 | Robert Burns - 1793 - 420 pages
...dreffes ; And by fome devilifh cantnu'p flight Each in his cauld hand htH a light By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ; Twa fpan-Iang, wee, unchriften'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his laft... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1794 - 300 pages
...by fome devilifli cantraip flight . , Each in its cauld hand held alight.— . . By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, : A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Twa fpan-lang, wee, unchriften'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, , • Wi' his... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1798 - 308 pages
...; And by fome devilifh cantrip flight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. — By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa fpan-lang, wee, unchriften'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his laft... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1800 - 300 pages
...: And by fome devilifh cantrip flight, Each in its cauld hand held a light.— By which, heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa fpan-lang, wee, unchriften'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his lafl... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...linen, a sort of cupboards. 15 Shaw'd, shewed. '6 Cantrip, a charm, pr spell. '7 Cauld, cold. K 2 1O By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly * table, A murderer's banes* in gibbet aims;3 Twa span-lang,4 wee,* unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape,6 Wi' his... | |
 | David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...their last dresses j And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. By this heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ; Twa-span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape ; , Wi' his... | |
 | James Storer, John Greig - Scotland - 1805 - 116 pages
...presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light, By which heroic Tarn was...To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims; Tvva span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 330 pages
...And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light. — By \vJiioh heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet airns ; Twa-span lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutteU frae a rape, \Vi' his... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 416 pages
...; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light.— By which, heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns ; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last... | |
 | 1812 - 140 pages
...dresses : An' by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light ; By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in gibbet aims ; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns . A thief new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his last... | |
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Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape ; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted ; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled ; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o... 
