FOOTNOTE

54–5 ‘It was no wonder if he conceived her image so quickly in his mind - and see now why’;

56 idole image; in cace by chance;

57 fantasy imagination;

58 wittis senses;

59 lyke estait similar state;

60 ‘As it was shaped within the mind’;

61 culd spring sprang;

62 kendlit kindled;

63 hait hot; fewir fever; sweit sweat; trimbling trembling;

64 quhill until;

66 ane quhyle a short time; he changit mony hewe his colour kept on changing;

67 not ane ane uther knew neither recognised the other;

68 pietie pity; memoriall remembrance;

69 gyrdill belt; can he tak he took;

70 jowall jewel;

71 can swak flung;

73 quhill while;

74 oftsyis often;

75 can draw drew near;

78 ‘each began to whisper secretly to the other’;

80 however it be for whatever reason; lazarous leper;

81 knaw know;

82 scho she; feill idea;

85 gentill and fre noble and generous;

87 stiffer stronger; steill steel; stert sprang; stound pain;

89 ouircome revived; siching sighing;

90 cald cold, mournful; ochane cry of sorrow;

91 stoundis pangs; stad beset;

92 will of wane bewildered, hopeless;

93 swounit swooned; or scho culd refane before she ceased;

96 lawtie loyalty;

98 elevait raised high;

99 clam climbed; quheill wheel [of Fortune]; hie high;

101 the self itself;

103 continence self-restraint;

104 chaist honourable; conversatioun conduct;

106 opinioun reputation;

112 I lat yow wit I’d have you know; thairout in the world;

113 traist trust;

114 preif try;

115 reid advise;

116 sad steadfast; widdercok weathercock;

117 knaw know;

118 brukkil brittle; into my self, I say ‘which I find by experience’;

119 traisting expecting;

120 als as; fay faith;

121 thocht though; wait know;

122 ruse praise;

126 beteiche commit; carioun corpse;

127 taidis toads; rent devoured;

132 quhilk which; in drowrie as a love-token;

134 cairfull deid sorrowful death; kend known;

136 spreit spirit; Diane Diana;

137 waist wild; wellis springs;

139 in takning as a token;

140 swelt died;

141 tuik of took off;

142 syne then; buryt hir buried her;

143 bair bore;

144 can declair told of;

145 hard heard;

147 sic such;

148 swelt swooned; swoun faint;

149 to brist was boun was ready to burst;

150 I can no moir there is no more I can do;

152 merbell marble;

153 wrait wrote; superscriptioun inscription;

155 ressoun statement;

158 lait lipper former leper;

159 ballet poem;

160 worschip honour;

161 of cheritie for the love of God; monische admonish;

162 ming mingle;

165 sen since

1 heill health;

4 ‘The fear of death confounds me’;

7 brukle brittle, fragile; sle sly;

10 sary sorrowful;

11 like likely;

13 erd earth; sickir secure;

14 wickir willow branch;

17 the ded death;

18 potestatis rulers;

21 in to in (the);

22 anarmyt armed;

23 mellé combat, skirmish;

26 sowkand sucking;

27 benignité graciousness, meekness;

29 campion champion; stour battle;

30 closit enclosed (for defence);

31 bour bower;

33 piscence puissance, power;

34 clerk scholar;

35 strak stroke;

39 ‘No subtle conclusions can help them’;

41 most greatest;

42 lechis physicians;

43 supplé deliver;

45 laif rest;

46 pageant pageant (of life); syne then; graif grave;

47 faculté profession;

50 of makaris flour the flower of makers (poets);

55 cuntré country (i.e. Scotland);

57 has done infek infected;

59 balat song; trigidé tragedy-writing;

61 berevit taken away by force;

62 allace alas;

63 Schir Sir;

65 eik too;

66 anteris adventures;

70 schour shower;

71 quhilk which;

73 reft bereft; endite (power of) writing;

74 lifly vividly;

75 quyk vigorous; of sentence hie of great pith;

79 fallowis fellows;

81 done roun whispered, had a conversation;

83 enbrast embraced;

85 aw all;

87 ‘whom all men regret’;

91 reuth pity; so suld be it should be so;

93 sen since; brether brothers, brethren;

94 alane alone;

95 ‘Of necessity I must be his next prey’;

97 remeid remedy;

98 dispone make ready;

99 eftir after

2 campioun champion;

3 yettis gates;

4 croce cross;

5 divillis trymmillis devils tremble;

