Legal and other lyrics; with explantory notes and a glossary . mithera weep, an Bona look pale, An say grace oeiA hone I men do oer their kail. 40 WISHES. Go to the court o last resort For the sake o your poor family. The Lords sustain ! My clients gane—Hes ruined—but Ive got my fee! I wish I was a Brute Beast!To live in some sequestered vale, Frae friends and loves remote placed,An neer see man, an wag my tail! To chow on a knoweA the herbs, an flowers, an grassy blades, An tread ower the head0 gowans never touched wi spades:I d never see a friendly face, Sae nae friend wad prove fause to me;
Legal and other lyrics; with explantory notes and a glossary . mithera weep, an Bona look pale, An say grace oeiA hone I men do oer their kail. 40 WISHES. Go to the court o last resort For the sake o your poor family. The Lords sustain ! My clients gane—Hes ruined—but Ive got my fee! I wish I was a Brute Beast!To live in some sequestered vale, Frae friends and loves remote placed,An neer see man, an wag my tail! To chow on a knoweA the herbs, an flowers, an grassy blades, An tread ower the head0 gowans never touched wi spades:I d never see a friendly face, Sae nae friend wad prove fause to me;Id never ken the human race,Xor ever curse humanity ! I wish I was a Imltie!(> brandy, rum, or what you please, In some frequented hotel,Where gude souls tak their bread an cheese; To fill out a gillFor some pnii chield that wants a trade— I )r pass oer the hassI> .some blythe rantin, roarin blade ; WISHES. 41 An while unscrewed, Id sit an brood,An think mysel weel blessed to ken That when I deed Id spend my bluidTo purchase joy for honest men !. * 42 THE FACULTY ROLL. Ix regard to this and the other lyrics which maybe classed as Legal, it may be interesting to non-professional readers to know something of the gen-tlemen of the Scottish Bar who are referred to, andto have explanations of the technical terms whichoccur. These are given in the notes appended. The Faculty of Advocates is a very ancient body,not formally incorporated, but having most of thequalities and privileges of a corporation. Itsmembers have the right of pleading causes in theCourt of Session and High Court of Justiciary, andthe other Scottish Courts, and they have, generally,the Bame position and duties as Barristers have inthe Supreme Courts of England. The Faculty ispresided over by a Dean and a Vice-Dean, theoffices of hotli being honorary. Its members form;i importanl branch of the Scottish College of THE FACULTY EOLL. 43 Justice, which was instituted in May 1532, inthe reign of King James V.
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