[20.] E’e, eye.

[21.] Braw, fine.

[22.] Sair-won penny-fee, hard-earned wages.

[23.] Spiers, asks.

[24.] Uncos, wonders, news.

[25.] Sheers, scissors.

[26.] Gars auld claes look amaist as weel’s the new, makes old cloth look almost as well as the new.

[27.] Younkers, young people.

[28.] Eydent, diligent.

[29.] Jauk, trifle.

[30.] Gang, go.

[31.] Wha kens, who knows.

[32.] Neebor, neighbor.

[33.] Hafflins, half.

[34.] Nae, no.

[36.] Ben, inside.

[36.] No ill taen, not ill taken; i.e. Jenny’s parents are pleased to have the young man come in.

[37.] Cracks, chats.

[38.] Kye, cattle.

[39.] Blate and laithfu’, shy and sheepish.

[40.] Wi’ a woman’s wiles, with a woman’s penetration.

[41.] Sae, so.

[42.] The lave, the rest.

[43.] Ruth, pity, tenderness.

[44.] Healsome parritch, chief o’ Scotia’s food, wholesome porridge, chief of Scotland’s food.

[45.] Soupe, milk.

[46.] Hawkie, cow.

[47.] That ’yont the hallan snugly chows her cood, that beyond the wall snugly chews her cud.  In a cottage of this kind the cow lives under the same roof with the family.

[48.] Her weel-hained kebbuck, fell, her well-saved cheese, pungent; i.e. her carefully saved, or kept, strong cheese.

[49.] And aft he’s pressed, and aft he ca’s (pronounced like cause) it guid, And oft he’s urged, and oft he calls it good.

[50.] ‘T was a towmond auld, sin’ lint was i’ the bell, it was a twelve-month old since flax was in flower; i.e. when the flax was last in bloom it was a year old.

[51.] The big ha’-Bible (pronounced haw), the big hall-Bible.  The name originated in the fact that large Bibles were first used in the hall, or principal room, of the noble’s castle, where all the household assembled for worship.

[52.] Ance, once.

[53.] Bonnet, a soft cap made of seamless woolen stuff.

[54.] Lyart haffets, gray side-locks.

[55.] Those strains that once, etc., i.e. the Psalms, which were sung in Jerusalem. Zion is really the hill on which the old city of Jerusalem was built.

[56.] Wales, selects.

[57.] Dundee, Martyrs, Elgin, well-known psalm tunes.

[58.] Beets, fans or feeds.

[59.] Nae unison hae they, no unison have they; i.e. they are not in harmony with.

[60.] Abram, or Abraham.  See Genesis.

[61.] Moses bade, etc.  See Exodus xvii.

[62.] The royal Bard, King David.  Probably Burns refers to certain of the Psalms which express suffering and repentance.

[63.] Job’s pathetic plaint.  The “plaint” begins with Job iii.