Things gaed weel aneugh at first; for Sir Redwald Redgauntlet, the only son of Sir John, and the oye of auld Sir Robert, and, waes me! the last of the honourable house, took the farm aff our hands, and brought me into his household to have care of me.

He liked music, and I had the best teachers baith England and Scotland could gie me.

Mony a merry year was I wi' him; but waes me! he gaed out with other pretty men in the Forty-five--I'll say nae mair about it--My head never settled weel since I lost him; and if I say another word about it, deil a bar will I have the heart to play the night .-- Look out, my gentle chap,' he resumed in a different tone, 'ye should see the lights at Brokenburn glen by this time.' LETTER XII THE SAME TO THE SAME Tam Luter was their minstrel meet, Gude Lord as he could lance, He play'd sae shrill, and sang sae sweet, Till Towsie took a trance.
Auld Lightfoot there he did forleet, And counterfeited France; He used himself as man discreet, And up took Morrice danse sae loud, At Christ's Kirk on the Green that day.
KING JAMES I.
I continue to scribble at length, though the subject may seem somewhat deficient in interest.

Let the grace of the narrative, therefore, and the concern we take in each other's matters, make amends for its tenuity.

We fools of fancy who suffer ourselves, like Malvolio, to be cheated with our own visions, have, nevertheless, this advantage over the wise ones of the earth, that we have our whole stock of enjoyments under our own command, and can dish for ourselves an intellectual banquet with most moderate assistance from external objects.