To contemplation lived.
Polyolbion, iv. (1612.)
David and Jonathan, inseparable friends. The allusion is to David the Psalmist and Jonathan the son of Saul. David's lamentation at the death of Jonathan was never surpassed in pathos and beauty.—2 Samuel, i. 19-27.
Davie Debet, debt.
So ofte thy neighbors banquet in thy hall,
Till Davie Debet in thy parler stand,
And bids thee welcome to thine own decay.
G. Gascoigne, Magnum Vectigal, etc. (died 1775).
Davie of Stenhonse, a friend of Hobbie Elliott.—Sir W. Scott, The Black Dwarf (time, Anne).
Davies (John), an old fisherman employed by Joshua Geddes the quaker.—Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III).