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" Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlin' ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre gauze and lace, Tho'faith! I fear ye dine but sparely On sic a place.
Ye ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, Detested, shunned by saint an' sinner, How daur ye set your fit upon her -- Sae fine a lady! Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner On some poor body.
Swith! in some begger's hauffet squattle: There ye may creep and sprawl and sprattle, Wi'ither kindred, jumping cattle, In shoals and nations; Whare horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle Your thick plantations.
Now haud you there! ye're out o' sight, Below the fatt'rils, snug and tight; Na, faith ye yet! ye'll no be right Till ye've got on it-- The vera tapmost, tow'ring height O' Miss's bonnet.
My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out, As plump an' grey as onie grozet; O for some rank, mercurial rozet; Or fell red smeddum, I'd gie ye sic a heartly dose o't, Wad dress your droddum.
I wad na been suprised to spy You on an auld wife's flainen toy; Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On 's wyliecoat; But Miss's fine Lunardi! fye! How daur ye do't?
O Jenny, dinna toss your head, An, set your beauties a' abread! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin'! Thae winks an' finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin'!
O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as inthers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion; What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion! [To A Louse, On Seeing One On a Lady's Bonnet at Church]"
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