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The Kettle o' the Kirk and State, Perhaps a clout may fail in't; But deil a foreign tinkler loun Shall ever ca'a nail in't.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
"Thou shalt not yield to lord or loun, Nor yet shalt thou yield to me; But yield thee to the bracken-bush That grows on yonder lily lea!"
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
Then Lizie laid doun her silk mantle, And put on her waiting-maid’s goun, And aff and awa’ to the Hielands She’s gane wi’ this young shepherd loun.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
A Lord may be a lousy loun, Wi' ribband, star and a' that.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
And they have tied him hand and foot, And led him up, thro’ Stirling town; The lads and lasses met him there, Cried, Hughie Graham, thou art a loun.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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