[1263] trapan’d = tampered with.
[1264] fey = doomed, having my fate on me.
[1265] wire-window = grated window.
[1266] twin = part.
[1267] Sophia Hay = wife of Lord John [Gordon], burned in this fire. She had jilted the young lord of Tolquhon to marry him, which explains the allusion in the last stanza.
[146. The Death of Parcy Reed]
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God send the land deliverance
Frae every reaving, riding Scot;
We’ll sune hae neither cow nor ewe,
We’ll sune hae neither staig nor stot[1268].