Fill round to my good friends and guests till the wine leap over the cup.

Prosperity to St.Johnston, and a merry welcome to you all, my honest friends! And now sit you to eat a morsel, for the sun is high up, and it must be long since you thrifty men have broken your fast." "Before we eat, my Lord Provost," said the bailie, "let us tell you the pressing cause of our coming, which as yet we have not touched upon." "Nay, prithee, bailie," said the provost, "put it off till thou hast eaten.

Some complaint against the rascally jackmen and retainers of the nobles, for playing at football on the streets of the burgh, or some such goodly matter." "No, my lord," said Craigdallie, stoutly and firmly.

"It is the jackmen's masters of whom we complain, for playing at football with the honour of our families, and using as little ceremony with our daughters' sleeping chambers as if they were in a bordel at Paris.

A party of reiving night walkers--courtiers and men of rank, as there is but too much reason to believe--attempted to scale the windows of Simon Glover's house last night; they stood in their defence with drawn weapons when they were interrupted by Henry Smith, and fought till they were driven off by the rising of the citizens." "How!" said Sir Patrick, setting down the cup which he was about to raise to his head.