[1476] although.
[1477] slake.
[1478] drought.
[1479] Than fight with ten at once.
[1480] practice.
[1481] liefer, rather.
[1482] “This lovely poem is one of the happiest efforts of Montgomerie’s muse, and shows his lyric genius at its best. It is perhaps the oldest set of words extant to the air ‘Hey tuttie, taittie’—the war-note sounded for the Bruce on the field of Bannockburn, and familiarized to everyone by Burns’ ‘Scots wha hae.’ The song was one of those chosen for adaptation by the Wedderburns in their ‘Compendious Buik of godly and spirituall Sangis.’”—(Cranstoun, Notes, p. 371.)
[1483] dawns.
[1484] the coverts attire themselves.
[1485] throstle-cock.