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19 And from the devil and the excise,

Libera nos.

From brown bread and small beer,

From being taken stealing deer,

From all that hath been named here.

Quesemus te.

The littany being ended, the tapster comes for his reckoning; but Poor Robin made answer that he should do as the rest had done, either tell a tale or sing a song. Says he, "Sing I cannot, but I will tell you they marry in Scotland, as a Scotch priest told me that lay here, and got me to engage for him to my master for twenty shillings; and he running away, I was forced to pay his score for him."

CHAP. XVI.

A Scotch Marriage

We don't use to wad in Scotland as you wad in England: Jockey comes to the kirk and takes sir Donkyn by the rocket, and says, "Goodmorn, sir Donkyn," "what's the matter Jockey, what's the matter?" "A wadding, a wadding," says he, "don't you see the hoppers and the skippers, and all the lads of the gang? I'se don't, I'se come to you belyve." Then Sir Donkyn