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 Says, bonny lass will ye go in With us and get a drink:

But ome of them are very sweersweet [sic] And backward they will draw, Altho’ their Inclination gangs, They’re dowr to come awa’:

At length away they both do come, Sits down and takes a eat, And then they are o canty both, All’s right as they would hae’t.

Another ort’s of dancing keen, The beaus all of the age; They hake their feet, and wag their tails, Like fools upon a tage.

Promiscuous dancing’s what we ca’t, The women and the men, Together dance in company, On lat-floor or in barn.

A gingerbread wife comes in at length, Or may be two or three, Gars many a las her fairing get That ne’er a bit would ee. Come,