; III, 447 a: champion, fighting-man (A. S. cempa). kemp o the ship, V, 151 f., =F= 2, 4, is no doubt a corruption.

=kempery=(=e=), II, 54 f., 54, 66, 68: company of fighting men (or, if adjective, fighting).

=kempy.= See =kemp=.

=ken=, I, 343, 42; 345, 41; 348, 21; III, 268, 4: know. III, 266, 4: to make known.

=kene=, cawte and kene, III, 296, 26: wise, shrewd, or, perhaps, brave.

=kenna=, know not.

=kep=, =keep=, =cap=, =cape=, catch, stop, intercept: II, 322, 21; 325, 21; 407, 13; 413, 6, 8; III, 125, 34; 245, 2; 246, =E= 2; 436, 5, 7; IV, 480 f., 17, 18, 19; V, 230, 10, 11. she keppit him (received him) on a penknife (as he leaned over to her), II, 147, 6. she keppit Lamkin, II, 335, =M= 7; V, 230 b, =Y= 10: encountered. he kepped the table, door, wi his knee, I, 476, =J= 5; 481, 42; II, 91, 26; 94, 18; 271, 17: took, struck. keppit, III, 246, =D= 2, is an obviously wrong reading, and should be kicked; cf. 243, 2; 245, 2; 246, =E= 2. kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421, 29, is absurdly taken from other ballads (and from ball-playing). pret. kept, kepd, kepped, kepit, keppit. See =cap=.

=kepe=, I, 329, 2: care for, value. kepe I be, III, 100, 80: care I to be.

=keping=, IV, 313, 20: meeting. The meaning is that he went to meet (come should be came) the body which was lying at the gates. There was no procession towards him.

=kepping=, keeping.

=kept up=, IV, 287, 15: shut up. See =keep up=.

=kerches=, kerchiefs.

=kest=, =keste=, pret. of cast, III, 76 f., 421, 422. See =keist=.

=kettrin=, IV, 84, 8: cateran, Highland marauder. See =caterans=.

=kevel=, =kevil=, I, 74 f., 3, 36; 77, 4; 80, 4-6; II, 16, 2; 301, 1; IV, 394, =C= 1: lot. See =kavil=.

=key=, kye.

=keys=, rang the keys, IV, 430, 2: keys of her spinnet.

=kickle=, III, 230, 59 (the actual reading): not easily managed, unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we should read kick, since a verb would be expected.)

=kiest=, =keist=, pret. of cast, I, 74, 2; 75, 36; 80, 4; 351, 44; IV, 32, 11.

=kilt=, IV, 257, 3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from the belly to the knees.

=kilt=, =kelt=, tuck up: I, 341, 3, 17; 343 f., 3, 8, 16, 35; 369, 2; II, 92, 7; 461, 5; 462, 5; 471, 4. p. p. kilt, II, 423, 8; IV, 210, 7.

=kin=, a’kin kind, II, 114, 2: a’kin, all kind, equivalent to every. na kin thing, I, 394, 10.

=kin=, ken.

=kind=, =kindly=, II, 319, 7; III, 266 f., 1, 5, 21; 300, 26; IV, 501, 30: kindred, native. kindly cockward, I, 285, 24: natural, born, fool. kindly rest, V, 124, =C= 14: natural.

=kine=, what kine a man, IV, 504, 27: kind (of).

=king’s felon=, =kynggis felon=, =kings ffelon=, III, 98, 21; 180, 16: traitor, or rebel, to the king.

=kinnen=, III, 370, 4: coney, rabbit.

=kintra=, country.

=kipeng=, keeping.

=kipple=, I, 333, 5; IV, 432, 6: couple, rafter.

=kipple-roots=, I, 304, =F= 5: the ends of couples (rafters) that rest on the top of the wall. “In rude erections the couples were rough unhewn tree-stems, which were placed with their thickest, or root, ends on the walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the roof.” J. Aiken.

=kirking=, I, 371, 6, 12, 14: churching.

=kirk-shot=, IV, 359, 10: the fishings on the water where nets are shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.

=kirk-style=, I, 441, 8-10; 498, 16, 24; IV, 183, 9, 11; 360, 16: the gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the stile in the church-yard wall.

=kirk-toun=, II, 219, 13: village in which is a parish church.

=kirkyard=, V, 299, 4: churchyard.

=kirn=, n. and v., V, 115, 6: churn.

=kirtle=, =kirtell=, =kyrtell=, part of a man’s dress, perhaps waistcoat: III, 65, 194; 71, 299. name given to a variety of articles of female attire, explained as jacket, corsage or waist, upper petticoat, a loose upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433, 9. gown, petticoat and kirtle, III, 273, 14. kirtle and gown, III, 215, 10; IV, 432, 7, 8.

=kist=, chest, I, 15, =A= 3; =B= 3; 17, =D= 2; III, 189, 34; IV, 485, 19; V, 115, 5: coffin.

=kithe=, a, III, 93, 36: of kith, of the same country, region, people. kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216, 6, 8; 252, 29; III, 93, 36.

=kitt=, V, 240, 14: outfit, supply.

=knabby=, IV, 262, 23: knobby, rough.

=knack fingers= (in sign of grief): IV, 418, 7; 435, 13; knak, V, 227, 5 (passage corrupted); knick, III, 455, =E= 1; knock, II, 312 f., 5, 6, 7: crack the finger-joints. (Elsewhere, wring, II, 315, =D= 7; 319, 17; III, 477, 4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26, =G= 16.

=knapped=, II, 134, 8, 13: knobbed, ornamented with balls or tassels. See =naps=. golden-knobbed, II, 133, =D= 6. (knob, sometimes a tassel to the cord of a mantle.)

=knapscap=, =napskape=, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 31: head-piece.

=knaue=, III, 14, 16, 17; 60, 81; 94, 50; 127, 44 (play): servant. IV, 501, 37: person of servile or low rank.

=knave-bairn=, I, 350, 20; II, 418, 23: male child. knave-boy, V, 235 b, after 30.

=kneene=, III, 362, 87: knees.

=knell=, v., II, 189, 23: ring.

=knet=, pret. of knit, III, 431, 17; IV, 31, =B= 6: knitted, knotted.

=knicking fingers=, III, 455, =E=: making the finger-joints crack. See =knack=.

=knight-bairn=, V, 236 f., 21, 28, 29: male child.

=knip-knap=, V, 213, 6: a knock, tap. V, 124, =C= 15: to express the sound of cracking.

=knobbed.= See =knapped=.

=knock.= See =knack=.

=knocking-stane=, I, 304, 10: stone mortar.

=knoe.= See =know=.

=knop=, III, 138, 9: (knap), blow.

=knoppis=, knobs.

=know=(=e=), =knoe=, II, 308 b; III, 464, 5; 466, 38; IV, 171, 4; 193, 1; 195, 1; 201, 10; 205, 22: hillock.

=knowe-tap=, IV, 60, =C b= 6: top of a hill.

=kod=, =kuod=, quoth.

=koors=, I, 353, 15: turns.

=koupd.= See =couped=.

=kouthe=, II, 499 b: known.

=kow=, V, 157, 11, 12: twig. See =cow=.

=ky=, =kye=, =kyne=, III, 464, 6, 7; 465 f., 19, 62; IV, 7, 29-32; 84, 17, 18: cows.

=kyrtell.= See =kirtle=.

=kyst=, I, 241, 3: cast.

=kyth= (and kin), home, country, people. See =kithe=.

=kythe=, II, 168, 10: be manifest, appear, pret. kythed, I, 117, 10: appeared.

L

=laa=, law.

=lachters=, =lauchters=, IV, 166, 14: locks.

=lack=, =lake=, adj.=laigh, low, humble, in lack o luve, II, 376, 24, 27, 30. so lack a knight as bid her ride, II, 97, 10. thought his father lack to sair, II, 408, 1 (lake, V, 235 b, 1; cf. thought father’s service mean, II, 178, 2); V, 272 b, 8, 10: of mean position.

=lack=, =lake=, n. (think, hae, lack), reproach, discredit, IV, 15, 16; 518, 8. woman, lack o our kin, IV, 325, 13. had ye nae lack (reproach or fault), IV, 281, 3. what other ladies would think lack, II, 159, 22 (but here lack may=laigh, and mean beneath them, as in II, 97, 10). tooke a lake, III, 419, 2: incurred a reproach or blame? of his friends he had no lack, IV, 11, 18: corrupted from, of him his friends they had no lack (or the like). See =lauch=.

=lad=, in =surgeon-lad=, IV, 484, after 25: man. lad nor lown, IV, 304, 8, 9: should probably read, laird.

=lad-bairn=, II, 299, 12, 21; III, 392, 7; 395, =L= 1, 5; IV, 510, =V= 3: boy.

=lad=, pret. of lead, III, 75, 388.

=lade=, led, taken.

=lader=, V, 265 b, 20: leather.

=laid=, III, 35, 15: laid a plan. laid about, III, 329, 1: invested.

=laid=, laid her bye, V, 169, 6: lay down by her.

=laidler=, II, 503 f., 10, 11, etc.: corruptly for laidley (as in 7).

=laidley=, =laily=, =laylë=, =layely=, etc. (A. S., láðlíc), I, 312, 8, 13; 348, 14, 20; II, 503 f., 7, 32, 35; V, 214 f., 2, 3, 5, etc.: loathly, loathsome.

=laigh=, II, 188, 3; III, 384, 2; 397, =A b= 1; IV, 200, 9; 268, 21; V, 236, 11: low, mean. oer laigh, III, 480, 12: too low, too short. See =lack=.

=laigh=, =leugh=, n., III, 162, 49: low ground. III, 489, 10: lower part; so, leugh, 487, 6, 14, 16.

=laily=, =laylë=, =layly=, =layelly=, V, 214 f. See =laidley=.

=lain=, =laine=, =layne=, =leane=, =lene=, =len= (Icel. leyna), III, 332, 7; IV, 7 f., 30, 47; V, 250 f., 27, 40: conceal.

=lain=, alone. See =lane=.

=laine=, p. p., III, 401, 16: laid.

=lair=, =lear= (A. S., lár), II, 175, 16; 305, 15: instruction. unco lair, to learn, get: II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, 1; IV, 411, 1; unco lear, IV, 467, 1: strange lesson, applied to one who is to have an extraordinary experience; cf. English lair, IV, 466, 1. See =lear=.

=lair=, =lear=, II, 311, 1: lying-in.

=laird=, a landholder, under the degree of knight; the proprietor of a house, or of more houses than one. Jamieson.

=lairy=, IV, 22, 10: miry, boggy.

=laith=, loath. See =leath=.

=lake=, n., III, 419, 2; V, 235 b, 1; 272 b, 8, 10. See =lack=.

=lake=, I, 254, 8: pit, cavity. See =laigh=, n.

=lake=, V, 235 b, 1; 272, 8, 10=laigh, of mean position. See =lack=, adj.

=lake-wake=, =leak-wake=, =lyke-wake=, II, 311, 19: watching of a dead body.

=lamar=, =lamer=, =lammer=, II, 131, 6; 323, 24; IV, 203, 5; 204, 14: amber.

=lambes woole=, V, 85, 18: pulp of roasted apples mixed with ale.

=lammas beds=, II, =96=, =J= 4, in virtue leave your: corrupt. See note, II, 100 b. Dr Davidson, correcting by sound, would read, never to leave. For lammas beds we may perhaps read, families. Cf. 87, =B= 1, that ye dinna leave your father’s house.

=lammer=, =lamer=, =lamar=, amber. See =lamar=.

=land=, V, 128, 29: country (opposed to town).

=land-lieutenant=, IV, 517, 17. lord lieutenant, III, 492 f., 7, 11, 17. lieutenant, III, 488, 32, 33, 35, 37. See next word.

=land-serg=(=e=)=ant=, III, 481, 33; 482, 27; IV, 2, 9, 14: officer of the gendarmerie of the Borders, called land-lieutenant, IV, 517, 17.

=landart=, V, 106, =E= 1; 111, 1: belonging to the country, rural.

=landen=, II, 29, 17: landing.

=landen span=, III, 511, 16, 18: corrupted from London band, or the like.

=landsman=, III, 489, 44: land owner.

=lane=, III, 357, 51: lane, as where poor men live? (Rhymed with aye, and perhaps corrupt. 361, =C= 51, lawne.)

=lane=, =lain=, =leen=, =lean=, =lone=, =alane=, =alone=, annexed to the dative or genitive of the personal pronoun (as in Old Eng. him ane, hire ane), my, mine, thy, our, your, her, his, him, its: I alone, by myself, etc. my lane, I, 79, 22. thy lane, IV, 197, 8. our lane, I, 72, 20. your lane, II, 69, 1. your lone, IV, 195, 16. her lane, lean, I, 350, 10; IV, 456, 1. his lane, lean, IV, 227, 6; 345, 5. him lane, leen, I, 368, 26, 28; II, 90, 18. their lane, I, 254, =C= 1. its lone, I, 132, =J= 4; II, 308, 3. its leen, IV, 418, 1. it lane, II, 82, =J=; 307, 22; III, 388, 5. me ane, I, 333, 1. by my lane, I, 330, =B= 1. mine alone, alane, I, 332, =E= 1, =F= 1; III, 489, 1. him alone, III, 159, 2; cf. IV, 464, 1.

=lane=, IV, 281, 2: misprint for bane.

=lang=, at lang, IV, 318, =F= 9: at length.

=lang kell=, V, 110, 9, 10: coleworts not cut up and mashed. “lang kail [a tall-growing cabbage?] became extinct about 60 years ago, giving place to finer-flavored varieties.” W. Forbes.

=langin=, she’s gane langin hame, IV, 198 a, 7: perhaps simply longing, languishing; lingering would be more appropriate if the interpretation were justifiable.

=lang-sought=, V, 35, =B= 5: been long (and fruitlessly) seeking for some object (if the reading is right), indicating a hopeless passion.

=lap=, grip her in his lap, II, 325, 18: (possibly) embrace, clutch.

=lap=, =lappe=, III, 59, 70; 65, 194; 353, 12; 430 f., 15, 17: wrap, roll.

=lap=, pret. of loup, leap, I, 330, =A= 5, 7, =B= 5; 331, =C= 5, 7; III, 270, 1; V, 228, 16. lap him, III, 266, 2: the old construction of dative of the subject after a verb of motion.

=lappen=, p. p. of loup, leap.

=lapperin=, III, 395, =L= 4; IV, 224, 23: clotting.

=lappin=, IV, 510, =V= 3: covering; probably corrupted from lapperin of =L= 4, clotting.

=lard=, =leard=, V, 36, =B= 8, 9: laird.

=lass-bairn=, =lassie-bairn=, I, 350, 20; II, 301, 10, 11; IV, 418, 5: girl.

=lat=, I, 310, 8; 351, 37: let.

=lat down=, III, 281, 2, 5, 6: give over, discontinue.

=late=, III, 164, b 51: let, hindrance.

=late=, pret. of let, allow, V, 256, 13.

=latten=, p. p. of let, II, 189, 26; IV, 493 f., 7, 28, 31 (left).

=lau=, low.

=lauch=, n., II, 20, 4; 385, 6; 390, 7; IV, 259, 9: laugh. IV, 327, 12: perhaps laughing-stock; but cf. lack, 325, 13, reproach.

=lauch=, =lawhe=, v., IV, 121, =G= 2; V, 80, 48: laugh. pret. laugh, laughe, leuch, leugh, luke, lough, low, lowe, lowhe, laucht, lought.

=laucht=, pret. of laugh, II, 106, 14.

=lauchter=, IV, 385, 6: laugh.

=lauchters=, I, 74, 68, 72; 79, 25: locks.

=lauchty=, V, 213 a, No 33, 10: the reading in Sharpe’s Ballad Book corresponding to tauchy, I, 302, =A= 10. In the copy of Sharpe used (a presentation copy), a line is drawn through the l, indicating, probably, the editor’s intention to emend to tauchty or tauchy.

=laue=, law.

=laugh=, =laughe=, pret. of laugh, II, 418, 34; 420, 59; III, 287, 59.

=launde=, =lawnde=, III, 27, 105; 33, 105: plain ground in a forest; “a small park within a forest, enclosed in order to take the deer more readily, or to produce fatter venison by confining them for a time.”

=launsgay=, III, 63, 134: a kind of lance, javelin (compound of lance and the Arabic zagaye).

=lave=, =leve=, II, 78, 11; III, 495 b, 23, 24; IV, 220, 3; 428, 6; 517, 20: rest, remainder.

=lauede ablode=, I, 244, 9; V, 288, 16: swam in blood.

=lav=(=e=)=rock=, I, 201, 3; 202, 3; 205, =F= 4; IV, 266, 16: lark.

=law=, I, 209 a: faith, creed.

=law=, Castle-law, II, 149, 4, 7; Biddess-law, III, 460, 29: hill (A. S. hlǽw).

=lawhe=, V, 80, 48: laugh. pret. lowhe.

=lawin=(=g=), III, 472, 7; IV, 151 f., =A= 2-4, =B= 5, 9, 10, etc.; 157, 5, 6: tavern-reckoning.

=lawing=, V, 266, 8: lying (reclining).

=lawnde.= See =launde=.

=lax=, IV, 233, 18: relief.

=lay=, II, 59, 25: law, faith.

=lay=, II, 483, 1; IV, 203 f., 6, 7, 23; V, 260, 10, 11: land not under cultivation, grass, sward. lays, IV, 224, 23: fields, plains, ground.

=lay=, v., lie.

=lay=, I, 399 a, =E= 11: seems to be nonsense; probably we should read gray, as in No 248, IV, 389 f.

=lay by=, IV, 519, 5, 7, 11; 520, 5, 10 (lay’d==lay it): lay aside, let be, cease. lay bay, V, 275 b, 3: put aside or behind, outsail.

=layelly=, loathsome. See =laidley=.

=laying=, IV, 174, 1: lawing, reckoning.

=lay-land=, II, 59, 23: (Old Eng. leyland) lea land, untilled land; simply plain, ground.

=laylë=, loathsome. See =laidley=.

=layn= (withouten), III, 97, 17; 100, 81: lie (truly).

=layne= (Icel. leyna), IV, 7 f., 30, 47: conceal. See =lain=.

=layne=, v. (A. S. légnian), III, 297, 35, 40: lie.

=layne=, v., II, 87, 33: lean.

=lazar=, =-er=, II, 44-46, 4, 5, 9, 11, etc.: leper.

=lea=, =lee=, =lie=, =loe=, =loi=, =loie=, =loy=, =loo=, =low=, =lue=, v., I, 438, 10; II, 260, 4; 408, 23; 417, 2; 419, 52; V, 116, 2, 3; 117, 3; 220, 6; 221, 9; 242, 14; 260, 13; 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277 f., 1, 4, 23, 31: love.

=lea=, =lee=, lie, mentiri.

=lea=, III, 457, =A= 2; IV, 100, 4; 102, =L= 6; 263, 2: leave. (so leave, IV, 94, 15, is to be sounded.)

=lea=, n. See =lee=.

=lea=, =lee=, lie lea, lie lee: IV, 26, 5; 350, =B b= after 2; 520, 2: untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b: lay waste.

=leace=, withouten leace, III, 27, 108, 115: falsehood.

=lead=, III, 460, 26: lead their horses?

=lead=, V, 36, 11; 117, 14; 221, 18; 268, 18: led.

=lead=, laid.

=lead=(=e=), I, 232, 9; V, 53, 103: vat, boiler.

=leaf=, loaf.

=leaf=, gae out under the leaf, IV, 379, 6: luff, loof, after part of a ship’s bow; or here, as opposed to lee, the weather side. See =lowe=.

=leak=, adj., V, 111, 20; 224, 26: like.

=leak=, v., V, 242, 15: like.

=leak=, II, 193, 28; V, 224, 26; 228, 28:===lyke=, for lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.

=leak-wake=, V, 228, 13, 14, 23, 24: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. See =lake-wake=, =lyke-wake=.

=leal=, =leel=, =leil=, =liel=, III, 464, 12: loyal, faithful, true. I, 70, 24; 73, 34, 45, 46; II, 73, 19; III, 437, 36; IV, 212, 1; 240, 13; 283, 11; 289, 11: virginal, chaste, expers viri; so, lealest, leelest, I, 220, =A= 3; 221, =D= 6. III, 464, 3; 465, 30: veracious. V, 115, 5: upright, honest. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully.

=lea-lang=, I, 352, 7. See =lee=, adj.

=leall=, V, 248, 4: perhaps only faithful; but possibly lief, lee (dear), leman, the final l being caught from leman.

=leam=, =leem=, v., II, 410, 24: gleam.

=lean=, =leen=, his, him, IV, 345, =I= 5: lane, lone. See =lane=.

=lean=, =leane=, =lene=, =len=, v., II, 403, 8 (see =len=); III, 330, 19; 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; IV, 277, 15, 17; V, 36, =B= 8, 9: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. See =lain=, to conceal.

=leap=, pret. of leap, loup, V, 227, 17. See =leepe=.

=lear=, II, 176, =C= 1, 2: instruction. IV, 413, 2; 414, 1; 467, 1: learning. III, 473, 24: information. See =lair=.

=lear=, II, 313, 25: apparently meant for lair, bed; but rhymed with white, and the reading should undoubtedly be lyke, that is, lyke-wake, as in II, 117, 16.

=leard=, laird. See =lard=.

=lease===leash, II, 265, 19: a thong or string (as if for bringing back the deer he should kill?). I, 211, 20: a leash (of hounds), pack. III, 216, 31: a leash (of bucks), three.

=leasing=(=e=), =leasynge=, =lesynge=, =leesin=, I, 412, 26; III, 28, 132, 134; 359, 86; IV, 465, 22: falsehood.

=leath=, =laith=, III, 162, 54; IV, 479, 4; V, 216, 6: loath.

=leaugh=, =leugh=, =lewgh=, =leiugh=, =lieugh=, III, 465 f., 33, 39, 42, 49; 487, 6, 14, 16 (see =laigh=): low.

=leave=, gie them a’ thier leave, I, 431, =D= 13, =E= 10: take leave of them all.

=leave===leeve, dear, II, 414, 24. leaver, III, 362, 82.

=leave= (to weepe), IV, 140, 10: cease.

=leave=, live.

=lede=, III, 74, 368: leading, conduct.

=ledës-man=, =lodesman=, III, 74, 369; 88, 369: guide.

=ledyt=, I, 242, 11, old imperative plural: lead.

=lee=, =lea=, I, 100, 4; III, 171, 9; 174, 20: untilled ground, grass land, open plain, ground.

=lee=, lie lee, IV, 26, 5: untilled. lay lee, V, 189 b, lay waste.

=lee=, adj., the (this, a) lee-lang, lief-lang day, I, 100, 11, 12; 440, 3; II, 96, =I= 2: (Old Eng. the leevë longë day) livelong, from A. S. léof, used like German lieb in der liebe lange tag, die liebe lange nacht. So lee, le, lei, ley, licht o the moon, I, 389, 5; II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37; 233, =F= 1; 374, =B= 3; 413, 7, as in die liebe sonne, der liebe mond, regen, wind, and other formulas in great variety. (lee licht o the moon is replaced, II, 103 f., 10, 12; 106, 10, by hie light, ae light.)

=lee=, v., lie, mentiri.

=lee=, II, 256, =K= 5: live.

=lee=, v., love. See =lea=, =love=.

=leech=, IV, 426, 11: meant for leesh, and so spelt in another copy.

=leed=, =lied= (A. S. lǽden), I, 207, 18; 430, 5, 9; II, 366, 19; IV, 379, 14: talk.

=leed= (A. S. léod), III, 355, 3: man. pl. leeds, 6: people.

=leed=, laid.

=leed=, n., II, 366, 37: lead.

=leedginge=, II, 58, 7: leeching, doctoring.

=leeft=, pret., IV, 220, 1: lived.

=leel=, loyal, faithful, etc. love me leel, I, 345, 9: faithfully. See =leal=.

=lee-lang.= See =lee=.

=leemin=, II, 361, 33: gleaming.

=leems=, IV, 460 a, No 47: gleams; but langs, belongs, is the word required; cf. I, 430, 6.

=leen=, =lean=, her, your leen, him leen, IV, 291 b; 345, 9; V, 171, 2, 6: lone. See =lane=.

=leepe=, =leap=, pret. of leap, loup, II, 445, 76; V, 227, 17.

=lees=, =leeze=, me on thee, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 15: blessings on, commend me to. (lees me, originally leeve is me, dear is to me, my delight is.)

=leese=, III, 37, 75; 189, 4; 228, 17; 374, 3: lose.

=leesin=, IV, 465, 22: a lie. See =leasing=(=e=).

=leesome=, I, 182-3; IV, 432, 2; 455, 18; V, 178, 1: lovely, pleasing, leesome blew the wind, IV, 410, 10: pleasantly.

=leeve=, =leve=, =leave=, =lefe=, =lieve=, =live=, adj., II, 305, 13; 414, 24; V, 227, 13: lovely, dear, pleasant; comp. leifer, leuer, I, 328, 43; III, 24, 35; 189, =A= 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, 83, 51. epithet of London, II, 265, 5, 12; 440, 14; III, 276, 1; 284, 6, 7; 330, 16; 406, 35; V, 227, 8. So, lovely London, III, 352, 1; 355, 7. lilly Londeen, IV, 485, 19. whether he were loth or lefe, III, 67, 225 (properly, him were): disagreeable or agreeable; here, unwilling or willing. For had lever see =leuer=.

=leeve=, III, 105, 15: believe.

=leeve=, III, 287, 62: grant.

=leeze.= See =lees=.

=lefe=, III, 28, 128: pleasing, agreeable. III, 67, 225: pleased. See =leefe=.

=leffe= (A. S. lǽfan), wolde not leffe beheynde, III, 112, 60: remain.

=leg=, V, 126 f., 1, 2, 5, etc.: highwayman.

=legg=, V, 275, 7: league.

=leguays=, =lequays=, V, 217, 12, 13: likewise.

=lei=, =ley=, lei light o the moon, II, 188 f., 4, 14, 35; 195, 37. See =lee=, adj.

=leifer=, =leifar=, III, 436 f., 10, 25; IV, 196, 13: rather. See =leeve=.

=leil.= See =leal=.

=leiugh=, low. See =leaugh=.

=leman=, =lemman=, Old Eng. leofman, beloved (of both sexes). I, 232, 6, 7; 314, 2-4, 6; II, 271, 18; 273, 24, 400, 6; IV, 151, =B= 1, 2; 154, 2, 3; V, 283, 3: lover, paramour. I, 72, 30, 32; 117, 8; 254, 10; II, 73, 27, 28; 81, 40; 289, =B= 2, 3; V, 248, 4; 283, 12: love, mistress, loose woman.

=lemanless=, III, 434, 28: without lovers.

=lemanry=, V, 25, 4: illicit love.

=len=, v., lean. See =lend=.

=len=, =lene=, III, 420 f., 30, 32, 34, 52; neither lee nor len, IV, 277, 15, 17: conceal. II, 164, 8, 11, 14: conceal, or lie. that cannot longer len, II, 403, 8: remain concealed (but the reading should probably be, I cannot). See =lain=, =lean=.

=len=, =lene=, III, 79, 40, 81; V, 283, 14: lend, give, grant.

=lend=, II, 229, 5, 8; III, 63 f., 153, 165; 82, 76; 85, 76; V, 49, 21: grant, give.

=lend=, n., II, 185, 38: loan.

=lend=, I, 207, 19, lend ye till your pike-staff: we should no doubt read len==lean. lent. I, 223, =I= 4: leaned.

=lende=, III, 75, 395: dwell.

=lene=, conceal. See =len=.

=lenger=, =lengre=, III, 61, 105; 73, 341; 78, 443: longer.

=lenght=, III, 478, 17: length.

=length=, this length, IV, 271, =A= 4: for so long.

=lent=, pret., I, 223, =I= 4: leaned.

=lequays=, likewise. See =leguays=.

=lere= (A. S. hléor), III, 57, 28: cheek, face.

=lere=, III, 57, 16; 77, 426: learn.

=lese=, =leese=, III, 59, 56: lose.

=less= (age), IV, 64 a: minor.

=less o him=, I, 332, =G= 1: smaller of him, than him.

=lesse=, III, 296, 25: false, falsehood.

=lest=, II, 81, 45 (reading in earlier MS. for rest): last.

=lesynge=, falsehood. See =leasing(e)=.

=let=, =lat= (A. S. lǽtan), allow, leave. II, 54, 48; 265, 8, 15, 24; III, 58, 38: omit, fail. pret. late, loot, lute, lett. p. p. latten, letten, lotten, looten, loot (?).

=let=, =lette= (A. S. lettan), I, 334, 8; III, 110, 22, 23; 128, 75; 307, 2: hinder.

=letten=, p. p. of let, I, 87, 43; 452, 6: allowed, left.

=letters=, =letturs=, III, 99, 55 (the kyng did hit vnfold); III, 297, 36: letter.

=leuch=, =luke=, pret. of laugh, II, 30, =K= 1; 81, 33; 366, 23; IV, 272, 9.

=leugh=, n., lower part. See =laugh=.

=leugh=, pret. of laugh, I, 388, =A= 7; II, 134, 21; III, 69, 273; 467, 60; 490, 17.

=leugh=, =leaugh=, =lewgh=, etc., IV, 465, 34, 38; 484 f., 8, 10: low.

=leutye=, =lewtë=, III, 64, 154, 169: loyalty, faith.

=leuve=, I, 17, 14: palm of the hand. See =loof=.

=leve=, =lave=, m., II, 75, 20: rest.

=leue=, v., III, 61, 112; 79, 76: permit, grant.

=levedys=, I, 334, 9: ladies.

=leven=, I, 324, 13; 325, 12: lawn, glade, open ground in a forest. See =launde=.

=leuer=, =leifer=, pleasanter, preferable, rather. had leuer, III, 24, 35; 189, =A= 9; 297, 42; 436 f., 10, 25; V, 83, 51. See =leeve=.

=lewde= (lye), III, 171, 8: base, vile.

=lewgh=, low. See =leaugh=.

=lewte.= See =leutye=.

=ley=, =lea=, =lee=, III, 109, 4; for a’ his father’s leys, II, 333, 11; 334, =M= 4; riding the leys, IV, 137, 34: land not under cultivation, simply land, plain, field. lands and ley, V, 157, 2: arable land and pasture; a common phrase in Scots conveyancing, “all and whole the lands and leas.”

=ley-land=, I, 15, 11; 16, =B= 11: land lying lea, not under cultivation. See =lay-land=.

=ley licht.= See =lei=, =lee=.

=leyngger=, V, 80, 37: longer.

=leyt=, V, 80, 37: lighted.

=leythe=, III, 112, 62: light.

=liag=, V, 237, 5: leg.

=libertie=, lying at, II, 464, 11: possessed in one’s own right, unencumbered.

=liberty=, =lybertye=, place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: where one can fight without fear of interruption?

=liberty-wife=, II, 291, 2: mistress.

=licence=, V, 155, =C= 3, make their licence free: pay the licence of an inn-keeper.

=licht=, I, 146, 19, 20: alight. lichted, lichtit, II, 92, 16; IV, 195, =D= 2; 337 b, g after 20.

=lichter=, I, 21 b, 8; II, 105, 10: delivered. See =lighter=.

=lichtlie=, =lichtly=, =lightly=, IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 337 a, g 16: make light of, treat, or speak of, with disrespect.

=lick=, II, 470, 45: gratuity (of meal from the miller).

=lick=, III, 163, 87: take for one’s self; cf. II, 470, 45.

=lidder=, =lither=, III, 464, 1: lazy. as adv., 467, b 1: excessively. (A. S. lýðre, bad.)

=lie=, =ly=, =lye=, I, 103, 10; III, 123, 5; 432, 17; V, 191, 5: reside, live.

=lie=, =lee=, =lea=, love. See =lea=.

=lie=, III, 301, =E=: lea.

=lie=, thou lie, IV, 197, 17: for thou liest, ye lie.

=lied= (A. S. lǽden), I, 430, 5, 9: language, talk. See =leed=.

=lied=, pret., V, 220, 6: loved.

=lief-lang.= See =lee-lang=, under =lee=.

=liel=, I, 70, 24: chaste. See =leal=.

=lien=, p. p., II, 135, 32: lain. she’s nouther pin’d nor lien, IV, 484, after 25: has not been lying bed-rid, does not look like one who has long been confined to bed.

=lierachie=, III, 319, 20: hubbub. “leerach==the bottom of a dung-pit after the dung has been removed, but left in a filthy state. The word is used to signify anything in a disordered state. Hence, confusion, hubbub.” Rev. Walter Gregor.

=lieugh=, low. See =leaugh=.

=lieve=, II, 345, 34: dear. See =leeve=.

=life=, leaf.

=life=, man of life, II, 244, 10: man alive (Chaucer’s lives man).

=lift=, I, 370, 16; 440, 18; II, 26, 14: air, sky.

=lift=, V, 82, 37: lifted.

=lig=, =ligg=, =ligge=, =lygge=, imperat., I, 328, 36; II, 437, 72; 439, 4, 7; IV, 396, 6; inf., III, 212, 17: lay.

=lig=, =ligge=, =lygge=, I, 328, 38-41; II, 244, 6, 7: lie.

=light=, pret., II, 46, 38; 54, 49; V, 53, 93: lighted, alighted. See =lyght=.

=light=, III, 156, 1: corruption of lith, listen.

=lighter=, of a bairn, I, 86 f., 7, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25, 43; II, 98, 35; 108, 12; 109, 11; 115, 23; 117, 10, 11; 118, 13; 123, 25, 26: delivered. (Icel. verða léttari, Old Eng. to lighten.) lighter a dochter, II, 132, 15: ellipsis of of. See =lichter=.

=lightly=, =lightlie=, =lyghtly=(=e=), III, 23 ff., 11, 41, 45, 61, V, 82, 36: quickly. III, 35, 35: easily. V, 84, 3: for slight reason.

=lightly=, =lichtlie=, =-ly=, III, 472, 10; IV, 351, 2, 9: treat with disrespect. IV, 92, 2: slight (in love). IV, 94, 3; 98, 8; 100, 7; 103, =M= 1; IV, 337 a, g 16: speak disparagingly of.

=like=, =liken=, like to be dead (dee), II, 58, 7; 372, 24; III, 386, 7; 392, 6; 394, =J= 4; 395, =M= 2 (cf. =L= 2): in a condition, in a fair way, or likely. liker, II, 97, 22: more likely (?). See =lyken=.

=like=, III, 355, 13; 358, 60, 80; 360, 109, 111: please. III, 400 a, (7): be pleased, satisfied.

=likesome=, II, 433, 5, 6, 8; 440, 23; 442, 4; 446, 89: pleasing, lovely.

=lilt=, I, 187 b; IV, 266, 16: to sing cheerfully. lilted, IV, 95, 3: sang, chanted.

=lily=, =lilly=, =lilye=, =lillie=, =liley=, =lillie=, lea, lee, lie, I, 325, =B= 11; III, 299, 8, 11; 300, 25; 301, 32, =E=; 435, 2; IV, 454, 6; 455, 14; 458, 7; V, 244, 16, 19; lillie leven, I, 324, 13; 325, =C= 12; lilly bank, brae, IV, 220, 13, 14: explained as “overspread with lilies or flowers,” but clearly from A. S. léoflíc, Old Eng. lefly, etc., lovely, charming. So, lilly feet (i. e. leely), I, 130, =E= 13; lily leesome thing, IV, 432, 2. We have lilly Londeen, IV, 485, 19==the frequent leeve London, lovely London. See =leeve=, =lee-lang=.

=limmer= (French limier, a kind of hound), a term of opprobrium, or simply of dislike. II, 322, 6; III, 466, 47: wretch (m. or f.), rascal. limmer thieves, 439 f., 4, 20; 441, 34. limmer loon, IV, 146, 15, 17. of a woman, II, 219, 9: jade.

=lin.= See =linn=.

=Lin=, =Linn=, =Linne=, =Line=, =Lyne=, a stock ballad-locality (like Linkum): I, 78, 38; 466, 5; 478 f., 5, 10, 16, 34; II, 240, 2; 290, 19; IV, 379, 18; 381, 12; 382, 15; V, 14, 1 ff.; 182 f., 2, 11, 29; 219, 6; thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37.

=lin=, III, 105, 11; 174, 15: stop.

=lin’d=, III, 164, 91: beat.

=ling=, =lyng=, III, 3, 6; 7, 5; 99, 53: a species of rush, or thin long grass, bent grass, Scotland; in England, heath, furze.

=lingcan=, I, 299, 5: lichame, body.

=linger=, I, 334, 8: longer.

=Linkem.= See =Linkum=.

=linkin=, =linken=, IV, 332 b; V, 124, 4; 240, 1: tripping, walking with a light step. on a horse, II, 285, 11. linking ladie, IV, 355 b: light of movement. key gaed linking in, V, 18, b 23: passing in quickly, slipping in.

=linkit his armour oer a tree=, III, 270, =E= 7, comparing =A= 9; =B= 8; =D= 8, and observing the crooked carle in =E= 8, seems likely to be corrupt, and perhaps we should read leaned his arm out-oer. Otherwise, hung his armor, etc.

=Linkum=, an indefinite ballad-locality. not a bell in merry Linkum, II, 106, 21, 22. thro Linkum and thro Lin, II, 124, 37. cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239, =B= 4. a the squires in merry Linkum, IV, 432, 1.

=linn=, =lin=, =lynn=(=e=), water-course, torrent, river, pool in a river (A. S. hlynna, torrens): I, 303, =D= 4; II, 147, 9; 153, 24; III, 274, 1. of a mill-stream, I, 129, =D= 6. o’er the linne, II, 282 f., 9, 17, 18; IV, 479, 10 (==in the lynn, IV, 479, 5); II, 283, 8, 9: over the bank into.

=Linnen=, II, 225, =D= 3: Lunnon, London.

=linsey=, linsey-woolsey.

=lint=, IV, 433, 32: linen, linen mutch or cap.

=lippen on me=, II, 94, 10: depend. to God, III, 269, 12; to good==God, V, 243, 15: trust.

=lirk=, IV, 198, 2: crease, hollow.

=lish=, leash.

=list=, n., III, 137, 2; 181, 16: inclination.

=list=, v., III, 171, 9; 179, 4; 311, 19: desire, be disposed. pret. list, III, 171, 11. impersonal, me list, III, 97, 9. See =lyste=.

=lith=, =lyth=, I, 135, =O= 15, 17; 345, =C= 4; II, 412, 1; 413, 8: member, joint.

=lith=, I, 334, 7: light.

=lith=, =lithe=, =lythe= (Icel. hlýða), I, 334, 10; III, 22, 5; 198, 1; 411, 1: hearken.

=lither=, II, 54, 51; 138 f., 9, 13, 22, 23: bad. See =lidder=.

=Litle Brittaine=, I, 284 f., 4, 24, 33, 37: generally understood as French Brittany, but it is inexplicable that Arthur should be reigning there. Perhaps Litle means no more in this piece than in Litle England, II, 440, 20, 22; III, 278, 34; 285, 27; Litle London, III, 285, 22; Litle Durham, III, 285 f., 29, 39, 40. All these places, it will be observed, are in the Percy MS.

=live=, leave.

=live=, V, 227, 13: dear.

=live best=, IV, 146, 2: are the best of those living.

=lively=, I, 184, 47: alive.

=liuer=, adj., III, 180, 10: deliver, agile.

=liuerance=, III, 411, 8: payment for delivering.

=livery-man=, I, 419, 1; 421, 1: servant.

=liues=, II, 59, 25: ’lieves, believes.

=liuor=, III, 411 f., 8, 9, 10, 14: deliver, hand over, surrender.

=load=, III, 267, 10: loaded (with liquor).

=loaden=, p. p. of load, IV, 395, =A b= 5.

=loan=, =lone=, a common, any free or uncultivated spot where children can play or people meet, even the free spaces about a house: II, 62 a, 14, 16; 140, 1; V, 118, 2. (loan-head, IV, 285, 11, is toun-head in the original.)

=locked=, =lockit=, in a glove, II, 461, 21; 464, 6; 477, =D= 17: fastened.

=lockerin=, comes lockerin to your hand, IV, 213, 14; lockren, V, 258 b, 7: curling, closing as if to embrace.

=loddy=, IV, 70 f., =G= 4, 5, etc.: laddy.

=lodder=, =loder=, V, 283, 6, 16: louder.

=lodesman.= See =ledesman=.

=lodging-maill=, III, 474, 38: rent for lodging.

=lodly=, I, 285 f., 31, 43, 56; II, 44, 12: loathly, disgusting.

=lodomy=, IV, 398 f., 9, 34: laudanum.

=loe=, =loie=, =loy=, =lou=, v., I, 438, 10; V, 221, 9; 260, 13; 272 b, 3, 7, 11; 277, 1, 4: love. See =lea=.

=loffe=, n. and v., V, 79, 26, 28: love.

=logie=, IV, 175, =N= 11: lodge.

=loie=, =loy=, love. See =loe=.

=lome=, II, 44, 12: lame man.

=lone=, n., II, 333, 1; 489, 17. See =loan=.

=long=, tall. Long Lankyn, Long Iamie, II, 328, 1, etc.; III, 358, 63, 65, etc.

=long of=, II, 436, 53; III, 98, 22: owing to, the fault of.

=loo=, love, II, 408, 23. pret. lood, II, 417, 2; 419, 52. See =lea=.

=lood=, loud.

=loof=, =looff=, =lufe=, =luve=, =leuve=, I, 15, 15; 16, =B= 16, =C= 16; 17, 14; 18, =F= 9; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand. (Icel. lófi.)

=looke=, IV, 503, 12: look up.

=loon.= See =loun=.

=loord.= See =lourd=.

=loose=, V, 300, No 191: lose.

=loot=, bend. See =lout=.

=loot=, pret. of let, I, 68, 7; 204, 19: allowed.

=loot=, p. p. (?) of let, I, 351, 49; III, 436, 13; IV, 33, 26: allowed, allowed to, come.

=looten=, p. p. of let, II, 168, 8: allowed (to come). See =lotten=.

=lope=, pret. of loup, II, 59, 30; 434 f., 28, 47; 436, 58; III, 479, 39.

=lord nor loun=, III, 301, 32: man of high or low rank. In II, 159, 26, lord is a wrong reading; rogue nor loun, or the like, is required, as in 160, 20.

=lordane=, =lurden=, III, 25, 61: dolt, clodpoll, etc.

=lore=, =lorne=, III, 59, 51; V, 79, 32: lost.

=loset=, III, 94, 52: loosed, delivered.

=loss=, V, 200 a, 65; 262, No 223, 10; 277, 6: lose.

=lotten=, p. p. of let, I, 87, 38: allowed. See =looten=.

=loudly=, III, 440, 12: loud.

=lough=, =loughe=, pret. of laugh, II, 54, 58; 444, 48; V, 254 b, 2. See =leuch=, =leugh=.

=lought=, pret. of laugh, III, 82, 74; V, 51, 55.

=loukynge=, V, 283, 17: expectation, hope deferred.

=loun=, =lown=, =lowne=, =loon=, IV, 501, 36, 37: a person of low rank. laird or (nor) loun (lown), I, 69, 40, 41; 71, 32; III, 435, =F= 8; IV, 514, 12. lord nor (or) loun (lowne), III, 301, 32; 430, 13; 435, =E= 5; 436, 6, 8. IV, 11, 2; 519, =H= 2, =I= 2: rogue. often a mere term of general disparagement (as in, English loun): (of a man) II, 118, 3, 4; 140, 25; V, 171, 4; (woman) I, 100, 30; 491, =G= 24, =H= 22. fellow, without disparagement, IV, 258, 21. naughty girl, II, 419, 37. mistress, concubine, whore, II, 181 b; IV, 14, 13; 330 a, 3; 332 b; 469, 3; 519, 9; 520, 13. See =lown=.

=loup=, I, 102, =D= 3; II, 464, 1; IV, 44 f., 14, 15, 17, 23; 47, 4, 5: leap. pret. lap, leap, leepe, lope, loup, louped. p. p. loupen, luppen. loupin, V, 213, 3, has been explained as a form of leeping, heating (warming herself over the coal; cf. cowering oer a coal, I, 304, 2). We have, however, whisking ore the coal, I, 302, 4; reeking (==raiking) oer the coal, 304 =E= 3; and across agrees better with leaping than with heating.

=loup=, pret. of loup, II, 461, 5.

=loupen=, =louped=, p. p. of loup, III, 465, 27; IV, 462, 36.

=lourd=, =loord=, pret. and p. p. of lour==prefer, verb made from lever, rather. I had lourd, IV, 199, 18. I wad lourd have, IV, 7, 43. loord a had, V, 251, 36. I rather lourd it had been, II, 275 b.

=lout=, =loot=, I, 56, =B= 12; 351, 36, 48; II, 401, =C= 5: bow, bend, lean. pret. louted, looted. louted in, I, 331, =D= 5: bent our heads to enter? louted twafauld, threefauld, V, 242 b, 7: bent double, treble, p. p. louted, lootit, louten.

=louten=, p. p. of lout, II, 168, 9: bent.

=love=, I, 476, =J= 4: loaf.

=love-clapped=, II, 165, 10; 169, 8; 171, 13; 370, 8; 371, 8; IV, 392, 8; V, 277, 8: embraced lovingly, caressed.

=loverd=, I, 243 f., 1, 6, 17: lord.

=louesome=, III, 431, 30: lovely.

=lov(e)ly=, =louelie=, epithet of London: III, 199, 19; 310, 61; 352, 1; 355, 7. See =leeve=.

=low=, =lowe=, I, 211, 35; III, 93, 46: hill.

=low=, =lowe=, III, 435, =F= 5, 10; 436 f., 13, 20, 24, 34; IV, 47, 5; 514, 8: flame.

=low=, =lowe=, pret. of laugh, III, 110, 16; 112, 53; V, 78, 4. See =lowhe=.

=lowe=, doggs bite soe, III, 342, 66: a phrase for, take mean advantages.

=lowe=, bye lerbord or by lowe, IV, 504, 30: loof, luff, the after part of a ship’s bow (Falconer, Marine Dictionary); or perhaps the weather side. See =leaf=.

=lowhe=, =low=, =lowe=, pret. of laugh, V, 80, 44, 46-48.

=lown=, IV, 304, 8, 9: must mean here a young man in a low social position, since there can be no question of her kissing a disreputable fellow. There is no proper contrast with lad, and probably we should read, laird nor lown (see =loun=).

=lowse=, loose, free.

=loyed=, V, 221, 9: loved.

=lucettes=, III, 297, 46: luces, pikes.

=Luckenbooths=, V, 162, =C= 7: a range of buildings which formerly stood in the thoroughfare of the High Street in Edinburgh, parallel to Saint Giles Church.

=lue=, =loe=, =loo=, =lou=, =loie=, =lea=, =lee=, =lie=, v., love. See =lea=.

=lufe=, =luve=, =leuve=, =loof=, I, 16, =C= 16; 17, 14; 19, 14; III, 374, 8: palm of the hand.

=lugs=, I, 302, =A= 10; IV, 53, 11; 296, 8; V, 102, =B= 15; 103 b, 15: ears.

=luid=, III, 370, 19: loved.

=luke=, pret. of laugh, V, 238, 28.

=lum=, V, 125, 3, 9: chimney.

=luppen=, p. p. of loup, leap, I, 55, =A= 3, =B= 3; IV, 444, 26; 470, 30; 518, 8.

=lurden=, =lordan=, III, 35, 18: dolt, clodpoll.

=luscan=, a sturdy beggar (and thievish), III, 519 a.

=lust=, V, 213 a, 1: a bundle. (last, a measure, as twelve dozen hides or skins, etc.?)

=lust=, III, 56, 6; 85 and 89, 446; 332, 13: inclination, disposition. thy lustës to full fyll, III, 90 b: wishes. att his owne lust, III, 332, 13: pleasure.

=lute=, pret. of lett, IV, 345, 8: allowed. V, 248, 15: let down.

=luve=, palm of the hand. See =loof=.

=ly=, =lye=, IV, 261, 24; V, 168 f., 1, 2, 3, etc.: live, dwell. pret. lyed.

=lyand=, lying.

=lyart=, IV, 7, 36: grizzled, gray.

=lybertye=, apoint a place of, II, 443, 39; 449, 44, 52: a place where the two can fight freely, without risk of interruption?

=lye.= See =ly=.

=lyed=, II, 266, 28: lay, lived. See =ly=.

=lygge=, =ligge=, I, 328, 38-41: lie. See =lig=.

=lygge=, lay. See =lig=.

=lyghte=, =lyght=, I, 327, 21; III, 297, 33: alighted. See =light=.

=lyghtly=(=e=). See =lightly=.

=lyke=, I, 327, 22; III, 28, 121; 64, 165; 76, 417: please.

=lyke=, I, 506, 3, 8, 9; II, 295, 8; IV, 236, 30: lyke-wake, watching of a dead body. In II, 117, 16: simply, death-scene.

=lyke-wake=, I, 251, =B= 4, 5, 7; II, 282, 14; III, 495 b, 21; IV, 516 f., 1, 7, 18: watch of a dead body. dead lyke-wake, I, 251, =B= 4, 5: wake for your death. See =lyke=, =leak=, =leak-=(=lake-=)=wake=.

