Pour into a tall glass and top up with soda. Add a slice of lemon. Scotch Drink Gie him strong Drink until he wink, That’s sinking in despair; An’ liquor guid, to fire his bluid, That’s prest wi’ grief an’ care: There let him bowse an’ deep carouse, Wi’ bumpers flowing o’e...
Hail, thairm-inspirin, rattlin Willie! fiddle string Tho’ Fortune’s road be rough an’ hilly To every fiddling, rhyming billie, fellow We never heed; 5 But take it like th’ unback’d Fillie, unbroken young horse Proud o’ her speed. When, idly goavin, whyles w...
— TO MR. PATRICK MILLER,52DALSWINTON. EDINBURGH, 20th Oct., 1787. SIR, — I was spending a few days at Sir William Murray’s, Ochtertyre, and did not get your obliging letter till to-day I came to town. I was still more unlucky in catching a miserable cold, for which the medical gentlemen have ord...