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“Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,
Come saddle your horses, and call up your men;
Come open the West Port, and let me gang free,
And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!”

The Doom of Devorgoil, Bonny Dundee (1830), Chorus.

“Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.”

Walter Scott book Ivanhoe

Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 39, De Bois-Guilbert speaking to Rebecca.

“England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
‘Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale;
‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto VI, introduction, st. 3.
Marmion (1808)

“When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto III, introduction.
Marmion (1808)

“Oh, poverty parts good company.”

Walter Scott book The Abbot

The Abbot (1820), Ch. 7.

“Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto IV, stanza 30.
Marmion (1808)

“Fat, fair, and forty.”

St. Ronan's Well (1824), Ch. 7.

“As old as the hills.”

Walter Scott book The Monastery

Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 9.

“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”

Walter Scott book The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Too much rest is rust.”

Walter Scott book The Betrothed

The The Betrothed (1825), Volume I, Chapter XIII http://books.google.com/books?id=3w8OAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Too+much+rest+is+rust%22&pg=PA226#v=onepage

“Sea of upturned faces.”

Walter Scott book Rob Roy

Source: Rob Roy (1817), Chapter 20.