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 They better take a moke at hame, Than turn and teaze their neighbour’s name, And pin a thread on rock or wheel, Than clah and lie, and erve the de’il.

O country fairs in ummer time, The lads and laes go, With powder and pomatum dret, They make a gallant how.

When they get on their braw new clothes, So buckih then they be, Each lad goes there to ee his las, Each las her lad to ee.

Thus Jock goes there to see his Meg, And Will to ee his Kate. And Maggys’s there to ee her Tom, And Jenny to ee Pate.

Both black and fair you will ee there, The yellow and the blue, The beautiful are there likewie, And thoe of tawny hue: The