many an orphan’s water-standing eye

Lucky he wasn't a sow. They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year. A sow would have been cranky as hell.

Why would you be so fond to overcome / The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke?

Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, Bill made a doogheno hit this morning. Jem, says another, to a man just entering, you'll stand a top o' reeb? On, answers Jem, I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab.