Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit
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Overgang
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But at the last it will overgang, Suppose that many think it lang.
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"The trouble is overganging the profit. Read us one o' King David's psalms or canticles, then we'll go to our sleep wi' a song in our hearts."
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Less dramatically, but packed with economic menace, Elizabeth Bathgate told George Sprot, 'for work what you can your teeth shall overgang your hands and ye shall never get your Sundays meat to the fore.'
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