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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLOSSARY AND NOTES. Line Page 1. 11. Lawty. French, loyaute?honesty, fidelity. Page 2. 7. Cune spilt?the coinage defaced. 29. MM? meddle. PageS. 8. A sched but substance?a shadow without substance. 16. To swelly?to swallow. 31. Brawdir?embroidery?Begary?stripes of cloth sewed on as ornaments. The General Assembly, 1575, in regulating the dress of Ministers, say: " We think all kind of broidering unseemly, all begairies of velvet in gown, hose, or coat"?Calderwood's Hist. p. 823. In Vol. III. of the New Edition of the Scots Acts of Parl. p. 221. (1581. Cap. 18.) Anentthe excefle of coiftlie cleithing, andc. "It is ftatute and ordanit, That nane of his hines fubjectis, man nor woman, being under the degreis of duikis, erlis, lordis of parliament, knictis, or landit gentilmen, andc. andc. fal ufe or weir in thair cleithing or apparrell, or lyning thairof, any claith of gold or filver, welvet, fatyne, damas, Taffateis, or any begareis, freinjeis, pafinents, or broderie of gold," andc. Line Page 4. 1. Lucive?a kind of fur, supposed to be that of the otter. 2. Begaine?covered. ? Growme?a paramour or lover, usually masculine. 4. Slamb over uffaird?besmeared with pomatum or paint. 24, 25. I kend weill Kilbuk and Ding-dew, Bot I preift ma ill to haif TraM.trew; These names probably refer to some of the courtiers of King James; and they may at the same time have been the names of some of his favourite hounds. It would appear from the following extract that he had a hound called Tell-true:?" The King is become very ill; I will say " no worse. For, being at the hunting, when he came home, he drank to " all his dogs. Among the rest, he had one called Tell-true, to whom he " spake thir words:?' Tell-true, I drink to thee above all the rest of my " ' ...