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 Yet some they are sae very willing,

At ony time they’ll tak a shilling,

But ha that learnt them first that spelling,

Or Meg or Nell,

Be sure, to him they’ll lay an egg in,

This some can tell.

Unthinking things! it is their creed,

If some sic things be done wi’ speed,

They’re safe, ’tis help in time of need,

Nae after claps;

Tho’ nine months aft brings quick or dead

Into their laps.

Experience thus makes me to speak,

I ance was hooked wi’ the cleek,

I almost had beshit my breek

When Maggy told

That, by her saul, not e’en a week

Young Jack would hold.

She was sae stiff she could not lout;

Your pranks, she says, are now found out,

The Kirk and you maun hae a bout;

Ill mat ye fare:

’Tis a’your ain, ye need na doubt,

Ilk hilt and hair.

Alas! that e’er I saw your face,

I can nae langer hide the case;

Had I forseen this sad disgrace,

Nae man nor you

Shou’d e’er hae touch’d my sic a place.

Or kiss’d my mou’.