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The Good-Man of Auchtermouchtie ;

Or the Good-Wife turn’d Good-Man.

Being a merry Account how the

Good-Man was fitted to his Mind,

N Auchțermouchtie liv’d a man,

if a’ be true that I heard ſay,

Who yok’d his pleugh upon the plain,

upon a wet and windy day.

The wind blew cauld which did him ſlay,

from the north eaſt baith hail & rain,

He lous’d his pleagh, he dought not ſtay,

the cauld did chaſe him lame again:

Good-wife, quoth he, riſe up amain,

and gi’e the ſtots baith corn and hay,

The inorn ye ſhall my trouble ken :

and I'ſe be good-wife as I may.

Ye’ve dwelt ſou lown this mony a day,

about the fire ye ſit right glad,

To-morrow ye ſhall try the way,

and learn yourſelf the pleugh to haud.

The ſeed-time it proves cauld and bad,

and ye ſit warm, nae trouble fees;

The morn ye ſhall paſs with the lad,

and then ye’ll ken what drinkers drees.