[335] without.
[336] own.
[337] dream.
[338] deceive.
[339] entice.
[340] to make stout and strong.
[341] describe.
[342] Perhaps the ill-natured rhetorician mentioned by Virgil, Eclogues, v. and vii.
[343] belly.
[344] The hero of the romance of which this forms the most important episode, was an actual contemporary of Lyndsay, some of whose romantic adventures are referred to by Pitscottie in his History, p. 129. Upon the conclusion of his youthful adventures Meldrum settled in Kinross, where he owned the estate of Cleish and Binns; and being appointed deputy of Patrick, Lord Lyndsay, Sheriff of Fife, is said to have administered physic as well as law to his neighbours.