v. 258. slaty or slyder] i. e. miry or slippery.
Page 104. v. 266. renne] i. e. run.
v. 269. byrle] The word birl—to pour out, furnish for, or part drink among guests—(see Jamieson’s Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang. in v., and Leyden’s Gloss. to The Comp. of Scotland in v. Beir)—is not very common in English literature: “the olde God of wyne called Baccus birlyng the wyne.” Hall’s Chronicle, (Hen. viii.) fol. lxxiii. ed. 1548.
v. 270. gest] i. e. guest.
v. 271. She swered by the rode of rest]—rode, i. e. rood,—cross: see note on Ware the Hauke, v. 69.
“That is hardly saide, man, by the roode of rest.”
Barclay’s First Egloge, sig. A iii. ed. 1570.
v. 280. haruest gyrdle] i. e. perhaps, a girdle worn at the feast after the gathering in of the corn.
v. 286. To offer to the ale tap] So in Jak Hare, a poem attributed to Lydgate;
“And with his wynnynges he makith his offrynge