=lyken=, participle, IV, 511 b, =X= 6: about, at the point. See =like=, =liken=.

=lynde=, =lyne=, III, 75, 398; 91, 2; 92, 22; 93, 33; 97, 10; 98, 23; 100, 76, 78: linden, tree.

=lyne.= See =lynde=.

=lyne.= See =lin=.

=lyng=, III, 99, 53: heath. See =ling=.

=lyon=, III, 344, 33; 349, 33: the royal standard (quite out of place here).

=lyste=, =me lyste=, III, 78, 446: it would please me, I should like. See =list=.

=lyth=, =lyth=, =lithe= (Icel. hlýða), III, 56, 1; 63, 144, 70, 282; 71, 317: hearken.

=lyth=, member. See =lith=.

=lyuer=, III, 362, 82: leever, rather.

=lyueray=, III, 59, 70: present of clothes. III, 64, 161: purveyance of drink.

M

=ma=, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: bit, whit.

=Mable=, booke of, III, 422, 61: some book of predictions, like Thomas Rymer’s.

=made=, a lie, I, 478, 25: told.

=made=, men, III, 406, 37: raised. made a bow o bere, V, 264 a, 2: contributed.

=mae=, III, 301, =E=; 349, 46; IV, 490, 27: more.

=maen=, =mane=, =meen=, n., II, 107, 2: moan.

=magger of=, in the, III, 307, 1: in spite of, maugre.

=maick=, =make=, mate.

=maid=, =may=, used loosely of a young wife: II, 300, 6, 8; 307, 33; V, 227, 7. So κόρη, παρθένος, in Homer, of a young wife, and puella of married woman often.

=maid= of a place, as, maid of the Cowdenknows, IV, 200, 12, 13; 202, =J= 2, 3; 203, 8; 205, 14: the eldest daughter of the tenant or proprietor, who is generally called by the name of his farm.

=maid alone=, II, 149, 2: solitary, like burd-alone, I, 298, 2 (which, however, is there used of a man).

=maiden=, IV, 30 a: an instrument for beheading, resembling the guillotine.

=maigled=, IV, 41, note *: mangled.

=maik.= See =make=.

=mail=, rent. lodging-maill, III, 474, 38.

=main.= man o the main, is it to a man o the might, or till a man o the main, II, 403, 7, 8: main can have no sense distinct from might, and man of the might, man of the main, is simple verbiage. In =B= 4, =H= 6, we have, to a man of micht or a man of mean: man of mean cannot be wrenched into man of low degree, and we do not want that sense even if we could legitimately get it, for the antithesis is not between the man of micht and the man of mean degree, but between both these and the robber or robbers of the last half of the stanza. The stall copy, 405, 5, 6, having only grammar in mind, reads man (one) that’s mean, and but for rhyme might perhaps have gone so far as, a man of means. IV, 146, 21, reads, man o mine, to avoid the difficulty. See =mean=.

=main=, n., IV, 473, 39: moan. See =mane=.

=ma-i-ntn=, V, 303 a: maintain, support.

=mair=, IV, 21, 14: more, bigger.

=mairly=, IV, 59 f., =d= 2; =e= 2, =g= 2: a rhyme used for mair.

=maist=, II, 169, 7: almost.

=maistly=, I, 138 b, =d= 5: mostly, almost. See =mostly=.

=make=, =maik=, =maicke=, I, 127, 14; 128, 11: 129, =D= 8; 347, 23, 30; 348, 11, 17: mate, consort. I, 403, 12; II, 46, 1; IV, 344, 7; V, 184, 44: match, like; and so in, what is my lineage or what is my make, IV, 341, =D= 8.

=make=, III, 37, 67: for made, p. p.

=making=, IV, 208, 3: doing, deportment.

=maks=, V, 307 b: makes.

=male=, III, 63, 134; 68, 247, 255: (O. Fr. male) trunk. male-hors, III, 74, 374.

=mall=, with the leaden mall, III, 357, 42: mallet, hammer (referring to the weight of his stroke).

=mallasin=, malison.

=man=, V, 191, 8, 12: vassal. V, 304 b, 3: husband.

=man=, =mane=, =maun=, =mun=, I, 16, =B= 8, 9, 12-16; 146, 5, 6; V, 197, 12; 219, 29; 220, 4; 248, 12, 13: must.

=mane=, =maen=, =main=(=e=), =meane=, =meen=, I, 72, 20; 448, =A= 1, 3; etc.: moan, complaint, lament; often nothing more than utterance, enunciation, as, I, 253, 1; 394, =A= 2; 395, =C= 4; III, 489, 1.

=mane=, v., I, 72, 23: moan. See =mean=.

=maney=, III, 109, 4: meny, followers. See =menë=.

=mang=, I, 108, 6: among.

=manhood=, =manhead=, =manheed=, men (man) o your, men to your, I, 108, 14; 109, 13; IV, 446 f., 14: a strange way of saying, if you are men (man) of true valor, willing to fight one by one. III, 422, 59: manly deed, exploit demanding courage.

=manie=, =mennie=, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.

=mankie=, V, 173, 3: calamanco, a stuff made in the Low Countries.

=manratten=, =manrydden= (A. S. manrǽden), III, 359, 95; 362, 95: homage, vassalage.

=manrent=, IV, 34 b: homage, vassalage. See =manratten=.

=mansworn=, I, 394, 3; IV, 442, 10: perjured.

=marchandise=, III, 92, 22: dealing.

=march-man=, III, 296, 8: one who lives on the march, or border.

=March-parti=, =Marche-partes=, III, 310, 58, 67: Border-part, -parts, Border, Borders.

=marie=, III, 491, 14: mare.

=marie.= See =mary=.

=mark=, II, 62 b, 11; 132, 29; IV, 202, =K= 2: murky. the mark, II, 164, 3. See =mirk=.

=marke=, =merk=, I, 394 ff., =B= 1; =C= 2; III, 68, 243, 246; 69, 270: two thirds of a pound.

=marke hym=, III, 297, 44: commit himself by signing the cross.

=marries=, IV, 487, 25: maids. See =mary=.

=marrow=, I, 147, 5; 148, =G= 4; 149, =I= 4; IV, 165, 13; 168, 2; V, 41, 16: (of man or woman) mate, husband, wife. IV, 165, 8, 9; =B= 2; 166, 2, 3; 167, =D= 6; 169, 5, 6; 170, =G= 3; =H= 3: match, equal in rank, equal antagonist. bear ye marrow, 169, 4: should perhaps be, be your marrow, as in 170, =G= 3.

=mary=, =marie=, =marrie=, =marry=, II, 369, 13, 15, 19, 20; 370, 13, 14, 17; 371, 14, 15, 20, 21, etc.; 390, 25; 391, 19; IV, 487, 25; 489, 26: a queen’s lady, maid-of-honor (cf. III, 381 b; 385, 18; 386, 19; etc.), maid (like abigail).

=mary mild=, IV, 213, 13: marigold; cf. V, 259, 5.

=Mas= (James Melvine), III, 471 a: Magister, Mr. Mess James Murray, V, 196, 51: see =Mess=.

=masar=, =maser=, III, 65, 175; 83, 86, 175: a drinking-vessel, of wood, especially of knotty-grained maple, often mounted with bands or rings of precious metals. See Way’s note, Prompt. Parv., p. 328.

=mass=, in the frequent formula, when bells were rung and mass was sung and a’ men bound to bed, II, 70, 21, etc.: a domestic religious service at the end of the day. evening-mass, II, 168, =A= 4.

=mast=, =maste=, III, 296 f., 22, 31; V, 79, 22: mayst.

=master-man=, II, 16, 2: captain of a ship. V, 191, 19: chief.

=masteryes=, make, III, 92, 27: do feats of skill.

=mat=, =matt=, mat he (ye) dee! wae mat fa, mat(t) worth!==mot, in the sense of may: II, 27, 7, 10; 472, 25, 33; IV, 391, 6; 392, 9, 21; 428, 6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10. See =met=.

=maught=, =maugt=, might.

=maugre=, maugre in theyr teethe, III, 67, 225: in spite of.

=maun=, I, 16, =B= 8, 9, etc.; =C= 7-10, etc.; 17, =D= 5-7, etc.; 146, 5, 6; 183, 25, 26: must. 71, 39 in pret. sense. See =man=, =mun=.

=maunna=, I, 185, 25: must not. See =manie=.

=mavosie=, I, 465, 8: mavis, song-thrush.

=maw=, =sea-maw=, II, 360, 3; 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482, 6: sea-mew, gull.

=maw=, v., I, 427, 13, 15: mow.

=mawys=, I, 326, 2: mavis, song-thrush.

=may=, =mey=, I, 115, =B= 1, 3, etc.; 173 f., 6, 10; III, 93, 39; 286, 45; IV, 432, 9; 515, 2: maid.

=may=, optative, frequently put after the subject, as, Christ thy speed may bee! thou mayst sune be! I may be dead ere morn! III, 355 f., 5, 23; 359, 87; 370, 8, 11; IV, 365, 18.

=may be===is, like can be: II, 448, 33; 451, 100. might be==was, III, 452, 10. (So, possibly, might see, I, 434, 30.)

=may gold=, III, 497, 13: marigold.

=mayne=, strength.

=maystry=, mastery.

=me=, I, 243 f., 5, 15: men, French on.

=me=, ethical dative, sawe I me, etc., III, 65, 184; 68, 249; 75, 381; 79, 147; 80, 169.

=meal=, III, 163, 77: meal-bag.

=meal=, II, 230, 14, 15; 362, 36: mold, dust, earth. See =meel=.

=mean=, man of, I, 358, 30; II, 233, =F= 3; 400, 4, 5; 404, 6, 7; V, 36, =B= 8, 9: mere verbiage, I judge; mean looks like an attempt to escape from main, which see. (man of mean, II, 233, =F= 3, not being joined with man of might, might be understood as, man of main, or violent man.)

=mean=, =meane=, =meen=, v., I, 426, 5; V, 246, 4, 6: moan, lament. I, 388, =A= 7, 10: bemoan, lament the state of. not to mean, V, 160, 2: not to be pitied. mean, V, 160, 1, is doubtful, but the verb corresponding to moan is to be preferred. See =mane=, =menyd=.

=mean=, n., moan. See =meen=.

=meany=, III, 307, 3, 10: troop. See =menë=.

=meaten=, =meeten=, II, 434, 17; III, 33, 158: measured.

=meathe=, IV, 378, 9; 380, 17: landmark.

=meatrif=, III, 163, 87: abounding in food.

=meckle=, =meikle=, =muckle=, IV, 513, 6, 7: much.

=medder=, V, 221, 11: mother.

=medill-erthe=, I, 327, 27. See =middle-earth=.

=meed=, I, 68, 10, 14; II, 172, 33: mood, heart, state of feeling.

=meed=, warld’s meed, I, 108, 14; IV, 446 f., 14: seems to be corrupted from mate (make). Woreldes make is a familiar phrase in Old English, and not unfrequent in ballads.

=meel=, meel or mor, III, 281, 8, 10: mold, earth, ground; but perhaps an error for mede, mead. See =meal=.

=meen=, v., moan, lament. See =mean=, v.

=meen=, =mean=, I, 427, 5; II, 124, 39; 417, 11; III, 389, 12, 13: lamentation. See =mane=.

=meen=, I, 222, 8; 315, 8; IV, 416, 10: moon.

=meet=, I, 148, =F= 10: (causative) pass, put, thrust in.

=meet=, =meete=, II, 46, 45: even, equal. II, 229, 13: scant, close, and so, perhaps, II, 436, 61.

=meeten=, =meaten=, II, 434, 17: measured, by measure. See =met=.

=meiht=, I, 243, 3: mayst.

=meikle=, =meickle=, =mickle=, =muckle=, I, 72, 24, 25; 86, 2, 3; 309 f., 2, 4; 330, =A= 3, =B= 3; IV, 514, 5: much, great.

=meisseine=, V, 132, 7: spanker, or perhaps, Fr. misaine, foresail.

=mell=, I, 299, 6; 304, 10; =F= 6; 305, 12; V, 108, =B= 6: mall, wooden hammer, beetle.

=mell=, IV, 177 b, =I= 7: mail.

=mell=, III, 172, 24: meddle.

=meller’s hoops=, I, 304, =F= 5: mill-casings, the circular wooden frames which surround mill-stones.

=melten= (goud), IV, 471, 37: molten.

=menë=, =menye=, =meany=, =menyie=, =meynë=, =maney=, =monie=, III, 72, 335: followers, band.

=menement=, V, 242, 9, 11, 13: amendment.

=menji=, menji feathers in her hat, V, 163, 13: many.

=mennie=, =manie=, V, 270, 8: maunna, must not.

=mensked=, I, 334, 11: honored, dignified.

=menyde= (of hir songe), I, 326, 2: moaned, uttered, delivered. See =mean=.

=menye=, =menyie=, household, retinue, people: III, 91 a; IV, 127, 4, 5. See =menë=.

=mere=, IV, 493, 21: more.

=meri.= See =mery=.

=merk=, =marke=, I, 394 f., =B= 1, =C= 2: two thirds of a pound.

=merk.= See =merkes=.

=merk=, v., mark, merked them one, III, 297, 47: took their aim at.

=merkes=, III, 75, 397: distances between the bounds.

=merke-soote=, I, 334, 4: mark-shot, distance between the marks (cf. III, 75, 397), from bow to target, bow-shot.

=merlion=, =merlyon=, II, 45, 21, 33: merlin, the smallest of British falcons.

=merrilye=, III, 329, 11: in good or valiant fashion. So, nearly, IV, 477, 8.

=merry= (men). See =mery=.

=merry Cock land=, III, 250, 1: corruption of the merry Scotland of 249, =I=, =J=, 1; 251, =M=, 1; 252, =O=, 1.

=merrys=, I, 327, 22: mars, marrest.

=mery=, =meri=, =merry=, =merrie=, =myrri=, =myrry= (men), II, 386, 12; III, 66, 205; 71, 316; 73, 340; 97, 9; 114, 121, 131; 116, 2; 285 f., 30, 48; 309, 37; 330, 17; 430, 5; 431, 4; 432, 2; 433, 2; IV, 234, 39; V, 191, 4, 14: a standing phrase for followers, companions in arms.

=mese=, I, 328, 45: course (at table).

=mese=, III, 484 a, 16: mitigate.

=Mess=, an epithet said to be contemptuous for a priest or parish minister (as one who says, or said, mass), so Mess John, IV, 442, 10, 12; but there is no reason to suppose disrespect in V, 196, 51. See =Mas=.

=mestoret=, V, 80, 42: needed.

=met=, I, 324, 3; IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9: mat, may. See =mat=.

=met=, pret. of mete, III, 60, 73: measured. p. p. met, mete, III, 60, 72; 203, 17; IV, 465, 23; 467, 13.

=methe=, meat.

=mett=, meet.

=met-yard=, III, 105, 27: measuring-rod.

=mey=, V, 161, 9: maid. See =may=.

=meynë=, III, 27, 96; 58, 31; 61, 95, 97; 76, 419: retinue, suite, household, company, body of people. See =menë=.

=meythe=, III, 112, 59: might.

=micht=, v., V, 299, 4: might.

=micht’ll=, might well.

=mickle=, great, much. See =meikle=.

=midder=, =mideer=, mother.

=middle-earth=, =medill-erthe=, I, 327, 27; II, 59, 25: (A.S. middangeard, middaneard), earth (conceived as being the middle of the universe; see miðgarðr in Vigfusson).

=middle stream=, III, 125, 19: middle of the stream.

=middle waist=, IV, 523, 6: middle of his waist.

=mid-larf=, crowing a, II, 230, 5, 8: corrupt (changed by Scott to merry midnight). Taking into account the young cock crew i the merry Linkem, II, 239, =B= 4, midlarf may stand for some locality (suggestion of Professor Kittredge).

=might be===was, III, 452, 10. See =may=, =can=.

=mild=, maidens mild, II, 312, 1; 314, =C= 1, =D= 1; 316, 1: meek, gentle, demure. So Mild Mary, II, 315, =E= 7; Mary(-ie) Mild, III, 395, =M= 1, 3; 396, =N= 1; 398 a, =c= 4; Mary Mile, III, 386, 5, 6, 8. Corrupted to Moil, IV, 507 b, =S= 2; Miles, IV, 511 a, 5. myld(e) Mary, of the Virgin, III, 97, 7, 17; 98, 35: lenient, compassionate. myld myȝth, V, 283, 13.

=milk-dey=, IV, 262, 26; 524, 6: dairy-woman.

=mill=, =mille=, IV, 503, 13; 505, 45; V, 221, 15, 16; 224, 25: mile.

=millaine=, I, 286, 42, 45: of Milan steel. See =myllan=.

=mill-capon=, II, 477 b, =D= 27: a poor person who asks charity at mills from those who have grain grinding, the alms usually given being a gowpen, or handful, of meal.

=millering=, II, 467, 42: waste meal, sweepings of a mill (dust [which] lyes in the mill, II, 470, 43).

=mill-town=, =mill-toun=, II, 471, 18; V, 238, 29: miller’s steading or place.

=miln=, I, 18, 11: mill.

=milner=, =mylner=, III, 85, 4; 360, 111: miller.

=min.= See =mind=.

=mind=, II, 216, 12, 15; 218, 13, 16: recollection. her mind she keeped, II, 72, 13: did not forget what she had promised. for changing o her min, 81, 32: seems to mean, lest she should change her mind; but the sense is not striking.

=mind.= mind o, on, I, 481, 26; IV, 194, 16, 9; 195, 15; 196, 17; 197, 17, etc.: remember. pret. mind, I, 183, 30. mind of, on, mind to, I, 470, 16; IV, 403 f., 14, 28; 437, 24: remind of. he mind’t him on, V, 18, 5: remembered.

=minde=, ffor the maydens loue that I haue most minde, II, 58, 5: elliptical or corrupt. Comparing 59, 24 (where the MS. reads, wrongly, most meed) we see that for is not to be taken with minde. We must understand most in mind or most mind to or of, or, possibly, minde may be (from minnen, remember) had in mind.

=minge= (A. S. myndgian), III, 355, 6; 362, 72: utter. minged, II, 59, 21: didst name the name of, mention (or, perhaps, only bore in mind). myn, III, 358, 72.

=minikin=, V, 201 b: little, pretty little.

=minion=, I, 284, 12: dainty.

=minnie=, =minny=, II, 473, 16, 17; IV, 69, 16; 294, =C= 9, 10; V, 115, 9: mother. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: dam.

=mint to=, II, 469, 31; IV, 493, 20; V, 28, 67; 238, 21: put out the hand towards, move towards. minted as, V, 9, 7: took a direction as if, made as if.

=mire=, =myre=, I, 428, 13, 14; 429, 7, 8; III, 475 b: swamp, bog. mire an moss, bog, an miery hole, IV, 22, 12; cf. 184, 5.

=mirk=, =myrke=, =mark=, I, 326, 16; IV, 517, 14: dark.

=Mirry-land toune=, III, 244, =B= 1: probably a corruption of the merry Lincoln of =A= 16, 17; 246, =D= 1; 251, =L= 1.

=miscarry me=, IV, 267, 11: get me into trouble; fail, disappoint me (?).

=misgae=, misgave.

=misgiding=, V, 117, 15: ill treatment.

=misguide=, =misgiding=, V, 117, 15; 119, 15: ill treatment.

=miss=, n., IV, 317, =E= 5; 325, =C= 5, =D= 3: mistress, whore.

=miss=, n., II, 465, 4: wrong or injury.

=miss=(=e=), v., I, 210, 12: omit, fail. miss your Wanton slack, IV, 22, 10, 12: fail to keep him tightly reined (?).

=mis-sworn=, I, 395, =C= 5: mansworn, perjured.

=mister=, =myster=, III, 450 a; IV, 268, 26; 464, 15: need, requirement, an exigency. misters, III, 164, 90: sorts of.

=mistkane=, I, 105 a, 18, if not miswritten, seems to be simply a phonetic variation of mistane.

=mith=, =mithe=, n., I, 334, 6, 7, 11: might.

=mith=, =mithe=, v., II, 139, 10; IV, 493, 19: might. mith slain, II, 165, 23: might [have] slain.

=mode=, I, 328, 47: spirit.

=modther=, IV, 260, 3, 7: mother.

=mody=, =mudie=, I, 334, 10: proud, high-spirited.

=mold=, =molde=, mane of molde, I, 327, 20: earth. ouer the mold, into the Scottish mold, I, 433, 21, 23: land, country. I, 434, 37; II, 246, 7: ground.

=Moll Syms=, I, 126, 13; IV, 448, 7: a well-known dance tune of the sixteenth century.

=mome=, III, 352, 7: dolt.

=monand=, n., II, 87, 36: moaning.

=mone=, I, 326, 1: moan, lamentation, complaint. See =meen=.

=monie=, IV, 437, 2: menie, company, suite. See =menë=.

=montenans.= See =mountnaunce=.

=monty=, IV, 42 a, note §: staircase. (Fr. montée.)

=mood=, giue me, III, 105, 23: though give me my God looks like a bold change, it is not improbable. We have, yeve me my savyour, in the Romaunt of the Rose, 6436, le cors nostre Seigneur, 12105, Michel. And again: For it was about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abrode, after they had taken their Maker, as they call it. Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b. “In 1452 John Bulstone (of Norwich) bequeathed to the church of Hempstede ‘j pyxte, to putte owre lord god in.’” Academy, XL, 174. (These last two citations furnished by Prof. J. M. Manly.) Again, the Breton ballad, Ervoan Camus, Revue Celtique, II, 496, st. 6, has ‘she has received my God.’ (Dr F. N. Robinson.) See V, 297 a.

=moody-hill=, =moudie-hill=, =mould-hill=, IV, 148 f., 48; 150, =g=, =h= 48: mole-hill.

=mool=, =mools=. See =moul=.

=morn=, morrow. the morn, III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19; 489, 11; IV, 517, 18: to-morrow. the morn’s morning, IV, 373, 8.

=mornin’s gift=, =morning gift=, II, 132, 32; 135, 28: gift made the morning after marriage.

=mort=, III, 307, 8; IV, 26, 8: note on the horn to announce the death of deer.

=mose-water.= See =moss-water=.

=moss=, =muss=, =mose=, I, 78, 32; 99, 6; III, 4, 3, 48; 440, 10; IV, 443 f., 6, 19; 445, 8: bog.

=moss-water=, =mose-water=, II, 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19: water of a peat-bog.

=most=, I, 328, 50: greatest.

=mostly=, =maistly=, IV, 242 b: almost.

=mot=, I, 473, 5: must.

=mot=, =mote=, I, 333, 2; III, 7, 9; 68, 243; 75, 394; 113, 81; IV, 137, 29; V, 82, 25, 27; 83, 44, 50, 53; 283, 3: may.

=mote=, III, 68, 253: meeting.

=moten=, molten.

=mothe=, =mouthe=, I, 334, 4, 6: for meahte (mohte), might.

=mother-in-law=, II, 71, 11; 72 f., 14, 15: stepmother.

=mother-naked=, I, 344, 33: naked as in, or coming from, the womb.

=mothly=, III, 148, 27: motley.

=motion=, III, 216, 38: =proposal=.

=mou=, =moue=, =mow=, I, 302, =B= 8; III, 149, 34; IV, 277, 10; V, 115, 9; 268, 18; 269, 13: =mouth=.

=moudie-hill.= See =moody-hill=.

=moue=, I, 16, =C= 15: put up in ricks.

=mought=, V, 76, 28; 83, =b= 25, etc.: mote, may. III, 30, 98: might, were able.

=moul=, =mouls=, =mool=, =mools=, IV, 329, =A b=, after 16; 330, =D d= 20: mould, dust, ashes (of the dead). I, 184, 10; II, 233, 6; 429, 6; IV, 492, 6; V, 210, 10: earth of a grave. See meal, II, 230, 14, 15.

=mould-hill.= See =moody-hill=.

=mould-warpe=, III, 420, 20: mole.

=mountnaunce=, =montenans=, I, 327, 31; III, 64, 168: =amount=.

=mouthe.= See =mothe=.

=mow=, III, 149, 34: seems to be meant for mouth (lip). But perhaps we may understand grimace (for a tyrant to make faces at). See =mou=.

=mow=, =mows,= IV, 224, 22; 225, 20: jest.

=moyen=, IV, 42 a, note: =means=.

=mucell.= See =muckle=.

=muck=, IV, 323, 6: dung.

=muck the byre=, IV, 293, 9; 294, =C= 9, 10; 295, =D= 9; 297, 9: carry out dung from the cow-house.

=muckle=, =mukle=, =mucell=, =meikle=, IV, 398, 6; 494, 33: big. IV, 399, 40; V, 271, 13: much.

=mudie=, III, 434, 27, 28: bold. See =mody=.

=muir=, moor.

=mullertd=, IV, 86, 12: miller.

=mun=, =maun=, =man=, II, 59, 20; 314, 28; IV, 343, 6: must.

=mune=, moon.

=munt=, I, 304, =E= 2: come to, make out.

=mure=, V, 202 b: moor, heath (?).

=muss=, III, 4, 3, 4, 8: moss, bog. See =moss=.

=myght=, welcome myght thou be, III, 65, 177: Old Eng. 2d pers. pres. ind. == mayst.

=myght neuer no tyme to sleepe=, III, 77, 441: probably corrupt, and to be read, no tymë slepe; but the construction is not unknown.

=myȝth=, n., V, 283, 13: might, power.

=myld=, =mylde=. See =mild=.

=myle=, two myle way, III, 64, 168: the time it takes to go two miles.

=myllan=, III, 309, 31: Milan steel. See =millaine=.

=mylner=, =milner,= III, 81, 4; 97, 8: =miller=.

=myn=, III, 358, 72: say. See =minge=.

=myneyeple=, III, 308, 30: corruption of manople, a gauntlet protecting the hand and the whole forearm (?). Skeat.

=myre.= See =mire=.

=myrke=, =mirk=, =mark=, I, 327, 30: dark.

=myrri=, =myrry=. See =mery=.

=myrthës= can, III, 66, 210: knows pleasant stories.

=mysaunter=, III, 13, 10: =mischance=.

=myster=, III, 68, 244: need, occasion. See =mister=.

=mystery=, =mysterie=, III, 495, =B b=, after 7; IV, 517, 15: craft.

N

=n=, carried on from preceding word to following. noo nother, no noder, III, 81, 58; 100, 80: none other. a nother, nether, III, 80, 200; V, 247, 9: an other. a naughtless, noughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: an aughtless, good for nought. a noke, V, 81, 45: an oke. they nere, they nee, III, 112, 50; 204, =b= 31: theyn ere, thyn ee. my nane, I, 469, 29 (but nane should probably be name). So, his nawn, her nain (nen), yer nane, as if from hisn, hern, yern, I, 469, 28; III, 269, 1; IV, 132, 13; V, 224, 24. In, an oute-horne, III, 30, 87, n seems to have been carried back, from noute (see V, 297 a). n in nant, III, 35, 24, 31, is an arbitrary prosthesis.

=na=, =nae=, no, not: I, 68 f., 12, 22, 31, 44, 51; 107, 3, 8; 310, 9, 11, 13; V, 260, 16. Frequently united with the preceding verb. hadna, I, 343, 5, 18. winna, 354, 27. canno, 368 f., 35, 37, 39. coudna, 369, 51. wadna, 394, 9, 11. shanae, 394, =B= 1. woudna, 396, 23, 26. shoudna, 396, 27. didna, 397, 12. kensnae, 466, 13. wasnae, 467, 34, etc., etc.

=naesaid=, IV, 371, 7: =refused=.

=nags=, =naggs=, =nogs=, III, 480, 11; 481, 8; 484 a, 11: notches, nicks.

=nain=, own. See =n=.

=nane=, =nen=, yer nane, my nane, etc.: own. (n, originally, carried on from mine.) See =n=.

=nane=, =neen=, none. I, 16, 6; 309, 12; II, 108, 13; 129, 16; 425, 3: adverbially, not, not at all. See =none=.

=nant=, III, 35, 24, 31: aunt.

=naow=, V, 304, 5, 12, 14: now.

=napkin (-ken, -kain)=, I, 395, 9, 14: neckerchief. II, 108, 3; 158 f., 5, 8; 160, 4, 7; 163, 4, 6: pocket handkerchief. pocket-napkin, IV, 468, 2.

=nappy=, V, 84, 13 (of ale): strong.

=naps=, naps of gold were bobbing bonnie, IV, 295, 8, 9: knobs, balls, mentioned as ornaments to gloves, II, 133, =D= 6, golden-knobbed gloves; 134, 8, 13, siller-knapped gloves.

=napskape=, =knapscap=, IV, 7, 35; V, 251, 31: head-piece.

=nar= = nor, with comparative, for than: III, 112 f., 57, 69; V, 78 f., 12, 18. See =nor=.

=nas=, I, 244, 15: ne was, was not.

=naught=, V, 102, =A= 13: naughtiness.

=naughtless=, a naughtless lord, IV, 287, 5; a noughtless heir, 286, 12: an aughtless, oughtless, good-for-naught, impotent.

=naughty=, V, 267, 13: good-for-naught.

=naur=, II, 62 a, 15: near, or nearer.

=naw= = na = no.

=naw=, IV, 442, 2: nay. V, 296, a: not.

=nawn=, own. See =n=.

=naye=, withowghten naye, III, 296, 18: undeniably, truly.

=ne=, III, 349, 46; V, 272 b, 5, 6; 273, 16: no. III, 62, 128: not.

=ne=, stand ye nè aw, III, 350, 53: misprint (in original); =g=, stand in no awe.

=nean=, V, 219, 27; 220, 1; 257, 11: none.

=near=, =neare=, =ner=, =nere=, I, 101, 19; II, 183, 30; 191, 37; III, 62, 119; 111, 46; V, 224, 28: nearer.

=near=, IV, 446, 14^4; 447, 14^4: corrupt, as the repetition from the second verse shows; while (till) my days are near (to an end) would be extremely forced, in any case.

=near=, =neer=, never.

=near-hand=, adj., IV, 197, 4, 5: near, short. adv., III, 161, 36; IV, 222, 8 (near-han): near, almost.

=neast=, =neist=, =nist=, =nest=, V, 117, =A= 7; 216 f., 1, 5, 7, 10, 18; 242 a, 10, 12: next.

=neathing=, nothing.

=neave=, III, 123, 16, 20: fist.

=neb=, I, 425, =A= 16: beak.

=nee=, III, 422, 67: nigh.

=needle-tack=, II, 217, 5: fastening or stitch with a needle.

=neen=, none. See =nane=.

=neen nae=, II, 318 b, 4: need na, need not.

=neerice=, nurse. See =nourice=.

=neeze=, V, 222 b, 26: sneeze, snort.

=neigh=, v., II, 54, 54, 55: nigh, approach.

=neis=, I, 302, =B= 8; IV, 247, =B= 12: nose.

=neist=, =niest=, I, 223, 9; 314, 5; 419 f., 1, 3, etc.: next.

=nelle=, V, 284, 22: ne will, will not.

=nen=, her nen, V, 224, 24: own. See =nane=.

=ner=, =nere=, III, 62, 119; 111, 46: nearer. See =near=.

=nere=, III, 113, 75: were [it] not.

=nere=, they nere, III, 112, 50: theyn ere, thine ear.

=neshe=, III, 445, 31: of delicate quality.

=nest=, next. See =neast=.

=nettle-dyke=, II, 463, 22: wall with nettles growing on it, or near it. Cf. II, 467, 40; 469, 42.

=neuk=, coat-neuk, II, 107, 4, 5: nook, corner.

=new-fangle=, I, 272, 9: fond of novelties, capricious, inconstant.

=next=, I, 412, 27; II, 45, 30, 34: nighest.

=nextand=, II, 94, 6. See =-an=.

=neys=, V, 80, 39: nice (ironically).

=nicher=, =nicker=, n. and v., III, 370, 10; IV, 18, 15; 19, 13; 20, 10; 21, 11: neigh.

=nicht=, the, to-night.

=nicked him of naye=, II, 52, 12; nickd them wi nae (nay), V, 182 f., 12, 30 (clearly borrowed from the above in Percy’s Reliques): refused with nay.

=nicker.= See =nicher=.

=nick-nack=, playd nick-nack on the wa, V, 123, 16; 124, =B= 14: to express the sound of successive collisions.

=niddart=, niddart ither wi lang braid-swords, II, 422, 49: thrust at. Jamieson, pressed hard upon. Correspondents from the North of Scotland say, notched, slashed.

=nie=, III, 473, 27: neigh.

=nie=, =neigh=, nigh.

=niest=, I, 15, =B= 3; 147, 5: next, nearest. come niest, IV, 485, 30: nigh to. See =neist=.

=niffer=, n. and v., I, 203, =C= 10, 15; IV, 406, 24: exchange.

=night-coif=, III, 514, 3; 515, 1; V, 225, 4: night-cap.

=night-wake=, IV, 453, 3, 4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a corruption of lyke-wake.

=nimble=, =nimle=, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332, =E= 2, =F= 2, =G= 2.

=nine=, the, III, 392, 8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.

=ning=, V, 165 f., 4, 12: nine. nine, 111, 26, is changed from ninge. In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken dialect.

=nip=, III, 160, 18, 19: bit.

=nires=, =norice=, nurse. See =nourice=.

=nist=, =nest=, =neast=, V, 216, 10; 242 a, 10, 12: next.

=nit=, III, 465, 20: knit, fasten.

=nit=, I, 450, 2-4: nut.

=nit-broun=, IV, 469, 7; 470, 23, 29, etc.: nut-brown.

=no=, I, 86, 13; 100, 10; 108, 6, 8; 135, =P= 8, 10; II, 218, 12; 222, 19; III, 465, 32: not.

=noble=, =nobellys=, III, 113, 81; 126, 39; 201, 29: a gold coin of the value of one third of a pound. (Fifteen score nobles is of course exactly an hundred pound.) == 20 groats, V, 76 f., 18, 19, etc.

=nocked=, III, 82, 132; 86, 132: notched.

=noder=, =nother=, III, 81, 58; 100, 80, no noder, noo nother=none other. See =n=.

=nog.= See =nags=.

=noghte=, not.

=nolt=, =nout=, V, 249, 4: neat, neat-cattle.

=nom=, III, 51 b, 13-15: take.

=none=, adv., II, 361, 24; V, 295, 1: not at all. See =nane=.

=none of=, none of my brother, II, 11, 3, 5, 7: not at all my brother.

=noo=, V, 307, 11: now.

=noorice.= See nourice.

=nor=, =nar=, after a comparative, I, 5, =C= 9-18; II, 134 f., 15, 29; 268, 21; 374, 13; 409, 19; IV, 166, 12; V, 184, 49: than. nor be, II, 97, 22: than to be (if liker means more likely). too gude nor ever woud make a lie, II, 372, 26: better than, too good, to make. I doubt not nor she be, II, 390, 23,=je ne doute pas qu’elle ne soit.

=not=, IV, 331 b, 8: misprint for out.

=note=, =notte=, V, 283, 9, 19: nut.

=note=, III, 512, =E= 6: corrupt (nut in =F= 7). Some impossibility is required.

=noth=, =nothe=, I, 334, 7, 8: not.

=nother.= See =noder=.

=noughtless=, =naughtless=, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: a noughtless==an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.

=noumbles=, =nowmbles=, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58, 32; 64, 172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustum carnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.

=nourice=, =nourrice=, =noorice=, =nourry=, =nurice=, =nurische=, =nury=, II, 322, 6, 13-17; 333, 5-7; III, 433, =C= 7; IV, 31, 7; 32, 3; 480, 5, 10, etc.: nurse.

=nout=, =nolt=, III, 460, 25, 36; IV, 246, 13; V, 116, 1: neat cattle.

=noute-horne=, a, III, 26, 87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V, 297).

=nouthe=, I, 334, 5: not.

=nouther=, IV, 219, 8: neither.

=now=, V, 78 f., 5, 24, 25: new.

=noy=, I, 217, 7, 12: grief.

=nul=, =nule=, I, 244, 11, 13: will not.

=nume=, pret., III, 355, 4: took.

=nurice.= See =nourice=.

=nurische=, IV, 28 a, 29 a: nurse. See =nourice=.

=nury.= See =nourice=.

=nyghtgales=, I, 327, 33: nightingales.

=nyll=, II, 478, 4: will not.

O

=O=, brighter O shall, IV, 170, =G= 10: heard for rose. For rose (which the last letter of brighter, the o, and the first letter of shall make) cf. 167, 17; 169, 14; 175, =M= 11.

=o= = of. diel o there, III, 488, 26: devil (i. e. not a bit) of anything in that way (?) (devil be there, 489, 43).

=o= = on: I, 232, =A= 2; II, 375, 15, 16; III, 488 f., 23, 39, 45; IV, 84, 19.

=ochanie=, =och how=, IV, 103, 14; III, 392, 11: interjections of sorrow.

=ocht=, IV, 230, 1: aught.

=ochree.= See =ohon=.

=of= = on: I, 284, 14, 16; II, 59, 23; 452, 5; III, 105, 19; 309, 46 (on, 45, vppone, 42); 355, 8; 359, 89; 464, 2; IV, 503, 20. beate of mee, II, 54, 53 (?). In, put of the pot, put of the pan, II, 118, 8, of is perhaps simply an error of the scribe; we have, put on, 119, 5, 6. In, seruyd (q. v.) hi_m_ of bred, I, 241, 1, for is required, and of, which would signify with, cannot stand.

=officier=, V, 155, D 2: officer.

=oȝaines=, I, 192 a: against, towards.

=oger=, I, 202, 1: auger.

=ohon ochree=, III, 390, 13: exclamation of sorrow.

=okerer=, III, 58, 46: usurer.

=old=, =auld=, old (auld) son, of babe just born, II, 95, 11, 12; 105, 7; 107, 4, 5, 6, 17: called young son, II, 104, 12, 15; 106, 8, 10, 18, and, at II, 95, immediately after, 13, 14. See =auld son=. old daughter, II, 382, 1; 387, 1; 388, 15: oldest. old sister, I, 175, =D= 8: one older than a second sister.

=old=, =auld=, in your fifteen year old, I, 115, 13; in fifteen years old, I, 116, 13: of age. See =aull=, =auld=.

=on= = of: III, 93, 38; 132, 3; 231, 84; 296, 20; 308, 13.

=on= = one: V, 78 f., 7, 26, 28; 80, 52. on for on, III, 308, 21.

=on=, wedded on, I, 146, 24; married on, I, 497, 22: on the strength of (to have as a dowry).

=on ane=, I, 334, 6: anon.

=on fere=, III, 98, 38: in company.

=on o= = on (on upon?): III, 349, 38 (calld on o); 488, 25, 27; IV, 470, 18; 517, 9. (cald of, IV, 503, 20.)

=onbred=, I, 415 b: incompletely grown.

=one=, I, 104, 6; II, 45, 28: a. of one, I, 104, 6^2 should have been retained (=on a).

=one=, on.

=onë=, =ony=, =onie=, II, 58, 3: any.

=ones=, =onys=, III, 98, 23: once.

=onfowghten=, III, 297, 41: unfought, without fighting.

=onlouping=, III, 449 b: mounting (of a horse).

=onthought lang=, I, 478 f., 13, 47: without wearying, entertained. See =unthought lang=, =thinke lang=.

=ony=, =onie=, =onë=, any.

=oor=, I, 133, =M= 6: hour.

=or=, I, 285, 33; 294, 10; 328, 35; 411, 17; II, 22, 13; 105, 8: before. or eir, II, 21, =A= 9: or or (doubling of before).

=or=, II, 166, 27: than.

=order=, =ordre=, III, 66, 197, 198: rule of an order.

=ordered=, II, 257, 9: taken order for, made arrangements for.

=orders=, III, 286, 44: prepares.

=ordeyn=, III, 72, 326: give order for, levy.

=orghie=, IV, 513, H 2^4 (to be supplied): orgeis, a fish, large kind of ling. See V, 299 b, note on No 178.

=orlange=, II, 61, 8, 9, 12: perversion of eldrige.

=orless=, I, 141 b, =S=: emended to unless.

=orpharë=, I, 326, 9: orfevrie, goldsmith’s work.

=osterne=, III, 412, 27: austere. See =austerne=.

=ostler=, V, 155, =C= 4, =D= 2: innkeeper.

=ostler-ha=, III, 270, 6: ostler-house, hostelry, inn.

=ostler-house=, III, 268, 4, 6, 8; 269, 4-6: hostelry.

=other=, pl., III, 298, 66; 335 b.

=ottraunce=, at, III, 90 b: to the utterance, extremity, death.

=ought=, I, 294, 12: am under obligation. pret. and p. p. III, 228, 9; 431, 30: owed.

=ould=, IV, 456, 9; V, 199 b, 35: would.

=our=, =owr=, =ower=, over, too.

=oure=, prep., over. See =ower=.

=ousen=, =owsen=, =owsn=, II, 192, 6: oxen.

=out=, he slew out, II, 383, 25; beat out, III, 151, =A= 4, =B= 4: out and out. fight ye all out, IV, 173, 6: through, to the last.

=out into=, I, 115, =B= 2: from within.

=out of hand=, II, 321, 3; III, 440, 25: forthwith.

=out the gate=, =way=, IV, 470, 21; 477, 12: along the way.

=outehorne=, III, 26, 87 (the original and popular reading): here, a horn blown to call out citizens to the support of the civil authority. See Spelman’s Glossary, 1687, p. 441. Cf. V, 297 a.

=outlyer=, I, 175 f., =D= 3, 9, 15, 21: one who lives away from men, in the woods, banished man, outlaw.

=out make= I, 61, =C c= 5: make out.

=outmet=, p. p., III, 29, 158: measured out.

=out-oer=, =-our=(=e=), =-ower=, =-owre=, =-over=, I, 246, 13, 14; II, 256, =K= 1; III, 6, 19; 7, 17; 270, 13, 17: over, above. heirs out ower a’ my land, II, 176, =C= 8. leand himsel outowre a tree, III, 270, =D= 8. the flower out ower (owr) them a’, II, 256, =L= 1; III, 246, =D= 7. out oer her, IV, 224, 19, should perhaps be, out o’ her.

=outrake=, III, 413, 32: excursion, outing.

=outside=, =outsyde=, II, 444, 43; 449, 48: place apart, retired.

=outspeckle=, IV, 7, 30; V, 250, 27: laughing-stock.

=outthro=, IV, 445, 20: through to the opposite side.

=outwood=, III, 179, 8: wood outside (of a town?).

=ouer all=, III, 28, 141: everywhere.

=ouer goddes forbode=, =forbott=. See =forbode=.

=ouer-by-gone=, I, 326, 8: covered, set.

=overthrew us=, V, 134, 8: threw us over.

=o-vour=, II, 25, =F= 13: half owre, half way over.

=ower=, =owre=, =oure=, I, 16, =C= 17; 80, 1: over. ower (a window): over against.

=ower=, =owr=, our, over, too.

=owerturn=, =owreturn=, I, 332, =E=, =F= 7; III, 10, 21: refrain. See =owerword=.

=owes=, who, IV, 205, 27: owns, whose is (who owns==wha’s aucht).

=owerword=, =owre-word=, =oerword=, II, 254, 8, 9; 363, 14; IV, 7, 28; 482 f., 8, 11: refrain (word frequently repeated), call, cry. See =owerturn=.

=owre=, II, 20, 8: or, before.

=owsn=, =owsen=, =ousen=, I, 465, 2; II, 175, 7, 8; 176, 8, 9; 192, 6; 194, 10; IV, 12, =C= 8; 27, 20: oxen.

=owthe=, III, 112, 51: out.

=owtlay=, III, 99, 43: outlaw.

=oxe-lig=, ox-leg.

=oxtere=, IV, 506, 6: (A. S. óhsta) arm-pit.

=oyes=, II, 315, 11; V, 229, 37: grandsons.

=oysyd thare trawale=, III, 41 a: used, carried on their operations.

P

=pa=, paw.

=pa.= See =palle=.

=Pa=, III, 244, =B= 1: unintelligible and doubtless corrupt. Percy, who supposed that Mirryland toune might be corrupted from Milan, Germ. Mailand, understands Po, although, as he observes, the Adige, not the Po, runs through Milan.

=pack=, IV, 69, 12: familiar.

=pad=, V, 114, 1: (in canting language) highway.

=pae=, I, 333, 3: peacock.

=pakets=, V, 165, 6: pockets. (V, 306, 9, has pouches.)

=pale= (of a puncheon), II, 81, 45: tap, spigot.

=pale=, and the covring that these lovers had was the clouted cloak an pale, I, 305, 12: a derivation from Lat. pallium, coverlet, cloak, O. Fr. paile, palle, has been suggested, and as to meaning would suit; but if the word were popular it should be heard of elsewhere. Possibly an error for fale, turf, which is the bed-covering in =F= 6, p. 304; though the combination with cloak would be strange.

=palle=, =pale=, =paule=, =pa=, I, 68, 7; 333, 1; II, 139, 4; 256, =L= 4; 259, =A a= 3, =b= 3, =C c= 3; 483, 5: fine cloth.

=pallions=, III, 300, 15; IV, 500, 16: pavilions.

=palmer=, I, 232, 3-5, 12, =B= 1; 284, 8: pilgrim. III, 3, 10, 11; 4, 4, 5; 180, =B= 8; 186, 10, 11, 17; 189, =A= 8, =B= 3; IV, 445, 3, 4, 20; V, 16, 9, 17: tramp, vagabond, beggar.

=pannells=, V, 86, 29: riding-pads or cushions.

=papeioyes=, I, 328, 33: popinjays.

=paramour=, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: in =A= 4, the word, coming between bouted flour and baken bread, should signify something eatable; =B= has attempted to make easy sense by inserting the. Paramour as lover, lady-love, in the honest sense occurs II, 86, 19, 21; 412, 2; V, 182, 7. the love was like paramour, II, 407, 8: like amorous passion (?). Quite unintelligible in II, 409, 4, a red rose flower, was set about with white lilies, like to the paramour; again, 410, 2.

=parand=, =heir and parand=, II, 447, 2, 4: parand, in 4, might appear to be meant for apparent, but we have his parand and his heir, in 2. There is more ignorance of the meaning of words in the piece.

=pardon=, I, 411, 8: leave of absence.

=part=, God, Christ haue part(e) of the (me), III, 58, 39; 329, 8: perhaps, make me an object of his care (as prendre part en==take an interest in); or, take me for his, number me among the saved.

=part=, part the quick, II, 231, 9; parte our company, III, 71, 307: quit, part from.

=partakers=, III, 138, 7, 8: helpers.

=parti=, vppone a parti, III, 308, 19: aside. March-parti, III, 310, 58: Border-side. Marche-partes, III, 310, 67.

=party=, nane to party me, V, 127, 19: be of part with.

=Pasch=, =Pasche=, II, 146, 9; 147, 7: Easter.

=pass for=, III, 138, 15: care for.

=passe vppon=, V, 51, 67: pass, go, on.

=passe=, III, 73, 357: extent? In 84, 357, and 88, 357, the reading is, compasse.

=passage=, IV, 515, 1: occurrence, incident, adventure.

=passilodion=, V, 71 b; 72 a: a drinking-word.

=passments=, IV, 343, 4: laces, trimmings for dresses.

=pat=, pot.

=pat=, =patt=, =paut=, I, 396, 20; II, 123, 29: strike the ground with the feet, stamp. pat the ball, III, 251, =L= 1, 2: kick. patted wi her lips, II, 83 a: struck together, smacked (?).

=pat=, =patt=, pret. of pit, put, I, 107, 7; 465, 2, 3; V, 218, 2.

=pat-fit=, I, 302, =B= 8: pot-foot.

=paughty=, II, 364, 21: haughty, malapert.

=pauky=, V, 115, 1: sly.

=pautit=, I, 397, =D= 9, 11: patted, struck with the foot, stamped. See =pat=.

=pavag=, =pauage=, =pawage=, III, 109 f., 5, 11-13: Fr. pavage, road-tax. See =Ducange=, =pavagium=. (passage, III, 114 f., 130, 180, 181, etc.)

=paw=, a slight motion. neer played paw, III, 480, 14: never stirred again.

=pay=, n., I, 285, 32; III, 28, 128; 59, 66: satisfaction.

=pay=, =paye=, v., I, 328, 37; II, 478, 12: satisfy, please.

=pay=, III, 142, 36; 161, 26; V, 105, =A= 5, 6; 106, =E= 6: beat.

=payetrelle=, I, 326, 9: poitrail, part of the harness on the breast of a horse.

=payrelde=, =parelde=, I, 327, 16, 17: apparelled.

=peak=, pick.

=peak=, peck.

=peak-staff=, pike-staff.

=pean-kniff=, pen-knife.

=pear=, =peare=, V, 110 f., 2, 4, 6, etc.: poor.

=pearled=, apron, IV, 67, 12: bordered or trimmed with lace.

=pearlin=, =pearlins=, III, 9 f., 6, 14; IV, 448 a, 2d line: pearls.

=pearling=, =pearlin=, II, 323, 6; IV, 326, 16: lace.

