[10] A feeble ill-grown person.
[11] Unwilling.
[12] Shaking.
[13] Stretching.
[14] Chambers' Scottish Biographical Dictionary.
[15] Of a dark complexion.
[16] Neat.
[17] Exchange.
[18] "According to Mr. Tytler, this supposition is founded in error; and the estate of New Hall in the parish of Pennycuik, was to a certainty the legitimate parent of the pastoral. This fact has been since farther confirmed, in a dissertation[19] from the elegant pen of Sir David Rae, Lord Justice-Clerk; a descendant of Sir David Forbes, proprietor of New Hall, and contemporary of Ramsay. Even without such respectable evidence, however, we would inevitably be led to the same conclusion, by the poet's well known acquaintance with the natural beauties of the landscape at New Hall, where he was a constant and welcome visitor; and because within the boundaries of that fine estate, there is actually to be found all the peculiar scenery, so graphically and beautifully described in the drama."
(Gentle Shepherd, edition of 1828.)
[19] Sir John Sinclair's Statistical account of Scotland; Vol. XVII., appendix.