? Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.

• a, of.
• abien, aboun, above.
• aboyding, abiding.
• accompany, 308, keep the company of.
• ae, one.
• affected, enamored.
• all and sum, all and several, one and all.
• allangst, 182, along.
• ancyents, 63, ensigns.
• anent, over against.
• aneughe, enough.
• aras, arrows.
• arminge-sword, a two-handed sword.
• austerne, 99, austere.
• avowe, vow.
• awin, own.

• bade, abode.
• bald, bold.
• bale, sorrow;
• ballys bete, 42, better, amend, our evils.
• bandoun, command, orders.
• banket, banquet.
• barne, (A. Sax. beorn,) chief, man.
• basnites, bassonetts, helmets.
• battellis, 225, divisions of the army, or, the armies.
• be, by, at, by the time that.
• bearing arrow, 65, "an arrow that carries well:" Percy, who also suggests birring, i.e. whirring, whizzing.
• See Boucher's Glossary.
• bed, 224, 229, abode, remained.
• bedeen, 265, in numbers, one after another?
• beild, shelter;
• 224, position of safety.
• ben, in.
• bende-bow, bent bow.
• bended, 182, bounded?
• bent, coarse grass, ground on which this grass grows, field.
• berne (A. Sax. beorn), chief, man.
• ber, bare.
• beth, 98, is.
• be-west, to the west of.
• biggingis, buildings.
• bille, see sworne.
• billie, comrade.
• bla', blow.
• blaithe, blithe.
• blan, blane, ceased, stopped.
• blate, silly, stupid.
• bleid, blood.
• bodward, 182, message.
• borrowe, security, hostage, ransom;
• borowed, 18, ransomed.
• bouk, body, carcase.
• bowne, bowyn, ready, prepared;
• 235, going;
• bound, bowynd, 19, 5, 6, made ready, went.
• brace, 260, same as breeze, hurry?
• bracken, braken, fern.
• brae, side of a hill.
• braid, broad.
• bra'ly, bravely.
• branken, branking, prancing, capering.
• braveries, displays.
• braw, brave, handsome.
• bread, 59, breadth;
• bred, broad.
• breeks, breeches.
• brent, burned.
• brim, fierce.
• bronde, brand, sword.
• brook, enjoy;
• 186, take (possession of).
• brose, 261, pottage.
• brouine, brown, brewed.
• broust, brewage.
• bruch, brugh, burgh, city.
• bryttlynge, cutting up (of game.)
• buft, buffeted, beat.
• burd-alone, alone.
• burn, brook.
• but, without, 221;
• but bed, before we sleep.
• butter-box, 154, "Dutchmen." Ritson.
• byckarte, 30, moved quickly, rattling their weapons.
• byddys, abides.
• byears, biers.
• byll, halbert, battle-axe.

• ca', call;
• 265, drive, beat.
• caliver, 116, large pistol, or blunderbuss.
• can, could, used as auxiliaries to form the past tenses.
• canty, merry.
• carefull, anxious.
• carpe, tell, discourse.
• cast, propose, intend.
• cawte, cautious.
• chafts, chaps.
• chess, chace.
• chessit, chased.
• cheverons, gloves.
• christiantÈ, Christendom.
• claw, scratch, fight.
• clinkum clankum, a phrase for smart blows.
• cogue, wooden pail.
• cold bee, 100, was;
• see can.
• collayne, Cologne, i. e. steel, or manufacture:
• see i. 357.
• cor, core, corps.
• corpes, 287, living body.
• cors, curse.
• corynoch, lamentation for the dead.
• cowde dye, 16, did die;
• see can.
• crouse, 169, brisk, brave.
• crowdie, gruel, porridge.
• cryand, crying.

• daft, mad.
• dandering, an epithet expressing the noise of drums, like tantara, p. 124.
• de, die;
• deid, dead, death.
• decay, destruction, death.
• dee, do.
• deemedst, doomedst.
• demean, punish, put down.
• deputed, 103, used of a fugitive carried back for trial.
• diel, devil.
• dight, dicht;
• 61, furnished;
• 37, 189, to deth, "done," wounded;
• 22, dispose of, handle, encounter.
• ding, pr. dung, strike, knock, beat, overcome.
• dinne, noise.
• discord, quarrel.
• doghtie, doughty.
• door, 154? dorlach, which Jamieson says is a short-sword, means a wallet.
• douted, redoubtable, feared.
• doutsum, doubtful.
• drede, doubt.
• dre, drye, endure, bear;
• drie, 98, as noun, suffering.
• dulesum, doleful.
• dunted, beat.
• durk, dirk.
• dyne, garre, 10, give one his fill of fighting.
• dyne, 228, valley.
• dynte, blow, stroke.

