my-neighbour

Updated: May 3, 2025

"For you know," he said, "it was you persuaded me to get these fine things, and go to that godless ordinary, and ruffle it with the best, and bring you home all the news; and you said, I, that was the cock of the ward, would soon be the cock of the ordinary, and would win ten times as much at gleek and primero, as I used to do at put and beggar- my-neighbour and turn up doublets with the dice, as busily as I was wont to trowl down the ninepins in the skittle-ground and then you said I should bring you such news out of the ordinary as should make us all, when used as you knew how to use it and now you see what is to come of it all!"

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel