A most frivolous Quean this, and I well rid of her.
A subtle quean as any in this town, your neighbour here, dame Chat.
Thinks the false quean by such a sleight,[240] that chill my nee'le lack?
And Gammer Gurton, when she cometh anon into this place, Then to the quean let's see: tell her your mind, and spare not.
If there is a ball to be tossed up, or a bullock to be driven mad, or a quean to be ducked for scolding, or a head to be broken, Jenkin is sure to be at the one end or the other of it, and then away skips Francis Tunstall for company.
There is many a quean in it, fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping.
Quean fool did surely dream, For he had quite forgot the Cream, He churn'd all Day with all his might, And yet he could get no Butter at night.
This cunning Quean would not accept this kind proffer, but with much pressing, and then sealing his pardon with a kiss, an everlasting affection was seemingly agreed upon.
On this hypocritical Quean Wit waited: next him, a Conceited fellow, and one that over-swayed the Fancie of man with his pretty tricks and gambals.
Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas.
You may give quarters to such cattle if you like it yourself, Harry Wynd; but the same house shall not quarter that trumpery quean and me, and of that you may assure yourself.
I must get rid of this quean as fast as I can; and I must see her safe.
And the impudent quean had the assurance to come up and seek a dram--But I trow, Jenny and I sorted her!
But the old man and his grandsons turned their heads away from his weeping, and got off their horses, and went up to the house-door, whereby were now standing a carle and a quean of their people.
The fellow was got as fat as a Norway whale--married to a great Dutch-built quean that had brought him six children.
Ae quean had noticed something under his arm, but she took it for the pipes.
I was thinking to offer you a dish of tea, Maister Francie, just for the sake of auld lang syne, and I'll gar the quean Beenie bring it here, and mask it mysell.
Nero (saith Tacitus) abhorred Octavia his own wife, a noble virtuous lady, and loved Acte, a base quean in respect.
Now there was neither carle nor quean amongst them all who had a word to say against him, or might call to mind aught but kindness at his hands; and one after another they all said so much.
There forsooth the two women be missing, but no slain body of carle or quean have we found, nought of slaughter save the slaughter of kine and sheep.
And the player quean and her cummer hae possession o' the house, and guide a' things their ain gait, wae's me!
I e'en thocht ye were talking o' yon misguided quean in the cell.
I have spied it, in faith, sir, I handled myself so well; And yet the crafty quean had almost take my trump.
Thinks the false quean by such a sleight, that chill my nee'le lack?
