Mense

... But never a soul had the mense to come near them,[…]

Little mense to the cheeks to bite aff the nose[…]

For she had baked a crumpie cake And butter scones, for mense's sake, To entertain her lodger.

Be seen with men of mense, but turn aside From swicks and sweeps, the silly and the low […]

... ye'll hae the sense and the mense to keep a calm sough,[…]

There is not a mense of snow in "smoky Leeds,"

He has a mense o' pure nonsense,