5 slap 6 blazing 7 pit 8 slow 9 bashful 10 timid 11 sometimes 12 unroofing 13 lonely "The humorous satire of the piece is at the expense of popular Scottish Calvinism."-J L. Robertson. † "Spairges is the best Scots word in its place I ever met with. The deil is not standing flinging the liquid brimstone on his friends with a ladle, but we see him standing at a large boiling vat, with something like a golfbat, striking the liquid this way and that way aslant, with all his might, making it fly through the whole apartment, while the inmates are winking and holding up their arms to defend their faces." (James Hogg.) interpretation admirably fits the word spairges (Latin, spargere, to sprinkle; English, asperge, asperse); if it is correct, the word cootie, which properly means a wooden kitchen dish of any size from a ladle to a small tub, is used rather boldly for the contents of the cootie. This 9 Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight TAM O' SHANTER A TALE "Of Brownyis and of Bogillis full is this Buke." -GAWIN DOUGLAS. When chapman1 billies2 leave the street, This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, O Tam! had 'st thou but been sae wise, As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice! 5 10 15 She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,10 Ae market-day thou was na sober; Doon, Or catch'd wi' warlocks15 in the mirk,16 By Alloway's auld, haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,17 To think how mony counsels sweet, 1 pedlar 2 fellows 3 thirsty + drinking 5 ale 6 full 7 very 8 gates 3 barren 4 compass-card 9 found 10 rascal 11 idly-talking 12 babbler 25 in 30 13 every grinding of corn 14 driven 15 wizards 16 dark 17 make me weep |