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This title, meaning the silver cup, is usually referenced to the first lines of the song
My Bonie Mary
by Robert Burns:
Go, fetch to me a pint o’wine,
And fill it in a silver tassie
That I may drink, before I go,
A service to my bonie lassie
This, however, is probably Burns’ reworking of an older ballad attributed to Alexander Lesly of Edin, which opens:
Ye’ll bring me here a pint of wine,
A server and a silver tassie,
That I may drink, before I gang,
A health to my ain bonny lassie
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