Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, Volume 1William Magee, 1800 |
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Robert Burns. Or fhootin o ' a hare or moorcock , The ne'er a bit they're ill to poor folk . But will you tell me , mafter Cæfar , Sure great folks life's a life o ' pleasure ? Nae cauld nor hunger e'er can fteer them , The vara thought ...
Robert Burns. Or fhootin o ' a hare or moorcock , The ne'er a bit they're ill to poor folk . But will you tell me , mafter Cæfar , Sure great folks life's a life o ' pleasure ? Nae cauld nor hunger e'er can fteer them , The vara thought ...
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... Ne'er claw your lug , an ' fidge your back , An ' hum an ' haw , But raise your arm , an ' tell your crack Before them a ' . Paint Scotland greetin ' owre her thifsle Her mutchkin - ftoup . as toom's a whifsle ; An ' d - mn'd Excifemen ...
... Ne'er claw your lug , an ' fidge your back , An ' hum an ' haw , But raise your arm , an ' tell your crack Before them a ' . Paint Scotland greetin ' owre her thifsle Her mutchkin - ftoup . as toom's a whifsle ; An ' d - mn'd Excifemen ...
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... ne'er envies , But blyth and frisky , She eyes her freeborn , martial boys Tak aff their Whiskey . What tho ' their Phoebus kinder Warms , While Fragrance blooms and Beauty charms ! When wretches range , in famish'd fwarms , The fcented ...
... ne'er envies , But blyth and frisky , She eyes her freeborn , martial boys Tak aff their Whiskey . What tho ' their Phoebus kinder Warms , While Fragrance blooms and Beauty charms ! When wretches range , in famish'd fwarms , The fcented ...
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... ne'er a word o ' faith in That's right that day . XVI . In guid time comes an antidote Againft fic poifon'd noftrum ; For ******* , frae the water - fit Afcends the holy roftrum : See , up he's got the word o ' G- An ' meek an ' mim has ...
... ne'er a word o ' faith in That's right that day . XVI . In guid time comes an antidote Againft fic poifon'd noftrum ; For ******* , frae the water - fit Afcends the holy roftrum : See , up he's got the word o ' G- An ' meek an ' mim has ...
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... ne'er had kend it , Juft fh in a kail - blade and fend it , - As foon's he fmells't , Baith their disease , and what will mend it , " At once he tells't . And then a doctor's faws and whittles , Of a dimenfions , fhapes , an ' mettles ...
... ne'er had kend it , Juft fh in a kail - blade and fend it , - As foon's he fmells't , Baith their disease , and what will mend it , " At once he tells't . And then a doctor's faws and whittles , Of a dimenfions , fhapes , an ' mettles ...
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