From Prison: to which his active support of Charles I. twice brought the high-spirited writer.
Poem 105.
Inserted in Book II. as written in the character of a Soldier of Fortune in the Seventeenth Century.
Poem 106.
Waly waly: an exclamation of sorrow, the root and the pronunciation of which are preserved in the word caterwaul. Brae: hillside; burn: brook; busk: adorn. Saint Anton's Well: at the foot of Arthur's Seat by Edinburgh. Cramasie: crimson.
Poem 107.
burd: maiden.
Poem 108.
corbies: crows; fail: turf; hause: neck; theek: thatch.
If not in their origin, in their present form this and the two preceding poems appear due to the Seventeenth Century, and have therefore been placed in Book II.