But we’ll keep our lady at hame.’
15.
15.4 ‘gains for,’ suits, is meet (Icelandic, gegna). Cf. Jamieson’s version of Sir Patrick Spence:—
‘For I brought as much white money
As will gain my men and me.’
‘There’s thirty marys i’ my bow’r,
There’s thirty o’ them an’ three;
But there ’s nae ane amo’ them a’
Kens what flow’r gains for me.’
16.
She’s doen her to her bigly bow’r
As fast as she could gang,