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Widov\', ate ye waking?
O widow, vvilJ ihou let ipe mr
"I'm pawky, wife, and thrifty,
"And come of a right gentle kin;
"I'm little mair than fift_>'."
Daft carle, dit jour mouth., ^
What figrrifiea how pawky,
Or gigntle-born ye be,- but youth-.
In love ,\e're but a gawky.
"Then, widow, let thcfe guineas fpeak,
' That powerfull}- plead clinkan;
"And if the;>- fail, rt\y mouth Til ffeek,
"And nae mair love will think on'.'
Thefe court indeed, I maun confefai,
I think they mak you young. Sir,
And ten "tfmes better can expref»
Affection, than your tongue. Sir

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