I ne'er lo'ed water in my shoon, and my wame's made o' better leather.
Spoken when a drink of water is offered to a person who is not so fond of it as he is of something stronger.
I ne'er sat on your coat-tail.
That is, I never interfered with or impeded your progress in any way.
In ower muckle clavering truth is tint.
Anglice, In too much gossiping truth is lost.
It comes to the hand like the bowl o' a pintstoup.
"It's been the gipsies that took your pockmanky, when they fand the chaise stickin' in the snaw; they wadna pass the like o' that: it wad just come to their hand like the bowl o' a pintstoup."—Guy Mannering.
I prick'd nae louse since I darned your hose, and then I might hae prick'd a thousand.