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19 THS DOMINIE DEROS'D. Sae leaving them to drink het ale, slipt awa' an' 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.

THE

SEQUEL.

NOW, loving friends, I hae 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 haft For that mistak.

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