Citations:granny grey


 * 1800, Mrs. Mary Robinson, “The Granny Grey, a Love Tale” in Lyrical Tales, pages 171⁽¹⁾ and 178⁽²⁾
 * ⁽¹⁾ Dame Dowson, was a granny grey,  Who, three score years and ten, Had pass’d her busy hours away,  In talking of the Men!
 * ⁽²⁾ And should this Tale, fell in the way Of Lovers cross’d , or Grannies grey , — Let them confess, ‛tis made to prove — The wisest heads, —  too weak for Love !
 * 1808 February 11th, “Let Us All Be Unhappy Together” in The Lady’s Weekly Miscellany, volume VIII, № 16, page 256, column 1
 * And I charge you my dear Granny Gray,  Should you meet Susan Sad, that you tell her, The keg’s burst, and the gin’s run away;  And we’re all unhappy together.
 * 1897, Robert McLean Calder [aut.] and William Shillinglaw Crockett [ed.], A Berwickshire Bard: The Songs and Poems of Robert McLean Calder (J. and R. Parlane), page 139
 * Oor wives an’ dochters, too, maun greet This hallowed time wi’ honours meet; An’ bairnies, too, maun hae their treat,      An’ grannies gray Tell hoo they kept langsyne the great      St. Andrew’s Day.