• eathe, easy.
• ee, eye.
• edicang, aide-de-camp.
• eme, uncle.
• endlongis, along.
• enewch, enough.
• ensenzie, enzie, ensign.
• envye (to do), ill-will, injury.
• ewill, 229; qy, eve, or vigil?

• fa', fall;
• 162, share, portion.
• fach, fetch.
• fallows, fellows, equals.
• fare, go.
• fay, 219, on the verge of death, doomed.
• fayne, glad.
• feale, fail.
• fearit, feared.
• fecht, fight.
• fee, property, reward.
• feck, maist, greatest part.
• feid, feud, enmity.
• feingit, feigned.
• feirdness, cowardice.
• fell, hide.
• fells, hills, also, moors.
• fend, keep, support.
• fett, fetched.
• fiery-fairy, confusion and consternation.
• filabeg, kilt, or short petticoat, worn by Highlanders instead of breeches.
• firstin, first.
• fit, song, division of a song, story.
• flegs, frights.
• flinders, fragments.
• flyte, scold, remonstrate;
• 95, rally.
• forder, further.
• forefend, forbid.
• forgatherit, met together.
• forwarde, van.
• fou, full.
• fourugh, see furich.
• frame, 133, succeed.
• freck, freke, freyke (A. S. one who is bold) warrior, man.
• fun', found.
• furich, furichinish, Gaelic;
• fuirich means wait, stop;
• fearach is an old Irish warcry. "Fy, furich, Whigs, awa'!" was a Jacobite pipe air, says Chambers.
• free, frie, noble;
• 20, of metal, precious (?)

• gade, went.
• galliards, quick and lively dances.
• gare, gore.
• See Glossary to vol. 2.
• garre, make;
• gart, garde, made.
• gate, way.
• geed, went.
• geere, 64, business, affair.
• gettyng, 9, plunder.
• gled, gladden.
• glede, live coal.
• glent, glanced, passed swiftly.
• gloamin', dusk, night-fall.
• glove, 121; to claim a glove worn as a lady's favor, was a form of challenge,—which is perhaps the reference here.
• graif, grave.
• graithed, grathed, prepared, dressed, armed;
• 183, laid, or laid out.
• gree, bear the, bore the palm.
• gresse, grass.
• grevis, groves, bushes.
• grite, weep.
• grysely, dreadfully.
• guide, good.

• habershoune, coat of mail.
• hach-borde, 60, 63, 68, (MS. has in one place, "archborde,") seems to be used for the side of the ship.
• hached, inlaid or gilded.
• hagbutis, a kind of muskets.
• halched, greeted.
• hale, whole.
• hard, heard.
• harneis, armor.
• haryed, plundered.
• haws, low grounds on the border of a river.
• haylde, hauled.
• haylle, 10, healthy.
• he, high.
• heal, hail.
• heidit, beheaded.
• heidin, beheading.
• hernainsell, see note p. 154.
• hich, high.
• hight, promise, be called.
• hinde, gentle.
• hing, hang.
• his, has.
• Hogan Dutch, 155?
• holtes, 8, woods.
• hoved, 9, hovered, hung about, tarried.
• howe, hollow, valley.
• husbonds, husbandmen.
• hye, hyght, (on,) on high, aloud.
• hyght, promised.

• ilk, ilkay, each.
• into, in.
• is, has.
• i-wis, certainly.

• jack, a coat of mail, a leather jacket.
• jouk, avoid a blow by bending the body forward.

• kain, 180, rent paid in kind;
• here, paid the kain is suffered sorely.
• kaithe, appear, come.
• ken, know;
• kenna, know not.
• kindly, 23, native born.
• kith, acquaintance.
• kittle flaws, variable winds, i.e. not to be depended on for courage.
• knop, knob.
• knowe, knoll.

