"Busked" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Willie's weddin' o' the green, The lasses, bonnie witches, Were busked out in aprons clean, And snaw-white Sunday mutches; Auld Mysie bade the lads tak' tent, But Jock wad na believe her; But soon the fool his folly kent, For ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... the King falls to, and orders his lords for vine-dressing, to each his due share of the work: and whiles the carle said yea and whiles nay to his ordering. And then ye should have seen velvet cloaks cast off, and mantles of fine Flemish scarlet go to the dusty earth; as the lords and knights busked them to the work. ...
— A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson • William Morris |
