Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

390 NOTES,207. Hechf, hight, was named.Owtrnge is here an adjective, outrageous.209. Vsy*, used (to go).216. 'Who the devil clothes thee in so gay a garb? It should bethy nature to wear an Erse mantle, tobear a Scotch whittle under thybelt, and have rough shoes (of undressed hide) on thy scovmdrel feet-Give me thy knife ;what means thy gear so fine ? '233- Eyme, uncle; ^^z. the one at Gowrie. The reader must observethe foot-note on p. 3S9, or he will get much confused about Wallace'suncles.2.34. Wyn. get, i. e. go.236. For him, for the sake of Him who died on the tree.240. At, that. Observe this word, which is a clear mark of a northerndialect. It is the Swedish att, Danish at.The layff, the rest.241. 'A soiled kerchief (she) let fall over his head and neck, andfastened on him withal a woven white hat (or cap).'244. Rok, a distaff; Germ. Rocken.249. Nocht leryt lang, had not long learnt ; a jesting expression,267. ' Unsuflferable are those people of England.'282-2S4. This passage is so punctuated in Jamieson's edition as tobe unintelligible. It means :'Whoever asked her, she said that theywere going to St. Margaret (i. e. to St. Margaret's shrine at Dunfermline,in Fifeshire) ; for, whoever served her, such people always found greatfriendship with Southern people ; since she (St. Margaret) was of England.'The allusion is to St. ^Margaret of Scotland, the wife of MalcolmCanmore, who died Nov. 16, 1093, aged 47, and was buried at Dunfermline.She was canonized by Pope Innocent IV in 1251. She was'of England,' as being the granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, andniece of Edward the Confessor. See a sketch of her life in Chambers'Book of Days, vol. ii. p. 584.2S5, 2S6. By ' Landoris' is meant Lindores, near Newburg, on thesouth bank of the Tay. The travellers crossed the Tay, and travelledsouthwards, crossing the Ochill Hills, to Dunfermline.290. Lithqiihow, Linlithgow, between Edinburgh and Falkirk.291. Pilgramage, pilgrimage; viz. to St. Margaret's shrine.296. Qubill south our forth, till, southwards, over the Forth.298. Dunipace, in Stirlingshire, not far from Falkirk.300. Personey parson, called Wallace by name.303. ' Caused him to know the land was all a-stir.'307. IVestemtar, more to the westward we will go.310. Will god, if God wills that I may live.