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Rh And if ye'll gie't your bread is baken; But firſt accept of this love-taken; Here tak this gowd and never want, Enough to gar you drink and rant; And this is but an arle penny, To what I afterward deſign ye; And in return I'm ſure that I, Shall naithing ſeek that ye'll deny.
 * Bawſy. And troth now Jouk, and neither will I

Or after never ca' me Billy; If I refuſe, wae light upon me, This gowd, O vow! 'tis wonder bonny.
 * Joukum. Ay, that it is—'tis e'n the a'

That gars the plough of living draw. 'Tis Gowd gars ſogers feight the fiercer, Without it preaching wad be ſcarcer; 'Tis gowd that makes the great men witty, And puggy laſſes fair and pretty; Without it ladies nice wad dwindle, Down to a wife that ſnoves a ſpindle. But to the point, and wave Digreſſion, I make a free and plain confeſſion, That I'm in love, and as I ſaid, Demand from you a little aid, To gain a bride that eithly can, Make me fou bleſt and you a man: Give me your Bonnet to preſent My miſtreſs with, and your conſent, To rive the Daft and faſhion'd deed, That bids ye wear it on you head.
 * Bawſy. O goſh! O goſh! then Jouk have at her,

If that be a' 'tis nae great matter.