But when thou makest a feast, call the poor and the maimed, the lame and the blind, and thou shalt be blessed; for they can not recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, an' a' that!

"Are ye the chiel that mak the auld ballads and sing them?" "I said I fancied I was he that he meant, though I had never made ony very auld ballads.

Noo, if he comes to sleep here the nicht, as I hae nae doot he will, seein' there's nae coach for Liverpool till the morn's mornin'I'll mention you till him, and maybe ye may mak a bargain.

Lord, deliver him frae his enemies, and mak him what he was in thae bygone dayssae innocent, sae cheerful, sae obedient; and I will meekly suffer a' Thou canst lay upon me.

May God confound his arrogance, and prosper those who walk in the right way!" One passage of the same letter says: "Fatigued with war, we were willing to offer thee an annual tribute; but this does not satisfy thee: thou wishest us to deliver into thine hands our towns and fortresses; but are we thy subjects, that thou makest such demands, or hast thou ever subdued us?

"His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.

Ay, man, we mak a dishclout o't, an' we

God Almighty can mak a gentleman.' Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards minister to George II., and eventually Lord Orford, belonged to an ancient family in Norfolk; he was a third son, and was originally destined for the Church, but the death of his elder brethren having left him heir to the family estate, in 1698, he succeeded to a property which ought to have yielded him £2,000 a year, but which was crippled with various encumbrances.

I hae mony a time thocht it took as muckle natural genius to mak a jug of punch as an epic poem, sic as Paradise Lost, or even Queen Hynde hersell. Odoherty.

i' your tail, Right on ye scud your sea-way; But in the teeth o' baith to sail, It maks an unco leeway.

I could mak thee a lord, but none but

He offer'd me money: he said he'd mak me a rich man if I'd sell him the corpse, and help him awa' wi' it.

"That may be, your Grace," said Donald; "but whiles I think that Providence maks a mistak in thae matters, and sends the bairns to ae hoose and the meat to anither!"

The reviewer designates these as "broader in their mirth, and more caustic in their tone," than the moral proverbial expressions of the Spanish and Italian: A blate[150] cat maks a proud mouse.

So mak the best o' that.

I mak this observe frae being witness to an extraordinar' event that took place in Hamilton.

The story is by some supposed to have had a Scottish origin, and a prosaic North Briton is made to say that the pretty little lambs, sporting amidst the daisies and buttercups, would "mak braw pies.

Sae, for your pains, I'll mak ye a propine (My mother, rest her saul!

Ye canna mak a silk purse o' a sow's lug.

O, Tullochgorum's my delight; It gars us a' in ane unite; And ony sumph' that keeps up spite, In conscience I abhor him: For blythe and cheery we's be a', Blythe and cheery, blythe and cheery, Blythe and cheery we's be a', And mak a happy quorum; For blythe and cheery we's be a', As lang as we hae breath to draw, And dance, till we be like to fa',

Your critic-folk may cock their nose, And say, 'How can you e'er propose, You wha ken hardly verse frae prose, To mak a sang?' But, by your leaves, my learnèd foes, Ye're maybe wrang.

Bring your boss the morn an' I'll mak a settlement.

My urgent busynes maks my languadge shorte: Comend me to thy master, give hym thys, [Gives letters and money.

I could mak thee a lord, but none but