6 saulis souls; borrowit ransomed;

7 dois indoce endorses;

8 ‘The Lord is risen from the tomb’;

9 Dungin struck down;

10 stang sting;

11 ‘the fierce old tiger with his teeth ajar’;

15 to felye of that fang to fall short of that prey;

18 dicht arrayed;

20 ‘and like a giant has stretched himself on high’;

21 sprungin risen; Aurora [the Dawn]; radius radiant;

22 on loft into the heavens;

26 querrell cause;

27 sone sun; wox grew;

28 clerit cleared;

31 Jowis Jews;

33 done ceis brought to an end;

34 jevellouris jailers; fleit and flemit scared away;

35 weir war;

36 lowsit loosed; temit emptied;

38 ourcomin overcome;

39 dispulit despoiled; yemit guarded

1 In to thir in these; drublie clouded;

2 quhone when; sabill sable, black; arrayis cloaks;

3 cluddis clouds;

4 curage… of heart for;

6 lenthin length;

8 dulé doleful; lurk for schoir cower under the threat;

9 dois forlore is lost, becomes desolate;

14 mair more;

15 remeid remedy;

18 quhairon on which; leif live;

19 mischeif hardship;

20 in to in; court the royal court;

22 the thee;

24 quhome whom;

25 quhill until; glass i.e. Time’s glass;

27 that will away what wishes to be off;

28 ‘or crave what you cannot keep for any length of time’;

30 journay journey;

32 I the requeir I beg you;

34 compt an account;

36 ‘At which Death casts open his wide gates’;

37 ‘saying “These will stay open for you” ’;

38 stout strong, brave;

39 lowt stoop;

42 kist chest; coup wine-cup;

43 luiffis blys love’s joy;

44 lat prevent;

45 sowp sup;

46 quhone when;

50 disport merriment

1 be when; grondyn sharpened;

2 boss hollow; braid broad;

3 ilke same; brade burst forth;

5 ombeset beset; bustuusly violently;

7 wallis weltris waves roll;

8 anys once;

10 hait are called;

12 takillis tackle, rigging; graslis harsh, grating noise; cabillis cables; can fret begin to fret;

13 Swith swiftly;

17 levin lightning;

19 mannasit menaced;

20 e eye

1 e eye;

2 chymmys mansions;

3 symmyris summer’s;

4 laton copper; haill of new entirely;

5 Kythyng no syng showing no sign;

9 all thocht although;

10 Forfeblit enfeebled; wolx waxed; lemand gylty levyn gleaming golden light;

11 speir sphere;

12 ryngis reigns;

14 brumaill wintry;

15 brym fierce; art direction;

18 ourweltrand tossing about; wally seys stormy seas;

19 reid furiously;

20 burnys burns;

21 landbrist rumland surf roaring; sik beir such noise;

22 rumyst roared;

23 Fludis monstreis sea-monsters; meirswyne porpoises; quhalis whales;

24 law low; devalis descend;

25 occident in the west;

28 Bewavit blew about; by hys race in his course;

29 Frawart ill-natured;

30 quhais whose; darth dearth;

32 greis degrees;

34 spulyeit despoiled;

35 ysowpit soaked; wak wet;

36 rokis clouds;

37 fawch yellowy-brown; wolx waxed;

38 slekit smooth; ourheildis are covered;

39 rolkis rocks; quhyn-stane whinstone;

40 clynty clewis schane fissured cliffs shone;

41 barrand barren;

42 hair hoar; ourfret patterned over;

43 bubbis squalls; snell bitter;

44 sward open field;

46 eild age; ded death;

47 drumly skuggis gloomy shadows;

48 warpit threw; levyn lightning;

49 Flaggis flashes; felloun flaw fierce blast;

50 soppys downpours; snypand biting;

51 dolly dismal; donk damp;

52 flodderit flooded;

54 floschis pools; dubbis puddles;

55 ‘meadows covered in mire are seen with withered ferns’;

56 kythit showed; wysnyt wizened;

57 boddum valley; blanchit bleached;

58 gurl rough;

59 waif wave;

60 bedowyn immersed; sike stream;

61 Our over; seir many

62 ische-schouchlis icicles;

64 gersis grasses; wallowyt withered;

65 bewis blowt bare boughs;

66 weid wood; howt copse;

68 deyr deer; dern timidly;

69 ronys brambles; thrang thronged;

70 chyrmyng chirping;

