A Book of Scotish Pasquils. 1568-1715 |
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Advocate afterwards Alexander amongst Andrew Archibald Pitcairn Argyle Assembly Baillie Balfour Bishop Brodie Burnet called cause causse Charles church Court Covenant Covenanters curse Curst dainty damn'd daughter David death Devil died doth Duke Duke of Hamilton Earl of Leven Edin Edinburgh England Faculty of Advocates father Fountainhall Frome George Glasgow grace Hamilton hath heir hell honour Jacobite James Stewart James VII King James kirk knaves Lady Laird land Lauderdale Libera Lord Lord Advocate Lord Fountainhall Lord Hatton Lordship lyes lyke Majesty Marquis married Melville minister Montrose Mylne's ne'er never Parliament Pasquil Peat Peers Pitcairn Popery pray preach Presbyterian Prince printed Provost Queen quhat quhen quho religion reverend Robert Mylne rogue satire Scotish Scotland Scots Sibbald Sir John Stair thee ther There's thesse thou Traquair tyme verses Viscount Whigs wife William wiser Wodrow
Popular passages
Page 156 - To Banbury came I, O profane one, Where I saw a Puritane one Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Page 234 - em cruel and fair; Which justly provokes me in rhime to express The truth that I know of bonny black Bess." This Bess of my heart, this Bess of my soul, Has a skin white as milk, and hair black as...
Page 399 - With a good natural understanding, a great fluency in speaking and no ill taste of wit, he is generally the worst companion in the world; his thoughts being wholly taken up between vice and politics, so that bawdy, prophaneness and business fill up his whole conversation.
Page 345 - ... much too gentle an appellation ; for, though from the time he first had a regiment, being under twenty years of age, through the whole course of his great employments, he was never known to sell a place, or even to make those advantages which were universally esteemed allowable and blameless; yet he was in his own person a most shameless prostitute to power, and extremely avaricious : he indeed would sell nothing but himself, which he continually did, with every circumstance of levity, weakness,...
Page 299 - An Account of Scotland's Grievances by reason of the Duke of Lauderdale's Ministry, humbly tendered to his Sacred Majesty.
Page 233 - Some had fierie peats for matches, Some had bows, but wanted arrows, Some had pistols without marrows, Some the coulter of a plough, Some had syths, men and horse to hough, And some with a Lochaber axe Resolved to gie Dalziel his paiks.
Page 361 - Betwixt man and man, where he had no particular concern, he was just, but extremely partial where his friend or his own politics interfered. He had a sound, solid judgment, but all his actions were accompanied with so much pride, vanity, ill-nature, and severity. But he was odious to everybody.
Page 234 - squire, the arranter clown, At home she subdued in her paragon gown ; But now she adorns both the boxes and pit, And the proudest...
Page 399 - Thomas, Earl of Wharton, lord lieutenant of Ireland, by the force of a wonderful constitution, has some years passed his grand climacteric, without any visible effects of old age, either on his body or his mind; and in spite of a continual prostitution to those vices, which usually wear out both. His behaviour is in all the forms of a young man at five-and-twenty. Whether he walks, or whistles, or swears, or talks bawdy, or calls names, he acquits himself in each, beyond a templar of three years...
Page 331 - Menie the daughter, and Willie the cheater, There's Geordie the drinker, and Annie the eater; Where shall ye see such, or find such a soudy ? Bannocks of bear meal, cakes of croudy. Next comes our statesmen, these blessed reformers, For lying, for drinking, for swearing, enormous; Argyle and brave Morton, and Willie my Lordie; Bannocks of bear meal, cakes of croudy. My curse on the grain of this hale reformation, The reproach of mankind and disgrace of our nation; Deil hash them, deil smash them,...