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STUDIES IN LOWLAND SOOTS

haue ioy: for this thi bruther was deid, and leevit agane; he periset, and was fundin.

Notes to the Scots Version, Luke XV. 11-32.

16. Couatit, desired, longed for, coveted.
Wambe, belly, usual Sc. wime, rhyming with "time," Lat. umbo, the boss of a shield.
Coddis, husks. "Grain which has been too ripe before being cut, in the course of handling is said to cod out" (Jamieson). A pillow-cod or cod-ware is a pillow-slip.
22. Suythe, quickly, A.S. swith=strong, same as Go. swinths.
25. Croude, Purvey, "á symfonye and a croude." The instrument was a fiddle.