Guest - falsitie was my own first reading of the word,but I didn't have time to check it. I've just had a look at the image and manipulated the levels and it is consistent with what can be seen. (And I see that's Steve's reading too).

The last word of the following line is interesting too. Steve has it transcribed as mock, I read it as moek. The online Scots dictionary gives no entry for moek, but it does rhyme with the first half of the line. To me it definitely looks more like moek in the book and I don't like I've got the mock.

MIck