‘But what I saw with my eye.
12.
12.2 ‘scroggs,’ underwood.
12.3 ‘well-wight,’ stalwart.
‘High up i’ Bradyslee, low down i’ Bradyslee,
And under a buss of scroggs,
O there I spied a well-wight man
Sleeping among his dogs.
13.
13.3 ‘American leather.’ A patent for making morocco from American horsehides was granted c. 1799, but the date of this text is twenty years earlier than that date.