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( 19 ) Sae leaving them to drink het ale, I ſlipt awa, and let them rail: Then running till my breath did fail, I was right glad Frae Kirk an' wives to tak leg bail.- Nae doubt they ſaid,

The Lettergae has playd d the fool, And ſhifted the Repening Stool; To Kirk and Seſſion bid, good-day, He'll o'er the hills and far away.

THE

SEQUEL.

Now loving friends I hee you left, Ye ken I neither ſtole nor reſt; But when I found myſelf infeſt, In a young Jack, I did reſolve to change the haſt For that miſtak.

An' reaſons mae I had anew, For I had neither horſe nor cow; My ſtock took wings, an' aff it flew, See a was gone! An' deil a flee had I was new, Except young John.