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 7 I am fear’d you have feme bonny laffie beguiled, you’re the finefi young gentleman I ever faw, Your cheeks like the rofes, your hair’s like the gowan I’m afraid you & them have keen breaking the law, O gentle fhephard have you got a wife yet ? or do you live fingle, pray tell me the truth, For if you live fingle, you’re fore to live happy, for the blooming young laffes are of fuch a ruth. O I'm fingle for all the maids in the foreft, I mind them no more than the leaf of the tree, Save one pretty,girl to whom I have promis’d to marry, as foon as my flock it is free. She’s handfome and witty, fhe’s charming and pretty fhe’s juft like a fwan in a new fallen poo'. She’s modeft and witty fhe’ll foon make me happy I liked her ay fince I was at the fchool. O fhepherd, you’re foolifh to bind to a woman. indeed you will rue it and that very foon, For if Die proves conftant, you’ll fearce find another one under the moon As for me, I’m no ways amind for to marry, but kifs all the fair maids that come in my way, For the very lafl winter between Etrick and Yarrow, I kife’d more than twenty that never faid me nay, There was se bonny lafs I chanc'd for to meet fhe liv’d with her mammy, Die had nae mair ava, And that very night I went for to fee her, O it was lucky, the old wife was awa. She made me a bed and fhe bade me go to it, She gave all I afked without ever a frown, She kis'd me and bleft me before that we parted, and promis’d to fee me next winter in town. O what is the name of that bonny young laffie, O what is her name, and what age might fhc feem?