"For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in."

"A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping, For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea."

"Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye."

"For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear."

"As she sat in the low-backed car The man at the turn-pike bar Never asked for the toll But just rubbed his auld poll …"

"Sure my love is all crost Like a bud in the frost And there's no use at all in my going to bed, For 't is dhrames and…"

"And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me."

"Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs."

"The fatalities which destroyed the men of another period originated in crafty diplomacy, soothing promises, and flatt…"

"For power and place men may intrigue; but in order to have influence they must more or less deserve it. Power may, at…"