III. My berne, scho sayis, hes of hir awin, Come ye to wow our Jynny, Jok? IV. Ane blanket, and ane wecht also, VII. I haif ane helter, and eik ane hek, Twa lusty lippis to lik ane laiddill, VIII. Ane schule, ane scheit, and ane lang Ane brechame, and twa brochis fyne, flail, Ane ark, ane almry, and laidills two, Ane milk-syth, with ane swyne taill, Ane rowsty quhittil to scheir the kaill, Ane quheill, ane mell the beir to knok,' Ane coig, ane caird wantand ane naill ; Come ye to wow our Jynny, Jok? V. Ane furme, ane furlet, ane pott, ane pek, Ane tub, ane barrow, with ane quheilband, Ane turs, ane troch, and ane meil-sek, Ane spurtill braid and ane elwand. Jok tuk Jynny be the hand, And cryd, ane feist; and slew ane cok, And maid a brydell up alland ;2 Weill buklit with a brydill renye, And yit for mister I will nocht fenye,5 XI. Ane trene truncheour, ane ramehorn spone, Ane maskene-fatt, ane fetterit lok, Now haif I gottin your Jynny, quoth Ane scheips weill keipit fra ill wedder, Jok. VI. Now, deme, I haif your bairne mareit ; I latt you wit scho is nocht miskareit, 1 A mallet to crush pot-barley. 2 Was married up the country. 3 An old horse that fell over a cliff. To gang to gidder, Jynny and Jok. And als the laverok is fust and loddin;1 Quhen ye haif done tak hame the brok,2 The rost wes tuche, sa wer thay bodin; Syne gaid to gidder bayth Jynny and Jok. GLOSSARY OF Chattels, Almry, cupboard; ark, corn or meal chest ; blasnit - ledder, probably basnit, tanned leather; brechame, a horse's collar; brochis, clasps; brydill-reyne, bridle rein; coig, a pail or trough; creill, basket; dulbaris, probably dishes with covers; elwand, an ellmeasure, or rod; fetterit-lok, fetter-lock; fidder, 128 hundred-weight; flaik, hurdle, furem, form or bench; furlet, a fourth of a boll measure; fute-braid sawing, corn sufficient to sow a foot breadth; graith, girth; gryce, pig; guss, goose; hek, raik; hobbil-schone, clouted shoes; hog, a sheep of two years old; jak, that piece of warlike dress called a doublet of fors, or defence; kaill, coleworts; kirn, churn; laid-saddill, load-saddle; maskene fatt, vessel to boil malt in for brewing; milksyth, milk strainer; nok, button of a spindle; pek, a sixteenth of a boll measure; polk, poke, bag; quhittill, knife; raip, rope; rok, distaff; sark, shirt; schule, shovel; spounge, probably spung, purse; spurtle, spattula for turning cakes; thraw-cruk, a crooked stick for twisting straw ropes; trene, spout; truncheour, trenchar, platter. THE WIFE OF AUCHTERMUCHTY. [THE earliest version of this poem, of which it is no exaggeration to say that it has been a universal favourite, has been preserved in the Bannatyne MS. It has also been transmitted by tradition, and consequently there are con I Meaning obscure : leveret (?). |