Footnote 202: The Sitting of the Session; the Rising of the Session.[Retour au Texte Principal.]
Footnote 203: The Election.[Retour au Texte Principal.]
Footnote 204: Hallowfair.[Retour au Texte Principal.]
Footnote 205: Hallowfair.[Retour au Texte Principal.]
Footnote 206: Voir les cinq premières strophes des Leith Races.[Retour au Texte Principal.]
Like as a ship, that through the Ocean wyde
Directs her course unto one certaine cost,
Is met of many a counter winde and tyde,
With which her winged speed is let and crost,
And she her selfe in stormie surges tost;
Yet, making many a borde and many a bay,
Still winneth way, ne hath her compasse lost:
Right so it fares with me in this long way,
Whose course is often stayed, yet never is astray.
The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Canto XXI, Stanza I.[Retour au Texte Principal.]
When gloamin' grey out-owre the welkin keeks;
When Batie ca's his owsen to the byre;
When Thrasher John, sair dung, his barn-door steeks,
An' lusty lasses at the dightin tire:
What bangs fu' leal the e'enin's coming cauld,
An' gars snaw-tappit Winter freeze in vain,
Gars dowie mortals look baith blithe an' bauld,
Nor fley'd wi' a' the poortith o' the plain;
Begin, my Muse! and chaunt in hamely strain.
The Farmer's Ingle, Stanza I.[Retour au Texte Principal.]
Footnote 209: The Farmer's Ingle.[Retour au Texte Principal.]