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Sop to Cerebus.
If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.
Sop to Cerebus.
If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.
You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life.
You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
Men's language is as their lives.
Men's language is as their lives.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Care, mad to see a man sae happy,
E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
Care, mad to see a man sae happy,
E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
