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?

I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly.

Let all predestinators me produce , Who struggle with eternal bonds in vain

I have a lot of equity in my house.