The lads an' lasses, blythely bent To mind baith saul an' body, Sit round the table weel content, An' steer about the toddy.

When I've an engagement there, in the halls or in a revue, 'tis weel enow, and I'm happy.

The place was choke-full, just to excess, and when the curtain was hauled up in came a decent old gentleman in great distress, and implored all the powers of heaven and earth to help him find his runaway daughter that had decamped with some ne'er-do-weel loon of a half-pay captain.

"The lass is bonny and, so far as I ken, weel-meaning and kind; but she has been badly browt up at an extravagant hoose.

We can comprehend how an audience composed of men and women whose ne'er-do-weel relatives went to the theatre to be stirred by such tragedies as those of Marston and Cyril Tourneur would themselves snatch a sacred pleasure from awful language of this kind in the pulpit.

Noand weel ye ken thatas weel as I!

For fu' weel ye ken the gaet.