So goodbye, Mrs. Brown, I am going out of town, Over dale, over down, Where bugs bite not, ... Read full text
I suspect this is a dig at some landlady in Edinburgh that he did not get on with. The city was quite a smelly and boisterous place in Scott's time.
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I suspect this is a dig at some landlady in Edinburgh that he did not get on with. The city was quite a smelly and boisterous place in Scott's time.