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Imprimis, then, for carriage cattle, I have four brutes o’ gallant mettle, As ever drew afore a pettle.

PATTLE, PETTLE, s. a stick wherewith a ploughman clears away the earth which adheres to his plough.

"Wha am I?—wha suld I be, but Meg Murdockson, and wha suld my bairn be but Magdalen Murdockson?—Your guard soldiers, and your constables, and your officers, ken us weel eneugh when they rive the bits o' duds aff our backs, and take what penny o' siller we hae, and harle us to the Correctionhouse in Leith Wynd, and pettle us up wi' bread and water and siclike sunkets."

Imprimis, then, for carriage cattle, I hae four brutes o' gallant mettle, As ever drew afore a pettle.