In prose and metre of all kynde ywys This lady blyssed had lust for to playe With her was blesens Richarde pophys Farrose pystyls clere lusty fresshe and gay With maters vere poetes in good array Ovyde, Omer, Vyrgyll, Lucan, Orace Alane, Bernarde, Prudentius and Stace.

My Peggy speaks sae sweetly Whene'er we meet alane, I wish nae mair to lay my care, I wish nae mair of a' that's rare:

The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane.

Alane, alone.

Notwithstanding her own extreme danger, Jeanie was affected by the situation of her companion; and the rather that, through the whole train of her wavering and inconsistent state of mind and line of conduct, she discerned a general colour of kindness towards herself, for which she felt gratitude. "Let me alane!let me alane!" said the poor young woman, as her paroxysm of sorrow began to abate.

"Let me alane; it does me good to weep.

Plaint of Kinde (Alane's), iv. Pleasaunce, ii.

You were alone, I suppose?" "Yes, miss, I was alane.

And he's ta'en awa' his bride Frae the bonnie Teviot-side, And has left me sae eerie alane.

And oh the thought is sair That she'll mine be never mair, I'm alane in the North Countrie.

"Let alane, let alane!" cried I to him, "and take care of yoursell, for it has to gang off five times yet."

"Let alane, let alane!" cried I to him, "and take care of yoursell, for it has to gang off five times yet."

But he's takin' a bit chack o' dinner 'enoo, sae we'll let him alane for twa or three minutes.

" "Na, na, Hughie Morrison is no the man for pargainsye maun come to some Highland body like Robin Oig hersell for the like of these;put I maun be wishing you good night, and twenty of them, let alane ane, and I maun down to the Clachan to see if the lad Henry Waakfelt is out of his humdudgeons yet.

As I was walking all alane I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the t'other say, "Where sail we gang and dine to-day?" "In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain knight;

We were afraid to start hame alane.

They micht be alane, I thocht, but wi' loving sons and daughters supporting them and caring for them, even though their affairs called them to widely scattered places.

The time came, and I was alane wi' the wife.

"When you and me are alane in this house there's no room for the both o' us, and as I'll never hae it said that I made Jean Myles's bairn munt, I'll go out mysel'.

An' I'm gey busy.' 'Ye should leave the weemen alane, an' then ye wud ha'e time to spare.' 'What ha'e ye got to speak aboot?'

The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's[084] maun shield, But thou beneath the random bield[085] O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie[086] stibble field[087] Unseen, alane.

ALESIUS, or ALANE, a noted Reformer, born in Edinburgh, converted to Protestantism by Patrick Hamilton; was driven first from Scotland and then from England, till he settled as a theological professor in Germany, and took an active part in the Reformation there (1500-1563).

Let alane maks mony lurden.