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 The new Way of

OXTER MY LADDIE.

, when my laddie and I did meet,

He treated me with kies o weet;

It was low down in the meadows o green,

I oxter'd my laddie where we were not een

Where we were not een,

Where we were not een,

I oxter'd my laddie where we were not een.

But I being young, and in my prime,

Kiing then I thought no crime;

But my tays are turn'd trait, they'll not meet by a pan,

And it's a' for the oxtering my laddie ae lang, &c.

When firt my tays began to turn trait

I went to my laiddie and told him that

He aid they'd get rain, and had cripen in.

No, ays he, my laddie, that's not the thing, &c.

Firt, when my tays I began for to wear.

Neither the Kirk nor Seion I did fear;