• lair, 239, place where they were lying.
• lang, long.
• lap, leapt.
• layne, deceive;
• 13, break word.
• leaguer, camp.
• leath, loath.
• leeve, dear, pleasant;
• lever, rather.
• lesse, 10, lying.
• let, prevent.
• lift, air.
• lifting, stealing.
• liges, lieges.
• liklie, handsome, promising.
• lilye, 23, lilly, 179, covered with lilies?
• lilting, singing cheerfully.
• linking, walking quickly.
• list, please.
• lithe, list.
• liverance, 95, "money for delivering up." Percy.
• logeying, lodging.
• lope, leapt.
• lucetts, 14, luces, pikes.
• lurdane, a heavy, stupid fellow.
• luves, palms, hands.

• maker, makys, mates.
• march-man, warden of the Marches.
• march-perti, 40, the Border parts or region.
• marke hym to the TrenitÉ, 13, commit himself to God by making the sign of the
• cross? marked, 14, fixed their eyes on, took aim at?
• maugre, spite.
• may, maid.
• meany, company.
• merchand, marching.
• mickle, great.
• mind, remember.
• miss, 264, evil, fault, trouble.
• moe, moo, more, greater.
• mome, fool.
• mort, death (of the deer.)
• mowes, mowis, (mouths,) joke.
• muir, moor.
• mykel, great.
• myllÀn, 36, Milan, i. e. steel or manufacture.
• myne-allaine, alone by myself.
• myneyeple, 35, maniple (i. e. many folds), a name for a close dress with sleeves worn under the armor.

• nare, nor.
• naye, denial.
• near, nearer.
• neist ae, next.
• nixtin, next.
• northen, be, to the north of.

• oh'on a ri, Gaelic, oh, my heart! oh' rig in di, 155?
• one, on.
• ones, once.
• outrake, 100, riding out, excursion.
• oware, hour.
• owermaskit, overcast.

• paiks, 154, drubbing.
• palione, 222, pallion, pavilion, tent.
• pall, a rich cloth.
• parti, part.
• paw, pa', 158, swift motion;
• one's part in a performance, 154;
• of the contortions of a person hanged, 162;
• of the movement of weapons, 163.
• peart, pert.
• perseiued, pursued.
• philibeg, kilt, or short petticoat, worn by Highlanders instead of breeches.
• Pitlarichie, 319?
• pleadis, prayers.
• polititious, politic, ingenious.
• pompous, 278, proud, magnificent.
• pra, 173, brave, fine.
• presumand, presuming.
• prycked, rode.
• pyght, pitched.

• quaint, acquaint.
• quat, quit.
• quhat, &c. what, &c.
• quhill, while, until.
• quhois, whose.
• quite, quit.
• quyrry, quarry, slaughtered game.
• quyt, paid, repaid.

• race, 184, course.
• raid, a predatory incursion.
• rais, rose.
• raking, 242, running, scouring along.
• rave, bereave.
• raw, row, rank;
• upo' the raw, in rank of battle.
• rax, reach, stretch;
• 265, beat?
• rear, ride the, 233, ride behind, have the worse.
• recks, 23, matters.
• rede, advise;
• 15, guessed.
• red, rode.
• Reidswire, see vol. vi. p. 131.
• remeid, remedy.
• rent, rend.
• rewyth, regrets.
• riggings, 154, backs?
• rinnes, runs.
• rise on anchor, 206?
• roke, reek, steam.
• rout, company, crowd.
• rowght, rout, strife.
• rowynde, round.
• rung, cudgel;
• canon's, figuratively, for shot?
• ryall, royal.
• ryght, 7, straight.
• rynde, 13, flayed? rinde, to destroy, Halliwell's Dict.