=pearting=, parting, separation.

=peat=, I’se gar ye dance upon a peat, V, 104 b (a threat): on a (burning) peat, make it hot for you.

=pecis=, III, 65, 175: vessels (of silver), probably cups.

=peed=, IV, 316, 14: pu’d, pulled.

=peel=, I, 403, 9: pool.

=peel=, a tower, stronghold; climbing the peel seems inappropriate at IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4, unless the meaning be that the peel was “ransakled” for valuables (since kye would not be kept in the peel).

=peeped=, V, 10, 3: spoke faintly, whined.

=peerls=, peerls many, IV, 134, 10: poor folk (Chaucer’s poraille). =B= 8, =C= 6, =D= 10, =F= 8, =G= 4, etc., poor folk many.

=peers=, pears.

=peit=, I, 22, 3: a peat carried to school as a contribution to the firing.

=pellettes=, III, 430, 12: bullets.

=pendles=, IV, 296, 8: pendants, ear-rings.

=penned in=, of windows, II, 330, =G= 3: fastened, perhaps pinned. See =pin=, v.

=penny-brown=, III, 281, 10: brown as a penny. penny-gray, III, 281, 8, at best would mean gray as a silver penny; but silver is called white money. It is just possible that the word is legitimate, and that, penny-brown being understood as very brown, penny-gray might come into use for very gray. Possibly penny-brown (gray) might mean dappled with brown (gray) spots.

=penny-fee=, =-fie=, I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift of a penny largess, pour-boire. (I, 490, 6, penny instead of penny-fee.) II, 469, 25, 26: simply, money.

=peny=, shete a peny, III, 97, 10: shoot for a penny, as 104, 6.

=Perce=, V, 298 a: Persia.

=perelle=, I, 326, 8: pearl.

=perfyte=, II, 72, 4; 75, 6; 78, 8: perfectly.

=pestilett=, III, 430, 11: pistolet.

=petty toes=, I, 133, =L= 9: pettitoes, feet (as in Winter’s Tale, IV, 4), or a play upon words, little toes.

=phat=, III, 318, 8: what.

=philabeg=, IV, 234, 21; 271, 8; V, 266, 8: kilt, skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from belly to knee.

=pibrochs=, IV, 298, =G b= 14: bagpipe airs; seems here to be meant for the pipes.

=pick=, pick a mill, I, 211, =B= 3, 4: sharpen the surface of a mill-stone when worn smooth by friction. picked a stane, II, 323, 1: dressed with a pick.

=pick=, =pickle=, I, 16, =C= 14; IV, 481, 5; V, 206 a, 6: a grain.

=pick=, n., IV, 2, 12: pitch.

=pick=, =pict=, v., 380, 20: pitch (pict, II, 28, 23, may be a misspelling).

=picke=, III, 358, 77: pitch (throw).

=pickle=, a grain. See =pick=.

=pickle=, II, 147, 12, 14; 476, 16, 17: pick, collect.

=picklory=, III, 132, 4: name of a cloth.

=pickman=, pikeman.

=pict=, v., II, 28, 23: pitch (probably a misspelling).

=pig=, I, 305, 5; IV, 206, 9: an earthen vessel, earthen pitcher.

=pig-staves=, V, 213 a, 1: pike-staves.

=pile=, o corn, I, 18, =H= 7: a grain.

=pile=, pile o the gravil green, gray, I, 350, 18, 19; pile that grows on gravel green, IV, 456, 11, 12: a fibre or blade of some velvety moss which grows on stones. See =gravil=.

=pilk=, II, 473, 16: pick, collect. See =pickle=.

=pilleurichie.= See =pitleurachie=.

=pin=, =pinn=, an implement for raising the fastening of a door. tirled the pin, IV, 390, 4; 415, 5. tirled at the pin, I, 470, 23; II, 141, 8; 164, 3; 471, 8; 474, =I= 3, etc. tirled on the pin, II, 461, 11. thirled at the pin, II, 121, 15. thrild upon a pinn, II, 138, 10, 16. twirld at the pin, IV, 390, =b= 4. lifted, lifted up the pin, II, 104, 14; IV, 391, 3; 415, 6. “The pin was always inside, hung by a latch, or leather point, the end of which was drawn through a small hole in the door to the outside. During the day-time, the pin was attached to a bar or sneck in such a way that when the latch was pulled the door was free to open. But at night the pin was disconnected from the door-fastening and hung loose, so that when the latch was pulled the pin rattled.” W. Forbes. (See =tirled=.) knocked at the pin, II, 387, 10; 468, 15; upon a pin, III, 105, 12; rappit at the pin, I, 472, 17; chapped at the pin, I, 481, 29, are probably corrupted from knocked, etc., at the ring (and so, tinkled at the pin, II, 253, 3); if not, the meaning must be, knocked at the door at the place of the latch. that so priuilye knowes the pinn, I, 433, 25, implies that there was some secret connected with the pin (like, knew not the gin, IV, 446 b, 3), which it is difficult to conceive in an arrangement so simple as that described above; but it is probable that complications were employed by the cautious. See =gin=.

=pin=, =gallows-pin=, =gallou-pine=, I, 146, 25; 150, 17; III, 388, 18; V, 247, 18; hanged them out-oer a pin, III, 268, 18; hang you on a pin before my door, V, 26, 15: the projecting, or horizontal beam of the gallows? Any projection upon which a rope could be fastened.

=pin=, v., pin my windows in, V, 295, 5, 6: fasten. See =penned=.

=pindee=, II, 326, 2, of windows, pinned-ee for rhyme, or, possibly, for in, as penned in, II, 330, =G= 3.

=pinder=, =pindar=, =pinner=, III, 131 ff., =A= 1-5, etc.; =B= 1-3; II, 484, =C= 6, 7; 491 a, 5, b, 5: pounder.

=pine=, =pyne=, I, 464, 8; 470, 15, 32; 474 f., 36, 41; IV, 430 f., 4, 23; V, 219, 25: suffering, pain. Goddës, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18: suffering, distress, passion.

=pine=, I, 453, 3: (pind, poind) distrain, seize.

=piner-pig=, III, 385, 7: an earthen vessel for keeping money.

=pingo=, pingo white, IV, 213, 12: pinkie (?).

=Pinnatree, The Gold=, V, 141 b: name of a ship.

=pinner.= See =pinder=.

=pint=, point.

=Pirie=, in Pirie’s chair you’ll sit, the lowest seat o hell: I, 429, 30, 31. For the derivation Sir W. D. Geddes suggests as possible le pire, which would be in the way of the Scottish “ill chiel.” Professor Cappen writes: “Familiar name in doggerel lines recited by boys in their games. One boy stood back against the wall, another bent towards him with his head on the pit of the other’s stomach; a third sat upon the back of the second. The boy whose head was bent down had to guess how many fingers the rider held up. The first asked the question in doggerel rhyme in which Pirie, or Pirie’s chair, or hell, was the doom threatened for a wrong answer. I remember Pirie (pron. Peerie) distinctly in connection with the doom. Pirie’s chair probably indicates the uncomfortable position of the second boy (or fourth, for there may have been a fourth who crouched uncomfortably on the ground below the boy bending), whose head or neck was confined in some way and squeezed after a wrong answer.”

=pistol-pece=, III, 432, 9: pistol.

=pit=, I, 86, 31; 467, 17; V, 219, 10: put. pit mee down, II, 131, 4: be my death. pit back, IV, 510, =W= 3: stop the growth or development of. pret. pat. p. p. pitten, putten.

=pith=, hammer o the, II, 374, =B= 2: sounds like nonsense. The smith’s anvil being of gold and his bellows-cords of silk, his hammer should be of some precious material. To say his hammer was wielded with force would be out of keeping, and very flat at best.

=pitleurachie=, =pilleurichie=, III, 320, =A a= 20, =b= 20: hubbub, discord. See =lierachie=.

=pit-mirk=, III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 14: dark as a pit.

=pitten=, p. p. of pit, put, I, 463 f., 2, 14.

=place=, in place, V, 84 f., 10, 25: presence. in place, III, 422, 76: (means only) there.

=plaet=, pret., IV, 465, 40: plaited.

=plaiden=, IV, 257, 3, 5: coarse woollen cloth diagonally woven.

=plain fields=, IV, 432 f., 2, 10, 17, 21: open fields.

=plainsht=, III, 360, 121: plenisht, filled.

=plainstanes=, IV, 152, 5: pavement.

=plaow=, n., V, 304, 5, 12: plough.

=plat=, I, 101, 19; II, 285, 20, pret. of plet: plaited, interfolded.

=plate-jack=, IV, 147, 22: a defensive upper garment laid with plates.

=platen=, I, 243 f., 8, 11: plates, pieces.

=play-feres=, III, 244, 2, 6; 245, 4, 5: play-fellows.

=plea=, I, 169, 7; II, 282, 2: quarrel.

=plea=, enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, 32. See =enter=.

=plead=, III, 277, 10, 12: contend.

=pleasure=, drink his, V, 307 a, 4: drink as much as he wishes.

=plee=, III, 165, 72: plea (your offer to give up your money is but a slight ground for a plea to be spared? or a slight argument to enforce the justification previously attempted?).

=pleuch=, =pleugh=, n., II, 190, 9; 194, 10: plough. IV, 196, 19; 197, 19: (of land) plough, which see.

=plewed=, feathers plewed with gold, II, 435, 49: not understood.

=plight= I lay, IV, 433, 21: the pledge I did lay? condition in which I should lie? (Very obscurely expressed stanza.)

=plight=, pret., II, 52, 24; 364, 24; V, 50, 45: plighted.

=plooky=, II, 47, 14: pimpled.

=plough=, =pleugh=, =pleuch=, =plow=, IV, 194, 18, 11; 195, 18; 196, 19; 197, 19; etc. (of land): as much land as one plough will till in a year.

=plucke=, fyght a plucke, III, 128, 85: (blow, stroke) a bout.

=plucke-buffet=, they shote, III, 77, 424: at taking and giving a buffet for missing. (This supposes pluck==take, get; it may be the noun pluck, blow.)

=plummet=, of swords, III, 466, 40: pommel.

=pock=, III, 160, 5, 16; 163, 68, 74, 83: bag.

=pocket-napkin=, IV, 468, 2: pocket-handkerchief.

=poind=, pret., =poinded=, p. p., II, 429 b, 3; IV, 80 b; IV, 492 a, 3: distrained.

=poll=, lighter than the poll, IV, 434, 1 (not recognized as Scottish by any of my correspondents): boll, lint-bow, the seed-pod of flax? Not probable.

=poorly=, IV, 444, 35: feebly. V, 10, 3; 266 b, 2: faint-heartedly.

=portioner=, IV, 81 a: possessor of a part of a property originally divided among co-heirs. Jamieson.

=portly=, III, 280, 24: of imposing appearance.

=pot=, II, 144 f., 14, 24; 153, 22; 154 f., 17, 31, 34, 35; 474, =J= 6; IV, 181, 13; 189 f., 7, 22, 28: deep place or pool in a river.

=potewer=, I, 271, 6: read potener, French pautonnière, pouch, purse. “pawtenere, cassidile.” Prompt. Parv. “Marsupium, a pawtenere, a powche.... Cassidile est pera aucupis, vel mercipium, vel sacculus, a pautenier or a pouche. Cassidile dicitur pera ... crumena, etc. cremena, a pautener.” (Way’s note.)

=pottinger=, IV, 509 b, 13: apothecary.

=pottle=, V, 86, 35: a measure of two quarts.

=pow=, II, 476, 16: head.

=powd=, III, 268, 7: pulled.

=powder=, IV, 514, 17: dust (?).

=power=, above (loved), II, 286, 2: beyond (ordinary) capacity or intensity.

=powther=, powder.

=prah=, v., V, 303 a: pray.

=praise=, III, 204, 29: prize.

=praise=, V, 115, 5:==God.

=praisin=, III, 455, =D= 1: if the line is genuine, all the meaning praisin can have will be, the laudation of the queen for her generous behavior.

=pran=, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9: bran.

=prece=, =prese=, =prees=, III, 24, 36; 67, 218: press, crowd. III, 62, 116: thick of a conflict.

=pree=, I, 81 a: taste. See =prey=.

=preen=, n., I, 430, 13: pin.

=preen=, v., I, 147, 13; III, 436, 3; V, 105, =B= 7: pin. See =prin=.

=prees=, =prese=. See =prece=.

=preke=, n., III, 112, 52. See =pricke=.

=preke=, v. See =prekyd=.

=preker=, V, 79, 13: rider.

=prekyd=, =prycked=, V, 78, 6; 80, 40: spurred, rode fast. the hors prekyd, 80, 42: ran, scampered, sped.

=prese.= See =prece=.

=present=, III, 199, 19: represent, act as representatives of.

=presentting=, wine, IV, 37, 16: holding out the cup or glass towards the person saluted.

=presently=, III, 400 a (7): at present.

=president=, III, 231, 82: precedent.

=press=, V, 111, 22: closet.

=prest=, the made them prest, III, 111, 45: ready. berdys sang preste, III, 112, 63: freely, con amore. III, 171, 10: in haste.

=prestly=, III, 27, 113: quickly.

=pretend=, I, 110, 18; V, 57, 66: purpose, design.

=prevayle=, III, 313, 55: avail.

=prey=, II, 490 b, 12-14: (prie, pree) taste.

=price=, III, 358, 63: estimation.

=prick= them to the gin, IV, 480, 4: pin to the fastening.

=prick=(=e=), =pry=(=c=)=ke=, =preke=, rod or wand, used as a mark in shooting==pricke-wand: 111, 93, 28, 30; 202, 34. he cleffed the preke on three, III, 112, 52. ‘have at the pryke!’ ‘and Y cleue the styke,’ III, 90 b. a mark or butt generally, III, 29, 145. slise, cleue the wand==cleffe the preke, III, 70, 292; 75, 401.

=pricked=, pret., II, 266, 28: stuck.

=pricke-wande=, III, 93, 31: a rod set up for a mark.

=prickt=, p. p., I, 345, =C= 1: prinkt, deckt.

=priefe=, V, 81, 14: prove, experience, enjoy.

=pril=, V, 73 a: a drinking word, to which the response must be wril.

=prime=, =pryme=, I, 254, 9: the first canonical hour.

=prin=, n. and v., I, 345, =C= 1; 431, 10; II, 109, 17, 19; III, 388, 17; IV, 189, 4, 6; V, 105, =B= 7 (preened): pin.

=prinkling=, II, 386, 20: seems to be used (perhaps an error) for trinkling, trickling.

=prittle=, I, 59, 15: a doublet of prattle.

=priving=, V, 115, 8: tasting.

=process=, III, 164, 90: occurrences, story of occurrences.

=propine=, I, 79, 24: present, gift. in thy propine, I, 227 b: to be had by thee as a gift.

=propose=, n., V, 207 b, No 5: proposal.

=proselya=, the reef was o the proseyla, I, 333, 5: in other copies the roof is of beaten gold, the floor of cristal a’. The roof here might be of proseyl a’, if that would help, but I know no more of proseyl than of proseyla. The nearest I can come to cristal is, porcelain.

=prossed=, proceed.

=proue=, II, 446, 81: try? Poor sense and no rhyme. The MS. reading is perhaps praie, which is, however, not preferable. Pross is a northern word for talk (Halliwell), and the corresponding verb would suit here.

=prowed=, proud.

=Prudents=, I, 471, 2, 4: black people of the Holy Land.

=pruel=, made her heart to pruel, II, 376, 32: to ache or shiver with fear. (Dr Davidson.) To preel in Aberdeenshire is to cool. (Principal Barbour.)

=pryce=, III, 63, 137: prize.

=prycke=, n. See =pricke=.

=prycked=, as faste as he myght ronne, III, 296, 21: sped; and so V, 80, 42. See =prekyd=.

=pryckynge=, III, 67, 229: spurring, riding briskly, should probably be rakynge; the yeomen are on foot. Cf. III, 123, 12; 180, 9, 11.

=pryke=, n. See =pricke=.

=pryme=, =prime=, III, 23, 9; 25, 72: the first canonical hour, first hour of the day.

=pryse=, I, 327, 16, 17: value, most(e) of pryse==most richly.

=pu=, =pow=, pull.

=pudding-pricks=, III, 160, 19: wooden skewers to fasten the end of a gut containing a pudding.

=puggish=, II, 427, 6: in a later copy, ragged. Mr Ebsworth suggests the meaning, tramper’s. (puggard, thief; pugging, thieving.)

=purchase=, III, 203, 20: booty, prize.

=purchast=, p. p., III, 36, 48: acquired (perhaps, stolen).

=pure=, poor.

=pusin=, n. and v., poison.

=puss-pay=, V, 110, 9, 10: hare or rabbit pie (still in use: W. Walker).

=put down.= See =putten down=.

=put on= (intransitively), II, 92, 21; 255, 22; 278, 7; IV, 190, 25: dressed. put on him, II, 162, 12: jogged, pushed.

=putten=, =putn=, p. p. of put, I, 446, 10; 469, 3; III, 433, 3.

=putten=, =put down=, II, 178, 39; III, 393, 15; IV, 14, 11; 66, =A= 10; 70, 13: hanged. IV, 32, 12: put to death by violence.

=putting-stane=, II, 421, 28: as the stone is thrown, there is no propriety in the hitting and kepping (catching) in 29.

=pyet=, =pyot=, magpie: II, 93, 6; 148 f., 11, 13, 15, 17.

=pyght=, III, 296, 19: pitched (fixed in the ground the pole of).

=pygrall=, III, 410 b, note: paltry.

=pylled=, hatte, III, 179 a: (bald) that has lost the nap.

=pyne=, Goddes, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, 79, 18: passion. See =pine=.

=pyot.= See =pyet=.

Q

=quaich=, V, 264 a, 3: cup or bowl (Irish cuach).

=quarrelld=, p. p., I, 367 f., 12, 20: quarrelled with, found fault with.

=quarry=, IV, 26, 6: of living game, in the modern way (in an adulterated ballad). See =querry=.

=quarterer=, IV, 152, =B= 9, 10: lodger.

=queed=, II, 423, =A= 1: gueed, good is required; queed could mean only ill.

=queen=, =quean=, =queyne=, =quen=, =quien=, I, 69, 38, 39; 302, =A= 11; 303, =C= 6: woman. II, 141, 11; V, 272, 8, 10: concubine.

=queer=, =quir=, IV, 465, 39; V, 224, 27: choir.

=queet=, =quit=, =cweet=, IV, 190, 26; II, 96, =I= 3: ankle.

=quen.= See =queen=.

=quequer=, III, 112, 51: quiver.

=quere=, III, 250, =K= 7: inquire.

=querry=, =quyrry=, III, 307, 8; 311, 11: quarry, dead game. See =quarry=.

=quest=, III, 25, 69; IV, 11, 12: inquest.

=questry-men=, another, IV, 11, 13: men constituting a quest, inquest; but another raises a doubt whether we should not read quest of, as in 12 (ry being caught from jury, above).

=queyt=, III, 112, 59: quit, requite. See =quite=.

=quien.= See =queen=.

=quiles=, II, 488, 1, 2: coils, colls, cocks.

=quill=, IV, 213, 11: quill, the small round fold of a ruff, seems to be put for the quilled ruff; otherwise, kell, cap (or coul, night-cap, not likely).

=quinë-stane=, =qunie-stane=, V, 248, 10, 11: (quoin, coin) corner-stone.

=quir=, =queer=, V, 224, 27: choir.

=quirn=, I, 17, 15: hand-mill.

=quit=, II, 283, 3: ankle. See =queet=.

=quite=, III, 333, 28: requite. See =queyt=, =quyte=.

=quite=, III, 431, 28: free, clear, unpunished.

=qunie-stane.= See =quinë-stane=.

=quoif=, coif, II, 279, 1: cap.

=qustens=, V, 217, a 15: questions.

=quyrry=, III, 307, 8: quarry, the slaughtered game. See =querry=.

=quyte þe=, III, 100, 77: acquit thyself, square the account. The other text has, quit me.

R

=race=, of ginger, IV, 70, =G= 3: root.

=race=, II, 445, 70, 72; 450, 77, 79; III, 278, 24, 29: course in justing. fetched a race, II, 454 f., 54, 58: took a run (for impetus); so I, 176, 22.

=race=, castle-race, II, 75, 15; 81, 43: course in the castle-grounds, or contour of the castle (?).

=rache=, I, 327 f., 10, 16, 51: a scenting dog.

=rack=, III, 472, 3, 4: ford. “A very shallow ford, of considerable breadth: Teviotdale.” Jamieson.

=rad=, V, 192, 26: afraid.

=rader=, rather. V, 283, 7, 17: quicker.

=rader=, rider.

=radly=, III, 98, 24: quickly. See rathely.

=rae=, I, 350, 21; 352, 7: roe (referring to the wildness of Tam Lin).

=raid=, =read=, =rede=, pret. of ride.

=raid=, n., IV, 520, 3: simply ride, for hunting.

=raik.= See =rake=.

=rair=, I, 256, 4: roar.

=rais=, =raise=, =rase=, pret. of rise, I, 305, 5; 327, 13; 420, 18; 422, 18; 451, 12; II, 30, 5; 92, 21; 108, 13-15; IV, 215, =A= 6.

=raiths=, =rathes=, =reaths= (Gael. ràidh), II, 314, 30; V, 268, 21, 22: quarters of a year.

=rake=, =raik=, =reek=, II, 216 f., 5, 30; 483, 1; III, 125, 27; 162, 47; 180, 9: walk, move. raking on a rowe, III, 117, 24; 123, 16; 180, 11: advancing in a line; on a rowte, III, 180, 9: in a company.

=ramp=, rider, IV, 198, =G= 6: wild (of manners or habits). See =rank=.

=ramp=, I, 302, =B= 7: spring, bounce, whisk. ramped him, I, 215 a, 7:==ramped, bounded.

=randy=, I, 104 a, burden of =d=: probably unmeaning, though the sense “indelicate hoyden” would suit with stanza 2.

=rane=, lang rane, II, 82, =C=: yarn, tedious tale.

=rang=, wrong.

=rank= (A. S. ranc, strenuus, fortis, protervus), wild, bold (turbulent), strong, violent. rank river, IV, 200, 5; 442, 4. rank robber (who robs with violence, “strong thief”): II, 223, =F= 4; 233, =F= 3; 399, 6; 400, 4; 401, =C= 6; 404, 6. rank reiver, III, 472, 6; IV, 195, =C= 3; 472, 11. rank rider, IV, 196, 4; 204, 11: rude, boisterous; but II, 434, 24; 437, 75: of spirit and courage, sturdy (stout rider, IV, 197, 3, no reference to horsemanship). ramp rider, IV, 198, =G= 6. rank Highlands, II, 93, 2, 3: rude, wild. ranke (of horses), II, 444, 59: high-fed (or used adverbially).

=rankit=, pret. and p. p., V, 197, 10: drew, drawn, up in military order.

=ranshakled=, IV, 6, 4; V, 249, 4: ransacked.

=rantan=, =ranten=. See =ranting=.

=ranted=, IV, 153, =E= 4; V, 115, 1; was rantin, IV, 85, 39: of making noisy merriment.

=ranting=, n., IV, 284, 26; 287, 1; 288, 1: raking.

=ranting=, =rantin=, =rantan=, =ranten=, laird, laddie, III, 455, =D= 1, 13; IV, 351, 1, 3 ff.; 356 f., =B= 1, 3, 4; V, 274 b, 3-6: jovial, dissipated, wanton, rakish, “fast;” we have a rantin lassie, IV, 354, =A b= 1, 2.

=rap=, IV, 382, 14: knock, drive. pret. rapped, rappit, rappet, at, with ellipsis of the door, I, 105 a, 29; IV, 444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1; 306 b, 1.

=rap=, II, 426, 12; IV, 352, 7; V, 161, =B= 1, 5; 274 b, 7; 302, 14: (of tears) to fall in quick succession.

=rape=, rope.

=rarely=, IV, 58, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11; 358, 20, 21: rhyme-word (to which any one can assign all the sense it has). as adj., IV, 154, 7: rare.

=rase=, pret. of rise. See =rais=.

=rash=, n., IV, 75 a, b; 76, 1; 448 b, 5 (rash-bush); 524, 4, 7; V, 157, 12: rush.

=rashin=, V, 173, 7: rushen, of rush.

=rassiecot=, V, 107, 2: perhaps of no meaning, or, rush-coat.

=rathely=, I, 327, 13: quickly. See =radly=.

=rathes=, II, 314, 30. See =raiths=.

=rau=, row. See =rawe=.

=raught=, I, 434, 36: reached, delivered.

=rauked=, I, 69, 61: searched, rummaged. (Misprinted ranked.)

=rave=, =reave=, =rive=, pret. of rive, I, 439, 5; II, 294, 32; IV, 181, 15. See =rive=.

=ravie= (rave?), V, 111, 19: rive. raving, V, 254, 14, 18, 19: tearing.

=raw=, green raw sea, II, 30, 6: as of weather, wet and cold; but I am informed that the singer ordinarily gave haw, as II, 28, 21.

=rawe=, =rewe=, n., III, 71, 306: row.

=rawstye by the roote=, III, 94, 56: rusty, soiled, foul, (with blood) at the end (?).

=ray=, n. and v., III, 112, 60; 201, 17; 406, 29; V, 83, =b= 3: array. V, 192, 34: make ready, saddle.

=ray=, n., IV, 3, 22: track.

=raye=, III, 67, 230: striped cloth.

=raysse=, III, 295, 2: riding, raid.

=reacheles= on, III, 93, 38: reckless of, heedless about.

=read=, pret. of ride, IV, 457, 23; V, 166, 11; 228, 25.

=read=, I, 309, =B= 1; 310, =B b=: rehearse, tell.

=read= (of dreams), IV, 167, =D= 9, 10; 171, 11; 172, 12, etc.; 180, =C= 3; 190, 23; V, 221, 24; 224, 23; 257, 14: interpret, give an issue to.

=read=, =reade=, =rede=, =red=, =redd=, n., II, 53, 34, 35; 182, 4: advice. See =rede=.

=read=, =reade=, =red=, v., II, 52 f., 6, 34; III, 104, 2, 4; 105, 25: advise. read my rede, II, 186, 1: corrupted from riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8. See =riddle=.

=readilie=, =readylye=, II, 23, =E= 7; 444, 43: (without difficulty or hesitation) certainly.

=ready=, V, 75, 6, 7; 81, 10: direct. readye, II, 58, 16: indubitable, certain.

=reaf=, =reif=, III, 458 b: plunder.

=reak=, smoke. See =reek=.

=reaming=, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV, 176, 15: reaming==creaming, foaming, which of course gives little or no meaning. Apples were sometimes used to scent clothes.

=rean=, =rin=, run.

=reap=, V, 165 f., 6, 9:==ripe, search, rummage; see V, 306, 9.

=reapen=, p. p. of reap, II, 9, 26.

=rear=, rare.

=reas=, praise. See =roos=.

=reas=, =ryse=, III, 307, 5: rouse.

=reast=, =reest=, V, 256 b, 4: roost.

=reaths.= See =raiths=.

=reave=, IV, 26, 1: rob.

=reave=, =rave=, =rive=, pret. of rive, I, 442, 6; IV, 416, 18.

=reavel(l)d=, II, 140, 19, 20: ravelled, disordered (of hair).

=reaver=, =rever=, =riever=, IV, 85, 2: robber.

=recher=, compar., V, 283, 10, 20: richer.

=reck=, v., II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).

=recones=, IV, 496 b: reckonings.

=record=, sma, III, 319, 22: note.

=red=, =redd=, =rede=, n., II, 182, 4; III, 112, 58: counsel. I, 22, =B= 1; 227 a, 5: talk, tale. See =read=.

=red=, =redd=, =rede=, =reid=, v., I, 329, 58; II, 59, 20; 62 a, 15; 182, 4, 6, 9, 10; 272, 6; IV, 495, 2; V, 191, 8: advise.

=red=, III, 163, 80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (see =redding-kaim=). red the question, II, 253, 18: clear up, settle.

=red lan(d)=, I, 16, =C= 11; IV, 274, 6; V, 206 a, 5: cleared, ploughed.

=red river comb=, II, 216, 19, 21: corrupted, as are other versions in this passage.

=redding-kaim=, =reeding-comb=, III, 452, 8; IV, 515, 7: comb (for disentangling).

=rede.= See =red=.

=rede=, p. p., III, 298, 53: read, divined, discerned.

=rede=, pret. of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden, they rode); IV, 182, =F= 5. See =read=.

=redly=, III, 67, 223: quickly.

=reeding-comb.= See =redding-kaim=.

=reef=, I, 333, 5: roof.

=reef-tree=, I, 299, 5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a roof.

=reek=, =reak=, =reik=, n., II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; III, 433, =C= 6-8, =D= 12; 434, 15; 435, 14; IV, 514, 16, 20: smoke.

=reek=, v., I, 304, =E= 3; II, 30, =L= 2; V, 152, =E b= 1: rake, range, move, turn. See =rake=.

=reekit=, V, 108, =B= 7: smoked, smoky.

=reel=, reel went round, V, 155, =C= 2: revel, riot (of merry-makers)?

=reem=, II, 335, =N= 7: room.

=reest=, =reast=, IV, 189, 3, 4: roost.

=reet=, I, 367, 7; V, 213, 8: root.

=reeve=, V, 69 b: bailiff, steward. pl. reues.

=refell=, I, 110, 22: repel.

=refer=, message, II, 286, =C= 10: report, announce.

=regulate=, III, 509, 1, 7: corruption of, riddle it.

=reid=, v., V, 200 a, after 50: advise.

=reif=, =reiff=, III, 365 b; 471, note ‡; V, 198 b, after 52: robbery.

=reign=, II, 8, 1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b 1.

=reik=, smoke. See =reek=.

=reill=, reel.

=reiver=, =rever=, =riever=, III, 472, 6; 473, 22: robber. See =reaver=.

=rejoyfull=, IV, 173, 7: rejoicing.

=remeid=, II, 367, 42; 371, 13; IV, 405, 49; 428, 7: remedy.

=remorse=, III, 209, 10; 231, 94: compassion.

=remoued=, II, 58, 4: agitated.

=renisht=, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht steeds, II, 52, 8; 53, 42 (42 emended from, on tow good renish, in conformity with 8): should have some such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to be made out. Qy. [ha]renisht, harnessed?

=renown=, spake wi renown, IV, 348, 11: force of authority (of prestige), or, with the air of a person of repute.

=repair=, II, 163, 18: resort to? fix upon? (probably nonsense for rhyme).

=require=, II, 427, 6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)

=reset=, IV, 281 a: harboring.

=respect=, in respect, III, 364 b: considering.

=rest=, pret. of rest, IV, 424, 12.

=restore=, IV, 425, 8: restore, because the morning-gift would revert to the father and be at his disposition, no son having been born.

=retour=, IV, 91, note †: return.

=returned=, III, 356, 33: turned away.

=reuelle=, I, 328, 51, 52: festivity.

=rever=, III, 458 b; IV, 472, 11: robber. See =reaver=.

=reues=, III, 68, 254: bailiffs. See =reeve=.

=rewe=, be rewe, II, 479, 15: in a row, one after another, each of the whole class. See =rawe=.

=rewth=, III, 28, 136: pity.

=ribless kiln=, I, 18, =F= 11: the ribs of a kiln for drying grain are the cross-beams, on which were laid the “stickles,” or short pieces of wood, to support a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which the grain was placed. It would of course be impossible to dry grain on a ribless kiln.

=rid=, =ried=, red.

=riddle=, II, 184, 5, 8, 11, 18; 186, 1; 187, 2, 8; 196, e 1, 7: resolve. riddle my riddle, 187, 2, 8: resolve my dilemma. read my rede, 186, 1, is probably corrupted from riddle my riddle; cf. 187, 2, 8.

=ried=, ride.

=rien=, V, 161, 9; 162, =B= 6: riven.

=riever=, =reiver=, =rever=, IV, 84, 8; 195, =C= 3: robber. See =reaver=.

=rig=, =rigg=, =riggin=, ridge.

=rig=, =rigg=, of land, I, 19, 9; II, 152, 11; V, 164, 16; rig-length, III, 273, 23: a measure of land 600 feet by 15, containing 9000 square feet. Donaldson.

=riggin=, III, 459, 5: ridge.

=right=, III, 356, 19: right off, directly.

=rigland=, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges. rigland shire, II, 132, 32: a shire of such land (?).

=rin=, =rine=, =rean=, V, 221, 15: run.

=ring=, plural, II, 285, 16 f.: misprint in Scott?

=ring= (dancing), II, 104, 23; so, take me to the middel o the ring, V, 273, 12.

=ring=, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187, 12; 201, 2; 459, 10; III, 106, 4; 250, 11. rappit wi a, II, 462, 10. rapped on the, V, 293 b, 10. pulled at a, II, 490, =D b= 9. tinkled at the, II, 196 b, 4; 251, 4; 266, 7; 267, 9; 393, 11; 475, =K= 6: the hammer of a doorknocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the ring may have been gently drawn up and down or struck against the projecting bow or rod of a door-handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation which, when vigorously performed, is described as risping or rasping.

=ring= (game), to ride at the ring, III, 448, =A= 3: to attempt, while at full gallop, to carry off, on the point of a rod, a ring suspended on a cross-beam resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.

=ring and the ba=, IV, 257, 4; 354, =A b= 1, 2: a game in which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.

=ringle-tree=, V, 112, =B b= 11: probably the huge block of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.

=ripe=, =reap=, =rype=, III, 160, 16; 163, 83, 84; V, 306, 9: search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.

=rise=, III, 332, 2: branch.

=rise===raise: III, 513 b, 4. pret. rose, 514 a, 5. See =ryse=.

=rise=, pret. of rise, III, 369, 17.

=rise=, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34: said of a ship in full sail; no apparent sense. (ride in =B c=, =g=, 347, 34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349, 34.)

=rispen=, fine rispen kame, II, 225, =J= 2: keen, sharp, risping, rasping? or, p. p., filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in different versions.)

=ritted=, II, 295, =B b= 4, 22: stuck, stabbed.

=rive=, =rave=, =reave=, pret. of rive, tear, V, 256, 13. p. p. II, 465, 4, 6, 8.

=rive up=, I, 303, 7: plough up, tear up.

=riued=, I, 284, 9: arrived, travelled.

=river=, III, 364 b: robber. See =reaver=.

=river-comb=, red, II, 216, =A= 19: is river a corruption of ivory? In =B= 2, 4, it is a tabean brirben kame. =H= 1, brown berry comb. =J= 2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.

=rook=, =roke=, IV, 84, 14; 85, 4; 86, 6; 87, 4; V, 254 =a=, 4: distaff.

=rocked=, =rocket=, =roked=, II, 191, 24; 195, 33: smoked.

=rod=, III, 8, 21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars.

=roddins=, II, 408, 19, 20; 409 f., 21, 23: berries of mountain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409, 21.)

=rode=, rood.

=roelle-bone=, I, 326; 6. royal bone, I, 466 f., 10, 33; royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: interpreted variously, without satisfaction. See rewel-boon, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom. und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de morse.”

=roke=, III, 298, 51: reek, vapor.

=roke=, V, 254 a, 4: rock, distaff. See =rock=.

=roked=, =rocket=, =rocked=, II, 191, 24; 193, 21; 195, 33; V, 224, 19: smoked.

=rom=, V, 304 b, 2: room.

=rood=, III, 93, 28: rod (a measure).

=rood=, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).

=room ye roun=, II, 89, 29: move round so as to make room.

=roome=, III, 36, 44: companye (the reading in =b=).

=roos=, =rous=, =reas=, v., IV, 69, 21; 378, 2; 379, 2; 384, 2; V, 275, 2: to praise, laud, boast.

=roose=, n., IV, 503, 19: rose.

=roosing=, =rosin=, =rousing=, n., IV, 378, 1; 379, 1; 383, 1; V, 275, 1: praising, boasting, bragging.

=root=, I, 304, =F= 5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304, =F= 4: hoops are sometimes made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring would fit.

=root of his sword=, III, 268, 11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.

=rose-garlonde=, III, 75, 398: a “garland” appears to have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is mentioned at 93, 31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery targets.

=rosin=, V, 275, 11: boasting. See =roosing=.

=rosses=, roses.

=rottens=, =rottons=, I, 466, 8; V, 124, 6: rats.

=roudes=, II, 284, 4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled woman).

=roun=, =rown=, =round=, III, 199, 28; 356, 19: whisper.

=rounin(g)=, n., V, 256, 10: whispering.

=round=, so it went round, IV, 146, 7: so much it came to (?).

=round tables=, II, 343, 1: a game.

=roundlie=, I, 104, 6: at a good pace.

=rous=, =roos=, =reas=, IV, 379, 2; V, 275, 2: boast of.

=rousing=, n., boasting. See =roosing=.

=rout=, n., III, 160, 22: blow.

=rout=, n., IV, 113, 3; 114, =D= 1: row, brawl, disturbance.

=rout=, v., II, 318 a; IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: roar. IV, 6, 15; V, 250, 14: bellow.

=route=, =rowte=, =rowght=, III, 23, 22; 26, 88; 180, 9; 207, 33: company, band, crowd. In III, 297, 33: perhaps mêlée, affray.

=routh=, I, 298, 1: plenty.

=row=, rough.

=row=, =rowe=, I, 71, 61; 80, 33; 441, 6, 8; II, 443, 35; 448, 39; IV, 267, 9; 269 b, 9: roll. pret. and p. p. rowed, rowd, rowit, rowt, I, 441, 7, 9; IV, 274, 15; V, 106, =D= 7: rolled, wound.

=rowan=, =rowon=, =rown=, tree, II, 504, 18: mountain-ash.

=rowe=, on a, III, 67, 229; 117, 24: in a line, file.

=row-footed=, III, 473, 25: rough-footed.

=rowght=, III, 297, 33: company. ryall in rowghte, kingly among men. See =route=.

=rowght=, wrought.

=rown=, I, 312, 17, 22: rowan, mountain-ash. See =rowan=.

=rown=, =roun=, =round=, III, 356, 19: whisper.

=rowt=, pret., V, 106, =D= 7: rolled. See =row=.

=rowte.= See =route=.

=rowynde=, III, 297, 33: round.

=royal bone=, =royal ben=. See =roelle-bone=.

=royaltye=, III, 411, 5: splendid display, or the like.

=rub-chadler=, =rub-chandler=, I, 285 f., 31, 43: rubbish-barrel. See I, 279.

=rudd=, n., I, 272, 13, 20, 24: (redness) complexion, face.

=rudd=, v., IV, 28, 34: redden.

=rudely=, III, 162, 49: sturdily.

=rue=, III, 220, 6: cause to rue.

=rugge=, I, 243, 2: back.

=rule=, III, 98, 32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.

=run=, IV, 289, =F= 6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).

=run=, red runs i the rain, II, 304, 4: gives no sense, and so of Scott’s reading at this place, the red sun’s on the rain. It will be observed that the day has not dawned.

=run a reel=, II, 108, 17: gone through, danced.

=rung=, I, 202, =A= 12; III, 161, 43; IV, 444, 20: staff, pike-staff.

=rung= (of the noise of a cannon), n., IV, 52, 14: ring; appears to have been altered, for rhyme, from ring, which is in two other copies.

=rusty=, V, 151, =E= 6: surly.

=rybybe=, I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.

=ryght=, straight, directly, ryȝth, V, 283, 14: aright.

=rynde=, be rynde and rent, III, 297, 42: flayed., (rynde should perhaps be riven.)

=rype=, v. See =ripe=.

=ryse=, III, 22, 2; 23, 20: rouse. See =rise=.

=rysse=, I, 328, 39: probably rising ground, elevation (compare mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in 38, 40-42: not twig, brushwood).

=rysyt=, I, 242, 11: riseth (old imperat. pl.), rise.

S

=s=, =se=, as sign of the future tense. I’se, III, 488, 19; IV, 428, 18. thou’s,’se, IV, 3, 31; 12, =C= 6. he’s, hee’se, II, 442, 16; IV, 146, 6. we’s, I, 467, 29; IV, 181, =D= 14. ye’se, IV, 22, 18; 109, 7. yow’s, IV, 504, 36. they’s, IV, 486, 32. itt’s, II, 443, 22. heart’s, IV, 181, 17. Jocky Ha’s, III, 487, 6. thy dinner’s, III, 489, 41. (The s being the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s’, etc.) s attached to the verb, be’s, III, 160, 9. We even find shals, I, 481, 28.

=-s (-is)=, of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f., 8, 23, 28; 111, 39. moder son, III, 98, 24, 27, as in A. S.

=’s=, II, 375, 19: of his.

=-s (-se)=, termination of the 2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic. thou was, I, 222, =E= 11; seese þou, I, 328, 38-42; þou commes, 44. thou’s welcome, III, 488, 24. shals thou, I, 481, 28. istow, 175 f., =D= 4, 10, 16. See I, 130, 5; 327, 20; 328 f., 56, 58; 341, 13; 411, 4; 413, 3; II, 54, 57; 148 f., 12, 20; 218, 8, 10, 16; III, 97, 11, 15; 99, 62; 110, 23. Etc., etc.

=-s=, =-es=, =-ys=, termination of pres. indic. plur. cods that sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68, 29; 115, =C= 3; 130, =F= 11; 327, 16; 329, 59; 342, 40; 345, 39; II, 32, =P= 4. So, is, was, I, 68, 27; 69, 43; 255, 3-5; 342, 30; 344, 28; II, 71, 13, 14. Etc.

=saa=, pret., saw.

=sabelline=, I, 221, =D= 8, 9: sable.

=sackless=, =sakeless=, =saikless=, II, 145, 22, 23; 153, 19, 21; III, 437, 27; IV, 373, 9: innocent.

=sad=, III, 67, 215; 357, 40: steadfast, firm, stanch.

=saep=, v., III, 269, =D= 3: soap.

=saerd=, p. p., IV, 494, 33: served.

=safe=, II, 160, 4, 6, 7: save.

=safeguard=, V, 66, 11: riding-skirt.

=safer=, V, 283, 21: saffron.

=safly=, IV, 18, 10: softly.

=saft= (of sleep), III, 489, 11: lightly.

=saikless.= See =sackless=.

=sain=, I, 351, 36, 48: cross, bless. p. p. sained, I, 354, 26. ill sained, pret., I, 350, 25. well saint, p. p., III, 488, 37.

=saint=, III, 488, 37: blest. See =sain=.

=saint=, v., disappear. See =sainted=.

=St Mary knot(t)=, III, 465, 26, 27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).

=sainted=, =saunted=, I, 331, =C= 8; 333 b, 8: disappeared.

=saipy-sapples=, I, 303, =D= 5 (the right reading): soap-suds in which clothes have been washed (probably meaning the strang of V, 213, 5).

=sair=, sore. I, 100, 9: lamentable.

=sair=, =sare=, =saer=, =sere=, I, 301, 2; II, 71, 15; 105, 9; 408, 1, 2; IV, 248, 10; V, 105, =B= 3, 11; 239, 34: serve.

=sairly=, IV, 358, 19: rhyme word; much is all the meaning.

=sait=, set.

=sakeless.= See =sackless=.

=sale=, V, 228, 19: sold.

=sall=, shall, pret. sould.

=sally rod=, III, 252, 12: sallow, willow.

=salten=, adj., IV, 452, 6; 475, 6: salt.

=salued=, III, 61, 102: greeted.

=Saluter=, III, 250, 3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of the ballad).

=same=, alle in same, III 91 a: all, together. vppon the same, III, 361, b 33: again, after the same fashion (?).

=san=, =sane=, =sayn=, =syne=, V, 214 f., 4, 9; 221, 24; 242 a, 7; 257, 14: since.

=sanchoþis=, of his bryk, III, 13, 3: apparently the fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.

=sang=, pret. of sing, to singe, II, 155, 37, 38.

=sanna=, shall not.

=sarbit=, II, 132, 33, 34: exclamation of sorrow.

=sare=, serve. See =sair=. sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing.

=sark=, I, 15, 8, 17; 16, =B= 8, 18, =C= 6, 18, etc.; 387 f., =A= 5, 8, 9; =B= 5, 6, 7: shirt, shift.

=sarsenent=, IV, 312, 8: sarcenet.

=sassaray=, II, 209, =E= 5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. See =céserará=.

=sat=, =saut=, I, 310, 4: salt.

=sate=, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469, 8: occupy, be in, a good, pitiable, position.

=sathe=, I, 333, appendix 1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)

=saugh=, III, 459, 15; IV, 95, 2: willow.

=saun faile=, V, 297 b: assuredly.

=saunted=, =sainted=, I, 331, =C= 8; 335 b, 8: disappeared.

=saut=, =sat=, IV, 258, 26: salt.

=saute=, III, 327 b: assault, attack.

=sauyour=, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97, 7: attended mass, or, took the sacrament.

=saving tree=, III, 398, =D= 4: corruption of savin tree.

=saw=, v., I, 427, 13, 15; 428, 11: sow.

=sawe=, p. p. of see, III, 59, 60.

=sawe=, speech.

=sawten=, v., 3 pl., III, 100, 63: assault, attack.

=sawtrye=, I, 328, 49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.

=say=, II, 87, 30: try.

=say=, =saye=, pret. of see, III, 111, 34; 309, 44; V, 79, 35; 80, 47.

=sayn=, =san=, =sane=, =syne=, V, 239, 34; 254, 9, 11, 13, 22; 257, 15: since, then.

=sayne=, I, 70, 19, strong participle of say. In, I yow sayne, III, 297, 46, an auxiliary, do or can, must be omitted, or else we must read saye, as in 32, 34, 62, 65.

=scad=, I, 102, 12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts, shade, shadow, I, 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12.

=scaith=, =skaith=, =scath=, n., III, 162, 52, 66: hurt.

=scaith=, =skaith=, v., III, 5, =D= 8; 6, 17: hurt.

=scale=, I, 429, 11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)

=scale=, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393, 6: expel, drive away. scaling wide, III, 301, =D= 2: scattering, covering a good deal of ground.

=scales=, V, 211, 25, 31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.

=scanct=, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.

=scarson=, II, 434, 29: scarcely up to.

=scart=, I, 301, 5, 6; 303, =D= 2: scratch, scrape.

=scath=, =scaith=, n., I, 284, 18: harm.

=scathe=, awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202; =wayte= me skathe, wait me scath, III, 83, 202; 86, 202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.

=scathe away=, I, 348 f., 5, 8: expel, get rid of? See =skaith=, I, 397, 14.

=scaur=, Braidscaur, III, 5, =D= 2, 6: a bare and broken place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broadspear, 6, 2, 5, is probably a corruption.

=Scere-thorsday=, I, 243, 1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter. (Icelandic Skíri-þorsdagr.)

=schane=, pret., shone.

=scharpper=, compar., V, 283, 6, 16: sharper. V, 283, 8: emend to strenger.

=schele=, =scheel=, II, 164, 2; 335, =N= 5; IV, 328, =A b=, after 7: school. See =schule=.

=schet=, =schette=, pret. of schote, shoot, III, 13 f., 13, 15.

=schill=. See =shill=.

=scho=, II, 146, 19; IV, 418, 2: she.

=schon=, =shon=, =shone=, V, 79, 27: shoes. See =sheen=.

=schoote= his horsse away, froo, III, 297, 32, 33: discarded, sent off.

=schrewde= (arrow), III, 13, 6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.

=schule=, =scheel=, =squeel=, II, 175, 16; IV, 327 f., 2, 5; 329, =D d= 7: school.

=schunte besides=, =beside=, III, 361, =b, c= 38, 41: turn aside from.

=schylde=, imperat., V, 283, 14: shield, protect.

=sckill=, I, 295, 28: reason, judgment. See =skill=.

=sclasps=, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489, 25: clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the shoulders. (In =L= 18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women’s spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in 25^4. (yards three in =L= 18.)

=sclavin=, I, 190 a: pilgrim’s cloak.

=scob(b)=, =scope=, =scoup=, II, 313, 26; 316, 10: gag.

=scop=, III, 138, 9: (scalp) pate, head.

=scope=, =scoup=, =scob=, II, 312, 29; V, 229, 33: gag.

=score.= See =cor=.

=scorn=, =skorne=, II, 105, 20; III, 113, 77: shame, humiliation, mortification. give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111, 12; 360, 23; 362, 35; 363, =D= 14; 367, 49; IV, 201, 23; 224, 24, 25; 254, 25; 357, =B= 6, 10; 358, 16; 465, 35, 36: put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483, 25; get the scorn, II, 367, 47; IV, 221, 16; 222, 18, 19; 227, 16, 17; 228, 19; 230, 24.

=scort=, I, 334, 4: short.

=scoup=, n., V, 229, 33: gag. See =scob=, =scope=.

=scoup=, v., II, 70, 15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.

=scouth=, III, 161, 42: room, range.

=scray=, III, 116, 4, as to form suggests scrag, scrog; but the meaning required is, branches, branchage, or even spray.

=scread=, II, 425, =A= 6: shred, bit, piece.

=screeded= (or =scrieded=), pret., II, 212, 13: rent.

=screeking=, =screehing=, II, 485, 17: screeching.

