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 20 CHRIST'S KIRK Canto III.

Or bairns can read they firſt maun ſpell, I learn'd this frae my mammy, And cooſt a leggeu girth myſel, Lang or I married Tammie: 68 Iſe warrand ye hae a' heard tell, Of bunny Andrew Lammy, Stifly in love wi' me he fell, As ſoon as e'er he ſaw me; 72 That was a day.

Het drink, freſh butter'd caiks and cheeſe, That held their hearts aboon, Wi' claſhes, mingled aft wi' lies Drave aff the hale forenoon: 76 But after dinner, an ye pleaſe, To weary not o'er ſoon, We down to e'ening age wi' eaſe Shall loup and ſee what's done 80 I'the doup o' the day.

Now what the friends wad fain been at They that were right true blue; Was e'en to get their wyſoos wat: And fill young Roger fou: But the bauld billy took his maut, And was right ſtiff to bow; He fairly gae them tit for tat, And ſcour'd aff healths auew, 88 Clean out that day.

A creel 'bout fou of muckle ſtanes They clinked on his back,

67. Cooſt a leggen girth.) Like a tub that loſes one of its bottom hoopse 84. Fill young Roger fou.) 'Tis cuſtom for the friends to en- deavour the next day aster the wedding, to make the new mar- ried man as drunk as poſſible. 89. A creel, &c.) For merriment, a creel or baſket is bound full of ſtones, upon his back; and if he has acted a manly part, his young wife, with all imaginable ſpeed, cuts the cords, and relieves him from the burden. If ſhe does not, he's rallied for fumbler.