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One of the few such appropriate transactions I remember was Queen Elizabeth's buying a poem from Sir Philip Sidney, literally, with a lock of her 'gowden hair. Poem and lock now lie together at Wilton, both untouched of time. Or was it that Sir Philip Sidney paid for the lock with his poem? However it was, the exchange was appropriate.
Ye'll have hair, and routh of hair, a pigtail as thick's my arm, I said, 'and the bonniest colour like the clear gowden guineas, so as the lads in kirk'll no can keep their eyes off it! Weel, it lasted out her time, puir thing! I cuttit a lock of it upon her corp that was lying there sae cauld. I'll show it ye some of thir days if ye're good. But, as I was sayin', my mither "
I heard the cushie croon Thro' the gowden afternoon, And the Quair burn singing doon to the vale o' Tweed." There is in the country of Scott no pleasanter walk than that which Dr. Brown took in the summer afternoon.
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