But ne'er a groat's in pouch of mine— "Deil care- for that I'se never start, Carle, now the King's come! "I'll show him mason-work this day- "I'll show him wit, I'll show him lair, And what wad kind heart wish for mair?- "Step out, Sir John,' of projects rife, 1[The Right honourable Sir John Sinclair of Ulster, Bart., author of "The Code of Health and Longevity," &c. &c.,—the well-known patron and projector of national and patriotic plans and improvements innumerable during a lifetime of now about fourscore years. 1833.] |