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224 And there we will live by our industry,

And wha'll be sae happy as Maggie and me?

We'll a' grow as fat as a Norway seal,

Wi' our feasting on bannocks o' barley meal.

Then fare ye weel, citizens, noisy men,

Wha jolt in your coaches to Drury Lane;

Ye bucks o' Bear-garden, I bid you adieu,

For drinking and swearing, I leave it to you.

I'm fairly resolved for a country life,

And nae langer will live in hurry and strife;

I'll aff to the Highlands as hard's I can reel,

And whang at the bannocks o' barley meal.

[.—Air, "Glenorchy braes."—Printed here with the permission of Nicol's publisher, Mr. Tait of Edinburgh.]

[ is version of an old song called "The Collier's bonnie lassie," and appears in the first volume of his Tea-Table Miscellany. The first stanza of the original song ran thus:

The tune is given in the Orpheus Caledonius (1725.) It was selected by Gay for one of his songs in his Opera called "Polly," beginning "When right and wrong's decided."]

collier has a daughter,

And, O! she's wondrous bonnie.

A laird he was that sought her,

Rich baith in lands and money.

The tutors watched the motion

Of this young honest lover:

But love is like the ocean;

Wha can its depths discover!