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 I love for to tumble and toſs, in due time when I go to bed; Had I but an induſtrious wife, I ſurely would ſomething provide. And if he were as willing as I to provide for a cold winter day, It would help us in time of our need, when friends they would frown us away

O that I had ne'er been married, I wad never had nae care; Now I've gotten wife and bairns, and they cry crowdie evermair. Ance crowdie, twice crowdie, three times crowdie in a day. Gin ye crowdie ony mair, ye'll crowdie a' my meal away.

Waefu' want and hunger ſley me, glowrin by the hallan en'; Sair I fight them at the door, but aye I'm eerie they come ben Ance crowdie, &c.

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