sark

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The reader at Wythburn had for his salary three pounds yearly, a hempen sark or shirt, a whittlegate, and a goosegate, or right to depasture a flock of geese on Helvellyn.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

"Wash on, wash on, my bonny maid, That wash sae clean your sark of silk;" "And weel fa' you, fair gentleman, 20 Your body's whiter than the milk."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

‘Ye wash, ye wash, ye bonny may, And ay’s ye wash your sark o’ silk’: ‘It’s a’ for you, ye gentle knight, My skin is whiter than the milk.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

She neist brought a sark o’ the saftest silk, Well wrought wi’ pearles about the ban’; Says, ‘Gin ye will be my ain true love, This goodly gift you sal comman’.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

IN samite sark yclad was she; And that fair glimmerish band of gold Which crowned long, savage locks of hair In the moon brent cold.

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius