The Book of Scottish Song/Dear Roger, if your Jenny

Dear Roger, if your Jenny.

[From Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd."—Tune, "Fye, gae rub her ower wi' strae."]

Dear Roger, if your Jenny geck,
⁠And answer kindness with a slight,
Seem unconcern'd at her neglect,
⁠For women in our vows delight.

But them despise who're soon defeat,
⁠And with a simple face give way
To a repulse; then, be not blate,
⁠Push bauldly on and win the day.

These maidens, innocently young,
⁠Say aften what they never mean;
Ne'er mind their pretty lying tongue,
⁠But tent the language of their een;
If these agree, and she persist
⁠To answer all your love with hate,
Seek elsewhere to be better blest,
⁠And let her sigh when 'tis too late.

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