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 aye; What an we get a bystart, and hae no suffer for the foul act of fornication.

Jock. Ay, but my mither says if I dinna get thee wi' bairn, I'll no get thee, for 'tis the sure way of wooing.

Mag. Indeed, Johnny, I like you better nor ony lad I see; an I sall marry you an yence my father's muck were out; my mither downa wirk at the midden.

Jock. Ah, Maggy, Maggy! I'm fear'd ye beguile me, and than my mither will murder me for being so silly.

Mag. My jo, Johnny, tell your mither to provide a' things for the bridal, an' I sall marry you in three ouks after this; but we maun gie in siller to the precentor, a groat and a drink to the bellman, and then the kirk wa's maun hear o't three Sundays or it come.

Jock. But Maggy, I'm no to mak a blind bargain wi' you nor naebody; I maun ken o' your things, and ye fall ken o' mine.

Mag. I ken well what I was' to get, an gin my mither like the bargain well, she'll mak it better but an my father be angry at the bargain, I darna speak o’ marrying.

Jock. I seena how he can be angry, I wat weel I'm a gay sturdy fallow, when I laid a bow and five pecks o' bear on the Laird's Bawly, and he's as bilshy a beast as in a' the barronry.