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It's a forry hen that canna fcrape for ae bird. It's a fair dung bairn that mayna greet. It’s dear coft honey that’s licket aff a thorn. It’s fair in ha’ where beards wag a’. It’s gude fleeping in a hale skin. It’s guide to he fib to filler. It's gude to hae twa ftrings to your bow. Its hard to fit in Rome and ftrive wi the Pope Its hard for a greedy ee to hae a leal heart. Its ill to bring out o' the flefh what's bred i' the bane. It's getting breeks aff a Highlandman. It's ill taking corn frae geefe. It's ill making a purfe o’ a fow’s lug, or a touting horn o' a toad's tail. Its kittle fhooting at corbies and clergy. Its kittle to waken fleeping dogs, Its lang or the deil be found dead at a dike- fide. Its lang or like-to die fill the kirk-yard, Its needlefs to bid a wren rin. Its needlefs to pour water on a drown'd moufe. Its nae fin to tak a gude price but in gi'eng ill mafure. Its no tint that a friend gets. Its nae laughing to girn in a woody. t paft joking when the head's aff