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 That they wad better be in haste

After so much oration;

It's just to be, or not to be,

To take an unkenn'd doze,

Short sighted man can hardly see

An inch before his nose.

I'll ask a favour frae ilk man,

And ye will surely grant it,

To drink it up as quick's you can,

Nor take time to decant it;

Like bugle-horns then in a raw,

They glower up to the lift,

And it was hardly down when twa

O'them began to rift.

That's curious stuff, it's made me weal

I ne'er drank this before,

Wi' that the Soda Water chiel

Got up wi' sic a roar;

I'm gone, I'm poison'd, fatal drink!

For me there is no cure,

When o'er his cheeks, black streams like in

Ran gushing to the floor.

He held the bottle up to break,

Nae langer life expeckin',

Syne read the label round it's neck,

Tho real ;

He's ill before, but now he's worse,

Wi' gut and ga' he's partin',

And 'twixt ilk boak he gaed a curse

Against real.