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4 pray like our new miniſters, but thump on your breaſt, ſtrake your fingers o'er aboon your noſe, tell your beeds, and rin bare-fit thro' amang hard ſtanes, and cauld ſna'.

Mag.) A hech woman, an wad they a had carnal dealings wi' the women, and them ſae good and haly.

Jan.) Hout ye daft woman, do ye think that their gudeneſs gelded them tho' they had nae wives; there was a great fort o' them it they ca'd cardonels, that ay when twa young bodies was married they bute to hae the firſt night o' the bride.

Mag.) A wae worth them filthy hureing dogs, if I widna a libbet thein myſel, I wonder that e gentle fouks and lairds lote them do the like o' that.

Jan.) A dear woman, the gentle fouks and the lairds keepit ay in wi' them, for they ſaid they had the command o' the de'il and the dead fouk, and the gentles durſt na caſt out wi' them, for they got a their ſins pardon'd for the leſs ſiller.

Mag.) A dear woman that was unco' like, the de'il wad get nae body then but the poor fouk, and then that had nae ſiller.

Jan.) A well a wat that was true, for an they paid the prieſt well, the de'il durſt na middle wi' them.

Mag.) A wow woman an what's come o' them a' now, am ſure the like o' thae fouks it had ſae meikle power, needed neither die nor yet be ſick; they wad live a' their days,