Great shame it is , thing fo divine in view , Made for to be the worlds most ornament, To make the bayte her gazers to embrew

In the exhilarating hope of reaching London on a scale of expence so suitable to her scanty means, and under some sort of protection, it was not in the power of Sir Jacob nor his companion entirely to unharmonize her mind.

Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

Blyth , blyth , blyth was she, Blyth was she but and ben; And well the loo'd a Hawick gill, And leugh to see a tappit hen