Tam O' Shanter

• "getting fou and unco happy"
• "That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits out sulky sullen dame"
• "This truth fand honest Tam O' Shanter"
• "Kate's advice!"
• "A blethering, blustering, drunken bellum"
• "She prophesied that late or soon, Thou would be found deep drown'd in Doon; Or chatch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk, By Alloway's auld haunted kirk"
• "The landlady and Tam grew gracious"
• "Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!"
• "Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun rise; That hour, o'nights black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour he mounts his east in"
• "The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last"
• "Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg,"
• "By this time he was cross the ford, Whare, in the snaw, the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane"
• "The doubling storm roars thro' the woods; The lightnings flash from pole to pole; Near and more near the thunders roll: When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees"
• "But Maggie stood right sair astonish'd, Till, by the heel and hand admonish'd , She ventured forward on light; And, vow! Tam saw an unco sight!"
• "Warlocks and witches in a dance, Nae cotillion brent new frae France"
• "He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafterfs a' did dirl.-"
• "devilish cantraip slight"
• "heroic Tam"
• "wee, unchristen'd bairns;"
• "A thief, new-cutted frae the rape, Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled "
• "The grey hairs yet stack to the heft; Wi' mair o' horrible and awefu',"
• "There sat auld Nick [...] To give them music was his charge:"
• "piper loud and louder blew"
• "dancers quick and quicker flew;"
• "And coost her duddies to the wark, And linkit at it in her sark!"
• "A' plump and strapping in their teens, [...] Been snaw-white seventeen hunder linnen!"
• "Thir breeks o'mine, my only pair, That ance were plush, o' gude blue hair, I was hae gi;en them off my hurdies,"
• "Rigwoodie hags was spean a foal"
• "crummock, Twonder didna turn thy stomach."
• "There was e winsome wench and wawlie"
• "Her cutty sark"
• "It was her best, and she was vauntie"
• "for her wee Nannie"
• "But here my Muse her wind maun cour; Sic flights are far beyond her pow'r; To sing how Nannie lap and flang (A souple jade she was, and strang) And how Tam stood, like ane bewitch'd,"
• "Even Satan glowr'd, and fidg'd fu' fain,"
• "Till first ae caper, syne anither, Tam tint his reason a' thegither,"
• "Weel done, Cutty-sark!"
• "Catch the thief!"
• "So Maggie runs, the witches follow,"
• "Ah, Tam! Ah, Tam! thou'll get thy fairin!"