To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened, sage advices The husband frae the wife despises!
So Maggie runs, the witches follow Wi' monie an eldritch skreech and hollow, Ah, Tam!
Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be; For monie a heart thou hast made sair, That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee.
With lokkes lefliche ant longe, With frount ant face feir to fonge, With murthes moniemote heo monge, That brid so breme in boure.
There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And monie a hill between, But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean.
I passe not for my monie it cost, Though some I spent and some I lost, I wanted neither sod nor roast, As if it had been in London.
And never a man that went abroade, But thought his monie well bestowde, And monie laide in heap and loade, As if it had been at London.
For I brocht as much white monie As gane my men and me, An' I brocht a half-fou o' gude red gowd Out ower the sea wi' me.
It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
About the same time, Henrie duke of Suaben came into England from the emperour Otho, and receiving no small portion of monie of the king, departed backe into his owne countrie againe.
Also he sent a power to the towne of Lin, which conquered the same, and tooke the citizens prisoners, causing them to paie great summes of monie for their ransoms.
They constreined the townes of Yermouth, Dunwich & Gipswich, to pay to them great summes of monie by waie of ransoming.
He was woont to haue this saieng in his mouth, that better it was that the subiects should haue store of monie and riches, than the prince to kéepe it close in his treasurie, where it serued to no vse.
Henrie Braie escheator, and the iudges ouer the Iewes, were reported to haue committed manie greeuous offenses, but for monie they bought their peace.
Sidenote: His demand of monie of religious houses.
He receiued themonie aforehand, but letted by other businesse at home, he went not foorth vpon that iournie.
Polydor iudgeth that this ouerthrow happened to the Englishmen, the rather for that the armie was hired with such monie as had beene wrongfullie taken out of the abbeis and other holie places, howbeit it is but his opinion onelie.
In the gouernement of Chincheo[56] they haue coppermonie coyned, but it is nothing woorth out of that prouince.
On monie a bloody plain I've dared his face, and in this place I scorn him yet again!
So Maggie runs,--the witches follow, Wi' monie an eldritch skreech and hollow.
Twice he picked Monie up off from the floor, thinking she was a mouse, and brought her down-stairs.
The next time I missed her, I looked ten minutes, then I heard Taffy ring his bells, and he kept it up until I found him behind a heavy curtain, lying down with his paws under him, and holding Monie very carefully in his mouth.
When he saw that he had Monie instead of a mouse, he put her into my hand, and no person could have shown more grief.
After that I tried my best to make Monie sleep on a smaller perch, but she was as wilful as she was pretty, and no other perch seemed to suit her.
In the spring they went to housekeeping again, and everything was going on in the most blissful way when Monie and Blondell thought they would like a beau and go to housekeeping, too.
Monie always insisted upon perching on one of the largest perches, and very often she would fall on to the floor, and, as her wing was clipped, she could not get back in the box until I picked her up.
With gun and genzie,[154] bow and speir, Men might see monie a cracked crown!
Quhais luifing praysis, maid trewlie, Efter that simple tyme, Ar sung in monie far countrie, Albeit in rural rhyme.
In this yeare king Edward required great sums of monie to be lent him.
Moreouer, towards his charges of late susteined, a competent summe of monie was demanded, and freelie granted.
By reason whereof, the king had yearelie of him notable summes of monie for his customes, beside other pleasures that he had shewed vnto the king before times.
Malo, where the English ambassadors then laie, onelie staieng for a conuenient wind: who complained, that they were euill vsed, to be spoiled both of their monie and merchandize.
And thus the king of England purchased for his monie the keeping of his enimie, the space onelie of three daies and no more.
The monie he kept, but the keies and the maces he deliuered backe to the maior; and then the maior tooke the mace and did beare it through the citie bare-headed before the king, vntill he came to his lodging.
English, and [who] may dispend of their owne free land in yearelie revenue, to the summe of fortie shillings sterling, or six pounds as monie goeth in our times.
I'll gie you as monie guineas as birds in the air.
Monie a lord and gay ladie Sat dining in the ha, But the bonniest face that was there Was waiting on them a'.
O whan they cam to Merrytown, And lighted on the green, Monie a bluidy aith was sworn That our bride was wi bairn.
For I brought as much white monie As gane my men and me, And I brought a half-fou o gude red goud Out oer the sea wi me.
For gear will come, and gear will gang, And gear's ae but a lend, And monie a ane for warld's gear A silly brown bride brings hame.
Monie a lord and fair ladie Met Lord John in the closs, But the bonniest face amang them a' Was hauding Lord John's horse.
For monie a day's my minnie and me Buckled up our lap.
But betide me well, betide me wae, This day I'se leave the shore, And never spend my king's monie Mong Noroway dogs no more.
Monie a lord and lady bricht Met Lord John on the green, But the bonniest boy amang them a' Was standing by, him leen.
I'll gie you as monie guineas as there's stanes in the street.
King Egelred supposed that by the paiment of that monie he should haue béene rid out of all troubles, of warre with the Danes.
About the paiment of this monie great grudge grew amongst the people, insomuch that two of his seruants, which were appointed collectors in the citie of Worcester, the one named Feader, and the other Turstane, were there slaine.
But by what name so euer this monie (which the Danes now receiued) was called, true it is that herevpon they [Sidenote: Wil.
Dunstane, the said Dunstane did send him woord, that sithens he made more account of gold than of God, more of monie than of S.
This monie was called Danegilt or Dane monie, and was leuied of the people.
And He has gi'en me sae moniethings that I ne'er askit Him wi' ane half the longing that I did for that, I dinna think He'll say me nay the now.
And I ne'er brake mine ava, and I've set forth monie a time of a Friday," returned Sam.
That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
How monie hearts this day converts O' sinners and o' lasses!
Ah, gentle dames, it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!
She gied the keeper a piece of gowd, And monie pieces o white monie, To tak her thro the bolts and bars, The lord frae Scotland she langd to see; She saw young Beichan at the stake, Which made her weep maist bitterlie.
He pu'd a tree out o the wud, The biggest that was there, And he howkit a cave monie fathoms deep, And put May Margret there.
Yes, he is gane into the hall, With his brave bride and monie ane.
There was a knicht riding frae the east, Sing the Cather banks, the bonnie brume Wha had been wooing at monie a place.
Young Beichan was in London born, He was a man of hie degree; He past thromonie kingdoms great, Until he cam unto Grand Turkie.
Amongst this chaffe was I winnowing my wits to liue merily, and by my troth so I did: the prince could but command men spend theyr bloud in his seruice, I coulde make them spend all the monie they had for my pleasure.
This Monsieur Capitano eate vp the creame of my earnings, and Crede mihi res est ingeniosa dare, any man is a fine fellow as long as he hath anie monie in his purse.
Wooduile & Edward Poinings receiue monieof the duke for the earles conduct and his companie.
And that Reginald Breie had collected and gotten togither no small summe ofmonie for the paiment of the wages to the souldiers and men of warre: admonishing him also to make quicke expedition, and to take his course directlie into Wales.
Sidenote: The earle of Richmond hath men and monie of the French king for hostages.
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