EPITAPHS.

EPITAPH ON A WAG,

IN MAUCHLINE.

LAMENT him, Mauchline husbands a',
He aften did assist ye;

For had ye stay'd whole weeks awa,
Your wives they ne'er had miss'd ye.
Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye pass
To school in bands thegither,
O, tread ye lightly on his grass,
Perhaps he was your father.

EPITAPH ON J-N B-Y,

WRITER IN DUMFRIES.

HERE lies J-n B. -y, honest man!
Cheat him, Devil, if you can.

EPITAPH ON JOHN DOVE,

INNKEEPER, MAUCHLINE.

HERE lies Johnny Pidgeon;

What was his religion?

Whae'er desires to ken,
To some other warl'
Maun follow the carl,

For here Johnny Pidgeon had nane.

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Strong ale was ablution,
Small beer persecution,

A dram was memento mori!
But a full flowing bowl
Was the saving his soul,
And port was celestial glory.

EPITAPH ON WALTER S

SIC a reptile was Wat,
Sic a miscreant slave,

That the worms ev'n dd him
When laid in his grave.

In his flesh there's a famine,'

A starv'd reptile cries;

• An' his heart is rank poison,'
Another replies.

GLOSSARY.

THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a dipththong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish dipththong ae, always, and ea, very often sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish dipthhong ey, sounds like the Latin ei.

Ae, one.

Aff, off; Affloof, unpremedi- Asklent, asquint, aslant.

Bainie, having large bones, Birken-shaw, Birchen-wood

Bairntime, a family of chil- Birring, the noise of partridges,

Bicker, a kind of wooden dish, Bluid, blood.

Bock, to vomit, to gush inter- Breeks, breeches.

mittently.

Bocked, gushed, vomited.
Bodle, a small gold coin.
Bogles, spirits, hobgoblins.
Bonnie, or bonny, handsome,
beautiful.

Bonnock, a kind of thick cake
of bread, a small jannack,
or loaf made of oatmeal.
Boord, a board.
Boortree, the shrub elder;
planted much of old in
hedges of barn-yards, &c.
Boost, behoved, must needs.
Bore, a hole in the wall.
Botch, an angry tumour.
Bouk, vomiting, gushing out.
Bousing, drinking.
Bow-kail, cabbage.
Bowt, bended, crooked.
Brachens, fern.

Brae, a declivity, a precipice,
the slope of a hill.
Braid, broad.
Bragin't, reel'd forward.
Braik, a kind of harrow.
Brainge, to run rashly forward.
Brak, broke, made insolvent.
Branks, a kind of wooden curb
for horses.

Brash, a sudden illness.
Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
Brattle, a short race, hurry,
fury.

Braw, fine, handsome.

Brent, smooth.
Brewin, brewing.
Brie, juice, liquid.
Brig, a bridge.

Brunstane, brimstone.
Brisket, the breast, the bosom.
Brither, a brother.
Brock, a badger.
Brogue, a hum, a trick.
Broo, broth, liquid, water.
Broose, broth; a race at coun-
try weddings, who shall first
reach the bridegroom's house
on returning from church.
Brugh, a burgh.
Bruilzie, a broil, a combustion.
Brunt, did burn, burnt.
Brust, burst.

Buchan-bullers, the boiling of
the sea among the rocks on
the coast of Buchan.
Buckskin, an inhabitant of Vir-
ginia.
Bught, a pen.

Bughtin-time, the time of col-
lecting the sheep in the pens
to be milked.

Buirdly, stout-made, broadmade.

Bum-clock, a humming beetle
that flies in the summer
evenings.

Bumming, humming as bees.
Bummle, to blunder.
Bummler, a blunderer.

Brawlyt, or brawlie, very well, Bunker, a window-seat.

finely, heartily.

Braxie, a morbid sheep.

Breastie, diminutive of breast. Breastit, did spring up or forward.

Breckan, fern.

Burdies, diminutive of birds.
Bure, did bare.

Burn, water, a rivulet.
Burnewin, i. e. burn the wind,
a blacksmith.

Burnie, dimin. of burn.

Breef, an invulnerable or irre-Bushie, bushy.

sistible spell.

Buskit, dressed.