N'OSEREZ-VOUS, MON BEL AMI, Wilt thou not dare, my beautiful friend.
NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM, Night unto night showeth knowledge.
O CRUDELIS AMOR, Oh Cruel Love.
OFFUSKIT, obscured.
OUER, over.
OURHAILIT, overspread.
OXTER, a hug with the arms.
PADDOCK, toad or frog.
PAIRLY, mate.
PALMER, Pilgrim returning from
the Holy Land.
PARCAE, The Three Fates.
PARI JUGO DULCIS TRACTUS,
Sweet drawing in equal yoke.
PARDY, By God.
PAUNCE, obs. form of pansy.
PEAT, pet.
PERIGALL, adequate, worthy.
PERSEVER, persevere.
PRELUCIAND, brightly shining.
PRICKET, a buck in his second
PRIEFS, proof.
PUGGING, thieving.
PUISNE, a judge of inferior rank.
PYGHT, past participle of pitch.
QUHAIR, where.
QUHEN, when.
QUHILK, which.
QUHOM, whom.
QUHY, why.
QUHYTE, white.
RAMAGE, bird-song.
RASCAL, an inferior beast, unworthy of the chase.
RAUNCH, wrench.
REISTIS, rest.
RESPAS, raspberry.
RONE, rowan.
ROVDE, looked.
SAIF, save.
SAWIS, Sows.
SAY, a fine thin serge used in
the 16th century.
SCHOURIS, showers.
SEELY, innocent, harmless.
SELD, seldom.
SEN, same as since.
SETYWALL, garden valerian.
SHAID, parted.
SHALM, an instrument resem-
bling the clarinet.
SHAWIS, a thicket, a small
wood.
SHROUDIS, conceals, envelops, takes shelter.
VENUST, elegant, beautiful.
VERGES, rods.
VER, spring.
VIA AMORIS, The way of Love.
VIVAMUS MEA LESBIA, ATQUE
AMEMUS, Let Us Live and
Love, My Lesbia.
VIVELY, brightly.
VIXI PUELLIS NUPER IDONEUS,
Not so long ago, I was ac-
ceptable to maids.
WALY, expressive of lamentation, alas.
WAPINS, weapons.
WIGHT, swift, stout.
WISS, wish.
WONNED, dwelled.
YCONNED, versed.
YFERE, together.
A. W. The identity of "A. W." has never been revealed.
The initials are only known as the signature to a number
of poems published in Davison's Poetical Rhapsody.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, EARL OF STIRLING (1567-1640), born
at Menstree, Scotland. Educated at the universities of
Glasgow and Leyden. In 1621 James I. gave him a grant
of Nova Scotia, which charter has been the cause of con-
siderable discussion. He was the intimate friend of Drum-
mond of Hawthornden, who addressed him in several of
his sonnets in bereavement at the loss of his (Drum-
mond's) mistress. His first published work was
Tragedie of Darius, 1603, followed in 1604 by A Parænsis
to the Prince, and the Monarchicke Tragedies including
Darius and the new Crœsus;. The Alexandræan, a Tragedy,
1605, Julius Cæsar, 1607. His most ambitious work, Dooms-
day, or the Great Day of the Lord's Judgment, appeared
1614; and the first collected edition of his works, The
Recreations of the Muses, 1637.
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