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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 play'd the fool, And ſhifted the Repenting-Stool; To Kirk and Seſſion bids good-day, He'll o'er the hills and far away.

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NOW loving friends I hae you left, Ye ken I neither ſtole nor reſt, But when I found myſell 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 flock took wings an' aff it flew; Sae a' was gone, An' deil a flee had I was new, Except young John.