71 hidlis and hyrnys hiding-places and nooks;

72 thuddis blasts;

73 watir lynnys rowtis waterfalls roar; lynd lime-tree;

74 brayt roared; swouchand rushing;

76 wait wet; draglit bedraggled;

77 sheip shepherds; hyrd gromys shepherd-lads;

78 le lee; bromys broom;

79 dantit tamed; grettar greater;

80 sesyt settled;

81 sik as such as; ky kine;

82 barys boars;

84 symmeris summer’s

2 born carried; mak mate;

4 brown dark/shady;

6 purpill and pall purple cloth and costly fabric;

7 bede [four-poster] bed;

9 lythe lies;

10 wowndes wounds;

11 may maiden;

13 ston altar-stone/sepulchre; Corpus Christi ‘Body of Christ’

2 at before;

3 levere rather;

5 asythe amends;

7 ‘some are here today that shall not be here tomorrow’;

8 cheyré feyre [fair held in cherry-orchards during the brief season];

9 algate whatever I do;

10 ryall royal; cheyere throne;

11 sotell subtle, insidious;

12 onavysed without warning;

13 devors divorce [between soul and body];

14 cors corpse;

17 hold stronghold;

21 horne horn [trumpet-blast];

24 yeveth gives; bable bauble;

25 trowth truth;

26 compile formulate;

28 foly folly;

32 Requiem eternam ‘Eternal rest (grant them, O Lord)’;

35 that he who

2 juggelere magician/conjuror;

5 wold would;

7 nise coy;

9 molde earth [mortal];

12 dangerus haughty;

13 hard heard;

16 Iwis indeed; tene vexation;

23 priked rode;

25 wend thought;

31 heven towre tower of Heaven;

56 undo open;

61 chorle churl;

65 mele-pok meal-bag;

70 giglot wench/strumpet;

71 leman lover

3 inbryngis performed;

11 chere countenance;

12 mislyng drizzle;

19 counteryng improvisation

5 Reflaring odorous;

6 camamell camomile;

7 rosay rose-tree;

10 nepte catmint;

11 jeloffer gillyflower;

13 Enuwyd revived, freshened

8 provision [of place-men for benefices];

11 hardy-dardy rash daring;

17 after-dele consequence;

21 dawys hedde fool’s head;

28 dowghtfull fearful;

32 worth a hawe worth a thing;

34 pelory pajauntes pillory-pageants;

35 cooke-stole cucking stool;

36 mokkyshe scorneful, skittish;

39 bocher [Cardinal Wolsey was the son of a butcher];

42 browe-auntleres cuckold’s horns; cabagyd grown;

45 trusys truces;

46 bely-joye gluttony;

48 howgye howsys huge houses;

49 pyllyng and pollyng plundering and extortion;

54 hatered hatred; cheryte charity;

56 dowbyll double;

58 lyerd heard of;

60 rygorous harsh;

64 fylty filthy;

67 loselles scoundrels;

68 myday sprettes noonday devils;

70 all be shrewde so depraved;

71 mulys mules

2 iwis truly;

14 ryghtwysnesse righteousness;

27 deprave defame;

35 dryslynge drizzling;

44 modye angry;

55 hyre reward

1 To luve unluvit to love unloved;

2 scho she;

3 he high, haughty;

6 quhen when; may maiden;

8 plet pleated, clasped;

11 quhair where;

12 trymly trimly, smartly;

14 leif live;

16 Quhattane how like; glaikit foolish;

18 sen since;

22 gais goes;

24 diseis trouble

3 holly holy;

8 selfe did spill wasted his time;

9 Bellibone girl;

15 saye good cloth;

23 wood mad;

43 gryde pierced;

1 wod wood;

2 Ourhailit overcome;

7 ingenrit engendered, born; se sea;

8 lichter nor lighter than; dauphin dolphin;

10 teils tills; sawis sows;

14 be by

1 schaid away separated;

6 vively vividly;

7 nor than;

11 sine then;

15 clarks choristers;

16 mure moor; stryp small stream;

17 bais’d fearful;

19 hy hie, hurry; maist and least the largest and the smallest;

21 fra when;

23 saits lairs; covars hiding places;

25 poleist polished;

27 while until;

29 astres stars;

31 offusked obscured;

33 incontinent at once;

37 boulden swollen;

38 shein bright;

39 kindelie natural;

41 braids rises;

43 tymous early;

44 buith booth;

