Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
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Page 161
... hame This song makes rich play with a number of weaving terms and punned Scots : ' mug ' and ' stinking sowen ' , for example can refer in common usage to a mug and a strong - smelling dish of fermented oatmeal , but ' mug ' was also ...
... hame This song makes rich play with a number of weaving terms and punned Scots : ' mug ' and ' stinking sowen ' , for example can refer in common usage to a mug and a strong - smelling dish of fermented oatmeal , but ' mug ' was also ...
Page 175
... hame , Their pot to cook , An ' teach his boys to write a theme , And mind their book . Then may they sit at hame , an ' please Themsells wi ' gathering in their fees , While I must face mine enemies , Or shaw my dock ; There's odds ...
... hame , Their pot to cook , An ' teach his boys to write a theme , And mind their book . Then may they sit at hame , an ' please Themsells wi ' gathering in their fees , While I must face mine enemies , Or shaw my dock ; There's odds ...
Page 238
... hame , And she plays the deel wi ' his gear ; She neither has lawtith nor shame , And keeps the hale house in a steer . She's barmy - fac'd , thriftless and bauld , And gars me aft fret and repine ; While hungry , ha'f - naked and cauld ...
... hame , And she plays the deel wi ' his gear ; She neither has lawtith nor shame , And keeps the hale house in a steer . She's barmy - fac'd , thriftless and bauld , And gars me aft fret and repine ; While hungry , ha'f - naked and cauld ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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