( 15 )
the
COMICAL HISTORY
of
SIMPLE JOHN, &c.
SIMPLE JOHN, was a widow’s son, and a coarse country weaver to his trade; he made nothing but such as canvas for cassbeds, corn and coal-sacks, druggit and harn was the finest webs he could lay his fingers to; he was a great lump of a long lean lad, about six feet high before he was eighteen years old, and as he said himself, he grew sae saft, and was in sic a hurry to be high, that he did not stay to bring a’ his judgment with him, but yet he hoped it would follow him, and he would meet wi’t as mony a ane does, after they’re married ; he had but ae sister, and she had as little sense himself; she was married to sleeky Willy the wylie weaver, his mither was a rattling-scull’d wife, and they lived a’in ae house, and everybody held them as a family of fools. When
