JESSY.

Tune-" Here's a health to them that's awa."

Written in honour of Miss Jessie Lewars, now Mrs. Thomson. Her tender and daughter-like attentions soothed the last hours of the dying poet, and if immortality can be considered a recompense, she has been rewarded.]

HERE'S a health to ane I lo'e dear;

Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear;

Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet,

And soft as their parting tear-Jessy!

Altho' thou maun never be mine,

Altho' even hope is denied;

'Tis sweeter for thee despairing,

Than aught in the world beside-Jessy!

I mourn through the gay, gaudy day,
As, hopeless, I muse on thy charms:
But welcome the dream o' sweet slumber,
For then I am lockt in thy arms-Jessy!

I guess by the dear angel smile,

I guess by thy love rolling e'e;

But why urge the tender confession

'Gainst fortune's fell cruel decree?-Jessy!

Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear;

Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear;

Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet
And soft as their parting tear-Jessy!

FAIREST MAID ON DEVON BANKS.

Tune-"Rothemurche."

[On the 12th of July, 1796, as Burns lay dying at Brow, on the Solway, his thoughts wandered to early days, and this song, the last he was to measure in this world, was dedicated to Charlotte Hamilton, the maid of the Devon.]

FAIREST maid on Devon banks,

Crystal Devon, winding Devon,

Wilt thou lay that frown aside,

And smile as thou were wont to do?
Full well thou know'st I love thee, dear!
Could'st thou to malice lend an ear!
O! did not love exclaim "Forbear,
Nor use a faithful lover so."

Then come, thou fairest of the fair,
Those wonted smiles, O let me share;
And by thy beauteous self I swear,

No love but thine my heart shall know
Fairest maid on Devon banks,

Crystal Devon, winding Devon,
Wilt thou lay that frown aside,

And smile as thou were wont to do?

GLOSSARY.

"Tas 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 diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong de always, and ea very often. sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey sounds like the Latin ei.”

Anither, another.

Ase, ashes, of wood, remains
of a hearth fire.

Bang, to beat, to strive, to excel.

Bannock, flat, round.soft cake.

Asteer, abroad, stirring in a Bardie, diminutive of bard.

lively manner.

Aqueesh, between.

Aught, possession, as "in a'
my aught," in all my pos-
session.

Auld, old.

Auld-farran', auld farrant, sa-
gacious, prudent, cunning.
Ara, at all.

Awa, away, begone.
Aufu, awful.

Auld-shoon. old shoes literally,
a discarded lover metapho-
rically.

Aumos. gift to a beggar.

Barefit, barefooted.
Barley-bree, barley-broo, blood
of barley, malt-liquor.
Barmie, of, or like barm,
yeasty.

Batch, a crew, a gang.
Batts, botts.
Bauckie-bird, the bat.
Baudrons, a cat.
Bauld, bold.

Baws'nt, having a white stripe
down the face.

Be, to let be, to give over, tc

cease. Beets, boots.

Aumos-dish, a beggar's dish Bear, barley

in which the aumos is re- Bearded-bear, barley with its
ceived.
bristly head.

Awn, the beard of barley, Beastie, diminutive of beast.

oats, &c.

Awnie, bearded.
Ayont, beyond.

Ba', ball.

Attour, moreover, beyond, be- Bane clouts,

sides.

Aith, an oath.

Aits, oats.

Aiver, an old horse.

B.

child's

first

clothes.
Buckets, ash-boards, as pieces

Beet, beek, to add fuel to a fire

to bask.

Beld, bald.

Belyve. by and by, presently quickly.

Ben, into the spence or par lour.

Benmost-bore, the remotes: hole, the innermost recess

of backet for removing Bethankit, grace after meat. ashes.

Beuk, a book.

coming Bicker, a kind of wooden dish,
a short rapid race.
Bickering, careering, hurry.
ing with quarrelsome intent
Birnie, birnie ground is whers
thick heath has been burnt,
leaving the birns, or un.
consumed stalks, standing
up sharp and stubbly.
Bie, or bield, shelter, a shel-
tered place, the sunny nook
of a wood.

Ballets, ballants, ballads.

Anent, overagainst, concern- Bin, to swear.

Bane, bone.

(593)

Bien, wealthy, plentiful.
Big, to build.

Biin, building, a house.
Birgit, built.
Bill, a bull.

Billie, a brother, a young fel-
low, a companion.
Bing, a heap of grain, pota-
toes, &c.
Birdie-cocks, young cocks, still
belonging to the brood.
Birk, birch.

Birkie, a clever, a forward,
conceited fellow.
Birring, the noise of part-
ridges when they rise.
Birses, bristles.

Bit, crisis, nick of time, place.
Bizz, a bustle, to buzz.
Black's the grun', as black as
the ground.

Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf, a

term of contempt, full of mischief.

Blastit, blasted.

Blate, bashful, sheepish.
Blather, bladder.

Blaud, a flat piece of any-
thing, to slap.
Blaudin-shower, a heavy driv-
ing rain; a blauding signi
fies a beating.
Blaw, to blow, to boast;

"blaw i' my lug," to flatter. Bleerit, bedimmed, eyes hurt with weeping.

