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 5 While I sit hurklen in the ase,

I'll have a new cloak about me.

Goodman, I wate 'tis thirty years

Since we did ane anither ken;

And we have had between us twa,

Of lads and bonny lasses ten:

Now they are women grown and men,

I wish and pray well may they be;

And if you'd prove a good husband,

E'en tak your auld cloak about ye.

Bell my wife, she loves na strife,

But she would guide me if she can;

And to maintain an easy life

I aft maun yield though I'm goodman.

Nought's to be won at woman's hand,

Unless ye give her a' the plea;

Then I'll leave aff where I began,

And tak my auld cloak about me.

 

the earth was unformed and totally void,

And the depth of the deluge no man can impede:

On the face of the water the Spirit of Might

Did move the creation, but he first formed light.