47 camow snub;

48 rowtting kie lowing cows;

53 mottie rayons dusty beams;

54 rifts chinks; wonne entered;

55 glansing thains shimmering vanes; vitre window-glass;

56 resplends shines;

57 crops heads;

61 rocke steam;

62 skails disperses;

63 begaried ornamented; pend vault;

66 spraings streaks;

75 saife except;

76 peeping piping;

77 simples herbs;

79 nor than if;

81 purpour se purple sea;

82 smuther nor smoother than;

83 wals waves; woltring weltering;

85 cessile yielding;

89 callor cool;

90 rin run;

93 superfice surface;

95 but without;

97 flurishes blossoms;

101 clogged burdened; bumming humming;

102 drowne drone;

105 post courier;

110 trained drawn; chyre chariot;

111 on one (God);

112 quhilk who; impire rule absolutely

4 remead help;

14 ‘who will play the war-tunes’;

15 play-meir play more;

17 speir ask;

19 neast nearest;

22 weid mad, feverish;

23 arrest stop;

26 graithed kitted-out;

28 bead ring of folk;

29 weir-men warriors;

31 clark-plays (acted by clerics);

33 bikes hives; gart it bum made it drone;

40 skirl and skreed shriek and screech;

43 a weil’d wight-man a chosen brave man;

45 gree prize;

50 placks coins;

59 but without;

62 stots hops;

64 bure the fead put up with the fiend;

65 wan got; leugh laughed;

71 gear wealth;

73 gaitlings gedder’d urchins gathered;

74 carl bledder’d old man boasted;

76 weid outfit;

80 spring dance-tune; skair share;

82 but without

1 This whole line is taken from Sir John Denham. (Dryden’s note)

9 dorty haughty;

12 bleeze blaze;

21 o’er thrang overcrowded;

22 twin’d of parted from

1 Muisted perfumed with musk;

5 Landart rustic;

7 takes the fling strings goes into a sulk;

11 Coof fool;

13 ’maist almost;

16 Clink his Shoon stud his shoes

9 braid long;

29 laith loath;

32 aboone above;

41 haf owre half over

20 dule ye drie sorrow you suffer

13 rede advice;

26 kye cattle;

29 billie brother;

32 fadge dumpy person;

59 holland linen;

67 yae tift every puff;

75 cleading clothing;

76 skinkled sparkled;

80 bedone ornamented;

96 wame womb;

104 wood-wroth mad;

114 quiere choir;

115 birk birch;

117 threw intertwined

1 dowie dismal;

2 rigs ridges;

11 dwyning declining;

19 Auld Reikie Edinburgh; canty merry;

20 bield haven; caldrife cold;

22 couth sociable;

23 bicker cup;

26 scantlins scarcely;

28 gusty gear tasty liquor;

29 kickshaws novelties;

30 Fairn-year yesteryear;

31 browster brewer; busk dress; bra handsomely;

33 tither blaw next draught;

34 reaming foaming;

44 roset put rosin on;

63 fou drunk; capernoity quarrelsome

2 weird fate;

3 cantrup’s magic’s; kittle unreliable;

4 speir ask;

5 lippen for expect;

6 dowy dismal;

8 canker’d stormy;

9 gevzen’d dry;

10 couthy kindly; blaws draughts [of drink];

12 eild old age; thraldom servitude;

13 gash grim;

14 strae straw

1. The Guelder-rose.

1 sleeket glossy;

4 bickering brattle scurrying haste;

5 laith loath;

6 pattle spade;

13 whyles at times;

15 daimen-icker odd ear of corn; thrave two stooks;

17 lave remainder;

21 big build;

22 foggage grass;

24 snell bitter;

34 But without; hald refuge;

35 thole endure;

36 cranreuch frost;

37 no thy-lane not alone;

40 agley away

5 dight cleaned from chaff;

8 daffin merriment

5 weel-gaun well-going;

7 happer hopper;

8 clap clapper;

11 douce steady;

12 glaikit inattentive;

15 donsie unlucky;

18 niffer exchange;

23 lave rest;

32 unco strange;

48 aiblins perhaps;

51 a kennin a little

1 chapman billies pedlars;

2 drouthy thirsty;

4 gate road;

5 nappy ale;

6 fou drunk;

8 slaps gaps in walls;

19 skellum good-for-nothing;

20 blellum windbag;

23 melder meal-grinding;

24 siller silver;

25 naig horse; ca’d driven;

