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 32 THE CHERRIE LXII. Sae by that consequence of thine, Or Syllogism said like a swine, A cow may teach thee lair : Thou uses only but thine eies, She touches, tastes, smells, hears, and see Which matches thee and mair. But since to triumph you intend, As presently appears, Sir, for your clergy to be kend, Take you twa ass's ears. No mitre, perfyter Got Midas for his meed : That hude, Sir, is gude, Sir, To hap your brain-sick head. LXIII. Ye have no feel for to define, Though you have cunning to decline A man to be a mule. With little work yet ye may vow'd, To grow a gallant horse and gude, To ride thereon at Yule. But to our ground where we began, For all your gustless jests: I must be master to the man, But thou to brutal beasts : So we twa maur: be twa, To cause baith kinds be known : Keep thine then, from mine then, And ilk ane use their own.