 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 pages
...burst in my breast 0 had she but been of a lower degree, DUNCAN GKA Y. NAEBODY. I HAE a wife o' my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody ; I'll tak cuckold frae...nane, I'll gie cuckold to naebody. I hae a penny to spend, There — thanks to naebody ; I hae naething to lend, I'll borrow frae naebody. I am naebody's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1914 - 724 pages
...descriving had then been my bliss. As now my distraction no words can express I NAEBODY. I HAE a wife o' my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody ; I'll tak cuckold frae...nane, I'll gie cuckold to naebody. I hae a penny to spend, There — thanks to naebody ; I hae naething to lend, I'll borrow frae naebody. I am naebody's... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 364 pages
...is characteristically expressed in a song composed about this time. I HAE A WIFE I hae a wife o' my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody; I'll tak cuckold frae...nane, I'll gie cuckold to naebody. I hae a penny to spend, There — thanks to naebody; I hae naething to lend, I'll borrow frae naebody. I am naebody's... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1920 - 390 pages
...wed him to-morrow. I HAE A WIFE O' MY AIN I HAE a wife o' my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody; I'll take cuckold frae nane, I'll gie cuckold to naebody. I hae a penny to spend, There — thanks to naebody ! I hae naething to lend, I'll borrow frae naebody. I am naebody's... | |
 | Andrew Herbert Dakers - Poets, Scottish - 1923 - 254 pages
...effort to master his grosser passions. He made a song with which to mark his wife's entry to Ellisland : I hae a wife o' mine ain, I'll partake wi' naebody ; I'll take cuckold frae nane, I'll gie cuckold to naebody i I hae a penny to spend — there — thanks to... | |
 | Roger Fiske - Music - 1983 - 256 pages
...had contrived a rather similar poem in which every other line ended 'naebody' : I hae a wife o' my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody; I'll tak Cuckold frae nane, I'll gie Cuckold to naebody. He probably wrote the words soon after his marriage, and he overestimated his powers of fidelity, but... | |
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NAEBODY. I HAE a wife o' my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody ; I'll tak cuckold frae nane, I'll gie cuckold to naebody. I hae a penny to spend, There — thanks to naebody ; I hae naething to lend, I'll borrow frae naebody. I am naebody's lord, I'll be slave... 
