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Was ne'er in Scotlaad heard and ſeen ſic banquetting and drinkin, ic' revelling and battles keen, ſic dancing and ſic jinkin, And unco wark that ſell at e'en                       when laſſes were haff winking, They loſt their feet and baith their een, and maiden heads gaed linkin Aff a' that day.

C A N T O III.

NOW frae eaſt nook of Fife the dawn ſpeel'd weſtlines up the lift, Carles who heard the cock had crawn, begoud to rax and rift: And greedy wives wi' girning thrawn, cry'd laſſes up to thrift: Dogs barked, and the lads frae band bang'd to their breeks like drift, By break of day.

But ſome who kai been fou yeſtreen, ſic as the Lettergae, Air up had nae will to be ſeen, grudging their groat to pay, But aft what's trifled's no forgeen, when fouk hae nought to ſay; Yet ſweer were they to rake their een, ſic dizzy heads had they, And het that day.