7.
7.1 ‘birl’d,’ plied: cf. 1.2.
7.4 Cf. Fause Footrage 16.4: a popular simile.
7.5 ‘stown,’ stolen: ‘yates,’ gates.
O she has birl’d her father’s porter
Wi’ strong beer an’ wi’ wine,
Untill he was as beastly drunk
As ony wild-wood swine:
She’s stown the keys o’ her father’s yates
An latten her true-love in.