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 , fy, lads buy your las her fair, The weet meat wives does ay, They gar a imple chiel look blunt, Thinks hame me to say them nay.

For preing work I do not like, ’Tis bet when will is there. The lad that likes his laie well, For twopence will not pare.

Some laies they do get a lad, And ome they do get twa, And ome they do get many a one, And ome gets nane ava.

And when the night is coming on, And ome does homeward go, And ome does tipple at the drink, How long I do not know;

Some wears by de’il, and meikle mair, They'll have another gill, Altho their pure is but light, They’ll tarry at the ale.

And ome does tagger like to fa’ And meaures ay the road, And