 | Robert Fergusson - 1773 - 344 oldal
...sot;" They trail'd him ben, and, by my saul, He paid his drucken groat For that neist day. Gude fouk! as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black...hae to fear Your death that day. A wee soup drink does unco weel, To haud the heart aboon; It's gude, as lang's a canny chiel' Can stand steeve in his... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1800 - 250 oldal
...sot." They trail'd him ben, an' by my saul, He paid his drucken groat For that neist day. Gude fock as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black...hae to fear Your death that day. A wee soup drink does unco weel To had the heart aboon ; It's gude as lang's a canny chiel Can stand sleeve in his shoon,... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 oldal
...sot :" They trail'd him ben, and by my saul, He paid his drucken groat For that neist day. Gude fouk, as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black...hae to fear Your death that day. A wee soup drink does unco weel, To haud the heart aboon ; It's gude, as lang's a canny chiel Can stand steeve in his... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 oldal
...sot :" They trail'd him ben, and by my saul, He paid his drucken groat For that neist day. Gude fouk, as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black squad ; There's nae sic savages elsewhere AUow'd to wear cockade. Than the strong lion's hungry maw, Or tusk o' Russian bear, Frae their wanruly... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1812 - 274 oldal
...sot :" They trail'd him ben, and by my saul. He paid his drucken groat For that neist day. Gude fouk, as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black...paw Mair cause ye hae to fear Your death that day. HALLOW FAIR. A wee soup drink does unco wee), To haud the heart aboon ; It's gude, as lang's a canny... | |
 | Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 oldal
...:" They troil'd him ben, an' by my saul, He paid his drucken groat For that neist day. Gude fouk ! as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black...There's nae sic savages elsewhere Allow'd to wear cockad'. Than the strong lion's hungry maw, Or tusk o' Russian bear, Frae their wanruly fellin' paw... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1821 - 278 oldal
...There's nae sic savages elsewhere Allow'd to wear cockad'. Than the strong lion's hungry maw, Or tusk <>' Russian bear, Frae their wanruly fellin' paw Mair cause ye hae to fear Your death that day. F A wee soup drink does unco weel, To baud the heart aboon ; It's gude, as lang's a canny chiel' Can... | |
 | 1834 - 222 oldal
...Edinburgh, Ferguson the poet has left the following, by no means flattering picture: — " Gudc folk, as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black...There's nae sic savages elsewhere, Allow'd to wear cockad." This Guardhouse, which was taken down in 1787, was a long, low, ugly building, having a cellar... | |
 | Charles Lesingham Smith - 1835 - 156 oldal
...succeeded, however, in inspiring fear as well as hatred, is evident from the following : Gude fonk ! as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black...There's nae sic savages elsewhere Allow'd to wear cockad' ! Than the strong lion's hungry maw, Or tusk o' Russian bear, Frae their wanruly fellin' paw... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 676 oldal
..."poet laureate, thus admonishes his readers, warned doubtless by his own experience : " Gude folk, as ye come frae the fair, Bide yont frae this black squad ; There's nae sic savages elsewhere Allowed to wear cockad.'' In fact, the soldiers of the City Guard, being, as we have said, in general... | |
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Ferguson, whose irregularities sometimes led him into unpleasant rencontres with these military conservators of public order, and who mentions them so often that he may be termed their poet... 
