They might have crack’d the Border-side.
5.
5.2 ‘bully,’ = billie, brother. See page 75.
Thy son is bad, and is but a lad,
And bully to my son cannot be;
For my son Bewick can both write and read,
And sure I am that cannot he.’
6.
‘I put him to school, but he would not learn,
I bought him books but he would not read;