The depredations of the age and its lack of discipline, the ill work of the rebelsome drunken youth was made good again as each stone was fitted roughly where it had gone before.

Confidently expecting that you will comply with this request, which is the sequence of your expressed desire, I remain, sir, yours, with the respect offered to a sincere withstander, RUFUS LYON.

The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like start, stop.

Dinna forespeak them, woman! dinna forespeak them! said the man with a dark frown, and with equal earnestness, but with a tinge of superstitious alarm in his voice and manner. They wud fain hae your good word, an' no your evil tongue with them; and so come, good wife, tell us what ken ye—what's biding them?—come, what have they to do?