=screfë=, =screffë=, =shryvë=, III, 111 ff., 27, 33, 38-42, etc.: sheriff.

=screighed=, IV, 174, 20: shrieked.

=scrieded.= See =screeded=.

=scrime=, IV, 10, 2; serime, 15, =d= 2: seem to be corrupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.

=scrodeley=, V, 79, 14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.

=scroggs=, =scrogs=, III, 3, 12; 5, =C= 3; 7, =E, F= 11; 9, =G= 10, =H= 13; 10, =I= 5; IV, 496, 8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood. “Scroggs, blackthorn.” Halliwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V, 10, 4 (high enough here to hang the pair on).

=scroggy=, =scroggie=, IV, 174, 10; 273, 14: covered with stunted bushes; “abounding in underwood,” Halliwell.

=scug=, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283, 22: shade, screen. (Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.

=scuttle-dishes=, II, 467, 43: the larger dishes, in which things are served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T. Davidson); platters.

=se=, sign of the future tense. See =s=.

=se=, pret. of see. See =see=.

=sea-ground=, I, 448, 11: bottom of the sea.

=sea-maw=, II, 363, 7; 365, 5; IV, 482 b, 6: gull.

=seal=, IV, 409, 5: (A. S. sǽl) happiness, blessing. gude seal that it sae spread, II, 420, 1: (happiness result from its spreading?) quod faustum sit!

=seale=, III, 412, 24: sail.

=sear=, =sair=, IV, 456 f., 15, 19: sore.

=sear=, V, 223, 8: sure.

=sear=, serve. See =sair=.

=search her=, IV, 446, 2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should, perhaps, be seek, visit).

=seat=, V, 274 b, 1: sight.

=seck=, I, 15, 15: sack.

Second person of pret. indic. without termination, thou made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221, =C= 9; 222, =E= 10-17; 434, 27; II, 148 f., 12, 14, 20; 218, 16. So, thou will, schall, thou’ll, well thow, I, 130, 4; 221, =C= 10, 11; III, 110, 24; 112, 48.

=securly=, III, 98, 34: surely.

=see= (videre), pret. say, saye, sey, se, see, seed. pret. se, see, I, 283, 1; 295, 27; II, 46, 40; 245, 27; III, 24, 47; 27, 99; 97, 19. p. p. se, III, 27, 102.

=see=, save and se(e), II, 44, 6, 15; 52 f., 10, 18, 44; III, 65, 177; IV, 198, =G= 4; 455, 4: protect (tueri).

=see=, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266, 3: as here used, see well would have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion of well may you fare and God see you, protect you (as in, save and see). In =B= 3, p. 268, weel may ye save might mean, may God save you, but far better, in the next line, is not in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to understand weel as good fortune. The passage must be corrupted. well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and say, II, 290, 15: (corrupted) nonsense.

=see=, sigh and see, IV, 193, 14: apparently a doublet of sigh, as ne of neigh and nigh, he of high.

=see=, n., V, 283, 5, 15: sea.

=seed=, pret. of see, IV, 151, 6.

=seek=, =seke=, I, 75, 46; II, 146, 18, 20; 171, 16; III, 68, 255; V, 256 b, 14: search. I, 202, 16; 204, 11; V, 211, 19, 23: ask. socht, II, 30, 8: asked for. partic. seek and, seeking.

=seek in=, V, 180, 13, 15: ask admission.

=seeke to=, =unto=, III, 444, 5: resort to.

=seel o downs=, IV, 218, 12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.

=seely=, happy. seely court, I, 315, 12; 507 f., 2, 12: fairy court (as I, 346, 16; elfin court, 351, 30).

=seen=, I, 504, 7: sun.

=seen=, I, 183, 9, 15; II, 166, 20; 257, 30; IV, 135, 25: soon. seener, IV, 262, 31.

=seen===syne, afterwards.

=seene=, I seene, V, 53, 105: ellipsis of have.

=seep=, II, 148, 10: ooze, leak.

=seeth=, III, 281, 7: sooth.

=seke=, III, 68, 255; 100, 76: search. See =seek=.

=seke=, to, III, 110, 14: at a loss.

=seker=, III, 67, 215: firm, resolute.

=sekirlye=, I, 327, 18: certainly, truly.

=seld=, IV, 2, 2: sold.

=selerer=, III, 61, 91, 93; 67, 233: the monk who has charge of the provisioning of a convent.

=selke=, V, 283, 21: silk.

=selkie=, =silkie=, II, 494 a: seal.

=selle=, I, 326, 6: saddle.

=semblant=, =semblaunce=, =semblaunte=, =semblaunt=, III, 57, 22; 79, 22; 82, 22; 85, 22: mein, look.

=sembled=, III, 160, 15: met. (=b=, asembled.)

=sen=, sent.

=sen=, II, 32, =Q= 2; 110, 2; 272, 10, 12: since.

=send=, =sene=, II, 360, 10; 365 f., (10), 17, 18: a thing sent. II, 109, 15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.

=send=, pret., I, 204, =D= 3: sent.

=sendered=, IV, 229, 12, 16: sundered, parted.

=senes=, IV, 315, 2; 316, 25: sends, messages. See =send=.

=sent=, III, 75, 384: sendeth.

=sent=, sent I me, III, 76, 414: assent.

=sentence past=, IV, 514, 6: order given.

=sere=, serve. See =sair=.

=serre=, II, 59, 29: sair, sore? (MS. serrett).

=serundad=, =surunded=, V, 262, No 225, =A= 3; 263, 4: surrounded.

=servit=, II, 371, 5: (serviette) table-napkin.

=seruyd him of bred and cloth=, I, 241, 1: for would make an easier reading than of, which will have to be understood, on terms of (receiving food and clothing).

=set=, V, 80, 57: sitteth.

=set=, II, 168, 1; 282, 7; 463, 19, 25; III, 216, 29; IV, 135, 20; 204, 9; 331, 18: sit, become, suit. set a petticoat, IV, 331, 18: became (looked well in) the petticoat. See =become=.

=set=, p. p., III, 37, 61: fixed, determined. See =set for=, below.

=set= her brest (and swom), II, 459, 8: brought her breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)

=set=, set a mill, I, 134, =O=, 8: to stop the machinery by turning off the water from the wheel.

=set=, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67, 223: assailed, shot at.

=set= (=sete=, and wrongly =sat=) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309, 42, 45, 46: inflicted a blow, stroke.

=set by=, IV, 11, 15, 20: lay aside, cease, let be.

=set for=, IV, 229, 12, 16: set upon, bent upon.

=set them up in temper wood=, IV, 222, 20: corrupt. See note, 231, =D= 20.

=sete=, n., III, 63, 133: suit, dress.

=sett=, III, 340, 31: take aim.

=settle by=, IV, 219, 13: set you aside (?).

=settled=, gun, III, 341, 44: levelled, adjusted.

=sevent=, II, 75, 7: seventh.

=several=, III, 224, 13: variously.

=sey=, pret. of see, V, 80, 41.

=seyn=, =syen=, =syne=, then, afterwards.

=seyte=, neys seyte, V, 80, 39: pretty sight!

=sez I=, V, 304, b, 4: say(s) I.

=sha=, =shaw=, V, 267, 10: show.

=shack=, =shake=, IV, 325, 9; 326, 7: shake straw so that the corn may fall out (?).

=shade=, =shadow=, =scad=, I, 101, 13; 490, 21; 491, 20; 492, 12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowes greene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III, 32, 48.

=shaft their arrows on the wa=, IV, 3, 16: so in both copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.

=shaftmont=, =shathmont=, I, 330 f., =A= 2, =B= 2, =C= 2; 332, =E= 2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A. S. “ix. scæfta munda.” Lex. Ath.)

=shake=. See =shack=.

=shals thou=, I, 481, 28. See =s= as sign of the future tense.

=shambo=, II, 376, 26: shamoy, chamois.

=shame=, the, II, 70, 15; III, 464, 11; 466 f., 44, 52, 58: euphemism for the Devil. shame a ma, III, 490, 15, 27, 29: devil a bit.

=shamefu reel=, II, 110, 28: the first reel that is danced with the bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.

=shames death=, II, 60, 41; III, 330, 14: death of shame, shameful death.

=shamly=, III, 80, 337: shamefully.

=shane=, pret. of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a, 11.

=shank=, IV, 37, =A= 6, =B= 8: the projecting point of a hill, joining it with the plain.

=shapen=, III, 79, 81, 85, 50: devised, ordained.

=share=, I, 388, =B= 7; IV, 416, 17: cutting, portion.

=shathmont.= See =shaftmont=.

=shaw=, =shawe=, I, 422, 3; III, 91, 1; 97, 1; V, 250, 25: wood, thicket. See =wode shawe=. In Teviotdale shawe is “a piece of ground which becomes suddenly flat at the bottom of a hill or steep bank.” Jamieson. So, perhaps, V, 250, 25.

=shaw=, =sha=, show.

=shay=, V, 110, 8, 9: shy.

=she=, III, 318, 4: spurious Highland dialect, representing he, they, and even Highlander, for which she, her, hernanesell have become a nickname. (The Gaelic having no word for the neuter it, the masc. e and fem. i do duty for the absent form. i in some Highland districts is largely used in speaking of sexless objects.)

=sheaf=, =shefe=, of arrows, III, 3, 5; 62, 131: bundle of twenty-four. Cf. II, 168, 5; III, 13, 9.

=shealin=, =shiel=, =shielin=, =shielen=, =shieling=, =shield=, IV, 258, 23; 259, 17; 260, 16; 262, 27, 29; 266, 17: herdsman’s hut.

=shear=, III, 307, 6, 8: several. (Scot. seir.)

=sheave=, =shive=, n., I, 470, 32; II, 358, 27; 367, 44; V, 16, 13, 14; 18, 3, 4; 219, 25: slice.

=sheave=, v., IV, 476, 7: slice.

=sheave-wisps=, V, 213, 5: wisps of straw from a sheaf, put by peasants into their shoes for more warmth.

=shed=, II, 116, 27; 118, 21: a piece of ground on which corn grows, so called as being separate from adjacent land.

=shed by= (hair), II, 129, 26, 27: parted, threw off from the face on both sides. shed back, II, 135, 39 (shook back, 135, 38).

=shedd=, pret. See =sheede=.

=shee=, =shie=, I, 68, 9, 12; III, 271, =F= 9; 384, 9: shoe.

=sheed=, V, 251, 36: sheet.

=sheede=, I, 273, 43, 44: shed, spill.

=sheen=, =sheene=, =sheyne=, I, 490, 7; II, 52, 5, 11; 372, =A= =b= 2; III, 24, 48; 91, 1; 97, 1: shining, bright, beautiful. (bright is also beautiful, I, 285, 25; 293, 2.) In, shawes been sheene, III, 91 and 97, 1; shadowes sheene, III, 24, 48, we must take sheene in the secondary sense, beautiful.

=sheen=, =shene=, I, 176, 2, 7, 12; II, 395, 17; IV, 380, 26; 416, 12; V, 306, 2, 3: shoes. See =schon=.

=sheen=, =shene=, v., III, 392, 9, 10: shine. pret. shane.

=sheene=, n., II, 183, 13: brightness, splendor (evidently a word of Percy’s here).

=shefe.= See =sheaf=.

=shend=, III, 27, 114; 63, 140; 123, 13: put to shame, injure, destroy.

=shent(e)=, p. p., III, 27, 114: blamed. III, 75, 396; 123, 13: hurt, etc.

=shete=, shoot. shete a peny, III, 97, 10, 11: shoot for a penny-stake. pret. shet, III, 97, 12; shyt, III, 26, 83.

=sheu=, IV, 289, =F= 9: show.

=sheugh=, II, 238, 6; V, 108, =B= 1: trench, ditch, furrow.

=shew=, I, 299, a 13; II, 332, =J= 6: sew.

=shewed=, III, 450 b: represented.

=sheyne.= See =sheen=.

=shie=, shoe. See =shee=.

=shiel=, =shielen=, =shieling=, =shield=. See =shealin=.

=shill=, =schill=, I, 16, 1; 17, =E= 1; II, 254, 10; 382, 28; 383, 29; 386, 24; IV, 200, 2; 201, 1: shrill.

=shimmerd=, glittered.

=shin’d=, pret. of shine, IV, 240, 2.

=shirife=, =shirrfe=, =shrife=, =sheriff=. See =screfe=.

=shirrs=, shears.

=shive=, =sheave=, V, 219, 25: slice.

=shock=, v., IV, 106 b: collide, encounter.

=shoder=, V, 221, 10: shoulder.

=shogged=, III, 332, 14: moved away.

=shon=, =schon=, =shone=, =shoon(e)=, =shoun=, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 73, 64; 78, 39; III, 65, 193; V, 83, 55: shoes.

=shook= (sword over the plain), II, 393, =K= 14: the MS. has shook, not strook, but strook must at any rate be meant (cf. 380, =A= 32). See II, 378 a.

=shooled=, I, 184, 10; V, 210, 10: shovelled. See =shule=.

=shoon(e)=, =shoun=, shoes. See =shon=.

=shoon=, =shoun=, soon.

=shoot at sun and moon=, III, 201, 21; to the sun or the moon, III, 203, 18: they wish to have no mark measured, are ready to take any distance.

=shope=, III, 59, 64: created.

=shopen=, =shapen=, III, 82, 50: devised, ordained.

=short-bread=, V, 262, 22: “a thick cake of fine flour and butter, to which caraways and orange-peel are frequently added.” Jamieson. (A sweet short-bread is still well known in Scotland.)

=shorten her=, I, 478, 14: while away the time for herself; cf. Germ, kürzen, kurzweilen. See =shortsome=.

=shortlye and anone=, III, 23, 10: speedily.

=shortsome=, adj., II, 371, 2: enlivening, cheering.

=shortsome=, v., II, 370, 13, 14: divert (while away the time, opposed to langsum). See =shorten=.

=shot=, o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.

=shot=, V, 76, 9; 127, 3: reckoning. trust me one shott, V, 15, 22.

=shot=, II, 256, =K= 2==schawit, looked at(?).

=shot=, p. p., IV, 458, 3: shod.

=shot-window=, II, 122, 5; 141, 10; 177, 24; 230, 9; 322, 7; 357, 8; 368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37, 40; III, 23, 22; 105, 20; IV, 135, 19; 151, 6; 153, =E= 6; 154, 11; 428, 3; 493, 12; V, 248, 8. II, 141, a princess looks out at a shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot-window in her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight jumps to a shot-window to escape; III, 105, Robin Hood glides out of a shot-window; IV, 135, a queen looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in at a shot-window.--“Windows called shots, or shutters of timber with a few inches of glass above them.” Wodrow’s History, II, 286. But the shot-window of recent times is one turning on a hinge, above, and extensible at various angles by means of a perforated bar fitting into a peg or tooth. Donaldson, Jamieson’s Dictionary, 1882, notes that in the west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot window. A bow-window would be more convenient in some of the instances cited.

=shott=, V, 15, 22: reckoning (oddly used here as of an ale-house.) See =shot=.

=shouir=, =shower=, III, 385: throe, pang. See =showr=.

=shoulder=, looked over the left, III, 339, 7; 368, 11; 369, 13, etc.: apparently a gesture of vexation or of indignant perplexity. See the passages cited at V, 286 a.

=shoun=, =shun=, shoes. See =shon=.

=shoun=, soon.

=shour=, sure.

=shourn=, V, 225, 5: shoulders,

=shouther=, =showther=, =shuder=, I, 21 b, 3; 302, =A= 7; 303, 9; 331, =D= 2; 332, =F= 2; IV, 297, 10: shoulder.

=showded=, V, 124, =C= 15: swung.

=shower.= See =showr=.

=shower o his best love=, I, 476, =J= 4: share, or cut, of his best loaf.

=showing-horne=, II, 437, 78: shoeing-horn, a pun on the beggar’s horn, whether as a means of sponging liquor, or of helping one to take in drink.

=showne=, pret., III, 37, 84: showed.

=showr=, =shower=, =shouir=, I, 68, 32; II, 105, 3; III, 385, 5; 386, 7: throe, paroxysm of pain.

=shradds=, III, 91, 1: coppices (Halliwell, perhaps conjecturally). The equivalent shard, he says, is in Yorkshire an opening in a wood. (A. S. scréadian, cut, dock?)

=shrewde=, =shrewed=, a term of vituperation; originally, cursed. thou art a shrewed dettour, III, 61, 104; thou arte a shrewde hynde, III, 64, 164: perhaps ironical (devilish pretty). shrewde wyle, III, 65, 181: clever.

=shroggs=, III, 93, 28: rods, wands (serving for prickes, marks).

=shryuë=, III, 70, 287: sheriff. See =screfe=.

=shuder=, IV, 493, 8: shoulder. See =shouther=.

=shule=, v., IV, 207, 20: shovel. See =shooled=.

=shun=, =shoun=, shoes.

=shun=, III, 357, 41: better, shunte, as in the other texts, turn off, aside. Shunte is to be understood in 43, 45, 47.

=shuped=, I, 204, =E= 2: shipped. (The reading may be sheeped.)

=shyt=, pret., III, 26, 83: shot.

=shyt=, imperative, III, 71, 314: shut. p. p., III, 25, 53: shut.

=si=, so.

=siccan=, =sic=, =sick=, =sicke=, =sicken=, such, such a.

=siccarlie=, III, 492, 27: so as to make all safe. sickerlie, III, 491, 5: securely. III, 491, 12: so as to make certain, make sure of the effect.

=siccer=, =sicker= (siccer and honestly), III, 487, 9; IV, 31, =B= 6: securely, safely.

=sich=, =sick=, n., sigh: II, 139, 6; 168, 15; 230, =C= 1.

=sich=, =sick=, v., I, 451, 12; V, 164, =D b= 10: sigh. pret. sicht, I, 73, 66; III, 453, 2. sikt, II, 241, 8. siched, I, 72, 21. sight, IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23. pres. p. sichand, sichan, sichin, II, 96, =I= 3, 4, 6; 471, 13; V, 41, 31; IV, 382, 6.

=sichin=, n., II, 286, =C= 10: sighing.

=sicht=, sight.

=sicke=, =sicken=, III, 367, 3; 441, 32; V, 194, 64 (sicken-like): such.

=sicker.= See =siccer=.

=sickles of ice=, =ickles of ice=, III, 152, 1; 154, f 1: icicles.

=side=, keeping her flocks on yon side, IV, 323, 1: ellipsis of hill, river, or the like.

=side=, adj., II, 122, =H= 7, 8; 407, 9; 409, 15; 466, 37, 38; 469, 38, 39; IV, 165, 15; 283, 12; 285, 4; V, 267, 4: long, and so, probably, IV, 130, 4; 134, 8. I, 80, 12, of stirrup too long, low for the foot (Icel. síðr, demissus). saddle a steed side, IV, 464, 18: wide. wear your boots sae side, I, 428, 8; 429, 5: of boots the tops of which lap a good way over, or perhaps of boots wide at the tops; I, 430, 2. See =syde=.

=side be=, mother-in-law side be, II, 71, 11: seems to mean, side by, by his side. Possibly, sud, should, be.

=sighan=, =sighend=, pres. p. of sigh.

=sight=, =sikt=, pret., IV, 503 f., 6, 21, 23: sighed. See =sich=, v.

=signd=, IV, 288, 10: that is, sind. Sind is to wash, rinse; here she has simply wet her lips.

=signots=, took out the gowd signots, IV, 53, 13: ornaments, whether seals or not, attached to the ears by “grips.” Three sygnets hang at a gold ring, IV, 37, 13; 38, 13, which is taken off in the latter place, and was, therefore, a finger-ring.

=sike=, =syke=, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench (watercourse, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.) IV, 470, 25: (perhaps) rivulet.

=sikt=, sighed.

=sile=, IV, 118, =C= 3: flow.

=silkie=, =selkie= (A. S. seolh), II, 494, 3, 4: seal.

=siller-knapped= (gloves), II, 134, 8, 13: ornamented with silver balls or tassels. (golden-knobbed, 133, =D= 6.)

=silly.= silly tin, silly twine, II, 224, 12, 17: simple, mean, of slight value. silly sisters, II, 311, 1: harmless, innocent? silly old man, silly old woman, etc., III, 5 f., 10, 11, 20; 6 f., 9, 10; 9, =G= 9; 180 f., 3, 8, 9, 19; 271, 8: of a “puir body,” palmer, beggar. V, 129, 1; 130, 1; 131, =d= 1, =e= 1-3: of a supposedly simple old man who turns out to be shrewd. V, 253 f., No 203, =D= 2, 8: (perhaps) spiritless, cowardly. sit a silly sate: see =sit=.

=simmer=, II, 261, 10; V, 299, 4; etc.: summer. simmer-dale, II, 261, 8, 9.

=simple=, III, 163, 72: poor, scant.

=sin=, III, 281, 7; IV, 260, 17: son.

=sin=, II, 494, 6; IV, 77, 3; 280, =b= 22: sun.

=sin=, =sine=, =syne=, I, 16, =C= 9; 17, 7; 204, =E= 3; II, 32, 3; 160, 4, 7; 161, 5, 7; III, 433, 11; 436, 9 (?): since (temporal and causal), then. II, 237, 6: when, as in Shakspere after verbs of remembering (Winter’s ale, v, i, 219, etc.). See =syne=, then.

=sin-brunt=, V, 224, 19: sun-burnt.

=sinder=, II, 164 f., 18, 19, 21: sunder.

=sindle=, II, 261, 8: seldom.

=sindry=, II, 344, 4: several. IV, 219, =A= 5: sundry (people).

=sine=, then, since. See =sin= and =syne=.

=single=, liverie, IV, 261, 5: dress of a plain or inferior man; IV, 334, 11, 12: dress of a private soldier. single man, sodger, soldier-lad, IV, 335, =b=, =c=, =d= 16; 337, =f=, =g= 15; 338, =h= after 15: private.

=sinner=, V, 254, 12: sooner.

=sinsyne=, =synsyne=, I, 227 b; III, 394, =J= 2; 396, =N= 2: since, afterwards.

=sir=, title of parson: III, 217, 49.

=sit a sate=, IV, 469, 8: maintain or enjoy a position. (You may live comfortably if you are well stocked with cattle, but only in a beggarly or pitiable way with nothing but beauty.) “You shall sit at an easier rent.” Scott’s Redgauntlet, Wandering Willie’s Tale. Falstaff sits at ten pounds a week (his expenses came to that), Merry Wives, I, 3.

=sitt=, p. p., III, 400, 5: seated.

=sitten=, =sutten=, p. p. of sit, II, 273, 37; III, 433, 4.

=skail= (blood), IV, 373, 13: spill.

=skaith=, =skaeth=, n., I, 370, 5; II, 292 f., 8, 18: III, 162, 66: harm. gien the skaeth, II, 364, 36; IV, 465, 35, 36: done a wrong, injury.

=skaith=, v., III, 371, 21: harm.

=skaith frae=, v., I, 397, 14: keep from. (A. S. scéadan, Germ. scheiden, O. Eng. shed, part, divide.) See =scathe=. A skaithie in Scottish is a fence or wall to keep off wind.

=skeely=, =skilly=, III, 26, 1: skilful, intelligent.

=skeigh=, III, 495 b, 23, 24: shy, skittish.

=skelp=, V, 106, =E= 6: drub.

=skerry=, rocky. skerry fell, I, 325, 10: rocky hill.

=skerry=, =skerrie=, II, 494: a rock or rocky islet in the sea.

=skill=, =sckill=, =skylle=, reason, discernment, knowledge. a baron of sckill, I, 295, 28: reasonable, of good judgment, etc. that’s but skill, I, 295, 44: reason, something right and proper. the skylle I sall þe telle wharefore, I, 328, 56: the reason why. can skill, little they can skill of their train, etc., II, 445, 62; 450, 67, 69: Icel. kunna skil, to know distinctions, have knowledge. could noe skill of the whisstill heare, IV, 506, 70: perception (that is, literally, could not hear whether there was a whistle or not). had no skill, IV, 213, 3: knew nothing of the matter, or, possibly, had no regard, felt no approbation.

=skilly=, =skeely=, II, 97, 21: intelligent, knowing, skilful.

=skink=, I, 190 a: pour out liquor.

=skinkled=, II, 183, 19: sparkled.

=sklate=, II, 293, 15: slate.

=skomfishes=, III, 433, =C= 4, 7: stifles (discomfits).

=skorne=, III, 113, 77: disgrace, humiliation. See =scorn=.

=sky-setting=, I, 351, 31: sunset.

=skylle.= See =skill=.

=skyred=, IV, 413, 12, 14: startled, blenched, shrank back.

=slack=, II, 116, 20; 117, 14; 313, 23; III, 181, 29; 281, 12; 363, note †; IV, 7, 27; 184, 2, 3; 467, 11; V, 250, 25; 262, 19. 1.) a gap or narrow pass between two hills. 2.) low ground, a morass. It is often not possible to determine which is intended. In III, 281, 12, the meaning is morass. Plain ground will suit III, 181, 29. Such terms vary according to locality and time. Cf. =slap=.

=slacke= (woe), V, 83, 44: lessen, mitigate.

=slade=, III, 92, 12: “a valley, ravine, plain.” Halliwell. Cf. =slack=, =slap=.

=slae=, I, 450, 2: sloe.

=slap=, II, 120, 14; III, 185, 24, 25; V, 228, 26: a narrow pass between two hills (==slack). In III, 185, 24, 25, there is a contrast with glen, the word replacing the slack of III, 181, 29; perhaps, plain ground. IV, 300, 12: a breach in a dyke or wall.

=slate=, =slait=, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw or the ground (Icel. sletta, to slap, or slétta, to level, smooth). has slaited on the strae, II, 273, 30. slate it on the plain, IV, 491, 11. slait it on the plain, V, 235, 32. See =strip=, =stroak=, =streak=, =straik=, =strike=.

=slawe=, p. p. of slay, III, 14, 16, 17; 71, 306. y-slaw, III, 28, 140.

=slee=, sly.

=sleste=, =slist=, III, 70, 292; 79, 146: sliced, split.

=slet=, pret. of slit, III, 63, 146.

=slichting=, slighting.

=slight=, III, 473, 13: demolish. we’ll fecht them, we’ll slight them, IV, 85, 5: make light of (?).

=slipe=, sleep.

=slist=, III, 70, 292: sliced, split.

=slo=, =sloe=, =sloo=, =slon=, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438; 97, 8; 110, 19: slay. pret. sloughe, III, 308, 25. p. p. slo, slowe, slone, II, 479, 17; III, 35, 22; 77, 428. slawe, y-slaw.

=slocken=, =sloken=, IV, 386, 16: quench.

=slode=, pret. of slide, II, 59, 22: split.

=sloe=, =sloo=, I, 210, 9; III, 77, 438: slay. pret. sloughe. p. p. slowe, slone. See =slo=.

=slogan=, III, 474, 32: war-cry, gathering word of a clan. Jamieson.

=sloken=, =slocken=, III, 473, 14: quench (fire), p. p., IV, 60 b, after 10 (with ellipsis of have).

=slough-hounds=, IV, 3, 15: sleuth-hounds, blood-hounds (slooth, b, 4, 15).

=sloughe=, pret. of slo, slay, III, 308, 25.

=slowe=, p. p. of slo, slay, II, 479, 17.

=sma=, small. of linen, I, 428, 18; 419, 3; II, 128, 5; 130, 4; 133, =D= 3; 134, 7; 269, 15; III, 7, =E= 12: of fine texture. of the blast of a horn, II, 258, 31; small, V, 83, 48: shrill, keen. of wine, I will drain it sma, IV, 476, 8: should mean, strain it fine, or, pour out in a thin stream, run it off gently; the intention seems to be, give but a small quantity.

=smeek=, IV, 385, 25: smoke.

=smiddie=, IV, 470, 18: smithy. In smiddy-bour, II, 186, 12, bour for room or workshop is strange.

=smirkling=, smirkling smile, IV, 117, 3: suppressed.

=smit=, II, 149, 2: noise, clash.

=smithered=, III, 268, 17: smothered.

=smoldereth=, III, 431, 19: smothereth.

=smooth=, II, 233, 14; V, 167, =A= 7: pass lightly over. smooth the breast for swimming, see =breast=.

=smore=, V, 37, 6: smother.

=smotley=, V, 79, 15: pleasantly.

=snack=, IV, 415, 6: quick.

=snags=, III, 483, 7: protruding remnants of branches hewn off.

=sned=, II, 274, =C= 19; 462, 26: cut, lop. (misprinted sued, II, 462.)

=sneed=, V, 165, 4, 5: snood, fillet for a maiden’s hair.

=sneer=, IV, 18, 15; 19, 13: snort.

=sneeters=, V, 213, 10:==snotters, gatherings of snot.

=snell=, of weather, wind, frost, I, 342, 23; 344, 22; III, 435, 1; IV, 213, 17; 214, 4; V, 99, 2: sharp, keen. of a blast of a horn, III, 195, 7: keen, shrill. of talk, III, 492, 31: sharp, caustic.

=snoded=, tied with a snood.

=snood=, V, 306, 4, 5: a fillet with which a maiden’s hair was bound up. See =sneed=.

=snotters=, V, 213, 10: gatherings of snot. See =sneeters=.

=soberly=, III, 487, 17: quietly, making no noise.

=socht=, =sought=, pret., I, 147, 11, 12; II, 30, 8; III, 466, 46: asked for.

=sodde=, pret., V, 53, 103: seethed, boiled.

=solace=, I, 328, 53: pleasure. solaces, III, 287, 65: merry-makings, diversions.

=soldan=, II, 59, 35-37: sultan, any pagan king; hence, giant. See =soudan=.

=Soldanie=, =Soudonie=, V, 199 b, 33; 200 b, 33: Sultan’s people.

=solde=, I, 326, 4: should.

=some=, with singular, some clean white sheet, V, 294, 7.

=somers=, III, 67, 216, 224; 74, 374: sumpter-horses, pack-horses.

=sone=, at once.

=sone so=, I, 243, 8: as soon as.

=sonsie=, II, 370, 16: plump.

=soom=, =soum=, =sume=, =swoom=, II, 29, 19; III, 394, =K= 4; IV, 493, 9; 511 b, 4; V, 138, =B= 6: swim.

=soon=, III, 440, 13: early. soon at morn, IV, 446, 2: early in the morning.

=soone=, II, 446, 92: swoon.

=sore=, as, they mighten a had, III, 441, 26: on whatever hard terms.

=sorn=, IV, 464, 14: sworn.

=sorners=, IV, 41, note *; 81 b: sojourners, properly those who take free quarters (such may be expected to make free generally with the property of those upon whom they impose themselves); “forcible intruders, people quartering themselves on tenants, etc., masterful beggars.”

=sorowe=, =sorrow=, III, 61, 96; IV, 174, 6; 241 b; V, 28, 55: sorry, sorrowful, sad.

=sorraye=, II, 209, 9: sorrow.

=sorrowful=, III, 440, 12: sorry, pitiful.

=sorte=, III, 128, 97: set.

=souce=, V, 84, 7: the head, feet and ears of swine boiled and pickled.

=soud=, =sude=, should.

=soudan=, =sowdan=, =souden=, =soldan=, I, 54, 65; V, 195, 26; 197, 5.

=Soudron=, V, 192, 22: Southron.

=Soudronie=, V, 192, 33: Southronry.

=sough=, sound.

=sould=, should.

=soum=, =soom=, =sume=, II, 464, 2, 3; 474, =J= 5; V, 237, 9: swim.

=soun=, make bed saft and soun, IV, 279, 31, 32: smooth. lead the bridle soun, II, 105, 14: steadily, so as not to cause a jolt by jerking it.

=sound=, IV, 206, 10: safe and well. sailed it sound, II, 223, =F= 8: safe.

=sound=, a sound, III, 165, 88: a-swoon.

=sound=, IV, 172, 12, 14; 173, 7, 10, 11: in the sleep of death.

=sounded=, IV, 99, 3: should probably be rounded, whispered.

=souner=, I, 442, 10: sounder.

=soup=, I, 324, =B= 9: sup.

=sour= (reek), III, 433, =C= 6: sharp, bitter.

=souter=, =soutter=, III, 282 a; IV, 262, 16: shoe-maker.

=south=, I, 334, 9: sweet.

=southen=, =southin=, II, 358, 16, 28; IV, 482 b, 2, 3, 4; 483, 9, 17, 18: southern.

=southering=, IV, 48, b 18: soldering (corruption of, seething).

=sowdan.= See =soudan=.

=sowe=, III, 41 b, line 17: to be corrected to sowter, cobbler (?).

=sowens=, V, 108, =B= 10: flummery; “oat-meal sowr’d amongst water for some time, then boiled to a consistency, and eaten with milk or butter.” Herd.

=sowt=, III, 13, 8: sought, peered, scanned.

=sowt=, south.

=soyt=, III, 110, 23; 111, 31, 43; 112, 55; V, 79, 30: sooth.

=spait=, III, 473, 26; 479, 2: flood.

=spak well in his mind=, V, 260, 15: sounded well, suited his own thoughts.

=spakes=, I, 61, =C c=, 15: the bars of a bird-cage.

=spald.= See =spaul=.

=spang=, II, 394, 18: span.

=spare=, I, 302, =A= 10; 446, 10; 451, 11; III, 246, =E= 7: opening in a gown or petticoat.

=sparks out o a weet=, IV, 379, 15: rain-drops from a shower. “Spirks, spirkins, applied to drops of water in Scotland; sparks usually to fire.” W. Forbes.

=sparred=, III, 97, 20; 99, 61: shut.

=spartled=, v., II, 94, 6: sprang. spartling, II, 306, 15: kicking, struggling.

=spartles=, n., II, 94, 4: springs.

=spaul=, =spauld=, =spald=, =spole=, III, 473, 17; V, 105, =A= 3, =B= 6; 106, =D= 6, =E= 4; 107, 3: shoulder.

=spayed=, spied.

=speal=, I, 428, 17; 430, 6, 7: another form of scale, a wooden drinking vessel.

=speals=, =spells=, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.

=spear=, v., IV, 85, 1: spare.

=spear=, =speer=, =speir=, =spier=, =sper=, =ask=. See =spyrr=.

=speed=, prosperity, help.

=speel=, v., II, 73, 25: climb.

=speen=, IV, 287, 19; 357, =C= 8, 9: spoon.

=speer=, inquire. See =spyrr=.

=speere=, V, 15, 20: “a hole in the wall of the house, through which the family received and answered the inquiries of strangers.” Ritson. This, I fear, may be conjectural. Speere, a screen (wall) between fire and door to keep off the wind is well known both in England and Scotland. But the Heir seems to be outside and could not look up at this speere.

=speir=, =ask=. See =spyrr=.

=spelle=, v., I, 329, 3: discourse.

=spells=, =speals=, II, 410, 24; V, 236, 18: chips.

=spendyd=, a spear, III, 309, 40: “=spanned=; hence, got ready, placed in rest.” Skeat.

=sper=, V, 78, 5: inquire. See =spyrr=.

=spier-hawk=, IV, 484, 1, 2: sparrow-hawk.

=spin=, =spine=, gar your blood, IV, 84, 3, 6; V, 253, =D= 1: spirt (as in Shakspere’s Henry V, iv, 2, spin in English eyes).

=spird=, II, 144, 12: spurred.

=spite=, I, 211, 27: spital.

=spleen=, v., III, 220, 5: regard with spleen, hatred.

=spleene=, n., III, 230, 70: animosity.

=splent= (splint), III, 473, 17: armor of overlapping plates.

=splinders=, II, 91, 26: splinters.

=splits=, II, 389, 10: strands.

=sply=, II, 252, 1: (perhaps miswritten) spy.

=spole=, III, 342, 63: (O. Fr. espaule) shoulder. See =spaul=.

=sporne=, v., III, 64, 161: kick.

=spreckl(e)d=, I, 159, 5; 160, 3: speckled.

=sprente=, III, 309, 32: sprang, spurted.

=spring=, IV, 265, 13: probably miswritten or corrupted for young, which we find in the next stanza.

=spring=, I, 129, 17; 130, 20; 132, 13; 135, =O= 18, =P= 18, 19; IV, 312, 4; 313, 7: quick tune.

=spring= (well both clear and spring), II, 198 a, last line: spring water, pure as a spring.

=sprunks=, fine, III, 221, 12: showily dressed women? (Cf. prank, prink, Dan., Swed., Germ., prunk.)

=spulye=, n., III, 458 b: spoil.

=spulyie=, =spuilye=, =spuilzie=, v., III, 463 a; IV, 53, 11; 84, 5, 8: despoil.

=spunk-hole=, V, 213, 3 (spunk = fire): a hollow in the floor, where the fire was made, fire-place.

=spurn(e)=, n., III, 310, 65, 66: kick. The word, though protected by rhyme and by occurring twice, is suspicious. If spurn could be taken as clash, encounter, collision, it might stand, but such a sense is forced.

=spurtle=, V, 92, 11, 12: stick for stirring porridge.

=spylle=, I, 327, 20: mar, destroy.

=spyrr=, =spire=, =spier=, =speir=, =speer=, =spear=, =sper= (A. S. spyrian), I, 176, 17; 325, =B= 13; 349, =G= 9; 440, 10-15; III, 98, 41; 100, 64; V, 115, 4: ask, inquire. spear at, I, 151 a, 10; IV, 328, =A b=, after 3: inquire of. I, 349, =G= 7; II, 268, 12; 272, 9, 18; 379, 12; IV, 203, 9; 205, 15: ask, request.

=squar=, =squer=, squire.

=square-wright=, V, 124, 3: carpenter, joiner.

=squeel=, =schele=, =schule=, II, 175 f., 1, 6; 306, 19; IV, 327, 8.

=squier=, II, 59, 30: = swire, neck.

=st=, as sign of the future. I’st, II, 449, 62; III, 411, 1; 413, 36; thoust, ’st, I, 211, 29; 433, 8, 26; II, 44, 13; 442, 10; 449, 60, 61; III, 277, 4; 411, 4; 432, 7; 477, 7; V, 50, 33. shee’st, she’st, II, 442, 3; 447, 3. you’st, II, 451, 88; III, 104, 6; 412, 12. (All from English ballads.)

=sta=, pret. of steal, III, 464, 13, 14.

=stack=, I, 16, =B= 14: stalk.

=stad=, V, 248, 19: stood.

=staen=, stolen.

=stage=, at a, III, 98, 39: from a floor, story (?).

=stage=, III, 295, 3: stag.

=staig=, III, 301, =A a=, 3; IV, 26, 1: a young stallion.

=staking=, III, 138, 18: cutting into stakes (cleaving, 140, =c= 18; stacking, 140, =d= 18).

=stale=, =stathle=, I, 18, =H= 9; 19, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.

=stale strang=, V, 213, 5: urine long kept for a lye and smelling strong. (But stale may = urine as well as strang.)

=stalle=, in strete and stalle, III, 101, 89: station; from the contrast with street, we may infer the meaning to be, when in movement (on the road) and when stationary, or housed.

=stamp= o the melten goud, IV, 471, 37: an embossed plate.

=stanch=, III, 364 b: check.

=stand= (of milk, water), I, 344, 34: a barrel set on end.

=stand=, briddel-(bridell-)stand, V, 228, 12, 22: suit of clothes (bridal clothes).

=stand=, III, 453, =A= 14; IV, 515, 13: (of a court) sit. IV, 420, 9; V, 222, 34; 269, 1: take place.

=stand=, IV, 152, =C= 11; stand out, III, 439, 2: stickle, scruple.

=stand na, nè, no(e), awe=, I, 421, 5; III, 350, 53; IV, 505, 54; 506, 69: na may be a contraction of in na. na stand in awe, I, 419, 4; stand not in awe, III, 345, 53.

=standen=, p. p. of stand, III, 361, =b=, =c= 64.

=stane=, II, 467, 56: i. e. the (stone) wall.

=stane-auld=, III, 9 f., 11, 12, 20: very old (Germ. stein-alt).

=stane-chucking=, I, 441, =E= 1: throwing the stone, as in =B= 2.

=stank=, IV, 47, 12, 13: (O. Fr. estanc) ditch.

=stap=, n. and v., I, 298, 4; II, 88, 8, 9: step.

=stap=, =stape=, stop. II, 494, 1: stop, stay, reside. will stap to die, IV, 107, 7: shrink, hesitate.

=stap=, I, 439, 4, 5; 440, 5, 7; 504, 7; II, 294, 31, 32; 467, 41: stuff, cram.

=stare=, III, 128, 104: (eyes) protrude, or, are fixed, cannot move (?).

=stare= (of hair), V, 66, 19: stand up.

=starf=, pret., V, 297 b: died.

=stark=, I, 69, 39; III, 474, 37: strong. stark thief, III, 365 b==the English strong thief, one who uses violence. stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: in a moral sense, wanting in delicacy, rude, violent, or indecent. the wind up stark, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: ellipsis of blew, came, before up.

=starn=, =stern=, I, 440, 18; IV, 455, 10: (Icel. stjarna), star.

=start=, I, 341, 5; 343, 5; 347, 3; 348, 2: spring, jump. III, 164 b, 49; 342, 64: recoil, flinch, recede. pret. start, stert, I, 108 b, 8; 286, 56; II, 454, 56; III, 32, 81; 64, 159; IV, 477, 16: sprang. See =stert=.

=state of my lande=, II, 446, 91; state of my father’s lands, 451, 98: landed estate.

=stathle=, =stale=, I, 17, 12: the foundation of a stack, the undermost layer of sheaves in a stack.

=staw=, II, 90, 23; 184, 13: stall.

=staw=, pret. of steal, II, 76, 25; 80 f., 9, 29; IV, 12, 13; 490, 30.

=stawn=, p. p. of steal, IV, 18, 19, 20.

=stay=, =stey=, IV, 262, 23: steep.

=stead(e)=, =steed(e)=. See =stede=.

=steal=, pret. sta, staw. p. p. stawn, stowen, stown, stoun. stealed, steald, IV, 20, 16; 166, 2, 3. stelld, III, 459, 7.

=stean=, Marie’s stean, II, 183, 19: a stone seat at the door of St. Mary’s Church.

=stear=, =steer=, III, 474, 33: stir, commotion.

=steck.= See =steek=.

=stede=, =steed(e)=, =stead(e)=, I, 334, 7; 411, 7, 16; II, 359, 19; III, 60, 81; 74, 376; 79, 133; V, 194, 71, 72; 197, 55; 199, 71, 72: place, dwelling-place. stand in stead, steed, steede, III, 344 f., 38, 44; 349, 38; IV, 505, 45: hold good, be kept, maintained, made good.

=steed=, I, 298, 4: stood.

=steek=, =steck=, =steik=, II, 336, =P= 2; IV, 188, 9; 279, 19, 27; 480, 4, 5; 514, 5: stick, shut, fasten. steekit (dor an window) to the gin, IV, 480, 5: to the fastening.

=steek=, =steik=, n., II, 364, 30; IV, 483, 20: stitch with the needle. III, 397, =A b= 5: stitch (of pain).

=steeking=, n., II, 361, 26: stitching.

=steel=, pret., I, 477, 4: stale, stole.

=steer=, =steir=, II, 21, 10, 11; 29, 13, 14: rudder.

=steer=, =stear=, II, 369, 12: disturbance.

=steer=, =sture=, I, 69, 39; 71, 31: strong, robust. (stor, big.)

=steer=, II, 161, 12; IV, 69, 15: disturb, meddle with (for harm).

=steer=, I, 251, =A= 13: stir, move.

=steik=, n., stitch. See =steek=.

=steik=, v., shut. See =steek=.

=steir=, n., rudder. See =steer=.

=stell=, steel.

=stelld=, pret. of steal, III, 459, 7.

=stelld=, IV, 110, 10: placed, planted.

=stende=, me stende, I, 243, 5: that people should stone.

=step-minnie=, II, 367 b: stepmother.

=stern=, =starn=, I, 326, 16: star.

=sterne=, III, 308, 30: stern (men).

=stert=, =start=, pret. of start, III, 66, 211: sallied. stert out of the dore, sterte (start) to an offycer, stert hym to a borde, III, 26, 81; 32, 81; 62, 120, 125: rushed. stert to foot, IV, 224, 14: sprang to their feet.

=steuen=, III, 94, 52: voice. vnsett steven, III, 93, 27: time not previously fixed.

=stey=, =stay=, IV, 185, 10; 264, 15: steep.

=stiffe=, I, 293 f., 2, 9, 11; II, 55, 67: unyielding, stanch.

=still=, had your still, IV, 85, 7; V, 247, 14: hold your peace.

=stime=, =styme=, I, 482, =E=; III, 163 f., 78, 91: glimpse, ray, particle of light.

=Stincher=, IV, 69, 6: a river of Carrick, Ayrshire. (Misprinted stincher.)

=stingy=, IV, 316, 17: forbidding, cross.

=stint=, =stinte=, I, 334, 8; 411, 8, 17; 412, 28: stop.

=stirred=, III, 162, 49: should probably be stirted (shrank, flinched). The other text has, started.

=stirt=, stirred.

=stock=, I, 419, 2; 421, 2, 4, etc.; II, 467, 56: the outer side of a bed, opposite the wall (the bed, an enclosed box, being enterable at this side only).

=stock=, I, 402, 5: (term of disparagement) wanting in vitality, sensibility, youth, or what not.

=stogg=, IV, 480, 7, 8: stick, stab.

=stoll yellow=, IV, 453 a, =b= 13: corrupt; =a= has, gold that is yellow.

=stomach will give him=, II, 447, 17: disposition will incline him. II, 450, 69: courage.

=stomached=, well, III, 335 b: courageous.

=stonde=, I, 334, 8; III, 286, 55: while, time. See =stound(e)=.

=stonyt=, I, 242, 11: stoneth, old plural of the imperative.

=stood=, V, 269, 1: took place. stood him upon, III, 228, 11: was incumbent on. See =stand=.

=stoode=, my need stoode, III, 412, 16: existed.

=stook=, I, 485, 10: put into shocks.

=stoor=, stark and stoor, II, 47, 5: (store, big) in a moral sense, rude, brutal.

=store=, I, 328, 50: big. See =stoor=.

=store=, buffets store, III, 145, 8: in plenty.

=store=, purse of gold and store, II, 461, 23: treasure (precious things laid up). carryd the store (of constancy), V, 158, 16: the totality.

=stot=, =stott=, IV, 12, =B= 4; 26, 1; 248, 19; 519, 6; 520, 6, 7: young ox.

=stoun=, III, 388, 8: (stoun, stound, North of England, to smart with pain, Scott. an acute intermittent pain) a painful attack.

=stoun=, p. p. of steal, III, 453, 10; V, 221, 24. See =stowen=.

=stound(e)=, =stonde=, III, 25, 68; 284, 3; 298, 55; V, 83, 42: time, point, moment of time.

=stoup=, II, 344, 1; V, 91, 7, 8: pitcher, can, bucket (narrower at the top than at the bottom).

=stour=, =stoure=, =stowre=, II, 55, 67; III, 26, 89; 298, 58; 309, 47; 441, 27: tumult, brawl, fight. stour of thy hand, III, 280, 37: turbulence, destructiveness. III, 270, 16: disturbance, commotion.

=stour=, II, 195, notes, =A=; IV, 470, 20: dust.

=stourished=, III, 520 a: read flourished(?), blooming. (Cf. III, 373, 4.)

=stout(e)=, II, 282 f., 4, 17 (audacious), 18; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5, 7: haughty, high-mettled, bold. III, 411, 8 (traitor): audacious, unflinching. V, 36 f., 9, 10: unabashed. I, 3, 3; IV, 197, 3: sturdy.

=stowen=, =stown=, p. p. of steal, I, 367, 14; II, 72, 23; 79, 38; IV, 133, =H= 6, 7; 241 a. See =stoun=.

=stowre=, n. See =stour=.

=stowre=, adj., I, 293, 2: (originally, big) strong.

=stracht=, =straght=, III, 521 b, 272, 15; V, 236, 9: straight.

=strack=, struck.

=strae=, =stray=, =stro=, II, 162, 8; 169, 19; 185, 36; 261, 15, etc.: straw.

=straik=, =streak=, =streek=, stroke. (a sword) oer (on) a strae (strow), II, 261, 15; V, 37, 8: pass it over a straw to give it an edge. See =streak=. straiked back hair, IV, 184, =E= 17: stroked. straik (streek) wi a (the) wan(d), II, 188, 8; IV, 46, 3; 480, 15: of a measure, to even at the top by passing a stick over.

=straine=, =streen=, the, V, 221, 24: evening of yesterday.

=strait= (a rope), IV, 398, 7, 25: straighten, stretch, tighten. pret., of stirrups, III, 492, 27.

=strait=, IV, 262, 23, strait and stay: another word for stay, stey, steep.

=straith=, =strath=, IV, 184 a: a valley through which a river runs.

=straked=, streaked. straked her trouth on a wand, II, 230, 9: a symbolical act, of gently rubbing or passing the fingers over a wand, by way of giving back a lover’s troth.

=strand=, I, 165, =M= 4; III, 460, 28; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream. Sometimes hardly more than a rhyme-word. In, Scotland’s strands, strand, II, 289, 7; 294, 8, strand appears to be put for country, bounds; and for nothing more definite than way, road, in he gaed in the strand, etc., II, 177, 23; 289, =B= 2; III, 3, 5; IV, 210, 1. In, stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28, stran cannot mean more than plain (ground).

