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 4 CHRIST'S KIRK Canto I Auld Lightfoot there he did forleet, And counterfeited France; He us'd himſelf as man diſcreet, And up the morice-dance 40 He took that day.

Then Steed came ftappan in wi' ſtends, Nae rink might him arreſt: Plaitfoot did bob wi' mony bends, For Mauſe he made requeſt; 44 He lap till he lay on his lends, But rifand was fae preſt, While that he hoſted at baith ends, For honour of the feaſt, 48 And danc'd that day.

Syne Robin Roy began to revel, And Dawny to him rugged; Let be, quoth Jack, and ca'd him jeyel, And by the tail him tugged: 52 The kepſie cleekit to a kavel, But Lord, as they twa lugged They parted manly on a nevel: Men ſay that hair was rugged 56 Between them twa.

Ane bent a bow, ſic ſturt did ſteer him, Great ſkaith was to have ſcar'd him, He cheſit a fane as did affear him, Th' other faid Dirdum dardum. 60

39. Auld Lichtfoot there he did forleet and counterfeited France.) He forgot to play the good old Scots tunes like Aula Lightfoot, and imitated the French, like our modern minſtrels, that dare play nought but Italianos, for fear they ſpoil their fiddles. 42. Nae rink might him arreſt.) The ſwifteſt courſe could not ſtop him. 59. He chefit a flane.) He choſe an arrow. 60. Dirdum Dardumi.) A fighting manner: of ſpeaking. when one makes a boaſt of ſome action which we think but meanly of, we readily ſay, ' A Dirdum of that.'