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By Sidgwick, Frank
1.3: 'leeler,' more loyal.
2.2: 'study,' stithy, anvil.
4.3: 'biggit,' built.
5.2: 'thought lang,' thought (it) tedious; _i.e._ was bored. Cp.
_Young Bekie_, 16.4, etc.; _Johney Scot_, 6.2, and elsewhere.
9.2: 'forbye,' apart.
10.1: 'he' is of course the false knight.
11.1: 'loo,' love.
12.2: 'string': _i.e._ the top; purses were bags with a running string
to draw the top together.
15.2: 'lang': the MS. reads long.
16.1: etc., 'gard,' made.]
Artist: Sidgwick, Frank
Year: 1850