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 23 854 Ye glowr’d at the moon and fell on the midding Ye glowr like a wild cat out of a whin-bufh Ye go far about seeking the nearest Ye have run lang on little ground Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry 855 Ye have o’er foul feet to come fae far henn Ye have gotten a revel’d hefp o’t Ye have a crap for a’ corn Ye have tane the meafure of his foot Ye have our mickle loofe leather about your chafts 860 Ye have tint your ain ftomach and fun a tike's Ye have put a toom fpoon in my mouth Ye have fafted long and worried on a midge Ye have nothing to do but fuck and wag your tail Ye have tint the tongue of the trump 865 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 fow by the lug Ye ken what drinkers dree Ye kenna wha may cool your kail yte 870 Ye live at the lug of the law Ye’ll neither dance nor had the candle Ye’ll get na mair of the cat but the fkin Ye’ll no fell your hen in a rainy day Ye’ll ne’er caft faut on his tail 875 Ye’ll no herry yourfel with your ain hands Ye look liker a thief than a bifhop Ye’ll let little gae by you unless it be the fwallow Ye may gang farther and fare war Ye may get war bodes or Beltan 880 Ye may be heard where ye’re no feen Ye may dight your neb and fly up Ye may tak the will for the deed Ye mete my peafe by your ain peck Ye'll never die on your ain affize 885 Ye’ll drink before me Ye’ll find him where ye left him Ye may take the head for the wafhing Ye’ll get the cat wi’ the twa tails Ye’ll beguile nane but them that lippens to you 890 Ye’ll mead when ye grow better Ye’ll never be fae auld with fae mickle honefty