=strang=, V, 213, 5: urine kept for a lye, and smelling strong. See =stale=.

=strang=, strange.

=strange=, V, 76, 16: backward, diffident.

=strated=, V, 228, 15: stretched.

=stratlins=, I, 368, 23: straddlings, stridings.

=straucht=, =straught=, adj. and adv., I, 146, 14; 251, =A= 10; II, 461, 5; IV, 94, 9; 214, 1: straight.

=straught=, V, 199 a, after 61: stretched. See =straucht=.

=stray.= See =strae=.

=streak=, =straik=, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw (cf. Germ. streichen, strike, smooth, whet). streakd it on a strow, V, 37, 8. straiked it oer a strae, II, 261, 15. See =stroak=, =strike=, =strip=, =slate=.

=streak=, =streek=, I, 299, 17: stretch.

=streak by=, I, 454, 12: to put off, put away.

=stream-tail=, IV, 185, 12: the lower end of a stream as opposed to the upper. Tail-race is the name given to the stream that carries away the water after it has passed the mill. J. Aiken.

=streek=, =streak=, I, 299, 17; II, 139, 7, 12; 345, 30; V, 174, 4; 209 b, 6: stretch. streeket, streekit, strickit, p. p., II, 189, 38; IV, 128, 17; 316, 25; 318, =G= 9; 319, =H= 7: stretched, laid out, as dead.

=streekit.= See =straik=, and =streek=.

=streen=, =straine=, the streen, I, 57, =C= 13; II, 30, 4; III, 396, =N= 1; IV, 47, 10, 18; V, 118, =B= 13; 221, 24; 257, 14: yestreen, yester-night.

=strenger=, compar., V, 283, 18 (and so we should read in 8 instead of scharpper): stronger.

=strickit.= See =streek=.

=strike=, of whetting a sword, etc., on a straw, or the ground. he ’s struck it (rappier) in the straw, II, 249, 18. struck it (brand) ower a strow, V, 226 b, 8; (dagger) 227, 21. struck it (bran) across the plain, II, 380, 32. See =stroak=, =streak=, =strip=, =slate=.

=strinkled=, III, 4, 10; 5, =C= 6: sprinkled.

=strip=, of whetting a sword by passing it across straw, a stone, the ground; replaced by stroak, streak, strike, slate, draw (cf. German streifen). has striped it throw the straw, II, 159, 15. he stript it to the stroe, II, 161, 13. he’s stripped it athwart the straw, II, 256, 12. he’s stripd it oer a stane, II, 396, 28. has stript it to the stran, II, 390, 28. he drew it through the strae, II, 185, 36; three times thro the strae, II, 162, 8. See =stroak=, etc.

=stro=, =stroe=, =strow=, =strae=, =stray=, II, 131, 16: straw.

=stroak=, =stroke=, of whetting a sword by passing it over a straw. stroakd it oer a stro, strae, stray, II, 131, 16; 166, 17; 169, 19; 305, 8, 21; 306, 14. See =strip=, =streak=, =straik=, =strike=, =slate=.

=stroe=, =stro=, =strow=, II, 161, 13: straw.

=stroke.= See =stroak=.

=stroke=, III, 180, 13: probably corrupt; read streke, stretch? (Scott. streik, streek).

=stronge th(i)efe=, =strong thief=, III, 13, 2; 67, 221; V, 77, 32; 83, 49: a thief using violence. See =stark thief=.

=strook=, pret. of strike, V, 135, b 18.

=strow=, =stro=, V, 37, 8; 226 b, 8; 227, 21: straw.

=strucken=, p. p. of strike, II, 48, 3; III, 487, 13.

=stryke pantere=, V, 72 b: a drinking formula, in response to fusty bandyas.

=stubborn=, IV, 168, 8; 169, 6, 15; 170, =G= 4, 11, =H= 3, 4, 10: seems to have its old meaning of truculent, fierce, rather than wilful, mulish. See note to =H= 3, 4, IV, 177.

=stude=, =stede=, I, 244, 15: place.

=study=, =studie=, =studdy=, II, 374, =A= 2, =B= 2; 375, 3: stithy, anvil.

=sturdy=, sturdy steel, II, 380, 15; 381, 10; 385, 4; 388, 13: stiff, rigid (stubborn, II, 393, 10).

=sture=, =steer=, I, 71, 31; 69, 39: strong, robust. (stor, big.)

=sturt=, II, 249, 4: trouble, anger.

=stye=, I, 310, 9, 11, 13: pen, den. III, 100, 76: a smaller thoroughfare, alley.

=styme=, I, 482, =E=. See =stime=.

=styrande=, III, 295, 3: stirring, dislodging. See note, 301.

=stythe=, I, 311, 9, 11: place.

=suan=, V, 277, 14: swain.

=suar=, III, 308, 27; 309, 42: sure, trusty.

=succeed the fame=, his fame, IV, 249, 9; 251, 10: corrupt for, exceed in fame, or the like. See note, IV, 254, =E= 9.

=such an a=, IV, 312, 12: such a.

=sud=, =soud=, =suld=, should.

=suddled=, thy suddled silks, that thou wears every day, etc., II, 186, 5, 6, 10, 11: soiled, or rumpled, creased.

=suddling=, suddling silks, III, 398, =C= 9: soiling, which one would not mind exposing to soiling. Perhaps we should read suddlit. See =suddled=.

=suderen=, V, 217, 17: southern.

=suds=, leave you in the suds, V, 114, 12: in difficulty, in a strait.

=sugar-sops=, defined in dictionaries as sugar-plums. Fletcher’s Monsieur Thomas, ii, 3, “Dandle her upon my knee, and give her sugar-sops.” By analogy, bits of bread or cake dipped in sugar juice.

=sugh=, II, 258, 34: sough, sound (of wind).

=suit=, V, 215, 11; 223 b, 1; 246 b, 2: sweet.

=suith=, III, 468, =c= 9: sooth.

=sulle=, sell.

=sume=, V, 221, 11, 12; 237, 10: swim. See =soum=.

=sun-bruist=, IV, 469, 9: should, perhaps, be sun-burnt, as in the following line.

=sundry=, II, 212, 17: asunder, apart.

=sune=, adj., V, 256, 12: sound.

=sunks=, IV, 262, 29: seats.

=supply=, IV, 154, 13: afford help. mak him some supply, V, 196, 39, cf. 43: succor, reinforcement.

=surrount=, IV, 245, 3: Skene’s spelling for the original serundad, surrounded.

=suspitious=, II, 448, 37, 38: worthy of Mrs. Malaprop, but not so easy to unriddle: in her mouth, auspicious; here the modern suggestive, significant, would suit.

=suþþe=, III, 514 b, 1st line: then.

=sutor=, I, 430, 2: shoemaker. See =souter=.

=sutten=, p. p. of sit, IV, 468, 6.

=swack=, IV, 415, 6: nimble.

=swack=, v., V, 305, 5: whack.

=swads=, =swades=, V, 134, 7; 135 b, 7: “swad in the North is a pescod-shell: thence used for an empty shallow-headed fellow.” Blount, in Halliwell. Also, a cant term for soldier.

=swaft=, =swaffed=, III, 511, 8, 11: swapped.

=swair=, =swaird=, laird o the Ochilberry swair, IV, 207, 27, 29; laird o Athole swaird, IV, 198, 14: sware, neck or slope of a hill. (swaird, a corruption of swair,=sward, grassland, is not likely.)

=swak=, III, 300, 21. See =swap=.

=swap=, =swak=, swords, with swords, III, 298, 50, 54; 299, 9; 300, 21 (swakked); 301, 30; 309, 31; 422, 73; IV, 487, 29; 500 f., 22, 35 (swakked); V, 240, 6, 9: smite.

=swarmd=, III, 347, g 45; IV, 505, 56, 59: climbed. (swarm, to climb a tree that has no side branches to help one.)

=swarued=, =swerved=, III, 341, 53, 56; 345, 45: climbed (=swarmd, IV, 505, 56, 59).

=swat=, pret. of swe(a)t, III, 299, 9; 300, 21; 301, 30; 309, 31. swett, III, 422, 73. swette, III, 298, 50, 54.

=swathed=, II, 305, 10: swaddled (as it were) in blood.

=swatter=, I, 135, =P= 11: flounder, splash.

=sway=, howsoeuer this geere will sway, III, 341, 47: whatever turn this business may take, however this affair may turn out.

=swear=, pret., swore.

=sweauen=, =sweuen=, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.

=sweer=, II, 61, 4; IV, 229, 20: slow, reluctant. III, 160, 14: reluctant (to part with money).

=swerers=, quest of, III, 25, 69: jurors.

=swerved=, III, 347, =d=, =e=, =f= 45: climbed. See =swarued=.

=swet=, =swett=, =swette=, pret. of =swe(a)t=. See =swat=.

=swetter=, compar., V, 283, 9, 19: sweeter.

=sweven=, =sweauen=, II, 45, 18; III, 91, 4: dream.

=sweythyli=, V, 80, 45: swiftly.

=swick=, IV, 438, 12: blame.

=swikele=, I, 243, 4: deceptive, treacherous.

=swilled=, I, 287, 72: tossed about or shook, as in rinsing (but in this case to effect a mixture).

=swimd=, =swimmed=, pret. of swim, II, 16, 5; 24, =F= 9; IV, 129, 5; 130, =D= 9.

=swinke=, III, 171 f., 8, 26: labor.

=swire=, =swyre=, I, 295, 34; III, 91 a: neck. IV, 5, 2; 7, 27; V, 249, 2: “the declination of a mountain or hill, near the summit.” Jamieson.

=swith=, II, 55, 67; 248, 18: quickly.

=swither=, III, 268, 17; 272, 21: trepidation.

=swittert=, I, 129, 11: struggled, floundered, splashed (made spasmodic motions to keep herself up).

=swoghynge=, n., I, 327, 31: sounding.

=swoom=, V, 151, =F= 2: swim.

=swoond=, =swound=, n., I, 434, 29; II, 105, 19; III, 373, =A= 4: swoon.

=swumd=, p. p. of swim, III, 482, 25.

=swylke=, I, 327, 15: such.

=swyre=, =swire=, III, 91 a: neck.

=syde=, I, 333, 3: (of beard) long, hanging down. I, 426, 3: of a horn worn low. See =side=.

=syke=, =sike=, II, 238, 6; IV, 3, 28: ditch, trench. IV, 470, 25: perhaps, rivulet. (water-course, marshy bottom with a stream in it. Jamieson.)

=syne=, =sayn=, =san=, =sane=, I, 17 f., =F= 2, 7; 127, 27; 347, 9; III, 437, 16, 20, 21, 24: then, afterwards. I, 204, =E= 3; V, 306 b, 1; III, 436, 9 (?): since.

=synsyne=, since. See =sinsyne=.

=sypress=, =cypress=, III, 148, 10; 150, =b= 10: crape (veil).

=syre=, IV, 21, 10: (sewer) drain, gutter.

=syt=, III, 70, 280: old contracted form of sitteth.

=sythis=, I, 327, 21: times.

T

=tabean brirben= (kame), II, 217, 2, 4: printed by Herd, Tabean birben. Jamieson conjectured for Tabean, ‘made at Tabia, Italy.’ Dr C. Mackay very properly remarks that Tabia was not known as a place of manufacture for combs. He suggests a Gaelic origin: taobh, a side, taobhan, sides; bior, a pin, point, prickle, the tooth of a comb; bean, a woman; whence taobhan bior bean, the side comb of a woman. Whether this is good Gaelic, I am myself unable to say; but it is a simple criticism that a woman’s hair is not combed with a side-comb. The passage is undoubtedly corrupt. In IV, 471, 2, we have, a haw bayberry kame, also corrupt; bayberry was heard for whatever tabean brirben stands for. One copy had birchen, IV, 471, note to 221.

=table=, take vp the, III, 29, 142: take away. the tables were laid on trestles and easily handled, removed, and, as we often see in ballads, kicked over. drew her table, V, 304, 13: see explanation at V, 304 a.

=tack= (of needlework), II, 30, =L= 1: attachment by stitching, needle-tack, II, 217, 5.

=tack=, took.

=tacken=, =taiken=, IV, 515, 12: token.

=tae=, II, 147, 4: too.

=tae=, the tae, ==ae, one. See =tane=.

=taen=, =tane=, =tean=, =teyne=, p. p., taken.

=taiglet=, =taiglit=, IV, 195, 4; 196, 9: tarried.

=taiken=, =tacken=, I, 396, 5, 6: token.

=Tailliant=, =Talliant=, II, 383, 22, 24, 25; 385, 23, 25, 26; 387, 17, 19, 20; 388, 16, 18, 19: Italian.

=taipy-tapples=, I, 303, =D= 5: misreading of saipy-sapples, which see.

=tait.= See =tate=.

=take=, V, 277, 2: talk.

=take=, III, 60, 72, 76; 62, 123; 65, 194; 73, 351; 110, 9: hand over, give. I, 465, 18; 472, 28; II, 108, 17; 271, 17; 273, 23; III, 110, 18; 472, 9; IV, 508, 5: deliver a blow, strike.

=take on= (lawing), IV, 175, =N= 4: run up (reckoning).

=take road=, =take foot=, II, 62 b, 14: make off.

=take sworne=, III, 340, 34; IV, 504, 34; V, 52, 73: take an oath of, put under oath.

=take truce=, II, 443, 39; 449, 44; III, 469 a: take trewes, pledges of good faith, for suspension of hostility. take peace, III, 278 f., 3, 6: perhaps formed upon take truce.

=take up= (the table), III, 29, 142: clear away (remove the boards). See =table=. take up (dogs), III, 125, 35, 36: stop, restrain, call off(?).

=take with=, III, 413, 47; IV, 334, 13: take up with, put up with, submit to.

=takle=, =takyll=, III, 70, 288; 75 f., 398, 404: arrow.

=talbott=, III, 333, 28: a species of hound.

=talents.=

The talents of golde were on her head sette Hanged low downe to her knee.

II, 52, 17: talents probably refers to the weight or value of gold worn in massive ornaments (cf. a weight of goud hung at her chin, I, 472, 24). It is not likely that the lady wore coins.

=talk=, IV, 13, 12: should probably be lack, reproach, blame. The reading in =A= 18; =D= 5, is suspicious; lack, reproach, is in =E= 16.

=talkitive=, IV, 13, =D= 8: used for talkativeness.

=Talliant.= See =Tailliant=.

=tamper ye at=, keep ye up and, IV, 226, 13: seems to be corrupt, cf. 221, 17, keep ye up i temper guid. tamper may be meant for temper, in the sense of putting a machine into working order, try expedients to humor or manage you.

=tane=, the tane, the tither, tother, I, 253, 1; II, 104, 30; 132, 18; 190, 42; 212, 16. See =tean=, =ton=.

=tane=, =taen=, =tean=, =teyne=, p. p., taken. tane with me, IV, 98, 12: occupied, engrossed, captivated (seized or smitten with compassion for, love?) tane sworn (I am), V, 52, 73: of one who has taken an oath.

=tangle=, V, 259 a, 11: sea-weed.

=taps=, V, 173, 8: tops, tips (of heather).

=Targalley=, V, 141, =c= 1, 2: perhaps a corruption of Turk (Turkish) galley, cf. =C=, =a=, =f=, =g=.

=targats=, =targits=, III, 363, note *; 371, 26, 27: tassels.

=targe=, III, 75, 385: “Targe or chartyr. Carta.” Prompt. Parv. “quatre grosses blancs appellés targes.” Ducange, targa. (Corrected from tarpe.)

=tarlottus=, tynkerris in tarlottus, III, 41 b(?).

=tarnd=, V, 303 a: turned.

=tarpe=, III, 75, 385; 80, 385: emended to targe.

=tasse=, V, 37, 9: cup (tarse in MS.).

=tate=, =tait=, =teet=, =tet=, =tette=, I, 86, 15; 130, =E= 14; 323, 2; II, 189, 23; 191, 18; 194, 27; 389, 16; IV, 449, 15: lock (of hair, of mane).

=tattles=, =tittles=, I, 302, =B= 7: tits, bits.

=taucher=, =toucher=, =tocher=, dowry. See =toucher=.

=tauchy=, I, 302, 10: greasy.

=taul=, told.

=taunt=, bide to taunt, II, 272, 11: endure taunting(?).

=tay=, tie.

=tayened=, =tayned=, V, 228, 26, 27: (tined) lost, killed.

=teacht=, IV, 150, =g= 25, 30: taught.

=teall=, tale.

=tean=, IV, 456 f., 5, 24; 515, 12; V, 36, 11, 15: taken. See =taen=.

=tean=, the tean, the eather, V, 224, 27: the one, the other. See =tane=.

=tear begane this spurn=, III, 310, 65: see note, 307.

=tee=, IV, 446, 7:==tie, 447, 7. glove tee, V, 300, 10, 16, 19.

=tee=, ti, I, 300, 7, 9, 15; II, 30, 4: to, too.

=teem=, =toom=, II, 169, 13; IV, 182, =F= 5: empty.

=teem=, I, 444, =G b= 2: pour.

=teemed=, II, 435, 36: allowed.

=teen=, =teene=, tithe. See =teind=.

=teene=, =tene=, I, 328, 40; III, 24, 48; 37, 63; 60, 78; 62, 128; 66, 211; 72, 329; 230, 70; 412, 22; 443, 1: injury, wrath, vexation, annoyance, grief, trouble.

=teenouslye=, III, 366, 21: angrily,

=teet.= See =tate=.

=teeth=, I, 305, =A= 12: tooth.

=teind=, =teein=, =tiend=, =tene=, =teen=, I, 342, 24; 344, 23; 350, 28; 354, 32; 452, 3; III, 504 b, 9; IV, 456, 15; 458, 16: tithe.

=teindings=, IV, 455, 18: tithings.

=tell=, till, to.

=tempeng=, =tempen=, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: tempting.

=temper=, set them up in temper wood, IV, 222, 20: corrupted, as will appear from the conclusion of the other versions. Parts of two stanzas are mixed.

=tene=, v., III, 110, 13: do harm to.

=tene=, n. See =teene=.

=tenements=, V, 77, 38: holdings (whether of lands or houses does not appear here).

=tenish=, V, 245 a, 8: tennis.

=tent=, n., II, 139, 11; IV, 223, 3; 390, 4: heed.

=tent=, v., I, 74, 81; III, 478, 28: take care of, guard, watch.

=tet=, =tette=. See =tate=.

=tew=, V, 303 a: two.

=teyne=, IV, 504, 26: taken. See =taen=.

=teytheyng=, =tythyng=, V, 79, 25: tidings,

=tha=, then. See =tho=.

=tha=, V, 296 a: the.

=thae=, I, 369, 3; 427, 15; 447, 14; II, 190, 43; IV, 69, 12; 258, 27; 470, 28, 29: they, them, those, these.

=thairbut=, =thairben=, IV, 291, after 11: out there, in there.

=thar=, I, 334, 8: it is necessary (it is not necessary to hinder thee of thine errand).

=that=, II, 451, 93: till that.

=that=, imperative particle, anone that you tell me! III, 27, 118. no peny that I se! III, 58, 41; 68, 246. no ferther that thou gone! III, 67, 219.

=that=, superfluous, I, 273, 38; 284, 7; II, 58, 6; 433, 3; 434, 16, 18; 436, 59; 437, 89; 442, 18; 444, 41; III, 276, 1; 277, 18, 19; 341, 46, 54, 57; 413, 39; IV, 503, 8; V, 48, 6. (Very common in the Percy MS., where all the above, excepting one, occur.)

=that=, plur., that two lords, II, 130, 28, 29. See =this=.

=that ... his===whose, IV, 330, Appendix, 2.

=that was her own=, II, 73, 20: that referring to roses and ribbons, or the bridal relation, or to both.

=the=, =thé=, I, 284 f., 9, 30; III, 307 f., 3, 8, 12, 25, 28; 419 f., 14, 33; 421, 45, 65; 477, 4; 479, 38; V, 263, 7, 9, 11, 12: they.

=the=, =thé=, I, 296, 50: thee.

=the day=, I, 356, 56; II, 32, =Q= 2; 248, 5; 285, 14: to-day.

=the morn=, II, 104, 18; III, 480, 18; 482, 14; 488, 19; V, 300, 17; 307, 7: to-morrow. the morn’s nicht, II, 208, =C= 9: to-morrow night.

=the night=, =the nicht=, I, 303, =C= 4; 304, =E= 4; III, 480, 18; 488, 19; V, 299 a, 1: to-night.

=the streen=, yestreen. See =streen=.

=the=, IV, 494, 29: to be corrected to she; they in the next line to mean the mill-people.

=the=, =thee=, =then=, =thye=, II, 164, 17; III, 67, 234; 78, 452; 113, 81; V, 76, 11; 79, 14; 82 f., 25, 27, etc.: thrive, prosper.

=thee=, III, 6, 20: for thou.

=theek=, I, 253, 4: thatch, pret. and p. p. theekit, theekd, IV, 76 f., 1, 2, 4; 458 b, 9: thatched, roofed.

=theer=, V, 296 a: there.

=thegither=, =thegithar=, =thegether=, III, 261, 3; V, 217 b, No 49, 1: together.

=their.= See =thir=.

=then=, v. See =the=.

=there=, the diel o there, III, 488, 26: seems to mean of that; but we have, devil be there in 43, as an equivalent phrase.

=there=, III, 504 a, 14; IV, 465, 25, 26; 485, 24; 510 a, 2: there is. III, 489, 9: there are (or, there is, Scottice).

=there down=, downwards, down.

=theretoo=, III, 64, 172: besides.

=thes=, III, 111, 34; 113, 76: thus. See =this=.

=they=, II, 434 f., 25, 38; 437, 78; 442 f., 19, 29: the (frequent in Percy MS.).

=thick=, spak thick, I, 343, 13: not articulating distinctly (from emotion).

=thick=, III, 35, 29: thilke, that.

=thie=, I, 19, 14: 330, =B= 2; 331, =C= 2, =D= 2: thigh.

=thief=, foul thief, V, 123, 14; 184, 44: devil.

=thiggin=, V, 117, 2: begging, levying supplies.

=thimber=, I, 330, =A= 2: (Icelandic þungbærr, heavy to bear?) heavy, massive. Not understood and changed to nimble, nimle, I, 332, =F= 2, =G= 2, umber, I, 331, =C= 2.

=think=, =thynk=, III, 27, 98; 58, 37, 44; 60, 82: seem. me thinke, me thynke, methink, III, 81, 37; 153, =c= 5; 158, =d= 17; 321 b; V, 82, 26, 41: methinketh, methinks. See =thoghte=, =thouth=.

=think lang= (A. S. lang thyncan, seem long), thouth me nouthe lange, I, 334, 5, 9: seemed not long, amused me, impressed me pleasantly. In Scottish, personal, with substitution of think for seem. think lang, I, 370, 4; V, 115, 2: find the time wearisome, suffer from ennui. I think lang, I, 368, 35, 37, 39; 506, 2: long for. I’ll never think lang, IV, 257, 10: shall never be discontented, she thought (thocht) lang, I, 478, 14; II, 76, 11; 78, 14: was weary with waiting. keep frae thinking lang, I, 467, 16, 20. keep him on-thought long, I, 478, 13. See =unthought lang=.

=thir=, =their=, I, 5, =C= 5; 329, 61; 482, =C b= 11; II, 78, 23, 24; 271, 21; III, 441, 34, 35; 464, 4; IV, 7, 30; 476, 4, 5; V, 115, 2; 195, 9, 10: these, those.

=thirld in his ear=, II, 208, 5: thrilled.

=thirled at the pin=, II, 121, 15: tirled, rattled.

=this=, pl., this bonny boys, II, 81, 37; this twa, II, 158 f., 1, 19. See =that=.

=this=, =thes=, =thys=, III, 73, 346; 111, 34; 113, 76; IV, 210, 4; V, 283, 2: thus.

=tho=, III, 28, 138; 34, 7, 11; 36, 44; 111, 30: then.

=thoe=, III, 285, 33: they (possibly, then).

=thoghte=, I, 328, 50: (probably) seemed. See =think=.

=thole=, =thoule=, I, 508, 8; II, 46, 2; 124, 38; 314, 10; IV, 17, 2; 21, 16; 278, 12; V, 229, 32: bear, suffer (IV, 17, 2: like dree, be capable of.)

=thorn=, II, 27, =I= 6: dialectic variation of forn, =J= 6, partic. of fare: fill yourselves with good fare.

=thornd=, II, 110, 24: fared.

=thoth=, =thouth=, I, 334, 7, 8: though.

=thother=, the, III, 111, 43: tother, other.

=thou=, though.

=thou is=, =thou’s=, III, 483, 31; 488, 24.

=thou sitts=, =thou rydes=, III, 479, 35.

=thou will=, =thou made=, =thou was=, =thou took=, etc., 2 pers. sing. without termination: I, 221, =C= 9-11, 222 =E= 11-17; 223, 12, 16.

=thought lang=, I, 370, 4; 478, 14, etc. See =think lang=.

=thoule=, II, 159, 20: suffer, put up with. See =thole=.

=thouth=, I, 334, 5, 8, 9: seemed. See =think=.

=thouth=, I, 334, 8: though. See =thoth=.

=thowt=, n., V, 283, 20: thought.

=thra=, =thrae=, IV, 128, 1; 220, 2; 369 b; 446, 8; 465, 34; 470, 20; 479, 3; 518, 10; V, 197, 3, 13: dialectic variety of fra, frae, from.

=thrae=, I, 170, 6: through.

=thrall=, III, 480, 15: bondage.

=thrang=, V, 115, 2: intimate, familiar.

=thrashes=, =threshes=, IV, 77, =b= 4: thrushes, rushes.

=thrashin oer his songs= (of blackbird), I, 133, =M= 3, 5: repeating, or practising.

=thrast=, pret., III, 98, 25: pressed.

=thrave=, I, 21, 10: twenty-four sheaves of corn, two shocks.

=thraw=, II, 146, 14; 147, 15; 149, 14; 283, 16; IV, 479, 8: twist, contort. pret. threw. p. p. thrawen, thrawin, thrawn, IV, 348, 6, 7; 349, =b= 3; 350, =B= =b=, after 5; V, 273, No 239, 3.

=thrawin=, I, 465, 12: thrown.

=thrawn=, twisted. See =thraw=.

=thrawn=, IV, 465, 20: ill-humoredly.

=threefold oer a tree=, III, 267, 9: with a double curve, over a stick.

=threesome=, II, 270, 30: three together.

=threshes=, =thrashes=, IV, 258 f., 5, 20: rushes.

=threty=, thirty.

=threw=, pret. of thraw, I, 102, 18; 492, 18; II, 111, 21; 183, 30; 185, 40; 208, 12; 286, 16; V, 262, 24: twisted, intertwined. III, 180, 10, Robin he lope, Robin he threw: may be, threw himself about, or twisted twirled, showing his suppleness.

=thrien=, I, 244, 18: thrice.

=thrild vpon=, =thirled at=, a pinn, II, 121, 15; 138, 10, 16: tirled, rattled. See =pin=.

=thrill=, II, 291, 27: pierce, penetrate.

=thristle-cock=, I, 427, 8; thristle-throat, I, 429, 8: throstle, thrush.

=throch=, II, 30, 6; 256, 12: through.

=throly=, III, 98, 25: strenuously, doggedly.

=thronge=, III, 25, 56: pressed, made his way.

=throw=, intrans., fyer out of his eyen did throw, I, 211, 23: dart, shoot.

=throwardlie=, III, 365 a: frowardly, crossly, ill-temperedly.

=throwe=, III, 78, 448: space of time.

=thrown=, IV, 249, =F= 3: corrupted from this road; cf. =A= 6; =B= 7; =C= 9; =D= 6.

=þrumme=, III, 13, 9: the extremity of a weaver’s warp, from six to nine inches long, serving to hold arrows. Cf. II, 168, 5, four-and-twenty arrows laced in a whang.

=thrusty=, IV, 172, 4: trusty? (rusted, 173, =K= 4.)

=thurst=, IV, 60 b, 6: thrust.

=thryfte=, euyll thryfte, III, 67, 220: ill thriving, ill speed, bad luck.

=thu=, V, 283, 13: thou.

=thye=, thigh.

=thye=, II, 241, 14: thrive. See =the=.

=thys=, V, 283, 2: thus. See =this=.

=ti=, I, 299, 13: to; too.

=ticht.= See =tight=.

=tide=, =tyde=, III, 299, =C= 1; 432, 15; 473, 11; V, 83, 49: time. into the tide, V, 160, 2; by the tide, 163, 4; 164, 1: at the time, now.

=tidive=, tidive hour, II, 257, 15: timely, early? (the hour may be early morning).

=tiend=, tithe. See =teind=.

=tier=, V, 151, =F= 1, should be, tree.

=tift=, II, 183, 17: puff, whiff.

=tight=, =ticht=, V, 151, =E= 3; 161, 2: (of a man) well built. V, 258, 4: (of a maid) neatly shaped, jimp.

=till=, n., II, 409, 12: toil.

=till=, till see, II, 191, 22; till and frae, II, 71, 15: to. At III, 338 b, it is said that in =A= 66, till may mean while. Here Jamieson was followed: but there appears to be only one case to cite, in a single MS. of Barbour’s Brus, where others read quhil. The remark must be withdrawn, though while might be offered as an emendation, since it is, for obvious reasons, far more probable than till.

=till=, v., II, 54, 57: entice.

=timmer=, timber, wooden.

=timouslie=, IV, 53, 1: early.

=tine=, =tyne=, =tayen=, I, 16, =C= 14; II, 70, 30; 313, 21; 336, =O= 8, 9; III, 75, 398; lose. I, 324, =B= 7; IV, 454, 3; 455, 11; 458, 5: to be lost, perish. I, 115, 11: cause to perish. pret. and p. p. tint, IV, 18, 20; 127, 14; 165, 15; V, 99 =C= 4: lost.

=tinye=, n., a little tinye, V, 51, 69: bit.

=tip=, =tippet= (of horse’s mane), IV, 410, 18, 21; 413, 13:==tate, lock.

=tirl at the pin=, trill, rattle, at that part of the door-fastening which lifts the latch. See =pin=.

=tit=, V, 125, 9: quick pull.

=tithyngus=, III, 98, 40-42: tidings.

=tittles and tattles=, I, 302, =B= 7: tits, bits.

=to=, III, 110, 14, 16: two.

=to=, till.

=tobreke=, subj., I, 243, 6: break, burst (apart), p. p. to-broke, broken up.

=tocher=, =toucher=, =tougher=, =taucher=, n. See =toucher=.

=to-clouted= (gowne), III, 179 a: with patches set to it.

=tod=, I, 355, 44; IV, 193, 11; 194, 4; 196, 9; 196, 13, etc.: fox.

=toe from home=, boune, IV, 504, 24: to a place away from? (perhaps corrupt).

=to-hande=, III, 110, 14: two-hand, two-handed.

=tolbooth=, =tolbuith=, =tollbooth=, III, 482, 18; 489 f., 9, 10, 15: prison, jail. That in Edinburgh, III, 385, 12; 386, 12; 389, 14; IV, 508 b, 8; 509, 9 (Towbooth).

=tolde=, III, 59, 67-69; 68, 247: counted.

=to-morne=, I, 328, 57: to-morrow.

=ton=, =tone=, the, III, 296 f., 12, 30: the one. tone, tother, II, 53, 27, 32. the tone, the tother, II, 51, 2. See =tane=.

=tooke=, III, 405, 14: put. See =take=.

=tooken vpon one part=, III, 404, 3: engaged, enlisted, on the same side.

=toom=, =teem=, I, 72, 17; II, 124, 38; IV, 143, =B= 1, 3, =C= 6; 180, 8; V, 196, 53; 251, 30, 32; 256, 8: empty.

=toomly=, IV, 181, 11: empty.

=toorin=, I, 500, =R= 1-4: cooing. (Imitative, cf. Scott. curr, curroo, Germ, gurren.)

=too-too=, =to-towe=, III, 217, =b=, =c=, 41: a strong too.

=top=, IV, 288, =E= 3: should be toss, toast.

=topcastle=, III, 340 f., 32, 58; 344 f., 28, 46; IV, 504 f., 32, 58 (topcasaille)==top. See =topps=.

=topps=, III, 419, 15; IV, 506, 61: “Among seamen tops are taken for those round frames of board that lye upon the cross-trees, near the heads of the masts, where they get up to furle or loose the topsails.” Phillips. A noble ship at III, 419, 15, has five tops.

=tor= (of saddle), IV, 410, 21: pommel.

=tor=, =tore=, II, 323, 11; 334, =M= 2; IV, 480, 8: projection or knob at the corner of old-fashioned cradles (as also, ornamental balls surmounting the backs of chairs).

=torne=, III, 112, 56: turn, bout.

=tortyll-tre=, III, 112, 56: corruptly for trystell-tre.

=toss=, IV, 288, =E= 3: toast (as a beauty). (misprinted top.)

=to t’=, III, 439, 4: to the.

=to-towe=, III, 430, 1: too-too, a strong too.

=toucher=, =tougher=, =taucher=, n., IV, 283 f., 10, 22, 23; 285, 12, 13; 286, 11; 287, 4; 487, 30; 489, 29; V, 267, 12, 13: tocher, dowry.

=toucher=, v., IV, 284, 23: pay a dowry to.

=touchered=, V, 224, 11: dowered.

=toun=, =town=, IV, 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, =K= 5; 203, 13; V, 228, 27: a farmer’s steading or place (or, a small collection of houses). V, 267, 7: perhaps simply house.

=toun-head=, V, 267, 11: centre or principal part of the town.

=tour=, lyin in a tour, IV, 87, 20: continuous route.

=tout=, I, 274, 18: backside.

=touting=, blowing.

=tow=, III, 396, =N= 8; 449 b; V, 125, 9: rope.

=tow=, III, 434, 17, 18; 435, 12: let down by a rope. V, 123, 15, 16: draw up and let down.

=towbooth=. See =tolbooth=.

=toweld=, II, 194, 22: twilled (?).

=town.= See =toun=.

=tows=, went to the, IV, 380, 8: tows==touts, drinking-bouts, fell to drinking (in contrast to Allan, who went to pray. Tows cannot be ropes; they had not gone aboard the ship).

=trace=, II, 479, 16: track, path, way.

=trachled=, V, 169, 9: tired out.

=trade=, II, 454, 37: should be train, as in 445, 62; 450, 67.

=train=, IV, 107, 1, 13, 15: company.

=train(e)=, II, 445, 62; 450, 67: training.

=traitorye=, III, 411, 2: treachery.

=tralled=, V, 274, 10: trailed (had rather have married A. and have trailed).

=trance=, II, 468 f., 18, 22; V, 268, 7: passage in a house.

=tranckled=, I, 284, 10: travelled. (Dutch trantelen, tranten, tarde progredi; morari. Hexham, to go lazily, at a soft pace.)

=trap=, a doublet of trip. trip for trap, II, 328, 17: tripping.

=trapand=, p. p., (of horse) IV, 44, 4: treacherously dealt with.

=trappin=, IV, 342, 12: tape.

=trattles=, II, 152, 5: tattles.

=travisse=, II, 92, 20: (a frame for confining cavalry horses) horse’s stall.

=trawale=, III, 41 a: travail, operations.

=tray=, =tree= (A. S. trega), injury, suffering, grief, vexation. tene and traye, I, 328, 40; tray and tene, III, 66, 218: grief and vexation, tree and teene, III, 412, 22: grief and injury. (tregan and téonan, Genesis, 2274.)

=tray=, try.

=tread=, =tred=, pret. of tread, II, 160, 5, 6; 165, 9; 171, 10, 12; IV, 468, 3, 4. p. p., IV, 128, 19.

=treasonie=, II, 344, 14: treason.

=tree=, =tre=, I, 343, 42; 345, 40; II, 218, 19; III, 23, 26; 309, 44: wood. I, 465, 2; 473, 4: pole, shaft of a cart. I, 341, 21; 344, 20; III, 25, 59; 29, 154; 63, 147; 97, 4: the cross. III, 160, 22, 25; 161, 42; 162, 55, 62; 163, 78; 267, 9; 268, 8; 270, =D= 8; 271, =F= 10: staff, straight piece of rough wood. crooked tree, III, 160, 18: bow. trenchen tree, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff. of (a) myghttë tre, III, 308 f., 27, 42: of strong wood. a trusti tree, III, 309, 40: perhaps shaft; but the a is likely to be of, as Professor Skeat suggests, and the meaning, of trusty wood (cf. 44, bowe made off trusti tree). horse of tree, III, 478, 13: bridge, or, at least, tree-trunk.

=tree=, III, 412, 22. See =tray=.

=trenchen tree=, III, 164, 91: truncheon, cudgel, staff.

=trew=, =true=, II, 384, 20, 21; III, 474, 45: trow, believe.

=trews=, =trues=, IV, 157, 18, 19; 267, 7; 272, 3; V, 165, 1; 267 a, 6; 306, 1: trousers.

=treyffe=, III, 113, 81: thrive.

=triest=, =trist=. See =tryst=.

=trinkle=, I, 497, 15; II, 197, 17; 209, =D= 7; 290, 25; 326, 11; 411, =B= 17; IV, 236, 5; 409, 6; 487, 27: trickle.

=trip for trap=, came down the stair, in, 328, 17: tripping, trip-trap (trap, a doublet of trip).

=tristil-tre=, III, 98, 37. See =trystell-tre=.

=troule=, V, 84, 13: go round (of a bowl of ale).

=trow=, =trew=, =true=, believe, suppose. I trow, I, 104, =c= 13: assuredly.

=trowt=, =trowet=, III, 110, 23, 26: troth.

=truce=, my petticoat, IV, 288, =E= 2: put in a trouss, tuck or fold, to shorten.

=true=, days of, III, 352 a: (singular of truce, trews, pledges of good faith) truce.

=true=, IV, 486 f., 5, 21; 491, 5: trow. See =trew=.

=true-love=, lover, betrothed lover (often not to be distinguished from true love), passim.

=trues=, trousers. See =trews=.

=truff=, II, 144 f., 14, 24: turf.

=trust=, II, 307, 34; 379, 4; IV, 494, 37; V, 38, 5: trow, believe, suppose (of the things one would rather not believe).

=truste=, III, 66, 207: trusty.

=trusty tree=, III, 92, 8; 116 f., 2, 21; 200, 37; V, 75, 4: an obvious corruption of trystill-tree, a tree appointed for a meeting or assemblage. (Trusty also in later copies of Adam Bell and the Gest for trysty, trystell, which see.)

=trusyd=, III, 13, 9: trussed, bound up.

=tryst=, =tryste=, n., I, 394, =A= 1; 395, 1; IV, 2, 4, 6: appointment to meet. IV, 413, 7; 414, 3, 4: appointment for wedding. I, 326, 18: market.

=tryst=, =tri(e)st=, v., I, 314, 1; II, 270, 3; 272, 4; IV, 201, 8; V, 171, 4: engage, induce, entice, to come, go with. II, 294, 13; IV, 194, 6; 198, 8; 200, 19; 201, 11; 202, =K= 5: prepare a way for coming, cause to come.

=tryst=, n. or v., IV, 154, 5: appoint a place, or, appointment of a place.

=trystell-tree=, =trysty-tre=, =trystyll-tre=, =tristil-tre=, III, 69 f., 274, 286; 71, 298; 75, 387; 76, 412: a tree serving for a meeting-place (of Robin Hood’s band). (In later texts, trusty.)

=trysty tre=, III, 26 f., 95, 98; 27, 102: tree fixed upon for rendezvous (trusty, trustie in later copies).

=tu=, V, 303 a: to.

=tua=, the tua part, V, 254 =b=, 4: two thirds. But twa part, V, 276, 20, seems to mean second part, half, which we have at IV, 120 =F= 7; 381, 16; that is, it is more likely that an equal share should be offered.

=tul=, III, 440, 25; til, to. tul a, III, 440, 13: to have.

=turn=, IV, 477, 14; turning o the tune, II, 249, 11; o the note, 250, 13; IV, 477, 13: refrain (owreturn, I, 332, =E=, =F= 7; owreword, II, 254, 8, 9). turnin o the bell, IV, 314, 19.

=turn the wind wi thee=, IV, 379, 6:==take the wine (i.e. wind) fra thee, V, 275, 5. (The meaning is clear, but whether turn is in actual use in the required sense I have not ascertained.)

=turning.= See =turn=.

=tust=, IV, 224, 20: tost.

=twa=, two. twa part, see =tua=.

=twafald(-fold)=, oer a tree, staff, II, 461, 19; III, 268, 8: bent double over a stick. twafald ower his steed, III, 8, 18: doubled, head hanging on one side, feet on the other. See =twofold=.

=twain=, v., part. See =twin=.

=twal=, twelve.

=twalmon=, =twalmont=, twelvemonth.

=twalt=, =twelt=, twelfth.

=twan=, pret. of twine, I, 256, 2.

=twatling=, dishes, V, 86, 36: unmeaning, nonsensical, of no account.

=twaw=, two.

=twig=, IV, 31, =B= 6: twitch, pull.

=twin=, =twine=, =twyne=, twin me o my make, twin babe of life, I, 129, 8; 174, 18; 175, =D= 6, 12; 177, 17; 220, =B= 3; 222, 7; II, 218, 16; IV, 179, =A= 2: deprive. twine a mantle, I, 453, 3; twine me, IV, 154, 5: part with. twin(n) with, I, 175, 4, 5, 10, 11; II, 232, 7, 10, 12; twin(e) me and my make, etc., I, 127, 14; 128, 11; 350, 15; II, 159, 12, 13 (twain); V, 178, 1: separate. gar twa loves twin (twain), etc., I, 56, =B= 9; II, 63, 23; 230, =B= 3, 6: part, intrans.

=twine=, coarse linen, duck, crash. for towel, IV, 460, No 47, 1, 2; shift (contrasted with holland), II, 224, 17. II, 27, 19, 20: canvas. I, 221, =C= 9; 504, 4: coarse stuff of some kind. Lincoln twine, III, 5, =D= 5; 8, 12; IV, 496, 10, is doubtless the Lincoln green of other versions, and so simply texture. III, 192, 10: yarn, ropes o silken twine, IV, 472, 10: twist, shoes of small corded twine, V, 301 b, 3.

=twinkle=, II, 409, 17; 425, =A= 7: trinkle, trickle.

=twinn=, v. See =twin=.

=twinn=, part in twinn, I, 432, 3: in twain, in two.

=twirld=, at the pin, IV, 390, =b= 4: tirled, rattled.

=twofold oer a staff=, =threefold oer a tree=, III, 267, 9; the body being bent double over the staff, the whole presentation is, with the staff (tree) threefold. Corruptly, III, 188, 6, two foote on a staffe, the third vpon a tree. See also =twa-fald=.

=tydand=, II, 433, 9: tidings.

=tyde.= See =tide=.

=tyndes=, III, 65, 186: (A. S. tind) tynes, antlers.

=tyne=, I, 17, 11:==tynd, harrow-tooth (harrow-pin, I, 19, 10).

=tyne=, v., to lose, to perish. See =tine=.

=tyte=, his backe did from his belly tyte, III, 277, 17: quickly. A verb of the sense fall away may have dropped out after did, and is at any rate to be understood, unless tyte had that sense. A Scottish tyte, to totter, fall (tyte oer, fall over), is noted by Jamieson.

=tythance=, =tythand(e)s=, =tythyng=, III, 361, =b=, =c= 1; =c= 14, 49; 362, 93; V, 78, 5: tidings.

U

=ugsome=, II, 47, 15: exciting disgust or abhorrence. (Icel. uggr, fear.)

=ull=, I ull, V, 267, 5: will.

=umber=, I, 331, =C= 2: seems to be the same as thimber (I, 330, =A= 2): massive.

=unbeen=, my barn’s unbeen, IV, 143, =A= 4: not thoroughly closed in or made tight? (been, well-provided, warm, dry and snug. A bein cask, watertight, Jamieson.) a house is beind when thoroughly dried.

=vnbethought him=, I, 214, =A= 17 (printed um-); II, 240, 5; V, 15, 16: bethought himself of.

=unbigged=, IV, 143, =A= 4: unbuilt.

=unco=, adj., A. S. uncúð (uncouth, III, 245, 11). unco man, IV, 235, 11: unknown, strange, unco land, ground, I, 182, 1, 3; 324, 4; IV, 410, 10, 11. unco squire, V, 26 f., 25, 36: stranger, unco woman, I, 78, 26: unfriendly. unco lair (lear), II, 118, 1; 119, 1; 174, 1; 178, 2; III, 385, 1; IV, 411, 1; 467, 1: extraordinary.

=unco=, adv., I, 370, 5: unusually, very.

=uncouth=, =vnkowth=, =vnkuth=, =vnketh=, I, 344, 25; III, 245, 11: (A. S. uncúð) unknown, strange. See =unco=.

=vnder=, Grenwich, III, 358, 78: perhaps, below, further down the Thames.

=vnder hand=, shott it vnder hand, III, 199, 29; 202, 33; shot under his hand, III, 204, 26: Dr Furnivall and Mr C. J. Longman suggest, putting the bow horizontally, in which case you shoot with the arrow under the left hand, instead of beside it, as in shooting with the bow vertical. Ascham speaks of an underhand shaft, but without defining it: “The underhande [shafte] must have a small breste, to go cleane awaye oute of the bowe; the forehande muste have a bigge breste, to bere the great myght of the bowe.” Toxophilus, 1545, ed. Arber, p. 126. And again, as cited by Dr W. Hand Browne, of Johns Hopkins University: “Men doubt yet, in looking at the mark, what way is best, above or beneth hys hand”; “a byg brested shafte for hym that shoteth under hande, bycause it will hobble.” Upon which Dr Browne remarks, “As he is here speaking only of taking aim, under-hand shooting would seem to be done when the archer raised his bow high, and looked at the mark under the arrow-hand.”

=under night=, I, 100, 1: in the night.

=vndergoe=, II, 59, 33: undertake.

=undertaking=, be your, IV, 152, 6; 153, =D= 7: will undertake, manage for you.

=vnfaine=, III, 355, 14: not glad.

=unfriends=, III, 470 b: enemies.

=vngoodly=, III, 322 a: unhandsome.

=vnhappie=, V, 82, 29: ill-conditioned, having bad tricks.

=unhappy=, IV, 64 a: mischievous.

=unhappy=, V, 86, 32: unlucky (as speaking inopportunely). (The on of horson occasioned the omission of un-.)

=unkensome=, III, 495 =B= =b= 7: not to be known.

=unkent=, IV, 435, 12: unknown.

=vnketh=, =vnkouth=, =vnkuth=, III, 56, 6; 57, 18; 66, 209; 79, 6, 18; 82, 6, 18; 85, 6: uncouth, unknown, stranger.

=vnmackley=, II, 59, 30: misshapen. (Scott. makly, well proportioned, mackerly, Northumberland, shapely. Halliwell.)

=vnneth=, =unneath=, III, 73, 358; 171, 17: with difficulty, scarcely.

=vnready=, V, 81, 10: indirect, or, attended with difficulties.

=unright(e)=, I, 294, 7; III, 339, 5; IV, 503, 5: wrong.

=unruly=, IV, 383, 1: should probably be unseally, as in IV, 378, 1.

=unseally=, IV, 378, 1: unlucky.

=vnsett=, III, 358, 71: surrounded, invested. (A. S. ymbsettan.)

=unshemly=, V, 215, 14: unseemly.

=unthought=, =unthocht=, =onthought lang=, haud, keep, I, 478, 13; 482, =C b= 16, 20; II, 139, 3; III, 492, 5; IV, 260, 10: keep from thinking long, wearying, from ennui. See =think lang=.

=vnthrift=, V, 81, 16: spendthrift.

=until=, =untill=, I, 221, =D= 3, 4; III, 488, 35, 36: unto, to.

=unto=, IV, 170, 11; 467, 11; V, 262, 19: into, in.

=vnto the same=, I, 284, 12: after the same fashion.

=vntyll=, gates shut them vntyll, III, 25, 52: to, against.

=vnwieldie=, V, 82, 29: unmanageable.

=vowsed=, =uowsed=, V, 79, 14: used, practised.

=vp chaunce=, III, 57, 18; 66, 209: on, for, the chance.

=up stark=, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (came, blew) up strong, as still common, with the like ellipsis, V, 51, 68; 56, 45.

=upgive=, V, 193, 59: avow, acknowledge, own up.

=vpon=, =vppon=, I, 271, 2; 433, 15, 16: on. stay upon, wait upon, III, 450 b: for.

=upper hand=, II, 245, 29: upper tier, above.

=upricht=, I, 473, 3: right out.

=upstart=, II, 54, 56: sprang up.

=us=, I us gar, V, 267, 12: shall, will. See =s=, sign of future.

=used=, V, 85, 23: frequented. used him in her company, IV, 98, =F= 6: accustomed him to.

=vtter=, III, 361, =b=, =c= 52: outer.

=utuer=, IV, 506, 59. See =beame=.

