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 24       Janet Clinker's Oration.

that's naeway cankard to the cats, not kicks the colley-dogs amang her feet, that wad let a' brute beaſts live, but rats, mice, lice, flaes, neets and bugs, that bites the wee bairns in their cradles, that carefully comb the young things' heads, waſhes their faces and claps their cheeks, ſnites the ſnotter frae their noſe as they were a' her ain, that's the laſs that will mak a good wife; for them that dauts the young bairns, will ay be kind to auld fouk an they had them. And ony hale-hearted halſome hiſſie, that wants to halter a good huſband, never tak a widow's ae ſon, for a' the wifely gates in the warld will be in him, for want of a father to teach him manly actions; neither tak a ſour looking ſumf wi' a muckle mouth, and a wide guts, who will eat like a horſe and ſoſs like a ſow, ſuffer none to ſup but himſel, eat your meat and the bairns' baith; when hungry angry, when fu' full of pride, ten ſacks will not haud his ſauce, tho' a pea-ſhap wad haud his ſiller: But go, tak your chance, and if cheated, channer not on me, for faſhionable fouk flee to faſhionable things, for luſt is brutiſh blind, and fond love as blearey'd. I add no more, ſays Janet; ſo be it, ſaid Humphray the Clerk.

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G L A S G O W,                 PRINTED BY J. AND M ROBERTSON, SALTMARKET, 1801.