FOOTNOTES:
[1221] laigh = low.
[1222] peel = stronghold, keep.
[1223] rowing = rolling.
[1224] gryming = sprinkling.
[1225] fraye = fright, alarm.
[1226] ca’s = calves.
[1227] minnie = mother.
[1228] warn the water = raise the cry along the waterside.
[1229] outspeckle = laughing-stock.
[1230] layne = lie, falsen.
[1231] ware, &c. = spend, use my mother’s calf-skin whip.
[1232] toom = empty.
[1233] till ’t = to it.
[1234] knapscap = headpiece.
[1235] grat = wept.
[1236] lyart = grizzled.
[1237] lourd = liefer, rather.
[1238] wudspurs = hotspur, or madspur.