Philotvs, sig. B. ed. 1612.
“Greit God defend I suld be one of tho
Quhilk of thair feid and malice neuer ho.”
G. Douglas’s Palice of Honour, p. 30. Bann. ed.
Page 267. v. 1314. scrat] i. e. scratch.
v. 1315. So how] i. e. So ho.
v. 1317. gadde] Does it mean—gadding?
v. 1318. brayne seke] i. e. brain-sick.
v. 1319. to shyre shakynge nought] i. e. to sheer nothing. So in our author’s Elynour Rummyng, (v. 466. vol. i. 110), that lady pronounces a couple of stunted goslings to be “shyre shakyng nought,” i. e. sheer worthless.