 Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a  Transactions - Page 120by Philosophical Society of Aberdeen - 1900Full view - About this book
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 pages
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put Kfe and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. VOL. II. 3 R Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses j... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...France, But horupipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels, A winnock-bnnker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round, like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1815 - 364 pages
...shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, blaek, grim, and large, To gie them musie was his eharge : He serew'd the pipes and gart them skirl, 'Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses ; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; Arid by some devilish... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 406 pages
...brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock- bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick,...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl — Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...mettle in their heels. As winnock-bunker, in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast ,A touzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And, by some... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o' beast...them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some devilish... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick,...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pages
...strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There set auld Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black,...them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.— Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses, And by some devilish... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick,...gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. — Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses ; And by some... | |
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