 | James White - 1859 - 108 pages
...drown'd in Doon; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk.. Ah, gentle dames; it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The husband free the wife despises! But to our tale :—Ae market night, Tarn had got planted unco right; Fast... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...Alloway's auld haunted kirk." The arch reference to lengthy conjugal counsels \— " Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises !" The conyivial exultation of the reprobate... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...me clutch thee. SIIAKSPERK.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene L (Macbeth solus.") DAMES.—Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet,...sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises! BCBXS.—Tarn o'Shanter, Line 33! DAMN.—Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 pages
...drown'd in Doon; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet,...sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises! But to our tale: Ae market night, Tarn had got planted unco right; Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely,... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 pages
...drown'd in Doon ; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames, it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices The husband fra the wife despises ! Fast by an ingle bleezing finely, Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely ;... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 pages
...in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet, To think how monie counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises ! reach. However, the unsightly, tail-less condition of the vigorous steed was to the last hour of... | |
 | 1869 - 100 pages
...gentle Burns sigh over the perverseness of husbands and the patience of wives. " Ah gentle dames ! it gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet....sage advices The husband frae the wife despises"— And, as my lord Bacon saith, " No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of... | |
 | Tom Hood - Wit and humor - 1869 - 292 pages
...drown'd in Doon; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames, it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices The husband fra the wife despises ! But to our tale. Ae market night, Tarn had got planted unco right Fast by an... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 264 pages
...in Doon; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in tlvc vakk, By Alloway's auld haunted, "^vck.. An, gentle dames, it gars me greet, To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage ad-rices The husband fra the wife despises ! But to our tale. Ae market night, Tarn had got planted... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1870 - 352 pages
...in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet, To think how monie counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises! reach. However, the unsightly, tail-less condition of the vigorous steed was to the last hour of the... | |
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It gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices The husband frae the wife despises. 
