And he has paid the rescue shot,
Baith wi' goud and white monie;
And at the burial o' Willie Scott,195
[I wat was mony a weeping ee.]
[6-8]. Hardhaughswire is the pass from Liddesdale to the head of Teviotdale. Borthwick water is a stream which falls into the Teviot three miles above Hawick.—S.
[11]. The Dodhead, in Selkirkshire, near Singlee, where there are still the vestiges of an old tower.—S.
[28]. Stobs Hall, upon Slitterick, the seat of Sir William, of that clan. Jamie Telfer made his first application here, because he seems to have paid the proprietor of the castle black-mail, or protection money.—S.
[37]. The ancient family-seat of the Lairds of Buccleuch, near Hawick.—S.
[45-48]. See Young Beichan, vol. iv. p. 3.
[51]. The Coultart Cleugh is nearly opposite to Carlinrig, on the road between Hawick and Mosspaul.—S.
[97]. The water, in the mountainous districts of Scotland, is often used to express the banks of the river, which are the only inhabitable parts of the country. To raise the water, therefore, was to alarm those who lived along its side.—S.
[101]. The estates, mentioned in this verse, belonged to families of the name of Scott, residing upon the waters of Borthwick and Teviot, near the castle of their chief.—S.