Literary by-paths in old England . Poosie Nansies, Mauchline the past hundred years, and the position of thestreet, with the church at the end, provides anilluminating comment on that verse of TheHoly Fair which records how . . Peebles, frae the water-fitAscends the holy rostrum :See, up he s got the word o God,202 IN OLD ENGLAND An meek an mim has viewd it,While Common-sense has taen the road,An aff, an up the CowgateFast, fast that day. At the corner of the Cowgate stands PoosieNansies hostel, bearing upon its gable-end the. Nanse Tinnocks legend that it is The Jolly Beggars the time
Literary by-paths in old England . Poosie Nansies, Mauchline the past hundred years, and the position of thestreet, with the church at the end, provides anilluminating comment on that verse of TheHoly Fair which records how . . Peebles, frae the water-fitAscends the holy rostrum :See, up he s got the word o God,202 IN OLD ENGLAND An meek an mim has viewd it,While Common-sense has taen the road,An aff, an up the CowgateFast, fast that day. At the corner of the Cowgate stands PoosieNansies hostel, bearing upon its gable-end the. Nanse Tinnocks legend that it is The Jolly Beggars the time of Burns this cottage was a lodging-house for vagrants, and it seems that the poetand some of his companions were wont to dropin occasionally late at night to see the maimedand blind in their undress of sound limbs andopened eyes. 203 LITERARY BY-PATHS Ae night at een a merry coreO randie, gangrel bodies,In Poosie Nansies held the splore,To drink their orra quaffing an laughing They ranted an they sang ;Wi jumping an thumping,The vera girdle rang. Another resort of Burns in these Mauchlinedays has honourable mention in one of his earlypoems. Towards the close of The AuthorsEarnest Cry and Prayer, he exclaims : Tell yon guid bluid o auld Bonconnocks,I 11 be his debt twa mashlum bonnocks,An drink his health in auld Nanse Tinnoeks Nine times a week,If he some scheme, like tea and winnocks, Wad kindly seek. In a footnote to the name of Nanse Tinnockthe poet explained that she was a worthy oldhostess of the auth
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