The Highlanders called the battle of Culloden, Drumossie.
Poem 126.
lilting: singing blithely; loaning: broad lane; bughts: pens; scorning: rallying; dowie: dreary; daffin' and gabbin': joking and chatting; leglin: milkpail; shearing: reaping; bandsters: sheaf-binders; lyart: grizzled; runkled: wrinkled; fleeching: coaxing; gloaming: twilight; bogle: ghost; dool: sorrow.
Poem 128.
The Editor has found no authoritative text of this poem, in his judgment superior to any other of its class in melody and pathos. Part is probably not later than the seventeenth century: in other stanzas a more modern hand, much resembling Scott's, is traceable. Logan's poem (127) exhibits a knowledge rather of the old legend than of the old verses.
Hecht: promised, the obsolete hight; mavis: thrush; ilka: every; lav'rock: lark; haughs: valley-meadows; twined: parted from; marrow: mate; syne then.
Poem 129.
The Royal George, of 108 guns, whilst undergoing a partial careening in Portsmouth Harbour, was overset about 10 A.M. Aug. 29, 1782. The total loss was believed to be near 1000 souls.
Poem 131.
A little masterpiece in a very difficult style: Catullus himself could hardly have bettered it. In grace, tenderness, simplicity, and humour it is worthy of the Ancients; and even more so, from the completeness and unity of the picture presented.