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 and there's defeetionsdefections [sic] in his members as well as in mine.

Mag. Aye, but fouk should aye strive to mortify their members.

Mith. Aye, aye mortify their members that's your Whiggery, indeed; But will you or ony body else, wi your mortifying of your members prevent what's to eomecome [sic] to pass? I wish I saw the Minister and his Elders, I'se gie them SeripturesScriptures [sic] for a' his done yet. Tell nae me about the mortifying of members, gin he has gotten a bystart, let her and him feed it between them, and they gie't soup about; but she maun keep it the first quarter, and by that time mueklemuckle [sic] blaekblack [sic] Lady will be eauftcauft [sic]; we sall sell the eaufcauf [sic] and foster the wean on the cow's milk; that's better mense for a faut, than a' your repenting-stools; a wheen Papist rites, and rotten erimoniescerimonies [sic], fashing fouks wi saeksack [sic] gowns and buttock-mails, and I dinna ken what. But bide ye till I see the Minister.

Now JoekeyJockey [sic] and his mither went into the little byre and held a private meeting, nane present but auld BruekieBruckie [sic] and the twa brutes, the bits of couties, that she might give him eounselcounsel [sic] how to behave when he appeared before Mess John, to answer for his bastard; which coucludcsconcludes [sic] the third and last part.