Note 99 — 214 THE BRAES O YARROW

‘Wi a thrusty rapier,’ J, which I feel compelled to understand as the commonplace ‘trusty;’ but, guided by ‘a rusted rapier,’ K, we ought perhaps to read ‘rusty.’ In L the lady kisses and combs the swain, and sets him on her milk-white steed.—Since I suppose lover to have been substituted for husband in the course of tradition, I shall not be so precise as to distinguish the two when this would be inconvenient.