He schawd me to the low cellars,

And that was waurst of a’.

Q

Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, ed. Allardyce, 1888, II, 272, in a letter from Sharpe to W. Scott [1823].

1

The Duke of York was my father,

My mother a lady free,

Myself a dainty damosell,

Queen Marie sent for me.

2