42. FOR A'THAT AND A'THAT. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a'that? The coward slave, we pass him by, Our toils obscure, and a'that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp ; What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a'that. For a'that, and a'that, Their tinsel show, and a'that; An honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o'men for a'that. Ye see yon birkie,2 ca'd a lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a'that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, For a'that, and a'that, His riband, star and a'that; The man of independent mind, A prince can mak a belted knight, But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! For a'that, and a'that, Their dignities, and a'that, 1 humble. 2 a clever fellow. 3 a blockhead. G The pith o'sense, and pride o'worth, Then let us pray, that come it may, When sense and worth, o'er a'the earth, Shall bear the gree,* and a'that: For a'that, and a'that, It's coming yet, for a'that, That man to man, the warld o'er, Shall brothers be for a'that. Burns. 43.-FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN. YOUNG BEN he was a nice young man, A carpenter by trade; And he fell in love with Sally Brown, That was a lady's maid. But as they fetch'd a walk one day, And Sally she did faint away, Whilst Ben he was brought to The boatswain swore with wicked words, Enough to shock a saint, That though she did seem in a fit, 'Twas nothing but a feint. "Come, girl," said he, "hold up your head, "He'll be as good as me ; "For when your swain is in our boat, "A boatswain he will be." So when they'd made their game of her, 4 be the victor. She roused and found she only was "And is he gone, and is he gone?" A waterman came up to her, 66 If you weep on so, you will make "Eye-water in the sea." "Alas! they've taken my beau Ben "To sail with old Benbow; And her woe began to run afresh, Says he, "They've only taken him "The Tender ship," cried Sally Brown, "What a hard-ship that must be ! "O! would I were a mermaid now "For then I'd follow him; "But oh! I'm not a fish-woman, "And so I cannot swim. "Alas! I was not born beneath "The Virgin and the Scales, "So I must curse my cruel stars, Now Ben had sail'd to many a place But in two years the ship came home, But when he call'd on Sally Brown, He found she'd got another Ben, "O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown, "I've met with many a breeze before, "But never such a blow." Then reading on his 'bacco-box, He heaved a bitter sigh, And then began to eye his pipe, And then to pipe his eye. And then he tried to sing "All's Well," But could not though he tried ; His head was turn'd, and so he chew'd His death, which happen'd in his berth, At forty-odd befell; They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell. 44. CHEVY CHASE. THE Percy out of Northumberland, And a vow to God made he, That he would hunt in the mountains Of Cheviot within days three, In the maugre of 1 doughty Douglas, And all that with him be. The fattest harts in all Cheviot He said he would kill, and carry away; 1 in spite of. Hood. "By my faith," said the doughty Douglas again, "I will let that hunting if I may.” Then the Percy out of Barnborough came, And with him a mighty meynè,3 Fifteen hundred archers, of blood and bone, They were chosen out of shires three. This began on a Monday at morn, The child may rue it that is unborn; The drivers through the woodès went, Bowmen bicker'd upon the bent 5 Then the wild thorough the woodès went, Greyhounds through the greves" glent? They began in Cheviot, the hills above, By that it drew to the hour of noon, They blew a snort upon the bent, He said, "It was the Douglas's promise |