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(3) talk, and kissed the lasses; sikle sykin bodies they are unko ill to pleaſe: they wad brith ciars'a ſouk a bleſs'd them, juſt as ye paid them; a deed they are unko greedy o the penny, and pray'd aye to the ced, and gard the living pay for it, and tho' they layed the loon wit a poor hizey, she durst nae speak 't for her life, for they could ge ony body o'er to the veil when they liket. They didna gar souk learn to fray like our ministers, but thump on your breast, trake your finger above your nose, tell your beads, and rin barefit thro' amang hard stanes & cald snaw.

Mag. Hech woman! an wad they had carnal dealings wi the woman, and them sae good and haly?

Jan. Hout, ye daft gowk! do ye think their goodneſs gelded them, tho' they had nae wives? There was a great fort o them they ca'd cardonels, hat aye when twa young bodies was married, they put to hae the fire night o the bride.

Mag. Wae worth the filthy hoorin dogs, if I vadna libbet them myſel; I wonder that the gentle fouks and lairds lut them do the like o that.

Jan. A dear, the gentle fouks keepit aye in wi hem, they said they had command o the deil and the dead fouk; the gentles durstna cast out wi them, for they got a their sins pardoned for the less siller.

Mag. A dear woman, that was unko like, the deil wad get naebody then but the poor fouk, and them that had nae siller.

Jan. A weel wat that was true, for gif they paid the priest weel, the deil durstna meddle wi them.

Mag. A woman! what's come o them a now? am sure the like o tha souk that had se mukle power, need neither die nor be sick; they wad live a their days.

Jan. A wat weel did they, for the maist o them is dead and rotten, and the rest o them gad to Italy, where the Pape their father, the deil, the witches,