V

=vain=, streams proud and vain, IV, 204, 8: repetition of proud in the sense of fierce, etc.

=valiant= (of ladies), V, 119, 1: of worth, estimation.

=value= (of an hour), IV, 514, 15, 16: amount.

=value=, =va(l)low=, v., II, 162, =E= 2: think important, make ado about, stick. vallow not the feed, IV, 36, 3: value, care not for the feud which will ensue; cf. =B= 3.

=vance=, spak wi a vance, IV, 465, 30: seems to be meant for vaunt. It is hardly probable that the plural of the old Scottish and English avant, vaunt (with avants) can be intended.

=vanitie=, IV, 300, 2, is nonsense.

=vawward=, III, 284, 14; vanward, III, 285, 21, 34; 333, 27: vanguard, van.

=veiwe=, =vew=, =vewe=, III, 92, 15: yew.

=velvaret=, IV, 369, 1: meant for velvet; not velveret.

=venie= (?), III, 219 b, note: vein.

=venison=, II, 59, 38: hunting (prerogative of).

=vension=, III, 196, =d= 4: venison.

=vepan=, weapon.

=verament=, III, 308, 26; 333, 26: truly.

=vessell=, pl., III, 65, 175, 179, 191: vessels.

=vew=, your vew, V, 86, 40: sight of you.

=vew=, =vewe=, =veiwe=, III, 92, 15; 105, 27; 362, 78: yew. (The v is not for u. The word is pronounced vewe in Cheshire.)

=vild=, V, 53, 102: vile.

=virgus=, I, 420, 13: verjuice, a kind of vinegar (green juice).

=virr=, I, 183, 16: vigor.

=virtue=, in virtue leave your lammas beds, II, 96, =J= 4: corrupt. Cf. =B= 1. Dr Davidson suggests, never tae leave your lammie’s, lambkin’s beds (lammie’s, innocent).

=vo=, =vou=, woe.

=vogie=, IV, 176, 11: vain, merry; no longer have you cause for self-gratulation, to be demonstratively joyful.

=vones=, I, 334, 6: dwellest.

=voss.= a voss o, IV, 224, 8, 12: comparing =G= 8, 10, 21, =K= 22, the voice of, this last seems to be meant. Otherwise, a corruption of, it was a (cf. =A= 11; =C= 15; =D= 17; =E= 19; =H= 11).

=votes=, IV, 114, =C= 2: for voters? probably a corruption.

=vou’s me=, V, 271, 16, 17, wo is me!

=vouch it safe=, III, 75, 381: grant, bestow (safe corrected from halfe).

=voued=, pret., V, 268, 17: viewed.

=vour.= o vour, II, 25, =F= 13: half owre, as in =C= 18.

=vow=, =wow=, IV, 133 f., 12, 15; 136, 21; V, 118, =C= 11: exclamation of surprise, emphasis, or admiration.

=voyded=, III, 26, 79: made off.

=vue=, v., V, 265, 17: view.

=vyld=, wild.

=vytouten nay=, I, 334, 4: without, beyond, denial.

W

=wa=, =wae=, IV, 448 a, 3^d st.: wo.

=waaf=, II, 72, 2: waif.

=wad=, n., II, 63, 23; 172, 31, 32: pledge, in security. I, 340, 2; 343, 2; II, 376, 39; III, 455, 10: forfeit.

=wad.= I wad, I, 130, =F= 14, 15, 20: I wot, in a weak sense, assuredly, truly. See =a=I=, and =wat=.

=wad=, =wade=, I, 71, 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; III, 465, 30; V, 299, 2: would. See =wads=.

=wad=, =wade=, v., IV, 18, 17; 185, 7; 384, 5; 385, 2, 7; 386, 2; V, 219, 23; 275 b, 6; 300, 14: wager. IV, 432, 4, 5: engage (to fight).

=wadded=, I, 272, 11: of woad color, blue.

=wadded=, V, 261, 6: wedded.

=wadding=, =wadin=, II, 131 f., 11, 16, 19, 20; IV, 470, 15-17: wedding.

=wade=, =wad=, pret. of wide, wade, II, 97, 12, 13; 283, 4; 461, 10; IV, 68, 6; 190, 27, 28; 438, 13; 455, 9.

=waders=, IV, 188, 20: miscopied by Skene for mideers, mothers.

=wadin.= See =wadding=.

=wads=, II, 133, =D= 4, 5, 6: wishes (wad, would, treated as a present tense).

=wae=, =wa=, I, 69, 48; 127, 28; 169, 3; 217, 3, 6; V, 306, 10: wo.

=wae=, adj., I, 367, 11; II, 70, 25; 89, 36; 129, 17: unhappy.

=wael=, IV, 443, 5: choice. See =wale=.

=waely=, IV, 59, =d= 3: a rhyme-word for wae, sad.

=waesome=, IV, 369 b: woful.

=waft=, I, 420, 15, 16; 422, 12, 13: weft, woof.

=wafu=, woful.

=wainless=, II, 72, 8: homeless (without a wane, habitation).

=wair=, II, 472, 24: bestow. See =war=.

=wait=, I wait, a wait, wate, IV, 128, 16, 17; 169, 3; 371, 2, 3, 5; 447, 6, 17; 470, 17; 510, =W= 2; 515, 12, 15; 517, 20: I wot, know, indeed. See =wat=, and =a=I=.

=wait=, IV, 456, 7:=wite, blame.

=wait=, =wayte=, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do.

=waith=, steed, V, 176, 18: waif, stray, wandering.

=waitmen=, II, 424, 3: waiting-men (or possibly, wight men, strong men).

=wake=, II, 327, 2, 4, 5: aperture, way. (Icel. vök, aperture, especially one cut in ice, or remaining in water not completely frozen over; passage cut for ships in ice; Swed. vak, hole in ice; Dutch vak, empty space. “In Norfolk, when the ‘broads’ are mostly frozen over, the spaces of open water are called wakes.” Wedgwood.)

=wake=, I, 107, 5; IV, 446, 5; 447, 5: watch (people set to watch me), but the reading at I, 107; IV, 447, is probably wrong; cf. I, 108, =B= 4. See =wane=.

=wake=, IV, 141, 12: merry-making, sport.

=wake=, v., V, 277, 2: walk.

=wake=, III, 88, 340, is an original misprint.

=waken=, I, 433, 24: waking.

=wakerife.= See =waukrife=.

=wald=, =walde=, I, 334, 6: would.

=wale=, =wael=, =walle=, IV, 265, =A b= 10; 477, 19; V, 256 a, 2: choice.

=wale=, =weil=, =wile=, =wyle=, I, 428, 14; IV, 169, 5; 300, 12; 461, 19; V, 105, =B= 1: choose.

=wale wight=, I, 490, 13. See =wall wight=.

=walker=, I, 272, 14: fuller.

=wall=, I, 387, 2, 4; 440, 4, 6; V, 206 a, 3: well, spring. The water at St Johnston’s wall was fifty fathom deep, II, 21, 14: an alleged deep place in the Tay; cf. 24, 14, there’s a brig at the back o Sanct John’s toun, it’s fifty fadom deep.

=wall=, green wall sea, green wall wave, V, 275 b, 7, 8: apparently wave, despite tautology; cf. II, 22, 15, green-waved sea. (haw sea, IV, 379, 10; 380, 19. Prof. Murison informs me that when Mrs Murison sings the ballad mechanically, or without attention, she invariably sings haw.)

=walle=, V, 256 a, 2: wale, choice. See =wale=.

=wallourt.= See =wallowt=.

=wallowd=, II, 392, 10: rolled over (?).

=wallowit=, II, 361, 32: withered.

=wallowt=, IV, 127, 3: drooped, grew pallid. was wallourt, IV, 138, =M=: (misspelt) was pallid.

=wall-wight=, II, 123, 15; 403, 9; III, 10, 23; IV, 392, 11, 12; V, 37, 6; 41, 29, 32 (all from Buchan’s ballads): explained by Donaldson as waled wight, picked strong men. Donaldson cites weild wightman from Semple of Beltrees. See =well wight=, =wale wight men=, I, 490, 13.

=wallwood=, swine, II, 299, 16: wild-wood, compare II, 144, 3, wild-wood steer (unhallowed swine, II, 154, 10).

=walting=, IV, 312, 8: welting, edging.

=waly=, IV, 21, 13: fine large.

=waly=, =wallie=, =wally=, II, 363, 1, line 1; IV, 109 f., 5, 8; 293, =A= 1, 2, 7, 9 (oh and a waly); V, 195, 8; 197, 9, 10, 11: exclamation of admiration. O braw wallie, IV, 296, =F= 1: literally, O good, lucky! or, O good luck! but, as before, an exclamation of admiration.

=waly=, =wally=, II, 363, 1, line 3; IV, 92, 1, 3; 94, 1; 95, 1, etc.: interjection of lamentation (probably A. S. wá lá!). the wally o’t, IV, 290, =D b= 1: sorrow, pity of it! waly’s my love! V, 208, 1, 2, etc.

=wamb=(=e=), =wame=, II, 130, 2; 183, 24; 189, 27; 195, 33; III, 437, 23: womb. See =weam=.

=wan=, one.

=wan=, dark-colored, pallid, colorless, white. II, 92, 3, 4, 9; 97, 11; 144, 13; 147, 10; 150, 14: dark-colored. II, 74, =E= 6; 79, 28; 185, 33; 187, 16; 399, 2: pallid. wan water (as contrasted with wine), II, 70, 17; 74, =D= 7; 75, 10; 92, 4; 96, =J= 7, 8: colorless. far got ye that water that washes ye so wan, II, 191, 23: white (ye wad never be so white, 24).

=wan=, =wane=, pret. of win, I, 73, 53; II, 21, 4; 123, 22; III, 474, 32; IV, 180, 7. he wan free, V, 300, 11: got free.

=wan=, p. p. of win, IV, 385, 26.

=wand=, II, 146, 13; 147, 14; 150, =E= 9; 151, =G= 4: of (willow) twigs, staff made of the wand, II, 118, 22 (very nearly verbiage): made of a rod.

=wane=, I, 334, 7; III, 63, 148: habitation. in my bower there is a wane, IV, 446, 5: wane, says Jamieson, denotes not only a dwelling (Old Eng. wone), but “different apartments in the same habitation;” if so, in my house there is a room, is the sense here. wan, in the wake there is a wan, IV, 447, 5: should at least be, in the wane there is a wake, as the rhyme shows, and as we have at 446, 5. In, at the wake there is a wane, I, 107, 5, wane was meant by Scott to be understood as a collection of people (wheen). See =wake=.

=wane=, III, 309, 36: “quantity, multitude; a single arrow out of a vast quantity.” Skeat (quantity as in Chaucer’s wone, see =wheen=). This is to me quite unsatisfactory, but I have no better interpretation to offer. Wain, in the sense of a vehicle for a missile, ballista, catapult, would be what is wanted, but I have not succeeded in finding a case.

=wanhappy=, IV, 386, 1: unlucky.

=wanna=, did not win, go.

=wannelld=, III, 488, 38: was unsteady, staggered. (A. S. wancol, North Eng. wankle, unstable, Germ. wankeln.)

=wannle=, IV, 491, 32: agile, vigorous, strong.

=wanny=, II, 261, 8, 9: small wand, rod.

=want=, IV, 196, 3; 268, 17, 22; 357, =B= 7; 358, 17: do without, dispense with. sae soon as we’ve wanted him, IV, 359, 12: had to do without. III, 513 b, 2, pret.: wanted.

=wanton=, III, 452, 1; 453, 1: free and easy, frolicsome. (rantin, 455, 1.) Cf. Wanton Brown (a horse), IV, 17, 1, etc.

=wantonlie=, =-ly=, III, 488, 27; 490, 14: gaily, merrily. rode, lap, wantonly, IV, 146 f., 8, 38: in easy, spirited style.

=wap=, horse will gie his head a wap, I, 182 f., 8, 14: throw, toss.

=wap=, n., coost a wap on horse’s nose, IV, 21, 9: noose.

=wap=, v., wrap, lap. wap cloth into ship’s side, II, 27, 19: stuff. roun ship’s side, 20: wrap. wap halter oer horse’s nose, IV, 17, 4: lap, twine, perhaps throw.

=wap=, v., throw. wappin corn and hay oer to horse, IV, 21, 18: throwing. wappit wings, II, 139 f., 7, 12, 22: beat, flapped.

=war=, =ware=. be war, ware, a, of, on, I, 273, 37; II, 46, 37; III, 66, 213; 109, 4; 296, 20; 307, 10: be aware, have a sight of. was war wher, III, 98, 39.

=war=, =waur=, I, 388, =A= 10; 420, 12, 13; 466, 22; II, 417, 6, 9; V, 193, 48: worse.

=war=, =waur=, I, 132, =I= 1; 149, =I= 1; 331, =B= 8: were.

=war=, =ware=, =wair=, I, 431, 3; 478, 7; II, 418, 22; 472, 24; V, 142, 11: expend, bestow. ware my dame’s cauf’s skin on thee, IV, 7, 31; V, 250, 29: apply, use, my wife’s (mother’s) whip.

=waran=, =warran=, =warrand=, =warraner=, =warrant=, III, 430, 15; 435, =F= 7; 436, 5, 7: sponsor for, security. III, 405, 7; IV, 310, 4 (cf. =warn=): safeguard.

=ward=, =warde=, III, 404 b; 470 b: defence. III, 72, 332, 337; 449 a; IV, 11, 18: prison, confinement. enter himself in ward, III, 447 b: voluntarily go into confinement.

=ward=, IV, 446, 1: corrupt. See =weird=.

=warde=, II, 273, 25; 340 b, line 8: forewarn, advise.

=warden=, I, 161, 4; V, 209 a, 4: guardian, tutor.

=warden=, IV, 317, =F= 3, 4: facing, edging (cf. the walting, welting, of 312, =A= 8).

=warden pies=, III, 216, 35: made of large pears called wardens.

=wardle=, I, 127, 14; V, 214 f., 1, 6: world. wardle’s make, see =warld=.

=ware=, V, 169, 11: sea-weed, alga marina (used for manure).

=ware=, V, 306, 2, 3: were.

=ware=, pret., V, 221, 20: wore.

=ware.= See =war=.

=warison=, =waryson=, III, 100, 74; 297, 43: reward.

=warld=, world. warld’s make, I, 129, 8; 348, 17; 351 f., 40, 54; 353, =H= 12; wardle’s make, I, 127, 14; warldly, worldly, make, mate, I, 344, 30; II, 118, 6, 7; world’s make, I, 128, 11; 348, 11; wordlye make, II, 86, 18, 20: world’s, earthly, mate, consort. world’s mait, I, 508, 9.

=warldly.= See =warld=.

=warlock=, II, 220, 11, 12; 223 f., 8, 14; IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wizard.

=warn=, IV, 309, 2, 6: surety, safeguard. Cf. warran, IV, 310, 4, and see =waran=.

=warn=, p. p., IV, 445 b, 2, No 8: warnd (as 446, =b= 2).

=warp=, v., I, 312, 8; II, 503, 7: curl, twist.

=warran=, =warrand=. See =waran=.

=warraner.= See =waran=.

=warsle=, n., I, 438, =A= 1: wrestle.

=warsle=, =warsel=, v., I, 438, =A= 2; 439, 2; 440, 3; 441, 1-3: wrestle. warsled, I, 56, 14: wrestled, struggled, bestirred herself.

=warslin=, a-warslin, I, 440, 1, 2: a-wrestling.

=warwolf=, I, 311, 15, 16: werewolf, man-wolf, man transformed into a wolf.

=waryson.= See =warison=.

=wa’s=, ways.

=was.= See =wash=.

=wash.= pres. was, I, 494, 7; III, 111, 41. pret. weesh, wish, wush. p. p. washen (I, 304, =E= 5; II, 111, 10; V, 102, =B= 15), wushen, which see.

=wast=, west.

=waste=, I, 349, =F= 9: seems to be nonsense (ride expected).

=wat=, =wate=, =wait=, =watt=, =weet=, =wet=, =wit=, =wite=, =wyte=, =wis=, =wot=, know. I wat, wate, a wat, a wite, etc., frequently nothing more than assuredly, indeed: II, 159, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23; 160, 10-16, 18, 19; 161, 12, 13, 17; III, 199, 23; 464 f., 10, 15, 34; 466, 43; IV, 175, =M= 7; 359, 4, 5, 7, etc.; 470, 17; V, 300, 2. pret. wist. p. p. wist, west.

=wat=, pret. of weet, weit, to wet, I, 17, =D= 6; II, 21, 12, 13; 23 f., =D= 7, =F= 10, etc.; IV, 424, 5. p. p., I, 55, =B= 7; II, 23, =E= 8.

=wate=, knew. See =wat=, =wait=.

=wate=, pret. of wite, blame, II, 273, 25.

=water=, =water-side=, IV, 7, 25; V, 250, 24, 25: “the banks of a river, in the mountainous districts of Scotland the only inhabitable parts.” Scott.

=water-cherry=, II, 186, 18: perhaps a species of cherry used as a cosmetic.

=water-gate=, IV, 510, 6; V, 250, 12: street leading to the water, way along the water.

=water-kelpy=, IV, 185, 10: water-sprite.

=water-side.= See =water=.

=water-sluice.= bored nine holes in her water-sluice, V, 142, =f= 5, should mean in the gate or valve of some vent for water; bored a watery sluice, or aperture for water, =g= 6, is a more rational reading.

=water-stoups=, V, 91, 7, 8: water-buckets or pitchers.

=wather=, =wither=, =wuther=, V, 107, 3, 5: wether.

=watt=, III, 199, 23: know. See =wat=.

=waught=, I, 299, 14: draught.

=wauk=, walk.

=wauk=, II, 139, 5, 13: watch, be awake.

=wauken=, II, 139, 11, 13: waken. pret. waukenit, II, 79, 38: awoke.

=wauken(e)d= =at=, II, 162, 12: tried to waken; perhaps, chid, expostulated with.

=waukrife=, =wakerife=, IV, 389 b: watchful, wakeful.

=waur=, =war=, I, 5, 13, 18; 422, 17; 475, 44; 476, =J= 6; II, 421, 26; IV, 26, 4, 5: worse.

=waur=, I, 147, =C= 1; II, 61, 9; IV, 417, 5, 10: were.

=wavers wi the wind=, II, 266, =B= 1: is as restless, changeable (?).

=wawis=, IV, 196, 19: walls.

=way=, I, 4, =A= 13, 16; =B= 8, 9; 5, =D= 4, 9; V, 283, 7, 17: the Milky Way.

=way.= would I way or would I wight, I, 77, 13; 78, 42: nonsense. See =weight=. Motherwell conjectures, would I away, or would I wait. See =wee=.

=waylawaye=, alas.

=ways=, IV, 196, 15: in a direction.

=wayte=, =wait=, III, 57, 18; 66, 209; 83, 202; 86, 202; 412, 21: look out for; watch, lie in wait, seek an opportunity, to do. pret. wayted, III, 72, 331: lay in wait for.

=waythmen=, III, 41 a: hunters. See =wight-men=.

=we=, V, 302 a, 13: with.

=we an E an O me=, =we an E an O an O me=, V, 275 a, 9, 10: these words have been treated as interjections. It is possible that they are corrupted from something like, were a’ foald in a yeir to me, III, 370, 9; cf. II, 465, 9.

=wea=, see your body wea, V, 226 b, 7:=wae, suffering? (strange expression, see II, 305, 7, you red and blue.)

=wead=, would.

=weal=, III, 310, 60: “clench so as to leave marks, mark with wales”(?). “Perhaps read wringe and wayle.” Skeat.

=weame=, IV, 505, 56: belly. See =wamb=(=e=), =weme=.

=wean=, II, 136 a, 16; III, 253, =R=; 397, =A b= 2: wee an, little one, child.

=wear.= sare a man a wear, I, 301, 2: sair, supply, a man, of, with, his wear, clothing.

=wear=, pret., V, 221, 21: wore.

=Wearie=, I, 55 f., 3, 4, 6, etc.: the Devil.

=wearied=, =wearit=. See =wearyd=.

=wearifu=, V, 115, 7: tiresome, vexatious, cursed.

=wearin’s wa=, I, 333, 6: wearing his way, growing less and less, slowly vanishing.

=weary fa=, IV, 389 b: a curse befall.

=weary=, =wearie=, I, 310, 16; II, 131 f., 11, 16; 231, 1; III, 319, 24; IV, 56, =A= 3, =B= 3; 57, =C= 3, 6; 133, =G= 6; V, 16, 1, 2, 5, 8; 192, 25: sad, unhappy, distressed. IV, 44, 6; 290, =B c= 5; 359, 6; 480, 3: vexatious, hateful, horrid, cursed.

=weary=, weary high hat, III, 184, 13: monstrously, deucedly.

=wearyd=, =wearied=, =wearit=, III, 261 f., 8, 10; IV, 128, 5; 132, 8: troubled, afflicted.

=wearyin for me in=, V, 155, 6: longing to have me indoors.

=weate=, III, 341, 47: corrupt. Possibly, I weate, wit, know.

=weather=, IV, 213, 17, 18: storm of rain or snow.

=wed=, =wedd=(=e=), =wad=, III, 66, 214; 71, 298; 110, 7, 8, 12, 13; 356, 34: pledge, fine, forfeit (ley a wed, 110, 7, 8,=leffe, leave a wed, 12, 13). sette to wedde, III, 59, 54: put in pledge.

=wed=, v., I, 481, 42: wager. See =wad=.

=wed=, proudest wed, III, 4, 5: proudest dressed (from wede)

=wede=, =weed=, II, 28, 28; III, 61, 97; 74, 368, 371; IV, 212, 2, 7; 213, 10, 15; V, 306, 13: clothing, garment.

=wee=, I, 163, =J= 1, 2, etc.; 164, =K= 1, 2, etc.: little. I, 203, 5; IV, 412, 15; 413, 18; 421, 25: short time.

=wee.= would I wee or would I way, I, 77, 12; 78, 41: would I (stay) wi (him) or (go) away, is all the meaning this can have. Motherwell conjectures, would I wait or would I away. See =way=.

=weed.= See =wede=.

=weel=, well. See =well=.

=weel.= the weel gae wi his body, IV, 129, 21, 23-25: prosperity.

=weel=, =well=. weel fa! good luck befall, I, 388, =B= 5. for my weel, II, 461, 8; 466, 24: well, advantage (461, 9, for my better). Euphemism for God: weel met thee save! I, 324, 3 (MS. thou); well met ye (you) save! IV, 455, 4; V, 195, 9; well (weel, weill) may ye (you) save! IV, 195, 13; 198 f., =G= 4, 21. So III, 268, 3^1, originally; the far better in the line following, is nonsense.

=weel=, =weil=, IV, 517, 19: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river.

=weel that was her own=, II, 73, 20: seems to mean that the roses and ribbons were indeed hers by right.

=weel-busked=, hat, IV, 199, 9: handsomely adorned.

=weel-fared=, =weel-fart=, =weil-faurit=, etc.: well-favored. See =fared=.

=weel-worst=, V, 214 a, 1: very worst.

=ween=, II, 132, 21: whimper, whine, lament.

=ween=, heigh a ween and oh a ween (where a may be I), II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress.

=weep=, n., V, 241 a, 4, 5: weeping, tears.

=weer=, I, 72 f., 6, 61: weird, fortune.

=weer=, war. See =weir=.

=weesh=, pret. of wash, V, 213, 6.

=weet=, II, 293, 13: know.

=weet=, n., III, 160, 6; IV, 379, 15: rain, shower of rain.

=weet=, =weit=, v., III, 401, 7: wet.

=weetie=, =weety=, IV, 197, 9, 17; 258, 25: rainy.

=weighed more=, II, 455, 57: made more account.

=weight=, IV, 224, 23: wight, strong.

=weight=, was he weel or was he weight, I, 80, 9: nonsense; weight would be wight, strong, etc., which has no pertinency. The same of, would I way or would I wight, 77, 13. See =way=.

=weil=, =weel=, IV, 182, =G= 8: a pot, deep place, or whirlpool in a river. weil-head, II, 153, 17: vortex of a whirlpool.

=weil=, =wile=, V, 10, 2: wale, choose. See =wale=.

=weil==well, very. See =well=.

=weir=, =weer=, =were=, III, 480, 9; 491, 6; IV, 432, 14; V, 183, 21: war.

=weir=, bot weir, I, 140 =N=: without doubt. (Pinkerton.)

=weir-window=, =wire-window=, IV, 44, 10; 46, 11, 7: seems to be a window grated with iron bars.

=weird=, =wierd=, =weer=, n., I, 69, 42, 47; 71, 37; 72 f., 6, 61; 77, 6; 309, =B= 1; 482, =E=: fate, fortune, destiny.

=weird=, v., I, 311, 3: destine.

=weird=, I, 107, 1: the reading at this place is compounded from, weird her a grit sin, IV, 445, 1, and ward her in a great sin, IV, 446, 1; the reading of IV, 445, would mean, destined, put her in the way of, a great sin; ward in of the other text does not give an easy sense, and ward is perhaps a corruption of weird.

=weirdless=, III, 391, =H= 3: unlucky.

=weit=, I, 140, =N= (Pinkerton): know.

=welde=, III, 112, 52: would.

=well=, euphemism for God. See =weel=.

=well=, III, 112, 48: will.

=well=, the well o wine gaed in, IV, 428, 16: perhaps wale, choice, the best; but since the wine was poisoned, this must be meant ironically.

=well=, =weel=, =weil=, very, right. well good, II, 46, 43; III, 132, 5; 478 f., 15, 34; V, 49, 11: very good. weil gaucy, V, 152, 3. well warst, V, 180, 14, 16; 214 a, 1: very worst. well faire mayde, II, 439, 3, 8, should perhaps be well-fared.

=well and wellsome=, II, 159, 16: should probably be wae and waesome (sad and woful).

=well o Spa=, IV, 286, 6: a spring to the west of Aberdeen.

=well or wae=, was he well or was he wae, I, 80, 8: whether he liked or disliked. (The passage is variously corrupted, and the original reading probably nowhere preserved.)

=well-a-woo=, III, 77, 438: a variety of well-a-way. (A. S. wá-lá-wá.)

=well-bespoke=, V, 149, 9-11: well spoken.

=well-strand=, I, 165, =M= 4; IV, 172, 15; 174, 16: stream from a spring.

=well-wight=, III, 3 f., 12, 16, 21; 487, 5, 7; IV, 165, 7; 222, 9 (wiel-wight); 428, 4: very strong, sturdy, stalwart; but, sometimes, brave, see III, 4, 16. See =wall-wight=.

=welt=, pret. of wield, III, 74, 366: disposed of.

=welth=(=e=), III, 77, 436: either, simply, his money, or, more probably, his well-being, his palmy days; so III, 287, 65. III, 295, 5, 6; 296, 15, (rich) booty.

=weme (of ring)=, III, 412, 21: belly, hollow. See =weame=.

=wen=, III, 200, 3: win, get, go. V, 256, 7: pret. of win.

=wend=, III, 38, 104: gone (gone, =b=).

=wend=, =went=, V, 80, 42; 81, 14: weened.

=wenion=, with a, III, 138, 11: wanion, a curse, bad luck (waniand, waning (of the moon). Skeat).

=wenking=, winking.

=went.= See =wend=.

=were=, I, 334, 11: war. See =weir=.

=were=, vulgar English, he were, II, 4, 2; 8, 8.

=werne=, II, 139, 23: were.

=werre=, I, 327, 20: worse.

=werryed=, I, 273, 37: worried.

=werschepyd=, III, 109, 3: showed respect to.

=west=, p. p., III, 113, 70: wist.

=west-airt lands=, II, 73, 30: western. See =airt=.

=westlan=, =westlin=, =westryn=, II, 258, 34; III, 431, 20; 435, =E= 7; IV, 240, 18: western.

=wet=, =wete=, III, 63, 141; 70, 287; 112, 50: know.

=wether=, I, 210, 14; III, 430, 2; 432, 19 (perhaps=whether): whither.

=wex=, =weks=, n., V, 283, 11, 21: wax.

=weynde=, III, 297, 41: wend, go.

=wha=, who.

=wha’s= (=whae’s=) =aught=. See =aucht=.

=whall=, white as whall, II, 478, 7: that is, whale’s bone.

=whang=, I, 19, 11; II, 168, =A= 5: thong. In II, 217, 1, 3, lace his middle with a whang, the reading should no doubt be band as in other versions.

=whang= (of cheese), V, 115, 8: slice.

=whar=, =whaur=, I, 164, =K= 1, 3, =L= 1, 5: where.

=whas=, whose.

=what an a=, =whaten a=, =whatna=, =whattna=, =whatten=, I, 169, =B= 4; 203, =C= 18; 441, 19; II, 195, 34; III, 433, 2; 434, 2; 453, 12, 13; V, 162, =C= 2: what sort? what (in particular)? what a! So, what for a? V, 160, 3; what like a ? V, 163, 5; 164, =E b= 2.

=wheder=, III, 57, 11: whither.

=wheen=, a wheen blackguards, IV, 67, 5, 6: number, pack, etc.

=whether=, II, 455, 62; III, 92, 26: which of the two.

=whether=, whither.

=whew=, =whue=, =whute=, III, 440, 10: whistle.

=whidderand=, =whithering=, V, 191, 16: (of arrows) whizzing, moving with a whiz.

=whight.= See =wight=.

=whikety whack=, V, 304, 9: whick-whack (whick, doublet of whack).

=while=, the other, I, 414, 18: the remaining time, henceforth (?).

=while=, I, 232, =A= 2: for a while.

=while=, =whyll=(e), II, 223, =F= 1, 2; III, 201, 23, 31; 298, 50, 54; 309, 47: till.

=whiles=, I, 115, =B= 1; =C= 1; 131, =G= 9; 256, 2; II, 470, 59: at times.

=whiles=, =whilest=, =whileste=, =whilste=, =whyllys=, =the whyles=, III, 87, 278; 107 b, 7; 357, 38, 45; 358, 83; 361, =b=, =c= 38, 43, =c= 41: while.

=whilk=, IV, 373, 10; 476, 1: which.

=whin=, =whun=, win, fun, II, 116, 10, 18; 117, 4, 12; 360, 5, 7: furze.

=whirpled=, V, 106, =E= 5: evidently whipped, stripped (but I have not found the word elsewhere).

=whistling= (of ladies moving), II, 386, 19: whisking.

=white bookes=, III, 357, 58: clear of oppressive charges.

=white bread=, II, 88, 15, 16, 22, 23; wheat bread, as in 89, 4; 92, 5, 6 (white meal is contrasted with corn and oats, II, 88, 17, 18). So 96, =J= 5, 6; fite bread, whit bread, V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9.

=white-fish=, II, 129, 8; IV, 436, 10, 18, 19; V, 122, 1; 124, 1; 274, 10 (fait fish): haddock, cod, ling, etc., as distinguished from gray-fish, coal-fish; in Banff, as opposed to salmon, trout, herring.

=white-fisher=, IV, 436, 18, 19: one who fishes for haddock, cod, etc. (as distinguished from salmon).

=white-land=, IV, 213, 14: wheat-land.

=white meal and gray=, II, 261, 12; IV, 494, 29; V, 238, 29: oat-meal as distinguished from barley-meal (oat-meal and grey, II, 462, 30). But white meal, II, 88, 17, 18, being contrasted with corn (oats), must there be wheat.

=white money=, =monie=, I, 464, 7; 471, 11, 12; 473, 12; II, 352 f., =E= 5, 7; 473, 7, 8, 14; 475, 13, 14; 476, 10, 13; III, 389, 17, 18, 20, 22: silver.

=white rigs=, IV, 131, 14: of grain (to distinguish from crops which remain green).

=whithering=, =whidderand=, V, 191, 16; 199 b, 16: whizzing.

=who would=, III, 163, 87: if one would.

=whorle=, V, 116, 10; 118, 4; 119, 7; 120, 5: the fly of a spinning-rock.

=whue.= See =whute=.

=whummil=, I, 255, 2: wimble, gimlet.

=whun=, =fun=, III, 5, =D= 7; 6, 12: whin, furze. See =whin=.

=whunnie=, IV, 69, 22: covered with whins, furze.

=whute=, =fute=, =whue=, =whew=, n. and v., III, 125, 29-31: whistle. 126 =B=, =b= 29-31, whues.

=why=, V, 264, 5: whey.

=whyles=, the whyles, III, 70, 278: while. See =whiles=.

=whyll=(e), till. See =while=.

=whyllys=, III, 309, 37: while. See =whiles=.

=wiald=, wield.

=wicht.= See =wight=.

=wicker=, =wigger=, III, 125, 20; 126 f., =b=, =d-f=: willow. (Wycker, osier. Palsgrave. Swed. and Dan. dialects, vikker, vægger, willow. Skeat.)

=wicker=, IV, 31, 6: twist.

=wid=, IV, 456, 15: would.

=wide=, I, 55 f., =B= 4, 6, 8; II, 88, 5; 94, 3; 96, =I= 5; IV, 424, 11: wade. (Spelt wade, but rhymed with -ide, II, 462, 7; 465, 19; III, 493, 14.) pres. p. widen, IV, 68, 6. pret. wade, wad. p. p. wooden.

=widifu=, =widdifu=, =widifau=, =widdefu=, IV, 84, 7, 10, 11, 13; 85, 3; V, 253 f., No 203, =D= 2, 8: one qualified to fill a widdie or halter.

=widna=, =widne=, would not.

=wiel-wight=, IV, 222, 9: bold, stanch. See =well-wight=.

=wierd.= See =weird=.

=wigger.= See =wicker=.

=wight=, =wyght=, =wicht=, =whight=, I, 330 f., =A= 3, =B= 3, =C= 3; 333, 4; II, 409, 16; III, 63, 152; 414, 49: strong; but also, denoting bodily activity, brisk, as III, 117, 20; III, 63, 148, of John, who has shot well. III, 27, 97; 65, 195; 75, 389; 78, 448, Adam Bell, Clim, and William, and Robin Hood’s men are wight young men. III, 91 f., 6, 8, Guy of Gisborne is a wight yeoman: sturdy. See =well-wight=. wighty, III, 94, 48, has perhaps caught the y from the word following. See =wighty=.

=wightdom=, III, 488, 26: weight.

=wightlye=, II, 58, 10: with vigor, or briskness.

=wight-men=, II, 433, 7: waith-men, hunters. (Icel. veiði-maðr, Germ. weidmann.) See =waythmen=.

=wightsmen=, IV, 432, 1: wechtsmen, winnowers. wecht is “an instrument for winnowing corn, made of sheep’s skin, in the form of a sieve, but without holes.”

=wighty=, III, 32, 45, 50; 94, 48; 362, 70:==wight, strong. See =wight=.

=wil=, IV, 472 f., 24, 25: wild, perhaps vile.

=wild=, I, 334, 6: would.

=wild-fire=, III, 281, 12: ignis fatuus. (slack here is marsh.)

=wild-wood swine=, =steer=, drunk as, II, 144, 3, 4; 368, 7: a popular comparison like, drunk as a dog.

=wile=, vile.

=wilfull=, III, 92, 24, wilfull of my way: (Scottish will, Icel. villr) astray, lost; and of my morning tyde may be that he does not know the hour, or, he has lost his time as well as his road. See =will=.

=wile=, =wyle=, =weil=, =wale=, I, 428, 13; 429, 7, 8; II, 344, 12; IV, 287, 14; V, 127, 20, 21; 157, 9: choose.

=will=, pret. wald, walde, wad, wade, wild, wid, wud.

=will=, =would=, ellipsis of. as muckle guid canvas as wrap the ship a’roun, II, 28, 22. there’s nane come, win, II, 89, 34; 99 b, 34. So, II, 26, 11; 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; 379, 11; 380, 7; 381, 8, 10; 382, 13; V, 177, 9; 184, 38; 276, 14.

=will=, V, 16, 10, 15, 20: bewildered, at a loss what to do. will of his way, V, 70 b: lost, astray. See =wilfull=.

=willinglye=, I, 272, 22: at will, freely.

=williwa=, IV, 19, =C= 6: wellaway, interjection of (affected) reluctance.

=willy=, willow.

=wilsome=, IV, 235, 3: erratic, intricate.

=win=, I, 72, 22, 23: whin, furze, gorse. See =whin=.

=win=, =wynne=, =won=, =wonne=, =hay=, III, 295, 1; 299, =B= 1, =C= 1; V, 243, 1: dry by airing.

=win=, =wine=, =wynne=, =wen=, =won=, make your way, arrive. III, 71, 314; IV, 314, 15: get, go. IV, 189, 2, 4, 6: arrive, get there. win down, I, 481, 39. win frie, III, 453, 11. lat me win in, II, 148, 25: get in. win up, I, 368 f., 34, 36, 44, 47: get up. win on, I, 388, A 7: go on, keep on. win through, I, 21 b, 4: transitively, allow, cause, to pass through. win to, I, 466, 13; V, 262, 17: get to, arrive at. pret. wan. p. p. wone, wan, win, wine, wen.

=win=, p. p. of win, I, 101, 15; IV, 189, 15; 220, 3; 446, 17; 467, 8, 9.

=win your love aff me=, II, 207, B 2: detach your love from me.

=wine=, p. p. of win, V, 276, 22.

=winder=, I, 430, 1: wonder, wondrous. See =wonder=.

=windie=, II, 362, 3: window.

=windling sheet=, III, 245, B 13: winding-sheet.

=winking=, II, 463, 16: with eye closed as if blind.

=winn=, in your barn, IV, 323, 6: do harvest work generally, dry corn, etc., by exposing to the air. (unless meant for winna, winnow.)

=winna=, IV, 326, 7: winnow.

=winna=, =winnë=, will not.

=winten=, V, 248, 7: (wanting) without.

=winter=, =wynter=, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).

=wir=, I, 217, 9: our.

=wire-window.= See =weir-window=.

=wis=, I, 217, 9: us.

=wis=, you wis, IV, 233, 13: know.

=wis=, III, 319, 20, 24; V, 206 a, No 2, 4: was.

=wish=, pret. of wash, V, 36, 14.

=wiss=, n., I, 420, 12; II, 194, 8: wish.

=wiss=, =wis=, v., I, 22, 6, 8; 217, 3; III, 453, 3; IV, 168, =E= 15; 169, 12; 461, 8, 9: wish. pret. wist, II, 423, =A= 1; III, 434, 20; V, 248, 18.

=wiss=, I wiss, III, 223, 10: perhaps for I wot (not i-wiss). wist, III, 187, 32; 222, 34: know. (I wist, 187, 32==assuredly.)

=wist=, pret. of wiss, wish. See =wiss=.

=wiste=, =wist=, pret. of wat, etc., I, 243, 6; 334, 6; 368, 23; 413, 37. p. p. west, III, 113, 70.

=wit=, =witt=, n., III, 393, 22, 23; 419, 8, 12; IV, 509 a, 11; 512, 16, 17: knowledge, information.

=wit=, =wite=, =wyte=, I, 334, 6; II, 307, 34; III, 67, 230; 385, 15, 16; 396, M 8; IV, 98, 2; 221, 5; 508, 10, 11; 513, 6, 7; V, 81, 7; 82, 23: know. p. p. wit, IV, 98, 2.

=wite=, I wite, II, 160, 18; IV, 260, 12; 277, 5: I know-indeed. See =wat=, =wyte=.

=wite=, =wyte=, =witt=, n., I, 350, 12; II, 145, 25; 146, 8; 312, 30; IV, 33, 28; 127, 1; 207, 21; V, 171, 5; 247, 11: blame.

=wite=, =wyte=, v., I, 397, 13; II, 271, 19; 273, 25; III, 357, 53: blame. pret. wate, II, 273, 25.

=with=, I, 334, 7: wit, know (orthography doubtful).

=with=, =wyth=, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.

=with that=, II, 478, 5; III, 76, 414; V, 298 a: on condition that.

=wither=, =wather=, V, 105, =B= 7, 8: wether.

=witherlands=, =witherlins=, IV, 378, 5; 380, 11: (-lins, -lingis as in Scottish backlingis, backlins, English sidelins, sidelong; -lands a corruption of -lins) in a contrary, unwished-for, direction.

=withershins=, II, 318 =a=, 2: (M. H. Germ, widersinnes) in the wrong direction, in a direction contrary to the usual, or the desired (contrary to the course of the sun, often, but not necessarily here).

=within me=, lept, III, 127, Play 12: inside of my guard (?).

=withouten=, =withowghten=, I, 425, =f= 9, 10; III, 272, 6; 296, 18: without. See =wythowtten=.

=witt=, knowledge. See =wit=.

=witt=, n., blame, V, 247, 11. See =wite=.

=witted=, V, 132, 2: minded.

=witter=, I, 399, =A b= 8:-wittering, information.

=wittering=, I, 394, 8: information, indication.

=witty=, III, 131, 3: corruption of wight, wighty.

=wo=, =woo=, =woe=, II, 59, 33; 86, 16; 139, 20; III, 23, 23; 27, 101; 70, 297; 97, 19: sad, unhappy. a woe ses me, II, 504, 27: exclamation of distress; perhaps corruption of, woe is.

=wobs=, I, 305 a, =A= 3: webs (of cloth).

=wod=, =wode=, mad. See =wood=.

=wode=, III, 54, 3: went.

=wode=, V, 283, 9, 19: wood.

=wode-shawe.= grene-wode shawe, greenwood shaw, III, 57, 14; 70, 284; IV, 427, 1: thicket of the wood. (wood-shaw is of rather frequent occurrence and Halliwell cites, under the shawe of the wood, Morte d’Arthur, I, 374).

=wodewale=, =woodwele=, =woodweele=, I, 326, 2; III, 91, 2: wood-lark (?).

=woe.= See =wo=.

=wol=, v., V, 283, 1, etc.: will.

=wolt=, v., V, 283, 4: wilt.

=wolwarde=, III, 77, 442: with skin against wool, that is wearing a woolen fleece directly against the skin.

=won=, =wone=, one.

=won=, I, 18, =I= 1; 174, 1; 246, 1; 299, 6, 17; II, 419, 44, 51; III, 71, 315; IV, 19, =C= 5; 26, 15: dwell.

=won=, =wonne=, =win=, hay, III, 293 a; IV, 432, 1; 499, 1: dry by airing.

=won=, =win=, I, 464, 15; 506, 7; II, 89, 32; 140, 22; 172, 24; 256, =K= 2; 407, 12; IV, 242 a; 259, 21, 23: get, go, come, arrive. II, 316, 3, 7; IV, 115, =D= 9: gain, earn. (spelt one, IV, 284, 23; corrected to win.) p. p. wone, V, 276, 20. See =wun=.

=wonder=, III, 411, 2: bewilderment? disaster?

=wonder=, V, 283, 1: wondrous. See =winder=.

=wone=, III, 98, 25: number, plenty.

=wone=, withowtyn, withowt wone, V, 78 f., 9, 23: fail.

=wonige=, I, 334, 7: dwelling. Qy. wonninge?

=wonynge=, wonning, III, 63, 148; 86, 148: dwelling.

=woo=, wool.

=woo.= See =wo=.

=wood=, =woode=, =wode=, =wod=, =wud=, I, 242, 7; 244, 9; 328, 51; 348, 12, 18; II, 183, 26; 242, 30; 245, 27; V, 80, 42: mad.

=woodcock(e)=, III, 199, 27; 201, 31: tropically, fool (from the bird’s reputation for folly). (A proverb, perhaps.)

=wooden=, p. p. of wide, wade, I, 324, =B= 6.

=woodweele=, =wodewale=, III, 91, 2 (MS. woodweete): woodwale, woodlark? (generally explained as woodpecker; sometimes as thrush, red-breast).

=woon=, =won=, v., III, 146, 16: dwell.

=woone=, III, 358, 77: domicile.

=woot=, V, 82, 26, 41: wolt, wilt.

=word=, att a, I, 411, 9: in short.

=wordie=, III, 269, 12: worthy.

=wordlye make=, II, 86, 18, 20: earthly mate, consort. See =warld=.

=wordy=, IV, 135, 16: worthily.

=worrie=, =worry=, v., (of smoke, flame) III, 434, 15; 435, 14; 437, 24; IV, 514, 20: choke.

=worselaid=, V, 217, =H= 2: wrestled.

=worset=, worset lace, III, 11, =J= 1: worsted; lace must be meant for web; it cannot mean cord, and seems quite out of place.

=worth=, wat sal worth of, I, 334, 11: come, come to pass. wo the worth, worth the! III, 65, 189; 70, 296; 400, 1: come, be, to thee. woe worth you, wae worth ye, II, 245, 27; V, 247, 10; 248, 11. wae mat worth, IV, 236, 28; 428, 6; V, 166, 10; 306, 10: may wo come to.

=wou=, I, 244, 13: how.

=wouche=, III, 308, 26: (A. S. wóh, Scott, wouch) evil, harm.

=would=, ellipsis of, II, 375, 23; IV, 131, 13; V, 177, 9; 184, 38; etc. See =will=.

=wound=, pret., II, 148, 4; IV, 15, 19; 392, 19: wounded.

=wow=, I, 101, 20; 299, 8, 10, 12; II, 260 f., 1, 11, 14: exclamation of distress. IV, 65, 1; V, 272 a, 9: exclamation of admiration, sorrowful surprise. II, 282 2; IV, 271, =A= 3, 4, 7, 9; V, 197, 6: of confirmation, (vow!). See =vow=.

=wrack=, ruin.

=wrack=, V, 122, 11: mischief! devil!

=wraft=, I, 424, =b= 12, 13: waft (woof) misspelt.

=wraikit=, III, 427, note ‡: wrecked, destroyed.

=wraith=, wroth.

=wraith=, I, 134, =N= 15; III, 505, 12: apparition.

=wreck=, sea-wreck, IV, 442, 7: whatever is thrown up by the sea.

=wreke=, p. p., I, 243, 6: avenged.

=wril=, V, 73 a: a drinking-word, in response to pril.

=wrist=, III, 179, 4; 181, 16; 188, 3: ankle, instep. (Icel. rist, instep, ristar-liðr, instep-joint; Germ, rist, instep or wrist; fotwerst, fotwriust, hondriust, Richthofen, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch.)

=writer=, =writter=, IV, 131, 18; 135, 25: scrivener. IV, 180, =D= 2, 3; 181, 3; V, 256 a, 2, 3: attorney (?).

=writhe of=, III, 413, 34: (pret. of writhe, twist) twisted off.

=writs= (things written), papers.

=writter.= See =writer=.

=wrobbe=, I, 326, 4: wrabbe, warble? or Scottish wrable, warble, wriggle? J. A. H. Murray.

=wrocht=, wrought.

=wrocken=, =wroken=, p. p., III, 91, 3: avenged.

=wrongeous=, II, 129, 25: unjust.

=wrought=, p. p., II, 46, 40: rought, recked.

=wrought=, pret., I, 286, 51: raught, reached.

=wrthe=, I, 243, 5: worthy.

=wruched=, I, 286, 47: thrown up (ruck, a heap, to gather in heaps); perhaps, thrown ashore as wrack (Icelandic rek, originally vrek, reki, originally vreki, a thing drifted ashore).

=wrye=, I, 326, 4: twist.

=wud=, II, 249, 19: mad. See =wood=.

=wud=, I, 78, 53: would.

=wuddie=, IV, 69, 18: widdie, withy, a rope of willow-twigs.

=wuman=, V, 304 b, 1, 2: woman.

=wun=, n., II, 315, =E= 6: wind.

=wun=, v., II, 190, 4, 10: win, gain. See =won=.

=wundouten nay=, I, 334, 9: without, beyond contradiction, truly.

=wus=, V, 304 b, 1: was.

=wush=, pret. of wash, III, 386, 20; IV, 166, =C= 7. p. p. wushen, I, 490, 22.

=wuther=, V, 304 b, 3, 4: wether.

=wyght=, adj., strong, sturdy, active. See =wight=.

=wyȝth=, n., V, 283, 14: wight.

=wyld=, III, 307, 6: (like Germ. wild) deer; or, perhaps, an adjective with noun to be supplied, of which there are several cases in the ballad.

=wyle=, choose. See =wile=.

=wyled=, they wyled the bonny lassie by, IV, 205, 26: the meaning cannot be that they (a troop of gentlemen) enticed the lassie aside. Mr. Forbes suggests, very plausibly, wyled (waled, took) their way past the lassie.

=wyliecot=, V, 107, 2: under-vest.

=wynd=, alley, lane.

=wynke=, III, 77, 441: shut the eyes.

=wynne=, III, 296, 22: joy, pleasure.

=wynne=, v. See =win=.

=wynter=, =winter=, III, 58, 47; 64, 162; 285, 20: year(s).

=wyse in=, V, 156, =B= after 16: show the way in (?), let in.

=wystly=, III, 76, 410: observingly, thoughtfully.

=wyte=, I wyte, I, 332, =G= 3; II, 376, 25; IV, 32 f., 6, 17, 19, 27; 136, 13; 278, 21; 410, 25; V, 299 b, 1, 300, 14, 17, 18: (I know) indeed, assuredly. II, 307, 34: I know, simply. See =wit=, =wyte=.

=wyte=, n. and v., blame. See =wite=.

=wyth=, =with=, III, 297, 42; 358, 75; 434, 23: by.

