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23 Ye glowr’d at the moon and fell on the middin

Ye glowr like a wild cat out of a whin bush

Ye go far about seeking the nearest

Ye have run lang on little ground

Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry

Ye have owre foul feet to come so far ben

Ye have gotten a ravel’d hesp o’t

Ye have a’ crap for a corn

Ye have ta’en the measure of his foot

Ye have owre meikle loose leather about your chafts

Ye have tint your ain stomach and fun a tike’s

Ye have fasted lang and worried on a midge

Ye have nothing ado but suck and wag your tail

Ye have tint the tongue of the trump

Ye have staid lang and brought little wi’ you

Ye have tane’t upon you as the wife did the dancing

Ye have the wrang sow by the lug

Ye ken what drinkers dree

Ye live at the lug of the law

Ye’ll neither dance nor haud the candle

Ye’ll get nae mair o’ the cat but the skin

Ye’ll no sell your hen on a rainy day

Ye’ll no cast saut on his tail

Ye’ll no harry yoursel with your ain hands

Ye look liker a thief than a bishop

Ye’ll little gae by ye unless it be the swallow

Ye may gang farther and fare waur

Ye may get waur bodies or Beltan

Ye may be heard where ye’re no seen

Ye may dight your neb and fly up

Ye mete my peas by your ain peck

Ye’ll drink before me

Ye’ll find him where ye left him

Ye may tak the head for the washing

Ye‘ll get the cat wi‘ the twa tails

Ye‘ll beguile nane but them that lippens to you

Ye‘ll mend when ye grow better

Ye‘ll never be sae auld with sae muckle honesty