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his elbows were fupple as an eel, and his fingers dabbed at the jigging end like a hungry hen picking barley : I feldom or ever faw him drunk, and keep him from whifky,or whifky from him; except that night he try fled the free ftone pair of breeches from Jo- feph the mafon : and now, my dear Beyffy, he’s got them, he’s got them, for a free-ftahe covers his body, holds him down, and will do; and now, now my dainty thing, match for matrimo- ny, come tak me now or tell me now. I’m in danger. I’ll wait nae langer;I fay be clever, either now or never, it's a rapture of love which does me move, I’ll have a wife, or by my life, if fhe fhould be blind and cripple ; I’ll fell my wind for her meat and fun, the like ne’er gaed down her thrapple ; fo now Beffy I love you, my love lies upon you ; and if you love me not a- gain, fome ill chance come upon you; as I am flyting free, I am both in love and banter, of may your rumple rust for me ; I have fworn it by my chanter. F I N I S.