=wythe=, I, 334, 11: wight, strong. (Orthography questionable.)

=wythowtten=, drede, III, 296, 8: without, beyond doubt. withowghten naye, 296, 18: beyond denial. wythowghten (withouten) stryffe (strife), 295, 2; 299, =B= 2: beyond contestation. See =withouten=.

X

=xal=, I, 242, 8, 9; III, 13 f., 7, 10-12, 14: shall.

=xalt=, III, 13 f., 9, 16, 17: shalt.

=xul=, sing. and pl., III, 13, 4, 12: shall.

=xuld=, I, 415 b: should.

Y

(See also under =ȝ=, at the end of =G= and =I=.)

=y=, first y, III, 3, 15: ae, one. See =a=, =ae=.

=yad=, III, 483, 5, 9: jade, mare.

=yae=, I, 446, 8, 9: ae, only. II, 183, 17: every. See =a=, =ae=.

=yard=, =yerde=, I, 287, 63; III, 75, 397: rod, stick.

=yard o stane=, I, 466, =B= 23: perhaps, garden stane, something being meant equivalent to the fountain stane of =A= 23, at which the lady was christened.

=yare=, =ȝare=, II, 261, 6; III, 98, 24: ready.

=yate=, =yeat=, =yett=, I, 68 f., 23, 69; II, 336, =P= 2; III, 268, 15; V, 28, 60: gate. ȝates, ȝatis, III, 99, 61, 62.

=yatid=, I, 334, 10: granted. (A. S. géatan).

=ychon=, III, 101, 88: each one.

=ydrawe=, III, 91 a: drawn.

=ydyght=, =idyght=, III, 62, 131, 132: prepared, made, fabricated, adjusted. III, 75, 392: made ready.

=yeaman.= See =yeman=.

=yeard-fast=, =yird-fast=, II, 88, 11; 94, 8; 97, 15: fixed firmly in the earth.

=yearl=, II, 191, 20: earl. See =yerl=.

=yeat=, IV, 68, =D= 1: gate. See =yate=.

=yebent=, III, 308, 25: bent.

=yede=, =yeede=, =yeed=, =yed=, =ȝede=, =yode=, =yod=, pret. of gang, gae, go, I, 211, 37; III, 73, 346; 76, 408; 83 and 86, 160; 99, 60; 110, 18; 163, 69: went.

=yee=, III, 297, 39: eye.

=yeen=, I, 333, 2: towards, on.

=ye feth=, i faith.

=yeff=, =yeffe=, V, 79 f., 17, 51, 53, 54: if.

=yeffell=, III, 109, 6; 111, 34: evil, ill.

=yeffor.= See =yeuer=.

=yeft=, III, 70, 295: gift.

=yeldyde=, surrendered.

=yellow-fit=, yellow-foot[ed].

=yeman=, =yeaman=, III, 22, 4; 24, 43; 25, 51; 28, 121; 30, 165, 170; 56, 1, 3, etc.: yeoman.

=yemanr(e)y=, =yemenrey=, =yeomanry=, =yeomandree=, =yeomandrie=, =yeomendry=, III, 58, 45; 110, 23; 113, 83; 123, 19; 157, 31; 186, 14; 192, 23; 204, 31: class or company of yeomen; what is in accordance with a yeoman’s principles, idea or character.

=yend=, III, 110, 17: yond, yon.

=yenoughe=, enough.

=yeomanry=, =yeomandrie=, etc. See =yemanr(e)y=.

=ye’r=, V, 306 b, 2: ye are.

=yerde.= See =yard=.

=yerl=, =yerle=, =yerlle=, =yirl=, =yearl=, III, 298, 52, 60; 308, 19; 309, 33; IV, 298, =G c= 11: 354, 7: earl.

=yerly=, III, 307, 7: early.

=yerning=, I, 334, 10: desire.

=ye’se=, ye shall. See =s=.

=yestreen=, II, 20, 7; 21, 7; 22, 6; 23, 7, etc.; V, 299 a, 1: yesterday even, yesternight. See =streen=.

=yet=, =yett=, I, 204, 11; 207, 20; 465, 11, 15; 472, 17, 18, 21; III, 269, 11; 270, 15: gate. See =yate=.

=yett-pin=, IV, 483 b: bolt, or latch, of a gate.

=yeuer=, =yeffor=, III, 113, 82; V, 79, 33; 80, 52: ever.

=ygeve=, V, 298 a: given.

=yield=, IV, 514, 9: grant, concede.

=yill=, III, 449, 8; IV, 481, 6; V, 99, 9: ale.

=yird-fast.= See =yeard-fast=.

=yirl=, IV, 69, 9: earl. See =yerl=.

=ylk= a, I, 328, 45: each, every. See =ilka=.

=ylke=, III, 61, 95: same. See =ilk=.

=yll=, with grete, III, 26, 90: in much distress.

=ymet=, III, 85, 72: measured.

=ympe tree=, I, 216 a: a grafted fruit tree; here, perhaps, apple, see I, 340 a.

=ynowe=, III, 113, 80: enough.

=yo=, V, 296 a: you.

=yo=, V, 296 a: your.

=yode=, =yod=, =youd=, pret. of gang, gae, go, I, 333, 1; II, 138, 12; 265, 9; 483, 7; III, 110, 25: went. good, III, 464, 4. gude, V, 153, 1. See =yede=.

=yolden=, III, 282 b: surrendered.

=yon=, such a blast as yon, III, 4, 7: that.

=yonders=, III, 187, =b= 13; 193, =b= 17; 259, 16, 17; 264, =A= =b=, =c= 17: yonder.

=yont=, I, 431, 3; II, 82, 51: beyond. lie yond, yont, II, 82, 49; 168, 12; IV, 345, 11; 494, 40: further off.

=you=, =yowe=, IV, 195 f., 1, 4, 10, 12, 17; 198, =F= 6; 206, 1; 261, 20: ewe.

=youd=, II, 138, 12: went. See =yode=.

=young son=, of a babe just born, I, 183 f., 32, 45, 47; II, 89, 35; 91, 30, 33, 35, =D= 29; 92, 22; 93, 9-12, etc.; called auld son, being the oldest because the only one, I, 184, 3, 8, 9. See =auld son=, =old son=.

=yowe-bucht.= See =bucht=.

=yowre=, V, 78 f., 7, 15: our. (But owre twelve times in the same piece, howre six.)

=y-slaw=, p. p. of slay, III, 28, 140.

SOURCES OF THE TEXTS OF THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS

MANUSCRIPTS.

MS. B. 14. 39, Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 13th century. Recently recovered (see V, 288). (No 23.)

Rawlinson MS. D. 328, 15th century (before 1445). Bodleian Library. (No 1.)

MS. F. f. 5. 48, Library of the University of Cambridge, c. 1450. (No 119, =a=.)

One leaf of MS. in Bagford Ballads, vol. i, art. 6, British Museum, c. 1450. (No 119, =b=.)

Sloane MS. 2593, British Museum, c. 1450. (Nos 22, 115.)

MS. E. e. 4. 35, Library of the University of Cambridge, C. 1500. (No 121.)

Rawlinson MS. C. 813, beginning of the sixteenth century. Bodleian Library. (No 111.)

Cotton MS. Cleopatra, C. iv., British Museum, c. 1550. (No 161, =A=, =a=.)

MS. Ashmole 48, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1550, or later. (No 162.)

MS. in York Minster Library, 16th century. (No 167, =C=, IV, 503.)

Cotton MS. Vespasian, A. xxv, British Museum, end of 16th century. (No 178.)

Harleian MS. 293, leaf 52, British Museum, about 1620. (No 161 =A=, =b=.)

Percy MS., British Museum, Additional MSS, 27879, c. 1650.

Philiphaugh MS. of No 305, Edinburgh, 1689-1708(?). Not now accessible: printed by Aytoun. A supposed transcript extant among the Philiphaugh papers is not older than 1848. (V, 191.)

Fly-leaf of a volume printed at Edinburgh, 1670. Laing MSS, Div. II, 358, Library of the University of Edinburgh. (Fragment, V, 202 b.)

Elizabeth Cochrane’s Songbook, Collection of Songs English and Scots, 1730(?). Harvard College Library. (Nos 5, =E=, I, 76; 76, =A=, II, 215; 144, =B=, III, 195; 293, =A=, V, 160.)

Mrs Cockburn’s MS. of No 305, used by Scott, and described by him as “apparently of considerable antiquity.” Edinburgh. Not now accessible. (V, 191.)

Bishop Percy’s papers. MS. copies of ballads from Rev. P. Parsons of Wye, Miss Fisher of Carlisle, Principal Robertson of Edinburgh, the Dean of Derry, George Paton of Edinburgh, Rev. Robert Lambe of Norham, Roger Halt, the Duchess Dowager of Portland, and others. In all about 33. 1766-80. Harvard College Library.

David Herd’s MSS, two volumes folio, the second volume duplicating a portion of the first. 1776. British Museum, Additional MSS, 22311-12. (See Mr H. L. D. Ward’s Catalogue of Romances, I, 531.[130])

MSS of Mrs Brown of Falkland. 1783-1801.

(1) Jamieson-Brown MS., mostly taken down from the mouth of Mrs Brown by Professor Scott of Aberdeen about 1783. Laing MSS, Library of the University of Edinburgh.

(2) William Tytler’s Brown MS. Fifteen ballads, with the airs: thirteen being revisions of pieces in (1). Presented by Mrs Brown to W. Tytler in 1783. Described by Anderson in a letter to Percy, Nichols’s Illustrations, VII, 176 ff. The MS. has disappeared, but, excepting one, all the pieces it contained are substantially known from (1) or other sources.

(3) Alexander Fraser Tytler’s Brown MS. Nine ballads sent A. F. T. by Mrs Brown in 1800; with the airs. Anderson, as above, VII, 179 f. Aldourie Castle, Inverness-shire.

Sir Walter Scott’s collection, Abbotsford. 1783-1830.

(1) Small folio without title, Library, L 2 (Catalogue, p. 57). Two fragments.

(2) ‘Scottish Songs,’ 1795. Library, N 3 (Catalogue, p. 104). Seven ballads with airs and three fragments. All the ballads appear to be Mrs Brown’s copies altered.

(3) Letters addressed to Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1831. Ballads enclosed have in most cases been removed, but some seven remain.

(4) ‘Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,’ a folio volume made up at a recent date from detached pieces to the number of above eighty.

(5) ‘North Country Ballads’ in a quarto volume with the title ‘Miscellanea Curiosa,’ Library =B= 5 (Catalogue, p. 15).

(6) ‘Miscellanies,’ a folio with one ballad and a fragment.

Glenriddell MS., 1791. In vol. XI of Robert Riddell’s collection of Scottish Antiquities. (There is an earlier transcript of one of the ballads in vol. VIII.) Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

MS. described by Scott as the ‘collection of an old lady’s complete set of ballads.’ In two portions, the first in 53 pages, on paper of 1805-6-7; the second in 10 pages, on paper of 1818. Contains thirty-two popular ballads and gives the titles of others known to the compiler. Obtained by Skene of Rubislaw in the north of Scotland (but obviously not so early as 1802-3 as endorsed by Scott on the cover of the Skene MS.), turned over to Scott by Skene, and in 1823 by Scott to C. K. Sharpe. In the possession of Mr Macmath.

Skene MS., nine separate quires, amounting in all to 125 pages, and containing thirty-six pieces. Almost all of these are found in the Old Lady’s Collection, from which they appear to have been transcribed, but with misreadings and changes. 118 pages in the possession of Mr Alexander Allardyce of Edinburgh; the remainder in the possession of Mr Macmath.

Pitcairn’s MSS, 1817-25. Three volumes in the writing of Robert Pitcairn; partly from printed sources. In the possession of the representatives of Mr James L. Mansfield, Edinburgh.

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’s Collection (besides the Old Lady’s MS. and the Skene MS.). (1) ‘Songs,’ 12mo, in Sharpe’s handwriting. (2) MS. of 32 pages, small 4to, on paper of 1822, not in Sharpe’s hand. (3) MS. of 12 pages, on paper of 1820, not in Sharpe’s hand. (4) An independent transcript by Sharpe of the pieces entitled by Scott ‘North Country Ballads.’ (5) Letters from Motherwell to Sharpe, enclosing ballads. (6) Single copies of ballads, not in Sharpe’s hand. All in the possession of Mr Macmath.

Motherwell’s MS., 1825 and after. A folio, almost entirely in Motherwell’s hand, containing, besides some pieces not indexed, 228 indexed ballads. Most of these are from the West of Scotland, but not a few were given Motherwell by Buchan and are duplicates of copies which occur in Buchan’s MSS. In the possession of Mr Malcolm Colquhoun Thomson, Glasgow.

Motherwell’s Note-Book, c. 1826-27. A small octavo containing various memoranda referring to ballads, including the whole, or a portion, of several copies. Formerly in the possession of Mr J. Wylie Guild.

Kinloch MSS, 1826 and after. Seven volumes, the fourth being an interleaved (printed) copy of Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads with additions and variations. Vols I, II, III, VII, are almost wholly in Kinloch’s hand; V, VI are mostly in the writing of James Beattie, John Hill Burton, and Joseph Robertson. Harvard College Library.

Peter Buchan’s MSS, about 1828. Two volumes, folio. British Museum, Additional MSS, 29408-9. For a description, see Mr Ward’s Catalogue of Romances, etc., I, 537.

Mr. David Scott of Peterhead possesses a volume entirely in Buchan’s writing “which contains all [the ballads] that Buchan ever collected except some ‘high-kilted’ ones in another volume.” [The two volumes here mentioned are now in the Child Memorial Library of Harvard University. The “high-kilted” volume is entitled ‘Secret Songs of Silence.’]

Joseph Robertson’s MSS, 1829-32. Four small notebooks, one entitled ‘Journal of Excursions;’ another, ‘Adversaria’; also an annotated copy of The New Deeside Guide [1832]. In the possession of Dr Robertson’s representatives.

John Hill Burton’s MSS, 1829-30. Mostly in the Kinloch collection, but his daughter, Mrs Rodger, Aberdeen, has a small volume containing portions of two ballads.

Alexander Laing of Brechin’s MS., 1829-35. ‘Ancient Ballads and Songs, etc., etc., from the recitation of old people; never published, 1829.’ Three ballads and a fragment. Harvard College Library.

Robert White’s Papers, 1829 and after. Ballads selected from his collectanea by Mr White of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Harvard College Library.

British Museum, Additional MSS, 20094. 1829. (No. 4.)

Campbell MSS, 1830 or earlier. ‘Old Scottish Songs collected in the counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles.’ 2 volumes. Collector unknown. At Marchmont House, Berwickshire.

‘Scottish Songs and Ballads,’ copied probably before 1830, by a granddaughter of Lord Woodhouselee, mostly from print or from A. F. Tytler’s Brown MS., but containing two or three versions of popular ballads not found elsewhere.

Harris MS. Ballads learned by Amelia Harris in her childhood from an old nurse in Perthshire (the last years of the 18th century); taken down by her daughter, who has added a few of her own collecting. With an appendix of airs. Harvard College Library.

Joseph Robertson. An interleaved and annotated copy of The New Deeside Guide [1832] (of which J. R. was the author).

Gibb MS., 1860. Twenty-one ballads written down from the recitation of his mother by Mr James Gibb of Joppa, representing the form in which ballads were recited about the beginning of the century in Angus and Mearns. Harvard College Library.

David Louden’s MS., 1873. Contains four popular ballads derived from reciters in Haddingtonshire. Harvard College Library.

Murison MS., about 1873. Some forty pieces collected by Mrs A. F. Murison in Old Deer, among which there are several traditional popular ballads. Harvard College Library.

A few detached ballads collected by Dr Alexander Laing of Newburgh-on-Tay. About 1873.

Findlay MSS. Two volumes, the first (only) containing several ballads and many fragments gathered from recitation by Rev. William Findlay, of Saline, Fifeshire, 1865-85. In the hands of the collector.

Macmath MS. Ballads and songs recently collected by Mr Macmath. In the possession of the collector.

“Common Place Book filled with a collection of Old Ballads of the 17th century,” a MS. formerly belonging to J. Payne Collier, now in the British Museum. Contains thirty ballads written in a forged hand of the 19th century, some of the pieces being also spurious. Nos 8 =C=, 137, 168 are in this MS.

Communications, noted in their places, of a single ballad or of several ballads, taken down or remembered by friends or correspondents in Europe and America, and several taken down by myself. [Child MSS, Harvard College Library.]

PRINTED SOURCES.

A Gest of Robyn Hode. Fragment without printer’s name or date, but of the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century: the eleventh and last piece in a volume the other contents of which are nine pieces printed by Walter Chepman and Andrew Myllar--three of these purporting to be printed at Edinburgh in 1508--and one other piece the printer of which is also unascertained. Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh.

A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, etc. Wynken de Worde, London, n. d. (1492-1534). Library of the University of Cambridge.

Three fragments (one of which was attributed to Wynken de Worde by Ritson). Douce, Bodleian Library.

A Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode, etc. London, Wyllyam Copland, n. d. (1549-69). British Museum.

A Merry Iest of Robin Hood, etc. London, Printed for Edward White, n. d. (1577-1612). Bodleian Library.

The sources of the later Robin Hood ballads may more conveniently be entered here, than in regular course. Articles n. d. may of course not be in strict chronological order.

Broadside copies in the Wood, Pepys, Douce, Roxburghe, and Rawlinson collections.

Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robbin Hood. London, 1634(?). British Museum, C. 39, a. 52.--The same. By Clark, Thackeray, and Passinger. London, 1686. Bodleian Library.

Robin Hoods Garland; or Delightful Songs, Shewing the noble Exploits of Robin Hood, and his Yeomendrie. With new Edditions and Emendations. London, Printed for W. Gilbertson, at the Bible in Giltspur-street without Newgate, 1663. (17 ballads.) Wood, Bodleian Library.

Robin Hoods Garland. Containing his merry Exploits, and the several Fights which he, Little John, and Will. Scarlet had, upon several occasions. Some of them never before Printed. [London,] Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright. 1670. (16 ballads.) Douce, Bodleian Library.

Robin Hood’s Garland. Printed by C. Dicey in Bow Church Yard, n. d. (before 1741).[131]

Robin Hood’s Garland, without place or printer. 1749. Percy Papers, Harvard College Library.

Robin Hood’s Garland. Printed by W. & C. Dicey, in St. Mary Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, Cheapside, and sold at the Warehouse in Northampton, n.d. (c. 1753).[131]

The English Archer ... Robin Hood. Paisley, printed by John Neilson for George Caldwell, Bookseller, near the Cross, 1786.[131]

The English Archer, or ... Robin Hood. York, printed by N. Nickson in Feasegate, n. d.[131]

Robin Hood’s Garland. Printed by L. How in Peticoat Lane, n. d.[131]

Robin Hood’s Garland. London, J. Marshall & Co., Aldermary Churchyard, n. d. Harvard College Library.

Robin Hood’s Garland. London. R. Marshall, in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, n. d. Harvard College Library.

Captain Delany’s Garland. In a collection of folio sheet-ballads mostly dated 1775. Edinburgh (?). British Museum, 1346. m. 7. (9.)

Robin Hood’s Garland. York, T. Wilson and R. Spence, n. d.[131]

Robin Hood’s Garland. Preston, Printed and sold by W. Sergent, n. d.[131]

Robin Hood’s Garland. Wolverhampton, Printed and sold by J. Smart, n. d.[131]

Adventures of ... Robin Hood. Falkirk, Printed and sold by T. Johnston, 1808.[131]

The History of Robin Hood and the Beggar. Aberdeen. A. Keith (1810-35).[131]

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Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly. Two fragments of an edition by John Byddell. London, 1536. Library of the University of Cambridge.

A fragment by a printer not identified, formerly in the possession of J. Payne Collier. (No 116.)

Adambel, Clym of the cloughe, and Wyllyam of cloudesle. William Copeland, London, n. d. (1562-69. See Arber, Transcript, V, 25). British Museum.

Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesle. London, Printed by James Roberts, 1605.[131]

[Thomas Ravenscroft.] Deuteromelia, or, The Second Part of Musicks Melodie or Melodius Musicke, etc. London, 1609.

[Thomas Ravenscroft.] Melismata, Musicall Phansies, fitting the Court, Cittie, and Countrey Humours. London, 1611.

Thomas Deloney. Pleasant History of John Winchcomb, in his younger years called Jacke of Newberie: reprint of the 9th edition, of London, 1633, by J. O. Halliwell. London, 1859.

The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, written by Master David Hume of Godscroft. Edinburgh, 1644.

Broadsides: mostly of the second half of the 17th century.

Wood, Rawlinson, Douce collections. Bodleian Library. Here from the originals.

Pepys collection. Magdalen College Library, Cambridge. Mostly from the originals.

Roxburghe collection. British Museum. Here sometimes from originals, sometimes from The Roxburghe Ballads, Ballad Society. Vols I, II, edited by William Chappell, London, 1871-80. Vols IV-VII, edited by J. W. Ebsworth, 1883-93.

Bagford Collection. British Museum. Here from the Bagford Ballads, Ballad Society, edited by J. W. Ebsworth, 2 vols. Hertford, 1878.

Osterley Park Library, British Museum, c. 39, k. 6 (60). 1690(?).

Laing (Scottish) Broadsides, c. 1700. In the possession of Lord Rosebery.

A Scottish Broadside formerly in the possession of J. Maidment, c. 1700. (No 162.) Harvard College Library.

“Ballard’s Collection” (so cited by Percy).

Pepys Penny Merriments. Magdalen College Library, Cambridge.

The King’s Pamphlets. British Museum, 669. f. 20, 55. 1657.

Wit Restord, in several select poems not formerly publisht. London, 1658 (in Facetiæ, Musarum Deliciæ, 1656, Wit Restord, 1658, and Wits Recreations, 1640. 2 vols. London, 1817).

Wit and Drollery, Jovial Poems. Corrected and amended, with New Additions. London, 1682.

Wit and Mirth, or, Pills to Purge Melancholy, being a collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, etc., [with airs]. London. [Ed. by Henry Playford,] four editions, London, 1699-1714, 5 vols.; [ed. by T. D’Urfey,] 6 vols. London, I-V, 1719, VI, 1720.

True Love Requited, or, The Bayliff’s Daughter of Islington. Printed and sold in Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane, “1700 or a little later.”

A Collection of Old Ballads, corrected from the best and most ancient copies extant. With introductions historical, critical, or humorous. 3 vols. London, I, II, 1723; III, 1725.

Allan Ramsay. The Ever Green, being a collection of Scots Poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1724.

Allan Ramsay. The Tea-Table Miscellany, or a collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English. (Vol. I, Edinburgh, 1724; vol. II, 172-?; vol. III, 1727. 3 vols in one, Dublin, 1729; London, 1733. 9th edition, enlarged with a fourth volume, London, 1740. 11th edition, four volumes in one, London, 1750. David Laing’s notes in the Musical Museum, ed. 1853, pp. 108* f., 382*, 393* f.) London, 1733, 3 vols in one; 1763, 4 vols in one.

W. Thomson. Orpheus Caledonius, or, a Collection of the best Scotch Songs. [London, 1725.] 1 vol. fol. Orpheus Caledonius, or, a Collection of Scots Songs. 2 vols, 8^o, London, 1733.

Gill Morrice. An Ancient Scottish Poem, 2d ed. Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1755.

Young Waters. An Ancient Scottish Poem, never before printed. Robert & Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1755.

Edom of Gordon. An Ancient Scottish Poem, never before printed. Robert & Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1755.

Letter of Thomas Gray, June, 1757? (Gray’s Works, ed. Gosse, II, 316. London, 1884.)

Thomas Percy. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other pieces of our Earlier Poets, together with some few of later date. 3 vols. London, 1765, 1767, 1775. 4th ed., 1794, ostensibly edited by Percy’s nephew, with restoration of some original readings.

Garlands, etc., of the second half of the 18th century:

The Brown Girl’s Garland. British Museum. 11621 c. 3. (10.)

The Duke of Gordon’s Garland. British Museum. 11621 c. 2. (15.) Also, Harvard College Library.

The Glasgow Lasses Garland. British Museum. 11621 c. 3. (68.)

The Jovial Rake’s Garland. (No 104.) Bodleian Library.

Lord Roslin’s Daughter’s Garland. (No 46.)

Lovely Jenny’s Garland. (No 91.)

Sir James the Rose’s Garland. Harvard College Library.

The Rambler’s Garland. B. M. 11621 c. 4. (57.)

A chap-book of Four New Songs and a Prophecy. 1745? (Here from The Scots Musical Museum, 1853, IV, 458.)

The Merry Cuckold and Kind Wife. Broadside. Printed and Sold at the Printing Office in Bow Church-Yard, London.

Five Excellent New Songs. Edinburgh, 1766. B. M. 11621. b. 6. (8.)

The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter, 1775, in a collection of folio ballads. B. M. 1346. m. 8.

Sir James the Rose, stall-tract of about 1780. Abbotsford Library.

The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter. C. McLachlan, Dumfries, 1785 (?).

Lord Douglas Tragedy, stall-copy of 1792.

[David Herd.] The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., now first collected into one body from the various Miscellanies wherein they formerly lay dispersed, containing likewise a great number of Original Songs from Manuscripts never before published. Edinburgh, 1769.

[David Herd.] Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., collected from memory, tradition and ancient authors. The second edition. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1776.

John Pinkerton. Scottish Tragic Ballads. London, 1781.

John Pinkerton. Select Scotish Ballads. 2 vols. (vol. I, Tragic Ballads; vol. II, Comic Ballads). London, 1783.

[Joseph Ritson.] A Select Collection of English Songs, with their Original Airs, and a historical essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song. 3 vols. London, 1783. (The second edition, with Additional Songs, and occasional Notes. By Thomas Park. 3 vols. London, 1813.)

[Joseph Ritson.] “The Bishopric Garland, or Durham Minstrel. Being a choice collection of Excellent Songs relating to the above county. Stockton, 1784. A new edition, corrected, 1792.” Reprinted by J. Haslewood in, Northern Garlands, edited by the late Joseph Ritson, Esq. London, 1810.

[George Caw.] The Poetical Museum. Containing Songs and Poems on almost every subject. Mostly from periodical publications. Hawick, 1784.

James Johnson. The Scots Musical Museum, in six volumes. Consisting of Six Hundred Scots Songs, with proper Basses for the Piano Forte, etc. Edinburgh, [1787-1803]. (Second Edition, 1839.) Third Edition, with copious Notes and Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland, by the late William Stenhouse, [and] with additional Notes and Illustrations [by David Laing]. 4 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1853.

[Joseph Ritson.] Ancient Songs, from the time of King Henry the Third to the Revolution. London, 1790. (“Printed, 1787; dated 1790; published 1792.” Second Edition. Ancient Songs and Ballads from the Reign of King Henry the Second to the Revolution. Collected by Joseph Ritson, Esq. 2 vols. London, 1829.)

Joseph Ritson. Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry: from authentic manuscripts and old printed copies. London, 1791. 2d ed., London, 1833.

[Joseph Ritson.] “The Northumberland Garland, or Newcastle Nightingale. A matchless collection of Famous Songs. Newcastle, 1793.” Reprinted by J. Haslewood in, Northern Garlands, edited by the late Joseph Ritson, Esq. London, 1810.

[Joseph Ritson.] Scotish Song. In two volumes. London, 1794.

[Joseph Ritson.] Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English Outlaw. To which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life. In two volumes. London, 1795. (Second edition, London, 1832.)

[J. Currie.] The Works of Robert Burns, with an Account of his Life, etc. 4th ed., 4 vols. London, 1803.

John Leyden. The Complaynt of Scotland, written in 1548. With a Preliminary Dissertation and Glossary. Edinburgh, 1801.

Walter Scott. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland, with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition. 3 vols. Vols I, II, Kelso, 1802; vol. III, Edinburgh, 1803. 2d ed., Edinburgh, 1803; 3d, 1806; 4th, 1810. 4 vols, edited by J. G. Lockhart, with airs. Edinburgh, 1833.

The Edinburgh Magazine, or, Literary Miscellany. Edinburgh, 1803.

The Scots Magazine, vol. LXV, 1803; vol. LXXX, 1817; vol. LXXXIX, 1822. Edinburgh.

The Sporting Magazine, vol. XXV. London, 1805.

Robert Jamieson. Popular Ballads and Songs from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions; with translations of similar pieces from the Ancient Danish Language, and a few Originals by the Editor. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1806.

John Finlay. Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, chiefly ancient. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1808.

R. H. Cromek. Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: with Historical and Traditional Notices relative to the manners and customs of the Peasantry. London, 1810.

R. H. Cromek. Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern; with Critical Observations and Biographical Notices, by Robert Burns. 2 vols. London, 1810.

Gammer Gurton’s Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus. London, 1810.

John Bell. Rhymes of Northern Bards, being a curious collection of Old and New Songs and Poems peculiar to the counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. Edited by John Bell, Jun. Newcastle upon Tyne, 1812.

[John Fry.] Pieces of Ancient Poetry from unpublished manuscripts and scarce books. Bristol, 1814.

H. Weber, R. Jamieson, W. Scott. Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, etc. Edinburgh, 1814.

Sir Egerton Brydges. Restituta, vol. I. London, 1814.

Alexander Campbell. Albyn’s Anthology, or, a select collection of the Melodies and Local Poetry peculiar to Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished. 2 vols. 1816, 1818.

R. H. Cromek. Reliques of Robert Burns. 4th ed. London, 1817.

James Hogg. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland, being the Songs, Airs, and Legends of the adherents to the House of Stuart. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1819-21.

R. A. Smith. The Scotish Minstrel, a selection from the Vocal Melodies of Scotland, ancient and modern. 6 vols. Edinburgh, [1820-24].

John Struthers. The British Minstrel, a selection of Ballads, ancient and modern, etc. 2 vols. London, 1822.

Robert Trotter. Lowran Castle, or, The Wild Boar of Curridoo, with other Tales, illustrative of the Superstitions, Manners, and Customs of Galloway. Dumfries, 1822.

[Alexander Laing.] Scarce Ancient Ballads, many never before published. Aberdeen, 1822.

Alexander Laing. The Thistle of Scotland, a selection of Ancient Ballads, with notes. Aberdeen, 1823.

[Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.] A Ballad Book. Edinburgh, 1823.] Reprinted by E. Goldsmid, Edinburgh, 1883.

Davies Gilbert. Some Ancient Christmas Carols, with the Tunes to which they were formerly sung in the West of England. Together with two ancient Ballads, a Dialogue, etc. 2d edition. London, 1823.

William Hone. Ancient Mysteries. London, 1823.

[James Maidment.] A North Countrie Garland. Edinburgh, 1824. Reprinted by E. Goldsmid. Edinburgh, 1884.

The Common-Place Book of Ancient and Modern Ballad and Metrical Legendary Tales. An original selection, including many never before published. Edinburgh, 1824.

John Mactaggart. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, or, the original, antiquated, and natural Curiosities of the South of Scotland. London, 1824.

David Webster. A Collection of curious Old Ballads and Miscellaneous Poetry. Edinburgh, 1824.

The Gentleman’s Magazine. Vol. XCV, Part I. London, 1825.

Peter Buchan. Gleanings of Scotch, English, and Irish scarce old Ballads chiefly tragical and historical, etc. Peterhead, 1825.

Allan Cunningham. The Songs of Scotland, ancient and modern, with an introduction and notes, historical and critical, etc. 4 vols. London, 1825.

Stall copies, etc., mostly of uncertain date:

The Song of Bewick and Grahame. B. M. 11621. e. 1. (4.)

Bewick and Graham’s Garland. M. Angus & Son, Newcastle.

A Jolly Book of Garlands collected by John Bell in Newcastle. Abbotsford Library.

Curious Tracts, Scotland. B. M. 1078. m. 24. A collection made by J. Mitchell at Aberdeen in 1828.

The Unfortunate Weaver, etc. (for No 25). Greenock, [1810]. B. M. 11621. b. 7. (43.)

Stall or chap-book copies by M. Randall & C. Randall, Stirling; John Sinclair, Dumfries; W. Fordyce, Newcastle; T. Johnston, Falkirk; P. Buchan, Peterhead; Aberdeen, printed for the booksellers.

Recent Broadsides of Catnach, Pitts, Such.

Peggy Irvine. Stall-copy printed by J. Morren, Cowgate, Edinburgh.

Robert Chambers. The Popular Rhymes of Scotland, with illustrations, chiefly collected from oral sources. Edinburgh, 1826, 1870.

George R. Kinloch. Ancient Scottish Ballads, recovered from tradition and never before published, with notes, historical and explanatory, and an appendix containing the airs of several of the ballads. London and Edinburgh, 1827.

[George R. Kinloch.] The Ballad Book. Edinburgh, 1827. Reprinted by E. Goldsmid. Edinburgh, 1885.

Thomas Lyle. Ancient Ballads and Songs, chiefly from tradition, manuscripts, and scarce works, etc. London, 1827.

William Motherwell. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, with an historical introduction and notes. Glasgow, 1827. (A copy with MS. entries by Motherwell).

Peter Buchan. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, hitherto unpublished, with explanatory notes. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1828.

The Paisley Magazine, or, Literary and Antiquarian Miscellany. Paisley, 1828.

Robert Chambers. The Scottish Ballads, collected and illustrated. Edinburgh, 1829.

Sir N. H. Nicolas. History of the Battle of Agincourt. 2d ed. London, 1832.

[Joseph Robertson.] The New Deeside Guide, by James Brown. Aberdeen, [1832].

Andrew Picken. Traditionary Stories of Old Families. 2 vols. London, 1833.

William Sandys. Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, including the most popular in the West of England, and the airs to which they are sung, etc. London, 1833.

William Sandys. Christmastide, its history, festivities, and carols. London, [18--].

Sir Cuthbert Sharpe. The Bishoprick Garland, or a collection of Legends, Songs, Ballads, etc., belonging to the county of Durham. London, 1834.

The Universal Songster, or, Museum of Mirth, forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English language. 3 vols. London, 1834.

The Songs of England and Scotland. 2 vols. London, 1835.

Fisher’s Drawing-Room Scrap-Book. London, 1835.

[E. V. Utterson.] A Little Book of Ballads. [Printed for the Roxburghe Club.] Newport, 1836.

J. E. Tyler. Henry of Monmouth, or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Henry the Fifth. 2 vols. London, 1838.

The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London, 1839.

Sir N. H. Nicolas. The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Aldine Edition. 3 vols. London, 1839.

J. O. Halliwell. The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected principally from oral tradition. London, 1842 (Vol. IV of the Percy Society Publications). 4th ed., 1846; 5th ed., 1853.

Alexander Whitelaw. The Book of Scottish Song; collected and illustrated with historical and critical notices, etc. (Glasgow, 1844.) Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, 1855.

Alexander Whitelaw. The Book of Scottish Ballads; collected and illustrated with historical and critical notices. Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London. [1844] 1845.

J. O. Halliwell. Nugæ Poeticæ. Select Pieces of Old English Popular Poetry, illustrating the manners and arts of the fifteenth century. London, 1844.

R. Chambers, Twelve Romantic Scottish Ballads, with the original airs. Edinburgh, 1844.

[James Maidment.] A New Book of Old Ballads. Edinburgh, 1844.

T. Wright and J. O. Halliwell. Reliquiæ Antiquæ. Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts. 2 vols. London, 1845.

The New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. V. Edinburgh and London, 1845.

James Henry Dixon. Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads. (Vol. XVII of the Percy Society Publications.) London, 1845.

James Henry Dixon. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, taken down from oral recitation, and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides, and scarce publications. (Vol. XVII of the Percy Society Publications.) London, 1846.

M. A. Richardson. The Borderer’s Table Book, or, Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border. 8 vols. Newcastle-upon-Tyne and London, 1846.

James Paterson and Charles Gray. The Ballads and Songs of Ayrshire, illustrated with sketches historical, traditional, narrative, and biographical. 2 series. Ayr, 1846, 1847.

Frederick Sheldon. The Minstrelsy of the English Border, being a collection of Ballads, ancient, re-modelled, and original, founded on well known Border legends. London, 1847.

John Matthew Gutch. A Lytyll Geste of Robin Hode, with other Ancient and Modern Ballads and Songs relating to this celebrated yeoman, etc. 2 vols. London, 1847.

The Scottish Journal. Vol. II, 1848.

The Edinburgh Topographical, Traditional, and Antiquarian Magazine. [Sept.-Dec. 1848.] Edinburgh, 1849.

J. O. Halliwell. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales; a sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England. London, 1849.

J. O. Halliwell. Ballads and Poems respecting Hugh of Lincoln. Brixton Hill, 1849.

Abraham Hume. Sir Hugh of Lincoln, or, an examination of a curious tradition respecting the Jews, with a notice of the Popular Poetry connected with it. London, 1849.

Notes and Queries. London, 1850-.

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. I, 1852.

J. S. Moore. The Pictorial Book of Ancient Ballad Poetry of Great Britain, historical, traditional, and romantic, etc. London, 1853.

John Miller. Fly-Leaves, or Scraps and Sketches, literary, biographical, and miscellaneous. The Second Series. London, 1855.

William Chappell. Popular Music of the Olden Time. A collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, illustrative of the National Music of England, etc. 2 vols. London, [1855-59].

Jabez Allies. The British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities and Folk-lore of Worcestershire. 2d ed. London, “1856” [1852?].

Robert Bell. Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, taken down from oral recitation, and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides, and scarce publications. London, 1857.

William E. Aytoun. The Ballads of Scotland. 2 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1858; 2d ed., revised and augmented, 1859.

James Maidment. Scotish Ballads and Songs. Edinburgh, London, and Glasgow, 1859.

R. Chambers. The Romantic Scottish Ballads: their Epoch and Authorship. London and Edinburgh, 1859.

Thomas Hughes. The Scouring of the White Horse. Cambridge [England], 1859.

Joshua Sylvester. A Garland of Christmas Carols, ancient and modern, including some never before given in any collection. London, 1861.

Mary (Wilson) Gordon. Christopher North. A Memoir of John Wilson. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1862.

William Allingham. The Ballad Book. A selection of the choicest British Ballads. London, 1865.

Robert Hunt. Popular Romances of the West of England. First Series. London, 1865.

M. H. Mason. Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, both tunes and words from tradition. London, n. d. [c. 1877].

William Henderson. Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern counties of England and the Borders. With an Appendix by S. Baring-Gould. London, 1866; new ed., 1879.

Llewellyn Jewitt. The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire, with illustrative notes and examples of the original music, etc. London and Derby, 1867.

John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall. Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances. 3 vols and a supplement. London, 1867-68.

James Maidment. Scotish Ballads and Songs, Historical and Traditionary. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1868.

W. H. Logan. A Pedlar’s Pack of Ballads and Songs, with illustrative notes. Edinburgh, 1869.

Robert Chambers. Popular Rhymes of Scotland. New edition. London and Edinburgh, [1870].

Wm. Henry Husk. Songs of the Nativity, being Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, several of which appear for the first time in a collection. London, [187-?].

Salopian Shreds and Patches. Vol. I. Shrewsbury, 1875.

Jahrbuch für Romanische u. Englische Sprache und Literatur. Vol. XV. Leipzig, 1876.

W. Christie. Traditional Ballad Airs, arranged and harmonized, etc., from copies obtained in the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and Moray, etc. Edited, with the words for singing and with illustrative notes. 2 vols. Edinburgh, vol. I, 1876; vol. II, 1881.

Suffolk Notes and Queries, in The Ipswich Journal, 1877-78.

H. R. Bramley and J. Stainer, Christmas Carols, New and Old. London, [187-?].

Folk-Lore Record. Vol. II. London, 1879.

Francis Hindes Groome. In Gipsy Tents. Edinburgh, 1880.

The Leisure Hour, February 14, 1880. London.

Walter W. Skeat. Specimens of English Literature, from the Ploughmans Crede to the Shepherdes Calender, etc. 3d ed. Oxford, 1880.

A Ballad Book. By Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. 1823. Reprinted with Notes and Ballads from the unpublished MSS of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited by the late David Laing. Edinburgh, and London, 1880.

Aungervyle Society’s Publications. A Garland of Old Historical Ballads. Edinburgh, 1881.

B. Harris Cowper. The Apocryphal Gospels. 5th ed. London, 1881.

J. C. Bruce and J. Stokoe. Northumbrian Minstrelsy. A collection of the Ballads, Melodies and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1882.

A. Nimmo. Songs and Ballads of Clydesdale. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1882.

G. A. Sala. ‘Sir Hugh,’ in Illustrated London News, October 21, 1882. (Repeated in Living London, 1883.)

Charlotte Sophia Burne. Shropshire Folk-Lore, a sheaf of gleanings edited from the collections of Georgina F. Jackson. London, 1883-6.

Wm W. Newell. Games and Songs of American Children. New York, 1883.

Edmund Venables. A Walk through Lincoln Minster. Lincoln, 1885.

W. H. Long. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, and of Provincialisms used,... with illustrative anecdotes and tales, etc. London and Newport, 1886.

Transactions of The New Shakspere Society, 1880-86. London, 1886.

A. H. Bullen. Carols and Poems from the 15th century to the present time. London, 1886.

Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. Ed. by Alexander Allardyce. 2 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1888.

Mrs Graham R. Tomson. Ballads of the North Countrie. London, 1888.

S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard. Songs and Ballads of the West. A collection made from the mouths of the People. 4 parts. London, [1889(?)-91].

The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend. Vol. III. Newcastle-on-Tyne and London, 1889.

The Folk-Lore Journal. Vols VI, VII. London, 1888-9.

James Raine, Jr. A volume of English Miscellanies, illustrating the history and language of the Northern Counties of England. Surtees Society, No 85. Durham, 1890.

Blackwood’s Magazine. Vol. CXLVII. Edinburgh, 1890.

Margaret Warrender. Walks near Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1890.

Longman’s Magazine. Vol. XVII. London, 1890.

Journal of the Gypsy-Lore Society. Vol. II. London, 1890-91.

Frank Kidson. Traditional Tunes. A collection of Ballad Airs, chiefly obtained in Yorkshire and the South of Scotland, together with their appropriate words from broadsides or from oral tradition. Oxford, 1891.

Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. English County Songs, words and music. London and New York, 1893.

County Folk-Lore. Printed Extracts. No 2. Suffolk. Collected and edited by the Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon. Folk-Lore Society. London, 1893.

The Journal of American Folk-Lore. Vol. VII. Boston, 1894.

H. A. Kennedy. Professor Blackie: his Sayings and Doings. London, 1895.

Francis Hindes Groome. Two Suffolk Friends. Edinburgh and London, 1895.

FOOTNOTES:

[130] Mr Macmath drew up for the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society a bibliography of Scottish Popular Ballads in Manuscript (Session 1891-2, and a supplement, 1893-4), which may be advantageously consulted for details, as I myself have found.Return to passage

[131] Bodleian Library, Oxford.Return to reference 1 Return to reference 2 Return to reference 3 Return to reference 4 Return to reference 5 Return to reference 6 Return to reference 7 Return to reference 8 Return to reference 9 Return to reference 10 Return to reference 11

INDEX OF PUBLISHED AIRS OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS

WITH AN APPENDIX OF SOME AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT

The oldest book of airs here referred to is Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, ed. 1733. Earlier music-books or manuscript notations were used in great number by Chappell, Rimbault, and others, and the results are accessible through their works as cited below. The same air will frequently be found to have been repeated in successive publications. Undoubtedly the cases in which the original air of the older ballads has been preserved are but few.

Of the airs from manuscript some are very likely to have been published already; the ascertaining of the fact would have cost considerable labor, and was not demanded for a list which avowedly includes repetitions from printed books. The earliest noted down are, I suppose, the five from the Abbotsford MS. entitled “Scottish Songs,” which appear to have been derived from William Tytler’s unrecovered Brown MS. This lost MS. was obtained by William Tytler in 1783, and contained fifteen ballads with the melodies as written down by Professor Scott from Mrs Brown’s singing; of which melodies it is said: “Being then but a mere novice in music, he added in the copy such musical notes as he supposed might give some notion of the air, or rather lilts, to which they were sung.” Twenty-three airs are given from the Harris Ballad-MS. as sung by Mrs Amelia Harris to her children about 1830. Miss Jane Harris, one of them, says that the airs are to be “orally and directly traced from my great father’s (Rev. P. Duncan, Tibbermore) manse from 1745.” Six airs are from a MS. of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe written on paper with a watermark of 1822. The remaining airs are very recent communications from various duly registered sources, and were all but a very few seemingly written down within a year or two.

The compilation of the list of printed airs was undertaken for me by my constant friend Mr William Walker, of Aberdeen. Some additions have been made. Mr Walker also furnished me with several melodies from the north of Scotland. Revision of the manuscript airs was required in some cases to correct obvious errors of notation, and this was performed for me by Mr W. R. Spalding, of Harvard College, who has not gone beyond the amendment of self-evident errors of transcribers.

ABBREVIATED INDICATIONS OF BOOKS REFERRED TO

Baring-Gould. S. Baring-Gould, English Minstrelsie. Edinburgh, 1895-. 8 vols (7 published.)

Baring-Gould, S. Baring-Gould and Sheppard, Songs and Ballads of the West. London, [1889-91]. Four parts.

Barsanti. Francis Barsanti, A Collection of Old Scots Tunes. Edinburgh, [1742?].

Bramley. H. R. Bramley and J. Stainer, Christmas Carols, New and Old. London, [187-?].

Broadwood. L. E. Broadwood and J. A. F. Maitland, English County Songs. London, 1893.

Bruce. J. C. Bruce and J. Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1882.

Burne. Charlotte Sophia Burne, Shropshire Folk-Lore. London, 1883-6.

Campbell. Alexander Campbell, Albyn’s Anthology. Edinburgh, 1816, 1818. 2 vols.

Chambers. Robert Chambers, Twelve Romantic Scottish Ballads. Edinburgh, 1844.

Chappell. W. Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time. London, [1855, 1859]. 2 vols.

Christie. W. Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs. Edinburgh, 1876, 1881. 2 vols.

Cruikshank. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. London, 1839.

Dauney. Wm. Dauney, Ancient Scottish Melodies, from a Manuscript of the reign of King James VI. Edinburgh, 1838.

Gilbert. Davies Gilbert, Some Ancient Christmas Carols, with the tunes. London, 1823.

Gordon. Mrs. Gordon, Christopher North, A Memoir of John Wilson. Edinburgh, 1862. 2 vols.

Graham. G. F. Graham, The Songs of Scotland. Edinburgh, [1854-56]. 3 vols.

Husk. Wm. Henry Husk, Songs of the Nativity. London, [187-?].

Jewitt. Llewellyn Jewitt, The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire. London and Derby, 1867.

Johnson. James Johnson, The Scots Musical Museum. Edinburgh and London, [1787-1803]. 6 vols.

Journal. Journal of American Folk-Lore. Vol. VIII. Boston and New York, 1895.

Kidson. Frank Kidson, Traditional Tunes. Oxford, 1891.

Kinloch. G. R. Kinloch, Ancient Scottish Ballads, Appendix. London and Edinburgh, 1827.

Mason. M. H. Mason, Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs. London, n. d. [1877].

Motherwell. Wm. Motherwell, Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern, Appendix. Glasgow, 1827.

Rimbault. Edward F. Rimbault, Musical Illustrations of Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. London, 1850.

Rimbault, C. E. F. Rimbault. (Chappell’s Christmas Carols.) A Collection of Old Christmas Carols with the tunes to which they are sung. London, n. d.

Rimbault, G. E. F. Rimbault, Musical Illustrations of the Robin Hood Ballads, in J. M. Gutch’s Robin Hood Garlands and Ballads. London, 1850. 2 vols, the second.

Ritson, A. [Joseph Ritson,] Ancient Songs. London, 1790.

Ritson, E. [Joseph Ritson,] A Select Collection of English Songs. London, 1783. 3 vols. Cited by pages of 2d ed., 1813.

Ritson, S. [Joseph Ritson,] Scotish Song. London, 1794. 2 vols.

Sandys, C. C. W. Sandys, Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern. London, 1833.

Sandys, C. T. W. Sandys, Christmastide, its history, festivals, and carols. London, [18--?].

Scott. Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Edinburgh, 1833. 4 vols.

Smith, R. R. A. Smith, The Scotish Minstrel. Edinburgh, [1820-24]. 6 vols.

Smith, S. J. Stafford Smith, Musica Antiqua: a Collection of Music from the 12th till the 18th Century. London, 1812. 2 vols.

Sussex. Sussex Songs, arranged by H. F. Birch Reynardson. London, [1891?].

Thomson, G. George Thomson, The Select Melodies of Scotland, etc. [1793-1841. 6 vols. fol.] London, [1822-25]. 6 vols. 8vo.

Thomson, W. W. Thomson, Orpheus Caledonius, or, A Collection of Scots Songs. 2d ed. London, 1733. 2 vols.

INDEX

[The figures in the left-hand column refer to the numbers of the ballads in this collection.]

