For it must seem their guilt."—ii. 2.
[48] "It is not likely that Burns had ever read Hero and Leander, but compare Tam o' Shanter—
'But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed,
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white—then melts for ever!'"
—Cunningham.
[49] In England's Parnassus the reading is "of men audacious."
[50] Wholly.
[51] Some eds. give "For as she was."