As to what ye say of the leddy and the
ministers, we are all fallible creatures, Geordie, priests
and kings as weel as others; and wha kens but what that may
account for the difference between this Dalgarno and his
father? The earl is the vera soul of honour, and cares nae
mair for warld's gear than a noble hound for the quest of a
foulmart; but as for his son, he was like to brazen us all
out--ourselves, Steenie, Baby Charles, and our Council, till
he heard of the tocher, and then by my kingly crown he lap
like a cock at a grossart! These are discrepancies betwixt
parent and son not to be accounted for naturally, according
to Baptista Porta, Michael Scott _de secretis_, and others.
Ah, Jingling Geordie, if your clouting the caldron, and
jingling on pots, pans, and veshels of all manner of metal,
hadna jingled a' your grammar out of your head, I could have
touched on that matter to you at mair length.' ... Heriot
inquired whether Lord Dalgarno had consented to do the Lady
Hermione justice.
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