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 For girls and friends and books also,

You’ll find them all the same.

Then be advised and warning take,

From such a man as me :

I'm neither Pope nor Cardinal,

Nor one of high degree.

You’ll find displeasure every where

Then do as I have done,

E’en tune your pipe and please you self,

With John of Badenyon.

O sandy what, makes you grumble and growl,

A mind discontented will ne'er do weel.

It’s nought but a harrowing out o’ your soul,

To think on, or at the  or the meal

What though ye should wallow like wine in a gutter,

Divested at ance o your and your ,

Be silent or soon you will.

As mak’ you, and run neck and heel.

A cog o' a scot was a feast,

When Scotland stood single, but now when she's join’d

To her pamper'd sister she's her taste,

To feed on rich she now is inclin'd

But she

To place luxuries upon her table,