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62 Be a lassie e'er so fair,

An' she want the penny siller,

A flie may fell her in the air,

Before a man be even'd till her.

[ following is song to the tune of "Tibbie Fowler o' the Glen." It resembles the same author's version of "Bessy Bell and Mary Gray," In the poet affecting to be in a dilemma as to which of two beauties he should choose. Ramsay's love-passion seems to have partaken much of Captain Macheath's liberal style of Worship:—

"How happy could I be with either!"]

[ by for Johnson's Museum, and adapted to a tune called "The Eight Men of Moidart." It is also given in Thomson's collection, to the tune of "Tibbie Fowler o' the Glen."]

are the hows,

And sunny are the knowes

That fed the kye and yows,

Where my life's morn dawn'd;