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66 For ye're baith proud and saucy,

And no for a poor man's wife;

Gin I canna get a better,

I'se ne'er tak' ane i' my life.

Out spake the bride's sister,

As she came in frae the byre;

O gin I were but married,

It's a' that I desire:

But we poor folk maun live single,

And do the best that we can;

I dinna care what I shou'd want

If I cou'd get but a man.

[ by of Dumbartonshire to the tune of "Woo'd and married and a'," and inserted in Cromok's Select Scottish Songs, 1810.]

[ humorous ditty, to the tune of "Woo'd and married and a'," was composed about the year 1826 or 1827 by a young probationer of the Church of Scotland, a native of Ayrshire, who is now settled as minister of a parish in Aberdeenshire.]

Girzy was now thirty-six,

Though some rather mair did her ca',

And ane quite sae auld to get married,

Has little or nae chance ava.

And Girzy, aft thinking on this,

Lang sighs frae her bosom wad draw;

Oh, is it not awfu' to think

I may not be married ava!