 | Robert Chambers - 1858 - 574 pages
...metamorphosis which Scotchmen were understood to have undergone after their migration into England: ' Bonny Scot, we all witness can, That England hath made thee a gentleman. Thy blue bonnet, when thou came hither, Could scaree keep out the wind and weather ; But now it is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 pages
...of iron made ; But now a long rapier doth hang by his side, And hufflngly doth this bonny Scot ride. Bonny Scot we all witness can, That "England hath made thee a gentleman." There caflbe little doubt that the covert reference of this satire was to the kin»; himself, and it... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1870 - 546 pages
...Scots, one has been preserved, which, being clever and not venomous, is really descriptive : — " Bonny Scot, we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman. Thy blue bonnet, when thou came hither, Could- scarce keep out the wind and weather ; But now it is... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1873 - 480 pages
...of iron made : But now a long rapier doth hang by his side, And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Bonny Scot, we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman." The modern poor-law policy is to keep out of the union the stranger likely to become chargeable. There... | |
 | Patrick Hannay, David Laing - 1875 - 348 pages
...Monarch of all Scotland had not fuch a fum in his Treafury. The cafe is altered, I perceive, at prefent; but whom have you to thank for it? " Bonny Scot, we all witnefs can That England hath made thee a gentleman."1 Such a ftatement might have been more probable... | |
 | Robert Menzies Fergusson - 1899 - 574 pages
...capital. Among the many lampoons upon this class the following is both clever and descriptive :— " Bonny Scot, we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman. Thy blue bonnet, when thou came hither, Could scarce keep out the wind and weather; But now it is turned... | |
 | William Mackay Mackenzie - 1910 - 544 pages
...made the Scots most unpopular with the English, who saw their old enemies enriched at their expense. ' Bonny Scot, we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman." The Scottish Privy Council had at last to forbid their countrymen crossing the Tweed without perI mission.... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1920 - 760 pages
...of iron made; But now a long rapier doth hang by his side, And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Bonny Scot, we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman. In 1607 James addressed his English Parliament in tones of remonstrance, chiding those who talked of... | |
 | Robert S. Rait - 750 pages
...of iron made; But now a long rapier doth hang by his side, And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Bonny Scot, we all witness can That England hath made thee a gentleman. In 16o7 James addressed his English Parliament in tones of remonstrance, chiding those who talked of... | |
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You seem to forget that three shillings sterling is near two pounds Scots, and that there has been a time when the mighty and puissant Monarch of all Scotland had not such a sum in his Treasury. The case is altered, I perceive, at present; but whom have... 
