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 Mith. But I think there’s little ill tho' they try it ance or twice or they be married, its an unco thing for a body to be bound till a business or they ken whether they be able for it or no.

Mag. Ay, ay, that's your way of doing and his, but it's no the way of ither honest-fouk; see what the minister will say to it.

Mith. The minister is but a mortal man, & there's defections in his members as well as in mine.

Mag. Ay; but fouk should aye strive to mortify their members.

Mith Ay, ay, mortify their members! that's your Whiggery indeed: But will you or ony body else, wi' your mortifying o' your members, prevent what's to come to pass? I wish I saw the Minister an Iris Eldens, I'se gie them Scripture for a' he's done yet: Tell na me about the mortifying o' members, gin he has gotten a bystart, let her and him feed it between them, an they sud gie't soup about but she maun keep it the first quarter, and by that time muckle black Lady will be wi' cauf; we sall sell the cauf, an foster the wean on the cow's milk; that's better mense for a faut than a' your mortifying o' members an a your repenting stools; a wheen Papist rites an rotten ceremonies, fashing fouks wi' sack gowns, an buttocks mails, an I dinna ken what. But bide ye till I sae the Minister.

Now Jockey and his mither went into the