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 ( 3 ) But if ye can match her — ye’re waur than
 * ye’re ca'd,
 * And the thyme, &c.

The d-v-l has got the auld wife on his back,
 * Hey and the rue, &c.

And like a poor pedlar he’s carried his pack,
 * And the thyme, &c.v

He’s carried her hame to his ain hallan door,
 * Hey and the rue, &c.

Syne bad her gae in for b— and w—, nd the thyme, &c. Then traight he makes fifty, the pick of
 * his band.
 * Hey and the rue, &c.

Turn out on her guard in the clap of a hand,
 * And the thyme, &c.

The carlin gaed thro’ them like ony wud
 * bear,
 * Hey and the rue, &c.

Whae’er he gat hands on, earn near her nae mair, And the thyme, &.c. A reekit, wee d-v-1 looks over the wa’ iiey and the rue, otc.