Pleugh

But there's mair in't than that;-for ye hae seen the heel and sole clout of a Scots pleugh yersell, and when there was as muckle strength afore her as there should hae been, she never gaed steady but whan she had a good grip o' the yird; and when that was the case, ye behoved to lay a gay steep on the stilts, (I see mony a feckless thing hinging by a pleugh now-a-days, little heavier than a good coulter).

Also we have witness, as weel in holy writt as in profane history, of the honour in quhilk husbandrie was held of old, and how prophets have been taken from the pleugh, and great captains raised up to defend their ain countries, sic as Cincinnatus, and the like, who fought not the common enemy with the less valiancy that their arms had been exercised in halding the stilts of the pleugh, and their bellicose skill in driving of yauds and owsen.

Hurrah ! for the sons o' the pleugh.