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13 His mouth, if measured side to side, I'll wait's full five inches wide; His nose is like an auld bow'd brig, His een they look agree yet. Auld Eddie, &c.

But Johnnie o' the Burnbrae side, He wants me for to be his bride; An' tho' my father paiks my hide, Wi' him I'll live and die yet. Auld Eddie, &c.

Alice Gray.

Sue's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, he's divine; But her heart it is another's, She never can be mine. O few have lov'd as I have lov'd, My love cannot decay; Oh! my heart, my heart is breaking For the love of Alice Gray.

Her dark brown hair is braided o'er A brow of spotless white; The softness of her beaming eye Must all the world delight. The hair is braided not for me, The eye is turned away,