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Six Centuries of English Poetry

Note 17 — THE COTTER'S1 SATURDAY NIGHT.

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hawkie. This word, says Hales, "denotes, properly, a cow with a white face. So, in Northumberland, bawsand was used of an animal with a white spot on its forehead, and crummie of a cow with crooked horns."

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