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6 frae them, they anger'd you and sham'd you baith with their bastards, a wheen daft jades it gets men or they be married, and bairns or they get bridals.

Goodwife. A wat that's true, lad.

Girzy. A weel, cohn, then, will ye take me; I hae nae bastards; how will you and I do?

John. I wat na gin ye be able to get a bastard, yet ye may hae some waur faut; but ye maun be my pennyworth, for ye're unco little, and I'm o'er muckle, and gin ye an I war ance carded through ither, we may get bonny weans o' a middlen mak. I hae nae fauts to ye, but ye hae a high breast, a humph back, a short neck, and high shouthers, the hands & legs may do, tho' your mouth be a wee to the tae side it will lie weel to the rock, and I hae a hantle o' tow to spin, will be baith sarks and sacks till us, ye'll be my soncy dauty, up and down; a perfect beauty, wi' cats yellow een, black brous, and red lips, and your very nose is a purple colour,