ready-penny

Updated: June 21, 2025

Will he give us beds beside his half-starved nags, and put them under a short allowance of straw, that his sister's husband that I should have called my deceased angel by such a name! and his sister's daughter, may not sleep on the stones? Or will he send us a noble each, with a warning to make it last, for he had never known the ready-penny so hard to come by?

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier