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1773. _with two_, also.
P. 53, l. 1791. _well less, al-out_, much less, altogether. The punctuation hereabouts in Stevenson's edition is very wild.
1795. _wys_, vice; _the wrechitness_, thy miserliness.
1797. _pa.s.s the courss_, go thy way.
1808. _vrech_, wretch; but here used instead of _miser_.
1812. _viss_, vice.
1814. _ben y-knawith_, are known (to be) (?).
1815. _dant_, daunt.
1822. _the ton_, the one.
P. 54, l. 1832. _beis var_, beware.
1834. _colde_, cool.
1852. _onys_, once.
1855. _whar-throw_, through which, whereby.
P. 55, l. 1864, _awn_, own. The metre requires the more usual form _awin_.
1879. _dispol?eith_, despoileth.
1881. _For-quhi_, wherefore. In this line the MS. has "scrikth."
P. 56, l. 1899. _most nedis_, must needs. _Ye_ = _the_; i.e. The one, He.
1909. _Mot_, might.
1917. _in_ should be _into_, as elsewhere.
P. 57, l. 1940. _havith_, hath.
1950. _hot_, hight, is called.
P. 58, l. 1966. _wnepwnist_, unpunished.
1990. _omend_, amend; _spill_, destroy.
P. 59, l. 2011. _ayre_, are.
2012. _duclar_, declare; so also _dulay_ for delay.
2017. _the G.o.d werray_, the Very G.o.d.
P. 60, l. 2036. _For-quhi_, wherefore.
2040. _mad_, made.
2041. _clergy_, science.
2062. _be the mycht dewyne_, by the might divine.
P. 61, l. 2069. _far_, fare.
2079. _helyth frome the ground_, heals from the bottom; i.e.
effectually.
2100. _not sessith_, who ceaseth not.
P. 62, l. 2107. _Ne war_, were it not for; _hartly_, hearty; it occurs again four lines below.
2135. _yneuch_, enough. He means he will ask but one question more.
P. 63, l. 2148. _To pa.s.sing home_, to go home.
2162. _the _xxiiij_ day_. The first _i_ in the MS. is like a "v" smudged over; we should read "xxiiij," as in l. 2155. The contraction is to be read _four and twentieth_, not _twenty-fourth_; so also in l. 610.
P. 64, l. 2190. _hal dure_, hall door.
2192. _o iorne most for to comend_, a journey most to be commended.
2194. _lowith_, love.
P. 65, l. 2212. _the fewar eschef thay_, the less they achieve.
2229. "For no adventure will prove so great, that ye shall not achieve it."
2241. _whill_, until.
P. 66, l. 2247. _galot_; so in MS.
2265. _grant mercy_, great thanks; Fr. _grand merci_.
2267. _quhy_, because.
P. 67, l. 2279. _thithingis_, tidings; probably an error of the scribe for _t.i.thingis_. Stevenson has _chichingis_!
2284. _al-out_, altogether.
2304. _oft syss_, oft-times. See Glossary (_Syss_).
