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DOMINIE DEPOSED.

PART I. SOME Dominies are sae bias’d, That o’er the dyke themsells they cast, They drink an’ rant, an’ live sae fast, This drives them on, draw a weapon at the last, That sticks Mess John.

Thus going on from day to day, Neglecting still to watch and pray, teach the little anes A, B, C, An’ Pater Noster, Quite ither thoughts our Lettergae, Begins to foster.

, laying by baith fear and shame, slily venture on that game,  Fours, I think, they call’t by name, Baith auld an’ rife, in the play, Mess John is slain Wi’ his ain knife.