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Johnny was a joiner gude,

Nane cou'd weild a plane like Johnny.

Lizie Painch was Johnny’s wife,

An' silly Matty was her Mither;

Sic a wife as Johnny had,

I wadna gi’e a button for her.

Johnny was ance ha’f in love,

His fancy was by beauty haunted;

Heav’n shone in Johnny’s e’e—

But no the heav'n Johnny wanted.

For Johnny courted Lizie Painch,

Cause Lizie Painch she had the siller,

But sic a wife as Lizie Painch,

I wadna gie a button for her.

Lizie's face was like the moon,

Her shouther’s maist as braid as Samson's,

Her very picture’s like the sign,

That hings aboun auld Robin Tamson's.

But de’il a prin does Johnny care,

Were Lizie like the Witch of Endor;

Johnny fattens on her gear—

He wadna gi’e a button for her.

THE CONTENTED LOVER.

LO E na a laddie but ane,

he lo'es na a lassie but me,