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O what a canty world were it, Would pain and care and sickness spare it; And Fortune favour worth and merit As they deserve; And aye rowth o' roast-beef and claret, Syne, wha wad starve?
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
"Eh, you've rowth o' friends, you're a teeran crew, but I cares laal for any on you."
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
Tho' I should wander Terra o'er, In all her climes, Grant me but this, I ask no more, Aye rowth o' rhymes.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Yet thae uncovenanted shavers Hae rowth, ye say, o' clash and clavers O' gods and etins—auld wives' havers, But their delight; The voice o' him that tells them quavers Just wi' fair fright.
From Ban and Arriere Ban by Lang, Andrew
There's rowth a parcels for ye at John Sharpe's door, yonder.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
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