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( 5 ) His darling hoard the miler views,

misses from friends decamp,

And many a statesman mischief brews

to his country o’er his lamp;

So father and I, d'ye take me right,

are just on the same lay,

I bare-fac’d sinners light by night,

and he false faints by day,

So father and I, d'ye take me right, &c.



 and, the Preservatives

Onfess thy love, fair blushing maid,

for since thine eye’s consenting,

Thy faster thoughts are a' betray’d,

and na-says no worth tenting.

Why aims thou to oppose thy mind,

with words thy wish denying;

Since Nature made thee to be kind,

reason allows complying.

Nature and Reason’s joint consent,

make love a sacred blessing,

Then happily that time is spent,

that’s war’d on kind caressing.

Come then my Katie to my arms,

I’ll be nae mair a rover;

But find out heav’n in a’ thy charms,

and prove a faithful lover.