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12                I'll gie you a meeting as Mungo gae his mither. I'll gar his ain garture tye up his ain hose I'll never dirty the bonnet I'm going to put on. I'll never lout sae laigh and lift sae little. I like not to make a toil of pleasure. I'm o'er auld a cat to draw a straw before. I'm no every man's dog that whistles on me. I might bring a better speaker frae hame than you I may come to break an egg in your pouch. I never liked a dry bargain. I never lo'ed meat that crawed in my craigie. I think mair of your kindness than it's a' worth. I wadna ca' the king my cousin. I wad rather see't than hear tell o't.                I wadna make fish of ane an flesh of another. I wish readier meat than a running hare. I wish you as muckle good o't as dogs get o' grass. If any spier at ye, ye may say, ye dinna ken. If wishes were horses beggars would ride. If I canno' do't by might I'll do't by flight. If it can be nae better, it is well it is nae waur. If it serves me to wear it may gain you to look to. If it widna sell it winna sour. If ye brew well, ye'll drink the better. If ye do wrang, make amends. If ye serve the tod, ye maun bear up his tail. Ill bairns are best heard at hame. Ill beef never made good broo. Ill comes upon the waur's back. Ill counsel will gar a man stick his mare. Ill doers are aye ill dreaders. Ill getting het water frae 'neath ice. Ill hearing makes wrang rehearsing. III laying up makes mony thieves.