Miscellanea
But to see her was to love her Love but her, and love for ever.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind.
Gin a body meet a body Coming through the rye; Gin a body kiss a body– Need a body cry?
A man’s a man for a’ that.
Green grow the rushes O, Green grow the rushes O; The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, Are spent among the lasses O!
Some have meat and cannot eat, Some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.
A fig for those by law protected! Liberty’s a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn.
O my Luve’s like a red red rose, That’s newly sprung in June: O my Luve’s like the melodie, That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!
Nae man can tether time or tide.
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us! It wad frea mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley.
And my fause lover stole my rose, But ah! he left the thorn wi’ me.
A man may drink an no be drunk; A man may fight and no be slain; A man may kiss a bonnie lass, And aye be welcome back again.
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