/ · 1894 Brewer’s · T · Tam-o-Shanter’s Mare
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Remember Tam-oʹ-Shanter’s mare. You may pay too dear for your whistle, as Meg lost her tail, pulled off by Nannie of the “Cutty-sark.”
“Think, ye may buy the joys owre dear—
Remember Tam-oʹ-Shanter’s mare”
Burns
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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