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 3 My petticoat I spotted, Fringe too with thread I knotted ; With lac'd shoes, and silk hose garter'd over knees. But the fatal thought ! To Willie they were nought; Who rid to touns and rifled with dragoons, When he, silly loon, might have rifled me.

TAK YOUR AULD CLOAK ABOUT YE. In winter when he rain rain'd could, And frost and snaw on ilka hill, And Boreas wi his blast sae bauld, Was threat-ing a' our kye to kill. Then Bell my wife wha lo'e kae strife, She said to me right hastily, Get up gudeman save Crummy's life, And tak your auld cloak about ye. My Crummy is an usefu cow, And she is come of a good kin Aft has she wet the bairnie's mou, And I am laith that she should tine; Get up, gudeman, it is full time, The sun shines in the life sae hie, Sloth never made a gracious end, Gae tak your auld cloak about ye.