chaste-eyed Queen: Diana.

Poem 142.

Attic warbler: the nightingale.

Poem 144.

sleekit: sleek; bickering brattle: flittering flight; laith: loth; pattle: ploughstaff; whyles: at times; a daimen icker: a corn-ear now and then; thrave: shock; lave: rest; foggage: aftergrass; snell: biting; but hald: without dwelling-place; thole: bear; cranreuch: hoarfrost; thy lane: alone; a-gley: off the right line, awry.

Poem 147.

Perhaps the noblest stanzas in our language.

Poem 148.

stoure: dust-storm; braw: smart.

Poem 149.