_In till a playn set tentis and palyon,_
_South_ hald _Fawkyrk._--V. 89.
I have hesitated whether this be not an erratum for _half_ or _halff_,
frequently used by our old writers in the sense of quarter; but have
retained the term as in MS. Edit. 1594 has,--
South _the_ Faukirk, &c.
If _hald_ be the original term, it may lead us to the sense of the
common termination in vulgar language, as in _Southilt_, _Wessilt_.
V. EASSILT, Etym. Dict. Thus it might be resolved, “_Hald_,” or hold,
“to the south of Falkirk.” Isl. _halld-a_ signifies, viam dirigere;
Haldorsoni Lex.
_The lauch way till_ Enrawyn _thai ryd._--V. 622.
_Innerauyn_, Edit. 1594; _Inneravin_, Edit. 1648. More properly
_Inveravon_, a village near the mouth of the river Avon in
Stirlingshire, a little to the south of Kinneil. V. Nimmo’s Map of
Stirlingshire. The rhyme requires that this should be pronounced as a
word of four syllables.
_For weill thai wyst, that it was_ Jhon off Lyn,
_Scottis to slay, he said, it was no syn._--V. 803.
It is not improbable that there might be, in that age, some dreaded
English pirate, denominated perhaps from _Lynne_ in Norfolk, especially
as it is said that his ship was not seen by Wallace and his companions
till they were opposite to the mouth of the Humber. But I have not met
with any historical traces of him.
_The_ Roman [bukis] _that than was in Scotland,_
_He gart be brocht to_ scham, _quhar thai thaim fand;_
_And, but radem, thai brynt thaim thar ilkan;_
Salysbery oyss _our clerkis than has tane._--V. 1003.
The Roman _buikes_ that then war in Scotland,
He gart thame beir to _cume_ quhar thai thaim fand, &c.--Edit. 1594.
The Roman _bookes_, &c.
Hee gart them beare to _Scone_ where they them fand.--Edit. 1620.
Although the essential term, _bukis_, has been omitted by Ramsay, the
MS. alone makes sense of the passage. Hart’s emendation is equal in
absurdity with the reading of Edit. 1594. By the _Salysbery oyss_, I
need scarcely say, those missals are meant which were formed _secundum
usum Sarisburiensem_. This agrees with the account given by Bellenden.
“He brint all the Cronikles of Scotland, with all maner of bukis als
weill of deuyne seruyce as of othir materis; to that fyne that the
memorye of Scottis suld peris. He gart the Scottis wryte bukis efter
_the vse of Sarum_, and constranit thaym to say efter that _vse_.”
Cronikle, Fol. CCIX, a. Libros sacros _Anglico ritu_ conscribi jussit.
Boeth.
_Schir Jhon Ramsay and Rowan than fled north,_
_To thair cusyng that lord was off Fyllorth._
_Quhilk past with thaim throw Murray landis rycht;_
_So fand thai thar a gentill worthi knycht_
_At_ Climace _hecht, full cruell ay had beyn,_
_And fayndyt weill amang his enemys keyn._--V. 1021.
_The knycht_ Climés _off Ross com sodeynly_
_In Murray land with thair gud chewalry._--B. XI. v. 743.
It appears that this knight belonged to the county of Ross; and it has
been conjectured that he was a son or brother of the Earl of Ross, who
was at this time a prisoner in England. V. Notes to Perth Edit. p. 25,
26. In Edit. 1594 and 1620, it is in both places _Clement_.