• saw, saying, statement.
• say, saw.
• say, assay.
• sayne, say.
• scale, 262, 178, scatter, spread.
• schapped, 15, apparently should be "swapped;"
• see post.
• schoote, 12, shot, let go.
• sen, since.
• sene, 189, skilled, experienced.
• shear, 30, 31, quickly, at once. (?) Halliwell.
• she, used of Highlanders in general.
• siccan, such.
• sinsyne, since.
• sith, since.
• skelps, blows.
• silver wand, 100?
• slaydis, 228;
• the passage is corrupt.
• slicht, slight.
• sloughe, slew.
• smirkling, smirking, smiling.
• smored, smothered.
• snell, 269, sharp, loud.
• snood, a band with which a young woman ties up her hair.
• sould, should.
• souters, cobblers.
• spear, speir, ask.
• spendyd, 96, probably the same as spanned, grasped.
• splenderis, splinters.
• spole, shoulder.
• spuente, 36, spirited, sprung out.
• spurne, kick; 42, retaliation?
• stain, outdo, excel.
• stalwurthlye, stoutly, boldly.
• stane'd, stationed.
• stank, 154, pool.
• stead, 65, place, post.
• stell'd, placed.
• stent, stop.
• stounde, time.
• stour, stowre, (turmoil of) fight.
• straiks, strokes.
• stynttyde, stopped.
• styrande, 6, see note: according to Percy's reading, driving the deer from their retreats;
• but adopting Motherwell's, prancing, spirited.
• suar, 35, 38, sure, trusty.
• suthe, true.
• swakked, 23, swapped, swapte, 15, 24, 36, struck, smote.
• swat, sweat.
• sweirand, swearing.
• sworne into my bille, 95, "I have delivered a promise in writing, confirmed by an oath." Percy.
• syne, since, then, afterward.

• tackes, takes.
• tald, 227, tall?
• talent, 310, seems to be used for property in general.
• tear, 42, possibly the same as dere, injury.
• teene, tene, injury.
• tenne, taken.
• tent, heed.
• the, thee, they.
• thi, the.
• thir, these< /i>, those.
• thought long, found the time drag.
• thrang, throng.
• thraw, twist.
• thrysse, thrice.
• thuds, 169, sound of blows, noises, strokes.
• tinkler, played the, 161, played the coward.
• tint, lost.
• tockin, token.
• ton, tone, the, the one.
• tooke, 39; supply an omitted word, as "rest."
• toom, empty.
• top-castle, 62, a kind of turret built round the mast-head.
• topsail, to cast, a kind of salute.
• tre-trip for hay, 131; tray-trip was a game at dice.
• tree, 226, spear-shaft? cudgel?
• trews, 155, Highland pantaloons, consisting of breeches and stockings in one piece;
• here used for Highlanders.
• trone, 143, pillory.
• trows, 156, see trews.
• touk, tuick, beat.
• tyll, to.
• tyne, lose.

• uds-doyns, an oath.
• uncouth, unknown.
• uttermost, outmost.

• valziant, valiant.
• verament, truly.
• vow, 169, exclamation of admiration or surprise.
• vowit, vowed.

• wae, sad, sorry.
• wald, would.
• waly, interjection of lamentation.
• wane, 36?
• war, worse;
• verb, to worst, overcome.
• war, aware.
• ward, word.
• waryson, reward.
• wast, west.
• wat, know.
• weal, 41 (of hands), to wring?
• weale, 64, qy, well? or good luck! The word is probably corrupted.
• weapon-shaw, inspection of arms, military review.
• wed, would.
• wede, 72, shorn?
• weir, war.
• well, 226, qy. mell, meddle or fight with.
• weme, 98, belly, hollow.
• wend, go.
• whigging, moving fast, marching briskly.
• whilk, which.
• whyll, 15, till.
• wid, would.
• wight, 102, strong, quick.
• win, go, get.
• win (hay), make, get in.
• winna, will not.
• wis, 214, wish.
• woned unto the dead, 222, qy. vowed? devoted themselves to death?
• wood, mad, furious.
• worried, 270, choked at.
• worthe, woe, woe be to.
• wouche, injury.
• wraithe, wroth.
• writhe, twisted.
• wyld, 30, seems to be used absolutely for deer.
• wynn, (hay), make, get in.

• ychone, each one.
• yebent, bent.
• yee, eye.
• ye-feth, i-faith.
• yender, yonder.
• yerlle, earl.
• yerly, early.
• ye'se, ye shall.
• yestreen, yesterday.
• yill, ale.
• yth' in the.

• zield, yield.
• zit, yet.

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Page 157, line 11: changed "orher" to "order" (Lord Roxburgh was there, in order to share)

Page 191, line 9-12: changed indentation of this verse to be consistent with the rest of the ballad.