1. Riddles Wisely Expounded. Gilbert, 65 (=B=); Chappell, 531 (=A=); Mason, 31 (=E=); Bruce, 76 (=A=).

2. The Elfin Knight. Bruce, 79; Kidson, 43, 172; Broadwood, 12.

3. The Fause Knight upon the Road. Motherwell, No 32 (=B=).

4. Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight. Smith, R., III, 92 (=C= =b=); Motherwell, No 24 (=D= =c=); Christie, II, 236 (=D=); Bruce, 48 (=E=); Burne, 652; Kidson, 27 (=E=), 172; Broadwood, 164 (=E=).

5. Gil Brenton. Motherwell, No 5 (=F= =b=); Christie, II, 10 (=D=).

7. Earl Brand. Scott, III, 1 (=B=); Smith, R., III, 86 (=B=); Chambers, 17 (=B=); Bruce, 31 (=A=).

9. The Fair Flower of Northumberland. Motherwell, No 2 (=D=); Kinloch, to p. 131 (=B= =b=); Christie, II, 46 (=C=); Bruce, 51 (=A=).

10. The Twa Sisters. Motherwell, No 20 (=F= =b=); Christie, I, 40 (=C=, =B=), 42 (=O=); Bruce, 61 (=C=); Broadwood, 118 (=R= =c=).

11. The Cruel Brother. Gilbert, 68 (=F=); Christie, I, 108 (=A=).

12. Lord Randal. Johnson, No 327 (=F=); Campbell, II, 95 (=D=); Smith, R., III, 58 (=D=); Chambers, 21 (=D=); Graham, II, 74.

14. Babylon, or, the Bonnie Banks o Fordie. Motherwell, No 26 (=A= =c=); Kinloch, to p. 210 (=E=).

16. Sheath and Knife. Johnson, No 461 (=C=).

17. Hind Horn. Motherwell, No 13 (=B=); Christie, II, 252.

18. Sir Lionel. Christie, I, 110 (=B=).

20. The Cruel Mother. Johnson, No 320 (=B=); Smith, R., IV, 33 (=L=); Kinloch, to p. 44 (=D=); Christie, I, 104 (=F=); I, 106 (=I=); Burne, 651 (=Q=).

25. Willie’s Lyke-Wake. Motherwell, No 17 (=D=); Christie, I, 120 (=B=), 122 (=E=).

26. The Three Ravens. Ritson, A., 155 (=a=); Motherwell, No 12 (=b=); Chappell, 59; Kidson, 17. [The Twa Corbies. Campbell, II, 26; Chambers, 15.]

27. The Whummil Bore. Motherwell, No 3 (=b=).

33. Kempy Kay. Motherwell, No 33 (=C=).

37. Thomas Rymer. Scott, IV, 117 (=C=).

38. The Wee Wee Man. Ritson, S., II, 139 (=A=); Johnson, No 370 (=A=); Smith, R., IV, 70 (=A=); Graham, III, 64.

39. Tam Lin. Johnson, No 411 (=A=); Smith, R., I, 2.

41. Hind Etin. Christie, II, 156 (=A=).

43. The Broomfield Hill. Kinloch, to p. 195 (=D=).

45. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Rimbault, 73; Chappell, 350 (=B=), 352 (=B=).

46. Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship. Christie, II, 48 (=B=, =A=).

47. Proud Lady Margaret. Christie, I, 28 (=B= =a=).

52. The King’s Dochter Lady Jean. Motherwell, No 23 (=A= =b=); Christie, I, 228 (=C=).

53. Young Beichan. Kinloch, to p. 260 (=H=); Cruikshank (=L=); Christie, I, 30 (=H=); Bruce, 64; Burne, 651 (=L=); Kidson, 33 (=L=); Sussex, 43.

54. The Cherry-tree Carol. Sandys, C. C., No 10 (=A= =a=); Rimbault, C., 22 (=B=); Husk, 194 (=B= =a=); Bramley, 60 (=C=).

56. Dives and Lazarus. Bramley, 84; Broadwood, 102.

58. Sir Patrick Spens. Johnson, No 482 (=A=); Campbell, II, 62, 2 airs; Smith, R., IV, 60 (=A= =a=); Rimbault, 47 (=A=); Christie, I, 6 (=H=, =I=), 8.

61. Sir Cawline. Christie, II, 18 (King Malcolm and Sir Colvin, No 61, II, 62).

64. Fair Janet. Graham, I, 92 (=A=).

65. Lady Maisry. Motherwell, No 14 (=I= =a=).

68. Young Hunting. Motherwell, No 8 (=F= =b=), No 11; Kinloch, to p. 1 (=B=); Chambers, 9.

69. Clerk Saunders. Motherwell, No 16 (=A=); Kinloch, to p. 233 (=C=); Christie, II, 112 (=G=).

72. The Clerk’s Twa Sons o Owsenford. Chambers, 7; Christie, I, 212.

73. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet. Johnson, No 535 (=A=); Smith, R., VI, 58 (=A=); Sandys, C. C., No 18 (=D=); Rimbault, 94 (=D=), 112 (=A=); Chappell, 145 (=D=); Christie, II, 26 (=A=), 196 (=E=); Burne, 651 (=D=); Kidson, 40 (=D=).

74. Fair Margaret and Sweet William. Chappell, 383 (=A= =d=).

76. The Lass of Roch Royal. Johnson, No 5 (=I=); Graham, I, 54.

77. Sweet William’s Ghost. Ritson, S., II, 201 (=A=); Johnson, No 363 (=A=); Chambers, 11 (=A=); Rimbault, 98 (=A=); Christie, I, 118 (=A=).

78. The Unquiet Grave. Burne, 651 (=F=); Baring-Gould, S., I, 12.

79. The Wife of Usher’s Well. Scott, III, 262 (=A=).

81. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard. Motherwell, No 21 (M); Rimbault, 92; Chappell, 170 (=A=).

88. Child Maurice. Ritson, S., II, 157 (=F= =a=); Johnson, No 203 (=F= =a=); Smith, R., II, 106 (=F= =a=); Thomson, G., V, 33; Motherwell, No 6 (=C=); Rimbault, 96 (=F= =a=); Christie, I, 158 (=F=).

84. Bonny Barbara Allan. Ritson, S., II, 196 (=A= =a=); Johnson, No 221 (=A= =a=); Thomson, G., III, 35 (=A= =a=); Smith, R., II, 80 (=A= =a=); Rimbault, 98 (=B=), 99 (=A= =a=); Chappell, 538 (=B= =d=); Graham, II, 16 (=A=); Christie, I, 86, 88 (=A=), 283; Kidson, 37, 38 (three airs).

85. Lady Alice. Mason, 46 (=C=).

88. Young Johnstone. Motherwell, No 18 (=F=); Chambers, 19; Christie, I, 156 (=E=).

89. Fause Foodrage. Christie, I, 172 (=A=).

93. Lamkin. Smith, R., II, 94 (=P=); Christie, I, 60 (=A=).

94. Young Waters. Smith, R., II, 30.

95. The Maid Freed from the Gallows. Broadwood, 112 (=K=).

96. The Gay Goshawk. Christie, II, 124.

97. Brown Robin. Christie, I, 136 (=B=).

99. Johnie Scot. Motherwell, No 15 (=E=).

100. Willie o Winsbury. Kinloch, to p. 89 (=H=).

101. Willie o Douglas Dale. Christie, II, 32.

102. Willie and Earl Richard’s Daughter. Christie, I, 128.

103. Rose the Red and White Lily. Kinloch, to p. 65 (=C=).

105. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington. Rimbault, 100 (two airs); Chappell, 203-4 (two airs); Sussex, 10; Baring-Gould, I, 50.

106. The Famous Flower of Serving-Men. Thomson, G., IV, 39; Smith, R., V, 73; Rimbault, 95.

110. The Knight and Shepherd’s Daughter. Kinloch, to p. 25 (=H=); Rimbault, 94 (=A=); Chappell, 127 (=A=); Christie, I,184 (=F= =b=); Kidson, 20.

112. The Baffled Knight. Ritson, A., 160; Johnson, No 477 (=D= =a=); Rimbault, 81 (=C=); Chappell, 63 (=A= =a=), 520 (=C=); Bruce, 81 (=D=, see IV, 495).

114. Johnie Cock. Motherwell, No 22 (=F=); Chambers, 13.

116. Adam Bel, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesly. Rimbault, 48.

118. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. Chappell, 397 (?).

119. Robin Hood and the Monk. Chappell, 542 (?).

120. Robin Hood’s Death. Rimbault, G., 435 (=B=).

122. Robin Hood and the Butcher. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392.

123. Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar. Rimbault, G., 436; Chappell, 393 (=B=), 542 (?).

124. The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Chappell, 203 (?), 394 (=A=).

125. Robin Hood and Little John. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392.

126. Robin Hood and the Tanner. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392. (Air also of 122, 125, 128, 131, 133, 142 =B=, 143, 146, 150.)

128. Robin Hood Newly Revived. Rimbault, G., 433 f. (Air also of Nos 122, 125, 126, 131, 133, 142 =B=, 143, 146, 150.) Chappell, 392.

131. Robin Hood and the Ranger. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392.

132. The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood. Jewitt, 3.

133. Robin Hood and the Beggar, I. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392.

135. Robin Hood and the Shepherd. Rimbault, G., 435.

136. Robin Hood’s Delight. Rimbault, G., 435.

138. Robin Hood and Allan a Dale. Rimbault, G., 439.

140. Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires. Rimbault, G., 438 (=B=).

141. Robin Hood rescuing Will Stutly. Rimbault, G., 435.

142. Little John a Begging. Rimbault, G., 433 f. (=B=); Chappell, 392.

143. Robin Hood and the Bishop. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392.

144. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford. Chappell, 395 (=A=).

145. Robin Hood and Queen Katherine. Rimbault, G., 435.

146. Robin Hood’s Chase. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392.

148. The Noble Fisherman, or, Robin Hood’s Preferment. Rimbault, G., 436; Chappell, 393 (?).

150. Robin Hood and Maid Marian. Rimbault, G., 433 f.; Chappell, 392.

155. Sir Hugh, or, The Jew’s Daughter. Smith, S., I, 65; Johnson, No 582 (=B=); Motherwell, No 7 (=R=); Rimbault, 46 (=B=); Mason, 46 (=T=).

156. Queen Eleanor’s Confession. Motherwell, No 27 (=F=); Rimbault, 65 (=F=); Chappell, 174 (=A=).

157. Gude Wallace. Johnson, No 484 (=C=).

161. The Battle of Otterburn. Scott, I, 368 (=C=); Rimbault, 45 (=C=).

162. The Hunting of the Cheviot: Chevy Chase. Ritson, E., III, 315; Rimbault, 56; Chappell, (see 196), 198, 199, 201; Bruce, 2, 3, 145; Kidson, 19.

164. King Henry Fifth’s Conquest of France. Jewitt, 2, 3.

169. Johnie Armstrong. Ritson, S., II, 7 (=C=); Johnson, No 356 (=C=); Scott, I, 416 (=C=); Dauney, 222.

170. The Death of Queen Jane. Kinloch, to p. 116 (=B=).

178. Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon. Chappell, 226 (=A=); Christie, I, 56.

181. The Bonny Earl of Murray. Thomson, W., II, No 4 (=A=); Barsanti, 14; Ritson, S., II, 29 (=A=); Johnson, No 177 (=A=); Smith, R., IV, 100 (=A=); Rimbault, 68 (=A=); Christie, I, 202 (=A=).

182. The Laird o Logie. Motherwell, No 25 (=A=); Christie, II, 170 (=B=).

185. Dick o the Cow. Campbell, II, 30 (=c=); Scott, II, 62.

186. Kinmont Willie. Campbell, I, 78.

187. Jock o the Side. Campbell, II, 28 (=B= =b=); Chambers, 22 (=B=); Bruce, 37 (=B=).

188. Archie o Cawfield. Christie, I, 98 (=C=); Journal, VIII, 256 (=F=).

191. Hughie Grame. Johnson, No 303 (=B=); Smith, R., IV, 29 (=B=); Chambers, 24 (=B=); Graham, II, 44(?); Christie, II, 82 (=B=); Bruce, 34 (=C=).

192. The Lochmaben Harper. Johnson, No 579 (=A= =b=).

193. The Death of Parcy Reed. Bruce, 42 (=B=).

195. Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight. Scott, II, 140 (=B=).

196. The Fire of Frendraught. Dauney, 218, No 4 (?); Christie, I, 58.

199. The Bonnie House o Airlie. Smith, R., II, 2 (=A=); Thomson, G., I, 34; Kinloch, to p. 100 (=D=); Graham, II, 130 (=A= =b=); Christie, II, 276 (=C= =d=).

200. The Gypsy Laddie. Barsanti, 6; Ritson, S., II, 176 (=A=); Johnson, No 181 (=A=); Smith, R., III, 90; Thomson, G., IV, 35 (=A=); Dauney, 228, No 30; Graham, I, 114; Burne, 652 (=H=); Baring-Gould, S., II, 52, 54.

201. Bessy Bell and Mary Gray. Thomson, W., I, No 2; Thomson, G., VI, 41; Smith, R., IV, 21; Graham, II, 96.

203. The Baron of Brackley. Christie, I, 20 (=C= =b=).

204. Jamie Douglas (“O waly, waly”). Motherwell, No 9 (=O=); Christie, II, 158; Thomson, W., I, No 34; Johnson, Nos 158, 446; Ritson, S., I, 156; Graham, I, 100; Rimbault, 102; Smith, R., II, 1, VI, 62; Thomson, G., I, 19.

206. Bothwell Bridge. Smith, R., III, 62; Scott, II, 246; Chambers, 26.

208. Lord Derwentwater. Motherwell, No 4 (=A=).

209. Geordie. Johnson, No 346 (=A=); Smith, R., II, 68 (=A=); Kinloch, to p. 187 (=E= =b=); Christie, I, 52 (=J=), H, 44 (=H=); Kidson, 25.

210. Bonnie James Campbell. Smith, R., V, 42 (=C=).

211. Bewick and Graham. Bruce, 25.

212. The Duke of Athole’s Nurse. Christie, I, 80 (=F= =b=).

213. Sir James the Rose. Christie, I, 16.

214. The Braes o Yarrow. Scott, III, 150 (=E= =b=); Kidson, 22 (=Q=).

215. Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow. Thomson, W., II, No 49 (=A=); Ritson, S., I, 142 (=A=); Johnson, No 525 (=A=); Smith, R., VI, 76 (=A=); Christie, I, 64, 66 (=E=).

216. The Mother’s Malison, or, Clyde’s Water. Christie, II, 250 (=C=).

217. The Broom of Cowdenknows. Thomson, W., I, No 10; Barsanti, 13; Ritson, S., I, 118; Smith, R., II, 45; Thomson, G., III, 32; Motherwell, No 10 (=D=); Christie, I, 126, 284; Chappell, 461.

218. The False Lover won Back. Christie, I, 144 (=B=).

219. The Gardener. Kinloch, to p. 74 (=A=); Christie, II, 206 (=B=); Baring-Gould, S., IV, 52, No 108.

221. Katherine Jaffray. Christie, II, 16.

225. Rob Roy. Smith, R., I, 32 (=G=).

226. Lizie Lindsay. Johnson, No. 434; Smith, R., II, 100, 101; Graham, H, 82; Christie, II, 88; privately printed, Brighton, 1895 (=H=).

227. Bonny Lizie Baillie. Johnson, No 456 (=d=); Smith, R., IV, 90 (=f=).

228. Glasgow Peggie. Christie, I, 70 (=E=).

229. Earl Crawford. Christie, I, 68 (=A=).

231. The Earl of Errol. Christie, I, 206; II, 40.

232. Richie Story. Christie, I, 72 (=G= =d=).

233. Andrew Lammie. Motherwell, No 28 (=C= =b=); Christie, I, 48 (=C=).

235. The Earl of Aboyne. Christie, I, 22 (=B= =a=).

236. The Laird o Drum. Kinloch, to p. 199 (=A= =b=); Christie, I, 24.

237. The Duke of Gordon’s Daughters. Johnson, No 419 (=a=); Smith, R., IV, 98 (=a=); Christie, I, 2.

238. Glenlogie, or, Jean o Bethelnie. Smith, R., IV, 78 (=I= =b=); Christie, I, 54 (=E= =b=), 282.

239. Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie. Christie, I, 10 (=B= =b=).

240. The Rantin Laddie. Johnson, No 462 (=A= =a=); Smith, R., IV, 6 (=A=); Christie, I, 210 (=A= =b=).

241. The Baron o Leys. Johnson, No 237 (The Linkin Ladie).

243. James Harris (The Dæmon Lover). Motherwell, No 1 (=F=); Christie, I, 138.

245. Young Allan. Christie, I, 252.

247. Lady Elspat. Christie, I, 102.

248. The Grey Cock, or, Saw you my Father? Johnson, No 76; Smith, R., VI, 54 (=a=); Chappell, 731 (=b=); Graham, I, 102 (=a=).

250. Henry Martyn. Kidson, 30 (=B= =c=), 31 (=B= =b=); Baring-Gould, S., III, 2.

251. Lang Johnny More. Christie, I, 44.

252. The Kitchie Boy. Christie, I, 14.

253. Thomas o Yonderdale. Christie, I, 96 (=b=).

254. Lord William, or, Lord Lundy. Motherwell, No 19 (=A=).

255. Willie’s Fatal Visit. Christie, I, 218.

257. Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick. Christie, II, 34 (=B=).

260. Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret. Christie, II, 12 (=B=).

265. The Knight’s Ghost. Christie, II, 238.

266. John Thomson and the Turk. Christie, II, 52.

267. The Heir of Linne. Christie, I, 112 (=B= =c=).

269. Lady Diamond. Christie, II, 218.

270. The Earl of Mar’s Daughter. Christie, II, 38.

271. The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward. Chappell, 230 (=B=).

273. King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth. Chappell, 392(?), 542(?).

274. Our Goodman. Johnson, No 454 (=A=); Smith, R., IV, 66 (=A=).

275. Get up and Bar the Door. Ritson, S., I, 226 (=A= =a=); Johnson, Nos 300 (=A= =a=), 365 (=C=); Smith, R., I, 62 (=A=); Thomson, G., II, 8; Graham, II, 62 (=A= =a=); Christie, II, 262 (=A= =a=).

276. The Friar in the Well. Chappell, 274 (=A=).

279. The Jolly Beggar. Thomson, W., I, 95, App. No 43; Ritson, S., I, 168; Johnson, No 266 (=B= =a=).

280. The Beggar Laddie. Christie, I, 100 (=D=).

281. The Keach i the Creel. Motherwell, No 29; Bruce, 82 (=A=).

282. Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant. Christie, I, 130.

283. The Crafty Farmer. Chappell, 554 (=c=); Mason, 43 (=f=); Kidson, 141 (=b=); Baring-Gould, S., I, 38 (=c=).

284. John Dory. Ritson, A., 164; Chappell, 68.

286. The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity). Gordon, II, 317 (=B= =a=); Christie, I, 238 (=C= =c=); Baring-Gould, S., III, 24 (=C= =d=); Broadwood, 182 (=C=).

289. The Mermaid. Motherwell, No 30 (=E= =b=); Chappell, 743 (=B=).

293. John of Hazelgreen. Kinloch, to p. 206 (=B=); Christie, I, 124.

298. Young Peggy. Christie, II, 20.

299. Trooper and Maid. Christie, II, 210 (=A=).

BALLAD AIRS FROM MANUSCRIPT

3 C. THE FAUSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD.

Miss M. Macmath.

[Music]

“Oh where are ye gaun,” says the fause knight up- on the road. “I’m gaun to the schule,” says the wee boy; and still he stood.

9 G. THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND.

Sharpe MS.

[Music]

10 Bc. THE TWA SISTERS.

Abbotsford MS. “Scottish Songs.”

[Music]

There was twa sis-ters in a bour, Ed-in-bor-ough, Ed-in-borough; There was twa sis-ters in ae bour, Stir-ling for ay. There was twa sis-ters in ae bour, There came a . . knight to be their wooer, Bon-ny St. John-ston stands up-on Tay.

10 W. THE TWA SISTERS.

T. Lugten, Kelso.

[Music]

There were three la-dies play-ing at the ba, Nor-ham, down by Nor-ham, And oot cam a knight to view them a,’ By the bon-nie mill-dams o Nor-ham.]

10. THE TWA SISTERS.

Mrs Harris and others.

[Music]

11 C. THE CRUEL BROTHER.

Harris MS.

[Music]

12 D. Lord Randal.

Received from J. F. Campbell (of Islay). “Transcribed by G. E. Johnstone.”

[Music]

Oh, where hae ye been, Lord I hae been to the wild wood, mith-er For I’m

12 P. LORD RANDAL.

Miss M. Macmath.

[Music]

Whare hae ye been a’ day. Lord Ran-dal, my son? Whare hae ye been a’ day, my hand-some young one? I’ve been in the wood hunt-ing, Mother, make my bed soon, For I’m wea-ry, wea-ry hunt-ing and fain would lie down.

17 I. HIND HORN.

Miss M. Macmath.

[Music]

She gave him a gay gold ring, hey lil-le-lu and how lo lan, and he gave her a far bet-ter thing, Wi my hey down and a he did-dle down-ie.

20 Ja. THE CRUEL MOTHER.

Mrs Harris and others.

[Music]

40. THE QUEEN OF ELFAN’S NOURICE.

W. Walker, Aberdeen.[132]

[Music]

42. CLERK COLVILL.

Abbotsford MS. “Scottish Songs.”[133]

[Music]

42. CLERK COLVILL. (Revised.)

[Music]

Clerk Col-vill and his la-dye gay

46 Be. CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN’S COURTSHIP.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

47 D. PROUD LADY MARGARET.

Harris MS.

[Music]

53. YOUNG BEICHAN.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

58 J. SIR PATRICK SPENS.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

61. SIR COLIN.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

63 E. CHILD WATERS.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

68 C. YOUNG HUNTING.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

75. LORD LOVEL.

As sung in Aberdeen above forty years ago.

W. Walker.

[Music]

speed, . And wished Lord Lov-el much speed.]

77. SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

84 A. BONNY BARBARA ALLAN.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

89 C. FAUSE FOODRAGE.

Harris MS.

[Music]

95 L. THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS.

Miss E. M. Backus, North Carolina.

[Music]

97 Ab. BROWN ROBIN.

Abbotsford MS. “Scottish Songs.”

[Music]

98 B. BROWN ADAM.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

99 A. JOHNIE SCOT.

Abbotsford MS., “Scottish Songs.”

[Music]

99 O. JOHNIE SCOT.

Miss M. Macmath.

[Music]

Out then spak his auld fai-ther, And a blythe auld man was he, sayin, “I’ll send five hun-ner o my brisk young men, To bear John-ie com-pa-nie.”

100 J. WILLIE O WINSBURY

Miss M. Macmath.

[Music]

There was a lass in the north countie, And her cloth-ing it was the green; And she’s looked ower her fa-thr’s cas-tle wa’, For to see her fa-ther’s ships sail in, For to see her fa-ther’s ships on sea.

106. THE FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING-MEN.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

114 G. JOHNIE COCK.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

157 I. GUDE WALLACE.

Sharpe MS.

[Music]

161 (V, 243). THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN.

Sharpe MS.

It was a-bout the Lam-mes time When moor-land men do win their hay, Brave Earl Doug-lass in ar-mer bright, Marchd to the Bor-der with-out de-lay.

[Music]

163. THE BATTLE OF HARLAW.

W. Walker, “from a residenter in the Garioch.”

[Music]

164. KING HENRY FIFTH’S CONQUEST OF FRANCE.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

164 (V, 245). KING HENRY FIFTH’S CONQUEST OF FRANCE.

Sharpe MS.

[Music]

169 C. JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.

Sharpe MS.

[Music]

169. JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

173 J. MARY HAMILTON.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

182 D. THE LAIRD O LOGIE.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

222 (V, 261). BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON.

Sharpe MS.

Bon-ny An-ny Liv-ie-ston Went out to see the play, By came the Laird of Glen-lion And took her quite a-way.

[Music]

226 H. LIZIE LINDSAY.

As sung by George Mitchell, Edgell Castle, Forfarshire.

W. Walker.

[Music]

228 C. GLASGOW PEGGIE.

Miss M. Macmath.

It was on a day, and a fine sum-mer’s day, When the Low-lands they were mak-ing read-y, There I es-pied a weel far’d lass; She was gaun to Glas-gow, and they ca’ her Peggy.

[Music]

235 E. THE EARL OF ABOYNE.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

247 b. LADY ELSPAT.

Abbotsford MS., “Scottish Songs.”

[Music]

247 b. LADY ELSPAT. (Revised.)

How brent is . . your brow, my la-dy Els-pat; How . . gold- en yel-low is your hair! Of a’ the . . maids in . . fair . . . . Scot-land There . . is . . none like . . la-dy Els-pat fair.]

[Music]

250 E (V, 302). ANDREW BARTIN.

Miss L. P. Haskell, South Carolina.

Three bold bro’s of mer-rie Scot-land, And three bold broth-ers were they, And they cast lots, the one with the oth-er, t’see Who should go rob-bing all oer the salt sea, And they cast lots, the one with the oth-er, t’see Who sh’d go rob-bing all oer the salt sea.

[Music]

256 A. ALISON AND WILLIE.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

258 B. BROUGHTY WA’S.

Mrs Harris.

[Music]

278 B. THE FARMER’S CURST WIFE.

Miss M. Macmath.

The auld Deil cam to the man at the pleugh, Rum-chy ae de aid-ie, saying, “I wish ye gude luck at the mak-ing o yer sheugh.” Mushy toor-in an ant tan air-a.

[Music]

281. THE KEACH I THE CREEL.

W. Walker, Aberdeen.

[Music]

286 Ba. THE SWEET TRINITY. (The Golden Vanity.)

Macmath MS.

From a copy in the handwriting of P. S. Fraser (slightly corrected).

[Music]

286 Cg. THE SWEET TRINITY. (The Golden Vanity.)

Miss M. Macmath.

There was a ship of the North Coun-trie, And the name of the ship was the Gold-en Trin-i-tie; She was sail-ing in the Low-lands low, low, low, She was sail-ing in the Low-Lands low.]

[Music]

299 D (V, 306). TROOPER AND MAID.

Macmath MS.

The troop-er lad cam to oor gate, And oh, but he was wea-ry; He rap-ped at and chap-ped at, Syne called for his kind dear-y.

[Music]

FOOTNOTES:

[132] “Perhaps an improvised adaptation of a pibroch tune.”Return to passage

[133] Also noted in Glenriddell’s hand in the fly-leaf at the end of Vol. I of his copy of Herd, 1776, in the Signet Library.Return to passage

W. Macmath.

INDEX OF BALLAD TITLES

English and Scottish.

The Abashed Knight, II, 480.

Abduction of Nelly Symon, V, 264.

Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly (No 116), III, 14-39, 518; IV, 496; V, 297. III, 90, 95, 96, 121 n., 334; IV, 391, 516 n.

Adambel, Clym of the cloughe, and Wyllyam of cloudesle, III, 14.

Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesle, III, 14.

Adam Bell, Clime of the Cloug[he], and William off Cloudeslee, III, 14.

Adam Bell, The Second Part of, III, 34-39. III, 214.

Airlie (==The Earl of Errol), V, 268.

Alison and Willie (No 256), IV, 416 f.

Allan Water, or, A Lover in Captivity, IV, 184.

Allan Water, or, My Love Annie’s very Bonny, IV, 184.

Allison Gross (No 35), I, 313-5; III, 504; V, 214. I, 315, 339 n.

Amang the blue flowers and yellow, I, 247.

Andrew Bartin, V, 302 f.

Andrew Bodee, IV, 393.

Andrew Lammie (No 233), IV, 300-8. IV, 92.

Annan Water, IV, 184 f. IV, 179.

Annie Livingston, IV, 231.

Archie o Cawfield (No 188), III, 484-95; IV, 516 f. III, 476 n.

Archie of Cafield, III, 484, IV, 516.

Archie of the Cawfield, III, 484.

Armstrong and Musgrave, IV, 432.

Arthur’s Seat shall be my Bed, or, Love in Despair, IV, 105. IV, 93.

As I went out ae May morning, IV, 332.

Auld Carle Hood, or, Earl Brand, I, 489, 491.

The Auld Harper, IV, 16.

Auld Ingram, II, 126. II, 113 n.

Auld Matrons (No 249), IV, 391 f. II, 406; III, 15 n.

Aye as the Gowans grow gay, I, 22.

Baby Livingstone, IV, 231.

Babylon, or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie (No 14), I, 170-7, 501; II, 499; III, 499 f.; IV, 450; V, 209, 287. I, 121 n.

The Baffled Knight (No 112), II, 479-93; III, 518; IV, 495; V, 239 f., 296. II, 378; III, 258 n.

The Baffled Knight, or, the Lady’s Policy, II, 479.

The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (No 105), II, 426-8; III, 518; V, 237.

Ballade of the Scottysche Kynge, IV, 499.

The Banished Man, I, 170.

The Banks of Italy, IV, 360.

The Banks of Omey, IV, 270.

Bar aye your bower door weel, I, 300.

Barbara Allan, II, 276.

Barbara Allen’s Cruelty, II, 276, 278.

Barbara Livingston, IV, 231.

The Baron of Brackley (No 203), IV, 79-89, 522; V, 253 f., 298. II, 240; IV, 309 n.

The Baron of Braickly, IV, 309 n.

The Baron o Leys (No 241), IV, 355-8; V, 275.

The Baronne (Barrone) of Braikley (Braikly), IV, 79.

The Barron of Breachell, V, 253 f.

The Battle of Agincourt, V, 245.

The Battle of Alford, IV, 78.

The Battle of Balrinnes, III, 317, and n.

The Battle of Harlaw (No 163), III, 316-20; V, 245.

The Battle of Loudon Hill, IV, 105.

The Battle of Otterburn (No 161), III, 289-302, 520; IV, 499-502; V, 243 f., 297. III, 304, 305, 332.

The Battle of Philiphaugh (No 202), IV, 77-9.

Bauld Rankin, II, 320.

The Beautifull Shepherdesse of Arcadia, II, 457, 476 f.

The Beggar-Laddie (No 280), V, 116-20, 305.

The Beggar’s Bride, V, 116.

The Beggar’s Dawtie, V, 116.

Benorie, I, 493 f.

The Bent sae Brown (No 71), II, 170-3; III, 509; IV, 469; V, 223; II, 167, 240.

Bertram the Bauld Archer, III, 1; IV, 495.

Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (No 201), IV, 75-77, 522; V, 253.

The Betrayed Lady, I, 111.

Bewick and Graham (No. 211), IV, 144-50, 522.

Bewick and Grahame, the Song of, IV, 144-8.

Billie Archie, III, 484.

Binnorie, I, 118, 493, 495.

Binnorie, O an Binnorie, I, 118.

The Birth of Robin Hood, II, 412. I, 178, 182; II, 406, 411, 416.

The Bishop of Hereford’s Entertainment by Robin Hood and Little John, etc., III, 196.

Blancheflour and Jellyflorice (No 300), V, 175 f.

The Blende Harper, etc., IV, 16.

The Blind Harper, IV, 16.

The Blind Harper of Lochmaben, IV, 16.

Bloody Lambkin, II, 513.

Blow the winds, heigh, ho! II, 479.

Blue Flowers and Yellow, I, 247.

The Blue Flowers and the Yellow, I, 247; IV, 453.

The Blynde Harpers, with the Answere, “a ballet,” IV, 16.

Bob Norice, II, 263.

Bold Burnet’s Daughter, I, 450.

Bold Dickie, III, 495.

The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood (No 132), III, 154 f.; V, 240. III, 130, 137, 144 n., 168; V, 126.

Bold Rankin, II, 320.

Bondsey and Maisry, II, 281.

Bonnie Annie (No 24), I, 244-7; IV, 452 f. I, 182; II, 499.

Bonnie Annie Livieston, V, 261.

Bonny Baby Livingston (No 222), IV, 231-9, 523; V, 261 f. IV, 423.

The Bonny Banks O Fordie (No 14). See Babylon.

Bonny Barbara Allan (No 84), II, 276-9; III, 514. V, 166.

Bonny Bee Hom (No 92), II, 317-9; V, 229. I, 200 f.; II, 156, 234.

The Bonny Birdy (No 82), II, 260 f. II, 243.

The Bonny Bows o London, I, 118.

The Bonny Braes of Yarrow, IV, 160.

The Bonny Brown Girl, V, 166.

The Bonny Earl of Livingston, II, 309.

The Bonny Earl of Murray (No 181), III, 447-9; IV, 515. IV, 44.

Bonny Foot-Boy, IV, 400. II, 441; IV, 451 a.

Bonnie George Campbell, IV, 142.

The Bonny Hind (No 50), I, 444-7; V, 218. I, 178, 185, 283 n.

The Bonny Hind Squire, I, 425.

The Bonnie House o Airlie (No. 199), IV, 54-60; V, 252. IV, 161 n.

The Bonnie (Bonny) House o (of) Airlie (Airly, Airley), IV, 54.

The Bonny Hyn (Heyn), I, 444, 447.

Bonnie James Campbell (No 210), IV, 142-4.

Bonnie Jean o Bethelnie, IV, 338.

Bonnie John Campbell, IV, 142.

Bonny John Seton (No 198), IV, 51-4; V, 251 f.

Bonnie Johnie Scot, II, 377.

The Bonny Lads of Anglesey (No 220), IV, 214 f.

The Bonnie Lass o Englessies Dance, IV, 214.

The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie, V, 172.

The Bonnie Lass o the Hie Toun End, V, 153.

The Bonny Lass of Lochvoyan, or Lochroyan, II, 213.

Bonnie Lizie Baillie (No 227), IV, 266-70; V, 265.

Bonny Lizie Lindsay, IV, 255.

Bonny (Bonnie) May (==The Broom of Cowdenknows); IV, 191; (==The Keach i the Creel), V, 121.

The Bonnie Mermaid, V, 148.

The Bonnie Milldams o Binnorie, I, 118.

Bonny Molly Stewart, II, 317 n.

Bonny Peggy, IV, 270.

Bonny Peggy Irvine, IV, 311.

Bonnie Rantin Laddie, IV, 351.

Bonnie Susie Cleland, II, 112.

The Bonnie Wee Croodlin Dow, I, 151.

Bony Catrain Jaffry, V, 260.

Bothwell, I, 62.

Bothwell Bridge (No 206), IV, 108-10. IV, 106.

The Boy and the Mantle (No 29), I, 257-74, 507; II, 502; III, 503; IV, 454; V, 212 f., 289.

The Braes o Yarrow (No 214), IV, 160-77, 522 f.; V, 255 f. IV, 276.

The Braes of Yarrow, Logan’s, IV, 161, 178; Hamilton’s, IV, 163.

The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England’s Daughter, I, 88.

The Bridal Sark, I, 7.

The Bridegroom Darg, I, 7.

The Bride’s Testament, I, 141, 496.

Brig. Macintosh’s Farewell to the Highlands, or, Macintosh was a Soldier Brave, IV, 117.

The Broom blooms bonnie (bonie) (==Leesome Brand), I, 177.

The Broom blooms bonnie (==Sheath and Knife), I, 185; V, 210.

The Broom o the Cathery Knowes, II, 346.

The Broom of Cowdenknows (No 217), IV, 191-209, 523; V, 257 f. I, 446; III, 451; V, 153.

The Broom of the Cowdenknowes, IV, 191.

The Broomfield Hill (No 43), I, 390-9, 508; II, 506; III, 506; IV, 459; V, 290. I, 335; IV, 389.

Broomfield Hills, I, 390.

The Brothers-in-Arms, IV, 145.

Broughty Wa’s (No 258), IV, 423 f.

Brown Adam (No 98), II, 373-6. V, 234.

Brown Adam the Smith, II, 373.

The Brown Bride and Lord Thomas, II, 179.

Brown Edom, II, 373.

The Brown Girl (No 295), V, 166-8.

The Brown Girl (==Lord Thomas and Fair Annet), III, 509 f.

Brown Robin (No 97), II, 368-73.

Brown Robyn and Mally, II, 368.

Brown Robyn’s Confession (No 57), II, 13-6, 510; III, 508; IV, 462 f.; V, 220, 292. I, 245, and n., 436; II, 17.

The Buchanshire Tragedy (==Sir James the Ross), IV, 156.

Burd Alone, II, 83.

Burd Bell, IV, 417.

Burd Ellen, II, 83.

Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (No 28), I, 256, 507; III, 503.

Burd Helen (==Fair Annie), II, 63.

Burd Helen (==Child Waters), II, 83. I, 23 n.

Burd Hellen, or, Browghty Wa’s, IV, 428.

Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick (No 257), IV, 417-23; V, 278 f.

Burd Isbel and Sir Patrick, IV, 417.

Burning of Auchindown, III, 456.

The Burning of Frendraught, IV, 39.

The Burning o Loudon Castle, III, 423.

The Burning of the Tower of Frendraught, IV, 521 f.

The Cambrick Shirt, I, 6.

Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon (No 178), III, 423-38, 520; IV, 513-5; V, 247 f., 299. IV, 44, 64.

Captain Glen, II, 16; IV, 463.

Captain Ward and the Rainbow (No 287), V, 143-5, 305.

Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (No 46), I, 414-25; II, 507; III, 507; IV, 459; V, 216 f., 291. I, 1, 2 n., 3 n., 20, 426.

Captain Wederburn, V, 216.

Carle of Kelly-Burn Braes, V, 107.

The Carnal and the Crane (No 55), II, 7-10, 509 f.; III, 507; IV, 462; V, 220. I, 233, 235.

A Carol for St. Stephen’s Day, I, 233.

The Carpenter’s Wife, IV, 360.

The Carrying-off of the Heiress of Kinady, IV, 309, and n.

Castle Ha’s Daughter, I, 450.

Catharine (Catherine) Jaffery (Janferry), IV, 216.

Catherine Johnson (Johnstone), IV, 216.

Cathrine Jaffray, IV, 216.

Charles Graeme, IV, 475 f.

Charlie MacPherson (No 234), IV, 308-10; V, 301.

The Cherry-Tree, II, 1.

The Cherry-Tree Carol (No 54), II, 1-6, 509; V, 220.

Chevy Chase, III, 303, 314. III, 293, 317.

Chield Morice, II, 263, 274.

Chil Brenton, I, 62.

Child Brenton, I, 62.

Child Maurice (No 83), II, 263-75; III, 514; IV, 478. II, 127, 303, 377, 378; V, 284.

Child Noryce, II, 263; IV, 478.

Child Nourice, Buchan’s MSS, II, 264.

The Child of Ell, I, 88.

Child Owlet (No 291), V, 156 f., 305.

Child Rowland to the darke tower came, fragment, V, 201.

Child Vyet, II, 126.

Child Waters (No 63), II, 83-100, 511; III, 508; IV, 463; V, 220-2. I, 23 n., 49 n., 112 n.; II, 127, 406, 430, 458, 499; IV, 186, 423.

Chirstie Graeme, IV, 144.

Christopher White (No 108), II, 439 f.

Clark Colven, I, 371 f.

Clerk Colin, V, 215.

Clerk Colvill (No 42), I, 371-89; II, 506; III, 506; IV, 459; V, 215 f., 290. II, 143; IV, 187; V, 284.

Clerk Colvill, or, The Mermaid, I, 371.

Clerk Sandy, II, 156; IV, 468.

Clerk Saunders (No 69), II, 156-67, 512; III, 509; IV, 468 f.; V, 223, 293. II, 100, 167, 170, 173, 226, 240, 244, 317, 406; IV, 39, 163, 276, 415, 474; V, 91, 166.

Clerk Tamas, IV, 426.

Clerk Tamas and Fair Annie, IV, 426.

The Clerks of Owsenfoord, II, 173.

The Clerk’s Twa Sons o Owsenford (No 72), II, 173-91, 512; III, 509; IV, 469, 293. II, 112 n., 156, 238, 264, 417.

The Clerks Two Sons of Oxenfoord, II, 173.

Clyde’s (Clide’s) Water (==The Mother’s Malison) (No 216), IV, 185-91; V, 256 f., 301. IV, 117, 415, 471 b.

Clyde’s Water (==Young Hunting), II, 142.

The Coble o Cargill (No 242), IV, 358-60.

Cold blows the wind, III, 512.

Cold blows the wind, sweetheart, IV, 474.

The Cooper of Fife, V, 104.

Cospatrick, I, 62; V, 283 n.

A councell brave [grave] our king did hold, ballad on Agincourt, III, 321.

The Countess of Errol, IV, 282.

Courteous King Jamie, Lewis’s ballad, I, 297.

The Courteous Knight, I, 425.

The Courtier and Country Maid, II, 483.

The Covering Blue, V, 121.

The Crafty Farmer (No 283), V, 128-31.

The Crafty Miller, V, 128.

The Crafty Ploughboy, V, 129.

The Creel, or, Bonny May, V, 121.

The Croodin Doo, I, 151; V, 209.

The Croodlin Doo, I, 151.

Crow and Pie (No 111), II, 478 f.

The Crowdin Dou, I, 498.

The Cruel Brother (No 11), I, 141-51, 496-8; II, 498; III, 499; IV, 449; V, 208, 286. I, 66 n., 155, 383 n., 436; II, 298.

The Cruel Brother, or, the Bride’s Testament, I, 141.

The Cruel Knight, II, 288.

Cruel Lammikin, II, 320.

The Cruel Mother (No 20), I, 218-27, 504 f.; II, 500 f.; III, 502; IV, 451; V, 211 f., 287. I, 230.

The Cruel Sister, I, 118; IV, 447.

Cruel William, II, 83.

The Cruelty of Barbara Allen, II, 276.

The Cunning Clerk, V, 121.

The Dæmon Lover (No 243). See James Harris.

The Dainty Downby, V, 153.

Dame Oliphant, or, Willie o Douglass-dale, II, 406.

Davie Faw, IV, 61.

Dead Maid’s Land, V, 259.

Death and the Lady, II, 204.

The Death of John Seton, IV, 51.

Death of Lord Rannal, V, 209.

Death of Lord Warriston, IV, 28.

The Death of Parcy Reed (No 193), IV, 24-8, 520 f.

The Death of Queen Jane (No 170), III, 372-6; V, 245 f., 298.

The Death of the Countess of Aboyne, IV, 309 n., 311.

The Deil’s Courting, I, 6.

The Deil’s Courtship, I, 6.

Dernie Hughie, II, 480.

The Devil and the Scold, V, 305.

Devonshire’s Noble Duel with Lord Danby, in the year 1687, IV, 110.

Diabolus et Virgo, V, 283.

Dick o the Cow (No 185), III, 461-8. III, 475 n.; IV, 1.

Dick of the Cow, An excelent Old Song cald, III, 461.

The Disconsolate Lady, II, 424.

A Discourse betwixt (between) a young Woman and the Elphin Knight, I, 6, 20.

The Distressed Ship-Carpenter, IV, 360, 369.

Diverus and Lazarus, II, 10.

Dives and Lazarus (No 56), II, 10-12, 510; III, 507 f.; IV, 462; V, 220, 292.

Donald M’Queen’s Flight wi Lizie Menzie, V, 305 f.

Donald of the Isles (==Glasgow Peggie), IV, 270.

Donald of the Isles (==Lizie Lindsay), IV, 255.

The Douglas Tragedy, I, 88, 91, 96, 99, 489, 492; II, 170 n., 457 n.; III, 497; IV, 64, and n., 426.

Douglass Dale, II, 406.

Dowie Banks of Yarrow, IV, 160.

The Dowie Den in Yarrow, IV, 160.

The Dowie Dens, IV, 160.

The Dowy Dens, non-traditional ballad, IV, 163.

The Dowie Dens o Yarrow (==The Water o Gamrie), IV, 178.

The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, IV, 160, 522.

The Dowie Downs o Yarrow, IV, 160.

The Dowie Glens of Yarrow, IV, 160, 177 b.

The Dowy Houms o Yarrow, IV, 160.

The Dragoon and Peggy, V, 172.

The Drowned Lady, I, 118.

The Drowned Lovers, I, 372, and n., 435; II, 240; IV, 185.

Drowsy Lane, I, 300.

Drumclog (Loudon Hill) (No 205), IV, 105.

The Drunkard’s Legacy, V, 12, 19 f.

Dugall Quin (No 294), V, 165 f., 305 f.

The Duke of Athol, IV, 299.

Duke of Athole’s Gates, IV, 150.

(The) Duke (o) of Athol’s Nourice, IV, 150.

The Duke of Athole’s Nurse (No 212), IV, 150-5. IV, 161, 178.

The Duke of Bedford, V, 298.

The Duke of Gordon’s Daughter (No 237), IV, 332-8; V, 273.

The Duke of Gordon’s Daughters, IV, 332.

The Duke of Gordon’s Three Daughters, IV, 332, 335.

Duke of Perth’s Three Daughters, I, 170.

The Duke’s Daughter’s Cruelty, II, 500, 501.

Durham Field (No 159), III, 282-7; V, 297. III, 352.

Earl Bichet, IV, 460.

Earle Bodwell, III, 399.

Earl Bothwell (No 174), III, 399-401; V, 247.

Earl Bran, I, 88; IV, 444.

Earl Brand (No 7), I, 88-105, 489-93; II, 498; III, 497 f.; IV, 443-5; V, 207, 285 f. I, 67, 93, 95, and n., 106, 178, 496; II, 170 n., 240; IV, 64.

Earl Crawford (No 229), IV, 276-80; V, 301.

Earl Lithgow, II, 457.

Earl Marshall, III, 257; IV, 498.

The Earl of Aboyne (No 235), IV, 311-21; V, 270-2, 301 f. IV, 355.

Earl of Aboyne, IV, 311.

The Earl o Boyn, IV, 311.

The Earl o Bran, IV, 443 f.

The Earl of Douglas and Dame Oliphant, II, 406.

The Earl of Errol (No 231), IV, 282-91; V, 267-70.

Earl of Errol and Lady Catherine Carnegie, Ballad of Gilbert, IV, 289.

Earl of Essex, V, 145.

Earl of Hume, IV, 270.

The Earl of Mar’s Daughter (No 270), V, 38-42.

The Earl of Rosslyn’s Daughter, I, 414.

The Earl of Westmoreland (No 177), III, 416-23, V, 299. III, 402, 408.

Earle of Westmorelande, III, 416.

The Earl of Winton’s Daughter, IV, 291.

Earl Patrick, IV, 375.

Earl Patrick and Burd Isabel, IV, 417.

Earl Patrick Graham, II, 17.

Earl Patricke Spensse, II, 17.

Earl Richard (==Young Hunting) II, 142.

Earl Richard (==The Knight and Shepherd’s Daughter), I, 67 n.; II, 457.

Earl Richard’s Daughter, IV, 400.

Earl Richard, the Queen’s Brother, II, 457.

Earl Richmond, IV, 492.

Earl Robert, II, 284.

Earl Rothes (No 297), V, 170.

Earl Walter, ballad of Mrs Hampden Pye, II, 83.

Earlington’s Daughter, IV, 445 b.

Earlistown, IV, 109.

Eastmuir King, II, 296.

The Eastmure King and the Westmure King, II, 51 n., 296.

Edinburgh castle, towne and tower, fragment, V, 202.

Edom of Achendoon, V, 247.

Edom o Gordon (Captain Car), (No 178), III, 423-38, 520; IV, 513-15; V, 247 f. IV, 44, 64.

Edward (No 13), I, 167-70, 501; II, 499; III, 499; V, 209, 287. I, 143, 155, 437, 446.

The Egyptian Laddy, IV, 61.

The Elfin Knicht, I, 6.

The Elfin Knight (No 2), I, 6-20, 484 f.; II, 495 f.; III, 496; IV, 439 f.; V, 205 f., 284. I, 23 n., 178 n., 283.

Elfrida and Sir James of Perth, IV, 156.

Elisa Bailly, V, 265.

The Enchanted Ring, II, 317.

Eppie Morrie (No 223), IV, 239 f.; V, 262. IV, 232, 245.

Eppie Norrie, V, 262 b.

Erlinton (No 8), I, 106-11; III, 498 f.; IV, 445-7. I, 88, and n., 93, 178.

Errol’s Place, IV, 282.

Fair Annie (No 62), II, 63-83, 511; IV, 463; V, 220. II, 180 n.; IV, 409.

Fair Annie and Sweet Willie, II, 179.

Fair Annie of Lochroyan, II, 17, 100.

Fair Anny, II, 213.

Fair Eleanor’s Tragedy, II, 180; III, 509 b.

Fair Ellen, V, 220.

The Fair Flower of Northumberland (No 9), I, 111-18, 493; II, 498; III, 499; V, 207 f. I, 49 n., 432, 456 n.; III, 351.

Fair Helen of Kirconnell, II, 429.

Fair Isabell of Rochroyall, II, 213.

Fair Janet (No 64), II, 100-11; III, 508; IV, 464-6; V, 222, 292. I, 96; II, 113, and n., 137, 499; III, 381, 497 b.; IV, 39, 411, 471.

Fair Janet and Sweet William, II, 100.

Fair Mabel of Wallington, II, 309.

Fair Margaret (==Child Waters), II, 83.

Fair Margaret (==Proud Lady Margaret), I, 425.

Fair Margaret and Sweet William (No 74), II, 199-203; V, 224 f., 293. I, 96; II, 156, 180, 204, 205, 214, 288.