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146 NOTES TO RYCHT AS THE GLASS, ETC. (6-20).
6. Sfound?,—shoots, thrills.
10. ^2adamant. Ross (‘The Book of Scottish Poems,’
vol. i. p. 314) thinks that “amethyst” is meant; but this cannot be, as
“athamant” is wanted for the rhyme.
12. Barrat=)a.og\mg, rattling. O.F. barat, contention.
15, 16. Espy richt so, &c. Similar comparisons are frequently to
be met with in the love-songs of poets ; but the two instances which
follow are especially interesting as being by English contemporaries
of Scott. The first is by an uncertain author—presumably Heywood
—who says of his lady—
“ Truely she dothe as farre exceede
Our women now adayes,
As dothe the Jelifloure a wede,
And more a thousande wayes.”
—Tottel’s ‘ Miscellany,’ p. 164; ed. Arber.
The second is by Howard, Earl of Surrey—
“ Geue place, ye loners, here before
That spent your bostes and bragges in vaine:
My Ladies beawtie passeth more
The best of yours, I dare well sayen,
Than doth the sonne the candle light,
Or brightest day the darkest night.”
—‘A Praise of his Love,’ ibid., p. 20.
15. Gowlis = marigolds. Other terms axe goal, guild, guilds—
“ I would her lyken to a crowne of lillies
Upon a virgin brydes adorned head,
With Roses dight and Goolds and Daffadillies.”
—Spenser, ‘ Colin Clout's come Home againe,’
11. 337-339 ! Globe ed., p. 552.
18. The nichtis hiemaill — the winter nights. Hiemaill, Lat. hiemalis,
wintry, of winter.
20. Taikles boitis=boats without tackle or sailing gear.
XV.—VP, HELSUM HAIRT.
[B. MS.; Laing; H.C.T.; Glasg. Ed.; ‘The British Bibliographer,’
vol. iv. p. 189.]
The following anonymous effusion is a very close imitation of
Scott’s poem ‘Vp, Helsum Hairt,’ and was first printed along with
it in an article by Henry Weber in ‘The British Bibliographer.’