five pounds do?

Doctor (turning away):--

Five pounds! No, five pounds would not get a good kit of brose.

Wallace:--

Would ten pounds do?

Doctor:--

Yes, perhaps ten pounds would do--- that, and a pint of wine. I have
a bottle of inky-pinkie in my pocket. (_Approaches Goloshan._) By
the hocus-pocus and the magical touch of my little finger; heigh ho!
start up, Jack, and sing!

Goloshan (rises and sings):--

Oh, once I was dead, sir, but now I am alive,
And blessed be the doctor that made me revive;
We'll all join hands, and never fight no more,
We'll all be good fellows, as we have been before.

All four:--

We'll all shake hands and agree, and never fight no more,
We'll all be like brothers, as we were once before;
God bless the master of this house, the mistress fair likewise,
And all the pretty children that round the table rise.
Go down into your cellar and see what you can find,
Your barrels being not empty, we hope you will prove kind;
We hope you will prove kind, with whisky and with beer,
We wish you a Merry Christmas, likewise a good New Year.

Enter Beelzebub (for the collection):--

Here come I, Old Beelzebub, over my shoulder I carry a club,
And in my hand a frying-pan. Am not I a jolly old man?
It's money I want, and money I crave,
If ye don't give me money I'll sweep ye to your grave.

Old Beelzebub's appeal not being resisted (for who might dare to resist
such?), the picturesque players retire, and proceed from thence merrily
to occupy another stage.

* * * * *

Mr. Sandys, it may be noted, in his elegant volume of _Christmas Carols_
(1833), transcribes a play called "St. George," which still is, or used
to be, acted at the New Year in Cornwall, exactly after the manner of
our Scottish play of "Goloshan" which it resembles as much as various
versions of "Goloshan" in Scotland resemble each other. The leading
characters, besides St. George himself and the Dragon, which is twice
killed, are a Turkish knight and the King of Egypt. It is curious thus,
as Dr. Chambers remarks, to find one play, with unimportant variations,
preserved traditionally by the common people in parts of the island so
distant from each other, and in many respects so different.

It is curious further, and of much interest to note, that in these
singing-games, if nowhere else, the country and the city child, the
children of the mansion