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Song-To Daunton Me 1909

To daunton me, &c. CONTENTS·BOOK CONTENTS·BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD·GLOSSARY

Song-To Daunton Me 1909

When he found that he could not daunton me, he laughed again.

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

Bonny, bairnly braws; it's for the like o 'them folk sells the peace of God that passeth understanding; it's for the like o' them, an 'maybe no even sae muckle worth, folk daunton God to His face and burn in muckle hell; and it's for that reason the Scripture ca's them, as I read the passage, the accursed thing.

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

[The Jacobite strain of "To daunton me," must have been in the mind of the poet when he wrote this pithy lyric for the Museum.]

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

"I'm not my own master," he said – "a woman's enough to daunton me that once never knew what difficulty was.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891