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 do it aye. What an ye get a bystart, and hae to 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 surest way of wooing.

Mag. Indeed, Johnny, I like you better nor ony lad I see : an I sall marry you an ance my faither's muck were out; my mither downe work at the midden.

Jock. An Maggy, Maggy! I'm feared we beguile me, and then my mither will murder me for being so silly.

Mag. My jo, Johnny, tell your mither to provide a thing for the bridal an' I sall marry you in three ks fien his; but we maun gie m siller to the Precentor, a gro and a drink to the beltman and then the kirk wa's maun hear o' three Sundays or it come.

Jock. But Maggy, I'm not to mak a blind bargain wi you nor naebody ; I maun ken o' your things, and you sall ken o' mine.

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

Jock. I seens how he can be angry, I wat we'll I'm a gay sturdy fallow, when I laid a bow and five pecks o' beer on the Laird's Bawsy, and he's as bilshy a beast as in a' the barony.

Mag. Ay, but my mither is aye angry