Dunbar’s Poems, ii. 38. ed. Laing.
Page 297. v. 2210. holde] i. e. holden, held.
v. 2211. rede] i. e. advice.
v. 2214. wrynge thy be in a brake] Some cant expression: brake, see note, p. 168. v. 324, and note on Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 980.
v. 2215. dawe] i. e. simpleton: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 2216. fawchyn] i. e. cut.
v. 2217. cauell] “Kevil, Kephyl, A horse, contemptuously applied to a person, ‘thou girt kevil.’” The Dialect of Craven, &c. Compare Lydgate’s verses, entitled in the Catalogue, Advices for people to keep a guard over their tongues;
“I saugh a kevell corpulent of stature,
Lyk a materas redlyd was his coote,” &c.
MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 132.