V. Cursecowl,
From his red poll a redder cowl hung down;
His jacket, if through grease we guess, was brown;
A vigorous scamp, some forty summers old;
Rough Shetland stockings up his thighs were roll’d;
While at his side horn-handled steels and knives
Gleam’d from his pouch, and thirsted for sheep’s lives.Odoherty’s Miscellanea Classica.
Oh, love, love, lassie,
Love is like a dizziness,
It winna let a puir bodie
Gang about their business.James Hogg.
VII. The Forewarning,
I had a dream which was not all a dream.
Byron.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Campbell.
VIII. Letting Lodgings,
Then first he ate the white puddings,
And syne he ate the black, O;
Though muckle thought the Gudewife to hersell,
Yet ne’er a word she spak, O.
But up then started our Gudeman,
And an angry man was he, O.Old Song.
IX. Benjie’s Christening,
We’ll hap and row, hap and row,
We’ll hap and row the feetie o’t.
It is a wee bit weary thing,
I dinnie bide the greetie o’t.Provost Creech.
An honest man, close button’d to the chin,
Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within.Cowper.
This great globe and all that it inherits shall dissolve,
And, like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Leave not a rack behind.Shakespeare.