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And he cursed and damned at them, and they swure at him; and that Meg Merrilies, that was the maist powerfu' with the Enemy of Mankind, she as gude as said she would have him, body and soul, before three days were ower his head.
The chronicler adds: "Then said King Henry, 'Maist happy people shall they be that happens to get yon noble man to their prince." It is a pity that we have no more trustworthy proof of this charming story.
A muckle pairt o' the nicht he wins ower in loein at you and his mother. 'And yersel, Kirsty. 'I'm thinkin I hae my share i' the daytime. 'And hoo, think ye, gangs the lave o' the nicht wi' 'im? 'The bonny man has the maist o' 't, I dinna doobt, and what better cud we desire for 'im!
Mony ane, I'm thinking, is keepit frae fa'in, jist because she's no far eneuch on to get the guid o' the shame, but would jist sink farther and farther!" "But Eppie tells me that maist o' them 'at trips gangs on fa'in, and never wins up again."
Come wi' me just come ye wi' me; and, if a little spell of siller and a great deal of excellent counsel can relieve your occasions, all I can say is, you have had the luck to meet one capable of giving you both, and maist willing to bestow them."
So did the master and purser and Mr McGilpin, the assistant-surgeon; the latter saying that he had no stomach for consorting with "the meeletary," they being "a maist feckless set o' loons."
M'Adam, as'd pit aside his chanst o' the Cup, and that 'maist a gift for him" M'Adam's tongue was in his cheek "and it a certainty," the old man continued warmly, "oot o' respect for his wife's memory." The news was received in utter silence. The shock of the surprise, coupled with the bitterness of the disappointment, froze the slow tongues of his listeners.
But the intellect is, so much oftener than by love, seen and felt to be sharpened by necessity and greed, that it is not surprising such a prejudice should exist. "Tak 'im roon' to the door." "Whaur got ye 'im?" "Ye wad best get 'im in at the window upo' the stair." "He'll be maist hungert." "Ye'll be some weet, I'm thinkin'!" "Come awa' up the stair, an' tell's a' aboot it."
"And that's what vexes me maist of a'," said the cooper, anxious to get some one to sympathise with his not altogether causeless anger; "an the quean had gien it to ony suffering sant, or to ony body ava but that reaving, lying, oppressing Tory villain, that rade in the wicked troop of militia when it was commanded out against the sants at Bothwell Brig by the auld tyrant Allan Ravenswood, that is gane to his place, I wad the less hae minded it.
Says he, ae day, "Robert, my man, gin ye will aye unnerstan' afore ye du as ye're tellt, ye'll never unnerstan' onything. But gin ye du the thing I tell ye, ye'll be i' the mids o' 't afore ye ken 'at ye're gaein' intil 't." I jist thocht I wad try him. It was at lang division that I boglet maist. Weel, I gaed on, and I cud du the thing weel eneuch, ohn made ae mistak.
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