20.

20.3 ‘happit,’ wrapped.

She has gaen an’ made their bed,

An’ she’s made it saft an’ fine,

An’ she’s happit them wi’ her gay mantel,

Because they were her ain.

21.

21.1 ‘Linkem,’ perhaps a stock ballad-locality, like ‘Lin,’ etc. See First Series, Introduction, p. 1.

O the young cock crew i’ the merry Linkem,

An’ the wild fowl chirp’d for day;