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Ye have fasted lang and worried on a midge. Ye have naething to do but suck and wag your tail. Ye have tint the tongue of the trump. Ye have staid lang and bronght little wi' ye. 805 Ye have tane't upon you as the wife did the dancing. Ye have the wrang sow by the lug. Ye ken what drinkers dree. Ye kenna wha may cool your kail yet. Ye live at the lag of the law. 810 Ye'll neither dance nor hold the candle. Ye'll get nae mair of the cat' but the skin. Ye'll no sell your ben in a rainy day. Ye'll ne'er cast saut on his tail. Ye'll no herry yoursel with your ain hand. 815 Ye look liker a thief than a bishop. You'll let little gae by you unless it be the swallow. Ye may gang farther and far warse. Ye may get waur bodes or Beltan. Ye may be heard where ye're no seen. 820 Ye may dight your neb and fly up. Ye maun take the will for the deed. Ye mete my pease by your ain peck. Ye'll never die on your ain assize. Ye'll drink before me. 835 Ye'll find him where ye left him. Ye may take the bead for the washing. Ye'11 get the cat with the twa tails. Ye'll beguile nane but them that lippens to you. Ye'll mend when ye grow better. 390 Ye'll never be sae auld with sae meikle honesty. Ye never saw green cheese but your een reel'd.       Ye never cpoft the cat's saut yet. Ye're as daft as ye're days auld. Ye're a good seeker but an ill-finder. 985 Ye'se nae chicken for a your cheering Ye're like Macky's mare, ye brake fairly aff. Ye're good enough, but yet no bra new. Ye're no sae poor as ye peep. Ye're well awa' if you bide, and we're well quat.