This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...my brain; Till on that har'st I said before, My partner in the merry core, She rous'd the forming strain: I see her yet, the sonsie quean, 35 That lighted up my jingle, Her witching smile, her pauky een, That gart my heart-strings tingle; I fired, inspired, At ev'ry kindling keek, 40 But bashing, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...my brain; Till on that har'st I said before, My partner in the merry core, She rous'd the forming strain: I see her yet, the sonsie quean, 35 That lighted up my jingle, Her witching smile, her pauky een, That gart my heart-strings tingle; I fired, inspired, At ev'ry kindling keek, 40 But bashing, and dashing, I feared aye to speak. Health to the sex, ilk guid chiel says, Wi' merry dance in winter days, An' we to share in common: 45 The gust o' joy, the balm of woe, The saul o' life, the heav'n below, Is rapture-giving woman. Ye surly sumphs, who hate the name, Be mindfu' o' your mither: 50 She, honest woman, may think shame That ye're connected with her. Ye're wae men, ye're nae men, That slight the lovely dears; To shame ye, disclaim ye, 55 Ilk honest birkie swears. For you, no bred to barn or byre, Wha sweetly tune the Scottish lyre, Thanks to you for your line: The marled plaid ye kindly spare, 60 By me should gratefully be ware; 'Twad please me to the nine. I'd be more vauntie o' my hap. Douce hingin' owre my curple, Than ony ermine ever lap, 65 Or proud imperial purple. Fareweel then, lang heal then, An' plenty be your fa': May losses and crosses Ne'er at your hallan ca 70 PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. WOODS, ON HIS BENEFIT NIGHT, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1787. When by a generous public's kind acclaim, That dearest meed is granted--honest fame; When here your favor is the actor's lot, Nor even the man in private life forgot; What breast so dead to heav'nly virtue's glow, 5 But heaves impassion'd with the grateful throe? Poor is the task to please a barb'rous throng, It needs no Siddons' power in Southern's song: But here an ancient nation, fam'd afar For genius, learning high, as great in war--10 Hail Caledonia! name for ever dear! Before whose...
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