 | Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810 - 286 pàgines
...free, As first when I saw this country, How blyth and merry wad I be ! And I wad never think lang. He grew canty, and she grew fain ; But little did her auld minny ken What thir slee twa togither were sa/n, When wooing they were sae thrang. And O ! quo' he,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 388 pàgines
...free As first when I saw this countrie, How blythe and merry wad I be, And I wad never think lang ! He grew canty, and she grew fain ; But little did her auld minnie ken What thir slee twa together were sayin', When wooing they were sae thrang. And O ! quo he, an ye were as black... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 414 pàgines
...free As first when I saw this countrie, How blythe and merry wad I be, And I wad never think lang ! He grew canty, and she grew fain ; But little did her auld rsinnie ken What thir alee twa together were sayin', When wooing they were sae thrang. And O ! quo... | |
 | Laughton Osborn - 1831 - 454 pàgines
...stopping but once, to leave George at his own home, arrived at the house of my good Samaritan. CHAPTER VI. He grew canty, and she grew fain : But little did her auld minny ken What thirslee twa togither were say'n, When wooing they were sa tlirang. The Gabcrlunzie... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pàgines
...free As first when I saw this countrie, How blyth and merry wad I be ! And I wad ne'er think lang. He grew canty, and she grew fain ; But little did her auld minny ken What these slee twa together were say'ng, And O ! quo' he, an ye were as black As e'er the... | |
 | 1835 - 418 pàgines
...free As first when I saw this countrie, How blyth and merry wad I be ! And I wad ne'er think lang. He grew canty, and she grew fain ; But little did her auld minny ken What these slee twa together were say'ng, Add O ! -.qu6''ie, an ye were as black As 3-'er-'th~e... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pàgines
...free, As first when I saw this country» How blyth and merry wad 1 be ! And I wad never think lang-. He grew canty, and she grew fain ; But little did her auld minny ken What thir slee twa togither were say'n, When wooing they were sae thrang. And О ! quo* bo,... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1858 - 340 pàgines
...sang. " 0 wow! " quo' he, " were I as free, How blyth and merry wad I be, And I wad never think lang." He grew canty, and she grew fain, But little did her auld minny ken, What thir slee twa togither were say'ng, 15 When wooing they were sae thrang. " And 0 !"... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 336 pàgines
...beggar, &c. Thus he used to visit a smith's daughter at Niddry, near Edinburgh.—2 Vol. II. p. 203. He grew canty, and she grew fain ; But little did her auld minny ken What thir slee twa togither were say'n, 15 When wooing they were sa thrang. 'And O!' quo... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 346 pàgines
...free, As first when I saw this country, How blyth and merry wad I be, And I wad never think lang." He grew canty, and she grew fain, But little did her auld minny ken, What thir slee twa togither were say'ng, When wooing they were sae thrang. " And O ! " quo'... | |
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O wow ! quo' he, were I as free As first when I saw this countrie, How blythe and merry wad I be ! And I wad never think lang. 
