| A knave and a quean, a thief and a strumpet, a couple of beggars, a brace of baggages. |
| She could coax you to the buying like a Cumnock quean, and fleece you in the selling like the cadgers o' Kincardine. |
| Im sure theres no a blither, bonnier quean in a the kintra side. |
| There is many a quean in it, fairer than I twice told, and not spoiled with weeping. |
| The actor, cannily aware of the trap set by this modern dress version, resists translating the mannerisms into those of just another gay quean. |