Bleer my een, dim my eyes.
Bleezing, bleeze, blazing.flame.
Bellum, idle talking fellow.
Blether, to talk idly.
Bleth'rin, talking idly.
Blink, a little while. a smiling
look, to look kindly, to
shine by fits.
Blinker, a term of contempt:
it means, too, a lively en-
gaging girl.
Blinkin', smirking, smiling
with the eyes, looking
lovingly.
Blirt and blearie, out-burst
of grief, with wet eyes.
Blue-gown, one of those beg-
gars who get annually, on
the king's birth-day, a blue
cloak or gown with a badge.
Bluid, blood.

Blype, a shred, a large piece.
Bobbit, the obeisance made
by a lady.

Bock, to vomit, to gush inter-
mittently.

Bocked, gushed, vomited.
Bodle, a copper coin of the

value of two pennies Scots.
Bogie, a small morass.
Bonnie, or bonny, handsome,
beautiful.
Bonnock, a kind of thick cake
of bread, a small jannock
or loaf made of oatmeal.
See Bannock.
Boord, a board.
Bore, a hole in a wall, a

Boost, behoved, must needs,
wilfulness.
Botch, clotch, an angry tu-

mour.

Bousing, drinking, making
merry with liquor.
Bowk, body.
Bow-kail, cabbage.
Bow-hought, out-kneed,
crooked at the knee joint.
Bowt, bowlt, bended, crooked.
Brackens, fern.

Brae, a declivity, a precipice,
the slope of a hill.
Braid, broad.

Buff and blue, the colcurs of the Whigs.

Buirdly, stout made, troad built.

Bum-clock, the humming
beetle that flies in the
summer evenings.
Bummin, hutuming as bees,
buzzing.

Bummle, to blunder, a drone,
an idle fellow.
Bummler, a blunderer, one
whose noise is greater chan
his work.

Bunker, a window-seat.

Braik, an instrument for Bure, did bear.
rough-dressing flax.
Brainge, to run rashly for-

ward, to churn violently.
Braing't, the horse braing't,'
plunged and fretted in the
harness.

Brak, broke, became insol-
vent.

Burn, burnie, water, a rivu-
let, a small stream which
is heard as it runs.
Burniewin', burn the wind,
the blacksmith.
Burr-thistle, the thistle of
Scotland.
Buskit, dressed.

Branks, a kind of wooden Buskit nest, an ornamented

curb for horses.
Brankie, gaudy.
Brash, a sudden illness.
Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
Brattle, a short race, hurry,
fury.

Braw, fine, handsome.
Brawlys, or brawlie, very
well, finely, heartily, brave-
ly.

Braries, diseased sheep.
Breastie, diminutive of breast.
Breastit, did spring up or for-
ward; the act of mounting
a horse.
Brechame, a horse-collar.
Breckens, fern.
Breef, an invulnerable or
irresistible spell.
Breeks, breeches.
Brent, bright, clear; "a brent
brow." a brow high and
smooth.

residence.

Busle, a bustle.
But, bot, without.
But and ben, the country
kitchen and parlour.
By himself, lunatic, distract-
ed, beside himself.
Byke, a bee-hive, a wild bee
nest.

Byre, a cow-house, a sheep
pen.

C.

Ca', to call, to name, to drive,
Ca't, called, driven, calved.
Cadger, a carrier.
Cudie, or caddie, a person, a
young fellow, a public mes-

senger.

Cuff, chaff.

Cuird, a tinker, a maker of
horn spoons and teller of
fortunes.

Cairn, a loose heap of stones,
a rustic monument.
Calf-ward, a small enclosure
for calves.

the Calimanco, a certain kind of
cotton cloth worn by ladies
Callan, a boy.

Brewin'. brewing, gathering.
Bree, juice, liquid.
Brig, a bridge.
Brunstane, brimstone.
Brisket, the breast,
bosom.
Brither, a brother.
Brock, a badger.
Brogue, a hum, a trick.
Broo, broth, liquid, water.
Broose, broth, a race
country weddings; he who
first reaches the bride
groom's house on returning
from church wins the
broose.

at

Browst, ale, as much malt
liquor as is brewed at a
time.

Brugh, a burgh.

Bruilsie. a broil, combustion.
Brunt. did burn, burnt.
Brust, to burat, burst.
Buchan-bullers, the boiling
of the sea among the rocks
on the coast of Buchan.
Buckskin. an inhabitant of
Virginia.

us

Buff our beef, thrash
soundly, give us a beating
behind and before.

Caller, fresh.

Cullet, a loose woman, a fol
lower of a camp.
Cunnie, gentle, mild, dexter-

ous.

Cunnilie, dexterously, gently.
Cuntie, or canty, cheerful,
merry.
Cantraip, a charm, a spell.
Cap-stane, cape-stone.topmost
stone of the building.
Cur, a rustic cart with or
without wheels.
Careerin', moving cheerfully.
Castock, the stalk of a cab-
bage.

Curl, an old man.
Carl-hemp, the male stalk of
hemp, easily known by its
superior strength and sta-
ture, and being without
seed.
Carlin, a stout old woman.
Cartes, cards.

Coila, from Kyle, a district in | Crowie, a composition of oat

Caup, a wooden drinking ves- Collie, a general, and somesel, a cup.

Crap, a crop, to crop. Cloot, the hoof of a cow, sheep, Craw, a crow of a cock, a rook. &c. Creel, a basket, to have one's wits in a creel, to be crazed, to be fascinated.

Cog, and coggie, a wooden Crously, cheerfully, courage