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15 if you'll giet your bread is baken;

first accept of this love taken;.

tak this gowd and never want

to gar you drink and rant;

And this is but an arle penny,

what I afterward design ye;

in return I'm fore that I

naething seek that ye'll deny.

Bawsy, and troth now Jouk, and neither will I,

after never came Billy;

I refuse was light upon me,

gowd vow! tis wondrous bonny.

Jouk. Aye that it istie e'en the a'

gars the plow of living draw,

gowd gars fogers fight the fiercer,

it preaching wad be scarcer;

gowd that makes the great men witty,

puggy lasses fair and pretty;

it ladies nice wad dwindle,

to a wife to a the spindle.

But to the point and wave digression,

Wake a free and plain confession,

I'm in love and as I said,

from you a little aid,

gain a bride that eithly can

me fu' blest, and you a man:

Gi'e me your bonnet to present

misstress with your consent,

rive the cat auld fashion'd deed

bids yo wear it on your head.

Bawsy. O gosh! O gosh! then Jouk. ha'e at her,

be a 'tis nae great matter.