 My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now take it unto thee. Give me thy gold, good John o' the Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be. Then John he did him to record draw, And John he caste him a gods.pennie; But for every pounde that John...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Page 236by Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William McDowall - Dumfries (Scotland) - 1867 - 938 pages
...Council; and their language was still like that of the thriftless Lord of Linne:— " My gold is gone—my money is spent; My land now take it unto thee: Give me the gold, good John o' Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be." Acquisitive men like John o' Scales... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - English literature - 1869 - 528 pages
...disturb thy heavy cheer ; If thou wilt sell thy lands so broad, Good store of gold I '11 give thee here.' My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now take it unto thee : Give me the gold, good John o' Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be.' Then John he did him to record... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 284 pages
...disturb thy heavy cheer ; If thou wilt sell thy lands so broad, Good store of gold I 'll give thee here.' My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now take it unto thee : Give me the gold, good John o' Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be.' Then John he did him to record... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1870 - 468 pages
...head of the innocent maid-servant, and was only forcibly wrthheld from horse-whipping the rascally messenger, by whose sloth and drunkenness- the disappointment had taken place. CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now take it unto thee. Give me thy gold, good... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 552 pages
...horsewhipping the rascally messenger, by whose sloth and drunkenness the disappointment had taken place. CHAP. XV. My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now...take it unto thee. Give me thy gold, good John o' tlie Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be. Then John lie did him to record draw. And John he... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 514 pages
...horsewhipping the rascally messenger, by whose sloth and drunkenness the disappointment had taken place. CHAP. XV. My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now tahe it unto thee. Give me thy gold, good John o' the Scafes, And thine for aye my land shall be. Then... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...disturb thy merry cheer ; If thon wilt sell thy lands so broad, Good store of gold I'll give thoe here." "My gold is gone, my money is spent; My land now take it unto thee ; Give mo the gold, good John o' Scales, Aud thine for aye my laud shall be." Then John he did him to record... | |
 | Sidney Lanier, Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1882 - 512 pages
...disturb thy merry cheer ; If thou wilt sell thy lands so broad, Good store of gold I'll give thce here." "My gold is gone, my money is spent ; My land now take it unto thee : Give me the gold, good John o' the Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be." THE BOY'S PERCY. Then John... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1892 - 498 pages
...innocent maid-servant, and was only forcibly withheld from horse-whipping the rascally messenger by whoso sloth and drunkenness the disappointment had taken...thee. Give me thy gold, good John o' the Scales, And thiue for aye my land shall be. Then John he did him to record draw, And John he caste him a gods-pennic... | |
 | Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - Ballads, English - 1902 - 376 pages
...disturb thy merry cheer ; If thou wilt sell thy lands soe broad, Good store of gold I 'll give thee here. My gold is gone, my money is spent ; My land now take it unto thee : Give me the gold, good John o' the Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be. Then John he did him to record... | |
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