 That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles...  Poems: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Page 203by Robert Burns - 1797Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1896 - 284 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Poets, Scottish - 1896 - 710 pages
...lang, the Ihundcr bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English language - 1896 - 414 pages
...LIFT MY gam, I drink your health against the wall I 3. (old).— To walk. 1791. BURNS, Tarn O'Shanter. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never LIFTED LEG. To GET A LEG IN, verb. phr. (common). — To obtain one's confidence. 1891. N. GOULD, Double Event,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Poets, Scottish - 1896 - 710 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tarn skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his glide... | |
 | Gordon Stables - Adventure stories - 1899 - 328 pages
...weather was, Craig would be in it, wind or rain, hail or snow. Like Burns's Tam o' Shanter was Craig. " Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire, Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 338 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit ' on thro' dub and mire, - Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles ' holding fast his gude... | |
 | John Ebenezer Bryant - 1899 - 328 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit ' on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles 2 holding fast his gude... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - English poetry - 1900 - 220 pages
...lang the thunder bellow'd. That night, a child might understand, The De'il had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on, thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
 | 1900 - 668 pages
...Shanter.' The route pursued by Tarn, on the memorable night of his adventure with the witches, when ' Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg — A better never lifted leg — He skelpit on through dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire — lay considerably westward... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1901 - 444 pages
...lang, the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The Deil had business on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire ; Whiles holding fast his gude blue... | |
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