But now we haena sic spirit amang us; we think mair about the warst wallydraigle in our ain byre, than about the blessing which the angel of the covenant gave to the Patriarch even at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

But now we haena sic spirit amang us; we think mair about the warst wallydraigle in our ain byre, than about the blessing which the angel of the covenant gave to the Patriarch even at Peniel and Mahanaim, or the binding obligation of our national vows; and we wad rather gie a pund Scots to buy an unguent to clear out auld rannell-trees and our beds o 'the English bugs as they ca' them, than we wad gie a plack to rid the land of the swarm of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference