“Dundas of Galaway.”
v. 29. vol. i. 193.
See too v. 109 of the present poem. Our author uses Scottish names at random.
Page 184. v. 62. sence] i. e. cense.
v. 63. Saint Ionis towne] i. e. Perth. Compare Langtoft’s Chronicle, p. 333. ed. Hearne; Minot’s Poems, p. 6. ed. Ritson; and Barbour’s Bruce, B. ii. v. 53. ed. Jam. It is said that the Picts, after their conversion to Christianity, or the Scots, after their king had succeeded to the Pictish throne, consecrated the church and bridge of Perth to St. John the Baptist; and that hence in process of time many persons gave to the town the name of St. Johnston: see Jamieson’s note on the passage last referred to.
v. 72. tragedy] See note, p. 194. v. 155.
v. 79. enbybe] i. e. wet.
v. 83. Irysh keteringes]—Irysh, i. e. Highlanders and Islesmen:
“Than gert he all the Irschery
That war in till his cumpany,