Slaughter a tender lamb as dead as mutton,
Indeed, indeed you're very, very sick!
Horace and James Smith—Rejected Addresses.
56. Where'er that place the priests ca' hell,
Whence a' the tones of misery yell,
And ranked plagues their numbers tell,
In dreadfu' row,
Thou, toothache, surely bear'st the bell
Amang them a'!
Burns.