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8 28. Let flaunting beauty ne'er hoodwink

Your understandings, learn to think

Beauty skin-deep but lasts a blink,

A thing ideal;

Whereas, the solid sterling elinkclink [sic]

Is something real.

29. They must be void of sense or thought

Who marry women having nought:—

Wives, and wives friends, have often brought

Men to the door;

They are, at least, a dd down draught

If they be poor.

30. Who—g is bad, I'll not deny;

Yet wh—s may do to put you bye,

Till each of you has fixed an eye

Upon a lass,

Blessed with the eharmscharms [sic] the wise envy—

The eharmscharms [sic] of brass.

31. Now, to eoneludeconclude [sic]:—I recommend

StrietStrict [sic] piety; at least, pretend;

And constantly the kirk attend

On Sabbath day;

And morn and night at your fire-end

Sing psalms and pray.

32. Suppose you swindle, lie, and cheat,

And praetieepractice [sic] every low deeeitdeceit [sic],

At making cash you will be beat

In many ways,

If you at ehurehchurch [sic] desert your seat

On Sabbath days.

33. 'Tis much your interest here to pass

Among the douse religious class;

The kirk-attender always has

A most prodigious

Advantage o'er the stupid ass

Who's not religious.