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NOTES TO ADEW, LUVARIS, ADEW (6-36).
XVII.—ADEW, LUVARIS, ADEW.
[B. MS.; Laing; H.C.T.; Glasg. Ed.; Mackean.]
6. Moirfremit=xnore estranged, more hapless.
11. Merciles=xzctWmg no pity.
15. Indure=\a.st, hold out.
20. For, be \e, &c. = For by thy influence serious love first grew
within me.
26. Aneblekofhirbutdout'waldmak77iehaill. Cf. Montgomerie—
‘' I suld not seme for shame to shrink,
For hir, of death to drink,
Quhais angels ees micht ay, I think.
Revive me with a wink.”
—‘Misc. Poems,’ xxviii. 11. 61-64.
And the lines of one of the stanzas added by John Hamilton to Burns’s
song, “ Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw ”—
“ Ae blink o’ her wad banish care,
Sae lovely is my Jean.”
29-36. Addew, addew, 7ny dule and my delyte, &c. Cf. Wyatt—
“ Haue here my troth : Nought shall releue,
But death alone, my wretched strife;
Therfore farewell, my life, my death;
My gayn, my losse ; my salue, my sore;
Farewell also with you my breath,
For I am gone for euermore.”
—Tottel’s ‘ Misc.,’ p. 52 ; ed. Arber.
and the final stanza of a poem by Steill in the Bannatyne MS.
(fol. 235a)—
“ Sen thou art scho pat hes my hairt in cure,
My howp, my heill, my weill and eik my wo,
Lat me not suerf, 30r humill scheruiture,
For, but remeid, my hairt will brist in two.
Now, lady fair, my freind and eik my fo,
Quhom on, but dowt, all vertew dois depend,
My hairt & mynd, quhair evir I ryd or go,
Vnto pi mercy meikly I me comend.”