 | David Lindsay - Education of princes - 1602 - 182 pages
...inquisitioun. ABBOT. Tuiching my office, I say to jow, plainlie, My Monks and I, we leif richt easelie. 3396 Thair is na Monks, from Carrick to Carraill, That fairs better, and drinks mair holsum Aill. My Prior is ane man of great devotioun ; Thairfoir daylie he gets ane double portioun.... | |
 | James Sibbald - Ballads, Scots - 1802 - 474 pages
...als thir Kings hes given to me commiffioun Of your office for to mak inquifitioun. Abbot. Tuiching my office I fay to yow plainlie, My monks and I we...Carrick to Carraill, That fairs better, and drinks mair helfum aill. My Prior is ane man of great devotioun, Thairfoir daylie he gets ane double portioun.... | |
 | James Sibbald - Scots language - 1802 - 908 pages
...als thir Kings hes given to me commiffioun Of your office for to mak inquifitioun. Aibot. Tuiching my office I fay to yow plainlie, My monks and I we...Carrick to Carraill, That fairs better, and drinks mair helfum aill... My Prior is ane man of great devotioun, Thairfoir daylie he gets ane double portioun.... | |
 | James Sibbald - English language - 1802 - 454 pages
...als thir Kings lies given to me commiffioun Of your office for to mak inquifitioun, Abbot. Tuiching my office I fay to yow plainlie, My monks and I we...richt eafilie ; Thair is na monks, from Carrick to Carrail!, That fairs better, and drinks mair helfum aill. My Prior is ane man of great devotioun, Thairfoir... | |
 | Alexander Laing - Newburgh (Fife, Scotland) - 1876 - 632 pages
...David Lyndsay in his ' Satyre of the Time Estaitis,' makes an Abbot say of his Abbey : — ' There is na monks from Carrick to Carraill That fairs better, and drinks mair helsum aill.'' In the reign of Mary, the allowance for the Queen's table ' at 1 National Manuscripts... | |
 | David Lindsay - Scotland - 1879 - 384 pages
...3410 ABBOT. Tuiching my office, I say to yow plainlie, My Monks and I, we leif richt easelie : Thare is na monks, from Carrick to Carraill, That fairs better, and drinks mair helsum aill. My Prior is ane man of great devotioun : Thairfor, daylie, he gets ane double portioun.... | |
 | John Knox - Reformation - 1950 - 496 pages
...: ABBOT Tuiching my office, I say to yow plainlie, My monks and I, we leif 4 richt easelie : There is na monks, from Carrick to Carraill, That fairs better, and drinks mair helsum aill.6 My Prior is ane man of great devotioun : Thairfor, daylie, he gets ane double portioun.... | |
 | Donaldson - History - 1960 - 260 pages
...and fair As ony wench into the toun of Air and, on the other hand, the monks, who leif richt easelie Thair is na monks from Carrick to Carraill That fairs better and drinks mair helsum aill.3 1 P. 21 below. * Gude and Godlie Ballates, ed. D. Laing (1868), pp. 178-81. * Lindsay,... | |
 | William Murison - 1890 - 254 pages
...maintains a friar to do his preaching. The Abbot says that he and his monks live a very easy life: Thare is na monks, from Carrick to Carraill, That fairs better and drinks mair helsum aill. My Prior is ane man of great devotioun : Thairfor, daylie, he gets ane double portioun.... | |
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Indeid richt weill till I gat hame my bows. In my Abbay quhen I was sure professour, Then did I leife as did my predecessour. 