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Page 180 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 256 - twas Claver'se who spoke, " Ere the King's crown shall fall there are crowns to be broke; So let each Cavalier who loves honour and me, Come follow the bonnet of Bonny Dundee. " Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
Page 231 - God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool, That liv'st to make thine honesty a vice! 0 monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.
Page 255 - Dundee!' Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street, The bells are rung backward, the drums they are beat; But the Provost, douce man, said, 'Just e'en let him be, The Gude Town is weel quit of that deil of Dundee...
Page 256 - Away to the hills, to the caves, to the rocks, Ere I own an usurper, I'll couch with the fox ; And tremble, false Whigs, in the midst of your glee, You have not seen the last of my bonnet and me...
Page 452 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Page 106 - To trace in Nature's most minute design, The signature and stamp of power divine, Contrivance intricate express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and it is done...
Page 255 - twas Claver'se who spoke. 'Ere the King's crown shall fall there are crowns to be broke; So let each Cavalier who loves honour and me, Come follow the bonnet of Bonny Dundee. Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
Page 373 - tis an o'ergrown porpoise j others say, 'Tis the fish caught in Cheshire ; one, to whom The rest agree, said 'twas a mermaid. " Plotwell. 'Slight, Koseclap shall have a patent of him. The birds Brought from Peru, the hairy wench, the camel, The elephant, dromedaries, or Windsor Castle, The woman with dead flesh, or she that washes, Threads needles, writes, dresses her children, plays 0" th virginals with her feet, could never draw People like this.
Page 256 - Come fill up my cup, etc. He spurred to the foot of the proud Castle rock, And with the gay Gordon he gallantly spoke; 'Let Mons Meg and her marrows speak twa words or three, For the love of the bonnet of Bonny Dundee.