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 The bride, for her carnal behaviour,

was find in half twenty Scots pounds;

Nor would they shew her any favour,

tho' such a lewd practice abounds;

And likewise 'fore the congregation,

her sentence was also to stand,

Upon the next public occasion,

to suffer a sharp reprimand.

Nor was the poor fumbler exempted

from paying an equal sum,

Because he so vainly attempted,

as others had done, to presume.

was the maid disappointed,

whose claim seem'd so just and so clear!

Ah! how were her hopes all disjointed

the session's hard sentence to hear!

But what made the ven'rable session

the damsel so harshly to treat?

Was it such a hainous transgression

to find and discover a cheat?

For had they been coupl'd together,

as tightly as any could be,

The law would have broken the tether,

and set the poor injured free.