Comic poems of the years 1685, and 1793; on rustic scenes in Scotland, at the times to which they refer
Robert of Newhall Brown
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(RareBooksClub.com, May 20, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...required. (3) Swans, and of course Cygnets, being Royal fowls, it is left for Antiquarians to say, if, or not, this employment gave rise to the present laborious, and ill-requited office of Keeper to bis Majetty's Signet, and to the respectable society over which he presides. Samuel seems to have been but an underling a bout the Keeper's office, though so proud of it. 4 And frae' his geese, and pinions gray, 'My quills, and profits cam'; Our Lintoun woo', frae' tap to tae, 4 Me cleeds, fras' sheep and lamb; 4 My mill's weell multured every day, 4 Wi' bannocks, me to cram: For this he'll pay » Aft, frowsy, great, coarse, kitchen Kate Had courted by him been, As 'mang the awss she sat in state, Wi' creesh her neeves between, And, scouring, swat, before his grate, A' soot, up to the een; Observing her, wi' winning bleat, 4 Kate, there, will scrape me clean!' He ba-a'd, 4 I'll lay f Me sort your breeks! and darn your tails I 4 My trowth! it sets you weell T' apply to t)ie, whan aught you ails, 4 Your croon frae' tae your heel! 4 Shoot out their horns,' she cried, e'en snails! 4 I'd see him at the de'il, 4 'Ore I wad scrape the finger nails 4 O' sic an ugsome chiel! Let me away 1" 4 Weell then,' crunes he, 'I'll Donald Dadges, 4 My heel and, hen-peckt clark, 4 Wi' padded legs, and cheeks like fadges, (4) 4 A body like the wark, That ony thing will do for wadges, 4 Gar wash my breeks and sark, Whan 1 gas hame; and, on our hedges, 4 Then dried, let Kate, there, bark, Or turn away! (4) A Fadge is a coarse spungy sort of leavened Wheat-bread, blown up, and shaped somewhat like a roll. Poor Bareskin, Greenshawps, Toom, and Co» Frae' the Goose-dubs, him chose, (5) 4 Whan he could frae his minny go, And change the kilt for hose; His mither washed for hig...