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YOUNG COALMAN’S COURTSHIP

TO THE CREEL-WIFE’s DATGHTER,

ALL you that’s curious of courtfhip, give attention to this hiftory of Mary and her fon Sawny, a young Coal- man, who lived in the country, a few miles from Edinburgh.

Mary, his mither, was a gay hearty wife, had mair wantonness than wealth, was twelve years a married wife, nine years a widow, was very chaste in her behaviour, wi’ her ain tail, for want of charging ; for a’ the time o’ her widow- hood there was never a man got a kiss of her lips, or laid a foul hand on her hind quarters.

Sawny, her son, was a stout young raw lown, full fac’d, wi’ flabby cheeks, duddy breeks, and a ragget doublet; gade always wi’ his bosom bare, some- times had a garten, a lingel or rash rape was good enough for Sawny. His very , belly was a’ sun-burnt, like a piper’s bag. or the head of an auld drum; and his very beard began to fprout out like