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24 his elbows were ſupple as an eel, and his fingers dabbed at the jigging end like a hungry hen picking barley ſeldom or ever ſaw him drunk, and keep him from whiſky, or whiſky from him; except that night he tryſted the free-ſtone pair of breeches from Joſeph the maſon: and now, my dear Beyſſy, he's got them, he's got them for a free-ſtane covers his body, hold him down, and will do, and now, now my dainty thing, match for matrimony, come tak me now or tell me now I'm in danger, I'll wait nae langer; I ſay be clever, either now or never, it's a rapture of love which does me move I'll have a wife, or by my life, if the ſhould be blind and cripple; I'll fell my wind for her meat and fun, the like ne'er gaed down her thrapple; ſo now Beſſy-I love you, my love lies upon you; and if you love me not again, ſome ill chance come upon you, as I am flyting tree, I am both in love and banter, or may your rumple rust for me; I have ſworn it by my chanter?

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