THE LAILY WORM AND THE MACHREL OF THE SEA
1.
‘I was but seven year auld
When my mither she did die;
My father married the ae warst woman
The warld did ever see.
2.
2.1 etc. ‘laily’ = laidly, loathly.
‘For she has made me the laily worm,
That lies at the fit o’ the tree,