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" Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street, The bells are rung backward, the drums they are beat; But the Provost, douce man, said, 'Just e'en let him be, The Gude Town is weel quit of that Deil of Dundee. "
The Doom of Devorgoil: A Malo-drama ; Auchindrake : Or, the Ayrshire Tragedy - Page 77
by Walter Scott - 1830 - 337 pages
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Notes of a journey in the north of Ireland, in ... 1827, to which is added ...

Ireland - 1828 - 212 pages
...rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Kach carline was flyting and shaking her pow ; But some young plants of grace — they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking — Luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dundee. Come, fill up, AC. With sour-featured saints the Grass-market was pang'd, As if half...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Each carline was flyting and shaking her pow ; But some young plants of grace — they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking — Luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dundee. With sour-featured saints the Grass-market was pang'd, As if half the west had set tryste...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 37, Issue 73

1828 - 598 pages
...rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Each carline was flyting and shaking her pow ; But some young plants of grace — they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking — Luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dundee. Come, fill up, &c. With With sour-featured saints the Grass-market was pang'd, As if...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Each carline was flyting and shaking her pow ; But some young plants of grace — they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking— Luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dundee. With sour-featured saints the Grass-market was pang'd, As if half the west had set tryste...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: First Series, Containing Minstrelsy ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...Town is weel quit of that Deil of Dundee." Come fill up my cup, etc. As he rode down the sanclified bends of the Bow, Ilk carline was flyting and shaking...her pow, But the young plants of grace they look'd coulhie and slee, Thinking, luck to thy bonnet, Ihou Bonny Dundee! Come fill up my cup, etc. with sour-featured...
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Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland

Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1845 - 572 pages
...rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Each carline was fly ting and shaking her pow ; But some young plants of grace, they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking— Luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dundee ! Come, fill up, &c. With sour-featured saints the Grassmarket was pang'd, As if half...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Just e'en let him be, The Gude Town is weel guit of that Deil of Dundee!" Come fill up the cup. &c. As he rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow Ilk...shaking her pow; But the young plants of grace they looked cowthie and slee, Thikinng luck to thy bonnet, thou Bonny Dundee ! Come fill up my cup, &c....
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 9

Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 456 pages
...very few of the most resolute continued their attendance."— DALRYMPLE'S Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 305.] But the young plants of grace they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking, luck to thy bonnet, Ihon Bonny Dundee! Come fill up my cup, &c. With sour-featured Whigs the Grassmarket was cramm'd, As...
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Guy Livingstone: Or, "Thorough".

George Alfred Lawrence - English fiction - 1857 - 350 pages
...spy out the joints in his harness. CHAPTER V. " As he rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, Each carline was flyting and shaking her pow ; But the young Plants of Grace they looked couthie and slee, Saying, ' Luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dundee.' " IN the autumn of that...
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Memorials and Letters Illustrative of the Life and Times of John ..., Volume 2

Mark Napier - Scotland - 1862 - 474 pages
...Methven, the Sevigne of the Conventicle troubles, would have enjoyed and described the scene I " And some young plants of grace, they look'd couthie and slee, Thinking — luck to your bonnet, my bonny Dundee." But, however suitable for the house of Commons, we have no disposition...
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