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NOTES TO gE BLINDIT LUVARIS, LUKE (13-58). I/I
13. Fowsum = gross, filthy.
“ Swa all his fousome forme therto effeirs,
The quhilk, for filth, I will not fyle Jour eirs.”
—Montgomerie, ‘ The Flyting,” 11. 573, 574.
15. Ane fiaslance vnfierfyte=2L'M\c\tz& or pastime. Pastance.
F r. passe-temps.
‘ ‘ Quhat gudlie pastance and quhat menstralie !
Quhat game they made! ”
—Douglas, ‘The Pal. of Hon.,’ vol. i. p. 17, 11. 14, 15.
“ Let him sit thair with ane mischance,
And let us go to our pastance.”
—Lyndsay, ‘Ane Satyre,’11. 1029, 1030.
16. To smyte ^ow w1 \e glaikis. Cf. Dunbar—
‘ ‘ He clappit fast, he kist, he chukkit,
As with the glaikkis he wer ourgane.”
—‘Ane Brash of Wowing,” 11. ix, 12.
25. abroad, in the world.
“ I lat you wit, thair is richt few thairout,
Quhome ye may traist to have trew lufe againe.”
—Henryson, ‘The Test, of Cresseid,’ 11. 563, 564.
31. ^y///=stained, sullied.
32. /rra'Z£/tf,= cheat, beguile. Lat. fraudare.
38. Syte=vro, ruin. Laing has syle.
40. Be farrow = before. Be forrow, a forrow, and to forrow are
used indifferently.
“ And thuss I wret, as Je haif hard to forrow,
Off lusty May vpone the nynt morrow.”
—Dunbar, ‘ The Thistle and the Rose,’ 11. 188, 189.
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“ In to my garth I past me to repose,
This bird and I, as we wer wount aforrow.”
—Lyndsay, ‘ The Papyngo,’ 11. 102, 103.
‘ ‘ All plesour that thou had afforrow
Sail cheangit be in lestyng sorrow.”
—Ibid., ‘ Ane Dialog,’ 11. 1053, 1054.
50. 6';;?arA/'= pained.
51. shout, roar. A.S. hreman.
“ Thay rame and cry fast on the Kyng Latyne.”
—Douglas, ‘Eneados’ vii., vol. iii. p. 122, 1. 6.
53. turned away, ended, spoiled.
55. caused it.
57, 58. 3*/ thair is lesum lufe
That lawfully suld lest.