33 gars me greet makes me weep;

38 unco uncommonly;

39 bleezing talking loudly;

40 reaming swats foaming ale;

41 Souter cobbler;

51 rair roar;

55 lades loads;

78 Deil devil;

81 skelpit hurried; dub puddle;

85 glowring staring;

88 houlets owls;

90 smoor’d smothered;

91 birks birches; meikle stane great stone;

95 aboon above;

102 bleeze blaze;

103 bore chink;

107 tippeny twopenny ale;

109 swats ale; ream’d foamed;

110 boddle farthing;

116 cotillion dance; brent brand;

119 winnock-bunker window-seat;

121 towzie tousled; tyke dog;

123 gart made; skirl shriek;

124 dirl ring;

127 cantraip weird; slight trick;

134 gab mouth;

147 cleekit joined hands;

148 carlin old woman; swat and reekit sweated and steamed;

149 coost cast off; duddies rags;

150 linket tripped nimbly; sark shift;

151 queans girls;

153 creeshie greasy;

155 thir these;

157 hurdies buttocks;

160 rigwoodie scrawny; spean wean;

161 lowping leaping; crummock staff;

163 fu’ brawlie very well;

164 wawlie buxom;

165 core company;

166 kend known;

169 bear barley;

171 cutty sark short smock; harn cloth;

176 coft bought;

179 cour stoop;

181 lap leaped;

185 fidg’d wriggled; fain fond;

186 hotch’d hitched himself;

187 syne then;

188 tint lost;

193 fyke fuss;

194 herds shepherds; byke hive;

195 open bay; pussie’s the hare’s;

201 fairin punishment;

206 brig bridge;

210 fient a devil-a;

213 ettle purpose;

215 hale whole;

217 carlin old woman

1. [lines first published in 1817]

3 plaidie plaid; airt point of the compass;

7 bield shelter

34 tipt you off blue-boram given you syphilis;

38 esse Mater to be a mother

1. [Coleridge’s note.]

7 carline wife old woman;

14 fashes troubles;

20 birk birch;

21 syke trench;

22 sheugh furrow;

42 channerin’ grumbling

2 ferlie marvel;

7 ilka tett each lock;

17 Harp and carp play and sing;

22 daunton intimidate;

46 lily leven fair plain;

71 dought to could

3 fleet house-room;

7 Whinny-muir furze-moor;

15 whinnes thorns;

19 Brig bridge

2 corbies ravens; making a mane talking together;

5 fail turf;

13 hause-bane collar-bone;

16 theek thatch;

17 makes mane laments

21 nourice nurse; limmer wretch;

46 gaire garment;

51 bore hole;

91 dowie melancholy;

96 lamer amber;

103 grat cried;

105 mavis thrush

17 correi lee hillside;

18 cumber trouble

2 gars makes;

6 droun drown

1. He was not a Crustacean. He has since discovered that he was an Arachnid, or something similar. But he says it does not matter. He says they told him wrong once, and they may again. (Kendall’s note)

TITLE ’Mergency man Tax-collector

1 Ae weet forenicht one wet dusk; yow-trummle ewe-tremble (cold spell in July);

2 antrin rare;

3 watergaw broken rainbow; chitterin’ shivering;

4 ‘beyond the downpour’;

7 reek quarrel; laverock’s hoose lark’s house;

10 sin’ syne since then

1 how-dumb-deid deep dead quiet; hairst harvest;

2 warl’ world; eemis stane unsteady stone;

3 i’ the lift in the sky;

5 yowdendrift ground blizzard;

8 fug moss;

9 hazelraw lichen;

10 yirdit buried

1 ayont the cairney beyond the little cairn;

2 tousie unkempt;

5 wunds winds;

8 ta’en up wi’t taken up with it

2 blinterin’ glimmering;

3 dreids suspects;

4 ken know;

5 gudeman husband;

11 deed or died before;

16 ‘S hed has had

1 luely softly;

3 caller cool;

6 ‘nor parted bone from bone’;

9 waukrife wakeful;

11 smool’d saftly slipped away

2 aa mowdert and agley all mouldering and askew;

4 wycelike sensible; bienlie pleasant;

6 taiglie entangling;

7 weill-harnit well-educated; blate and fey shy and fated;

8 new-cleckit newly-hatched; dominie schoolmaster;

9 tellt told;

11 mind of him remember him; kyte paunch;

14 gin they arena if they aren’t