Saying, ‘Monie a pretty ladie in Edinbruch I’ve seen;
But sic ’na pretty ladie is not into it a’:
Gae, mak for her a fine down-bed, and lay her at the wa’.’
8.
‘O haud awa’ frae me, kind sir, I pray ye lat me be,
For I’ll na lie in your bed till I get dishes three;
Dishes three maun be dress’d for me, gif I should eat them a’,
Before I lie in your bed, at either stock or wa’.
9.
9.3 ‘gaw,’ gall. It is an ancient superstition that the dove or pigeon has no gall, the fact being that the gall-bladder is absent. See Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica, iii. 3.