‘O I was clecked in good green wood,
Intill a holly tree;
A gentleman my nest herryed
An’ ga’ me to his lady.
8.
8.1 ‘A Farrow Cow is a Cow that gives Milk in the second year after her Calving, having no Calf that year.’—Holme’s Armoury, 1688.
’Wi’ good white bread an’ farrow-cow milk
He bade her feed me aft,
An’ ga’ her a little wee simmer-dale wanny,
To ding me sindle and saft.