Wit & humour > Gentle shepherd

j6 72* GENTLE SHEPHERD.
Hear how I ferv’d my lafs I love as well
As ye do Jenny, and with heart as leel.
Laft morning I was gay and early out.
Upon a dyke I lean’d, glowring about,
I faw my Meg come linking o’er the lee:
I faw my Meg, but Meggy faw na me;
For yet the fun was wading through the mift.
And fhe was clofs upon me e’er (he wift.
Her coats were kiltit, and did fweetly (haw
Her ftreight bare legs that whyter were than fnaw;
Her cockernony fnooded up fou fleek.
Her hafFet-locks hang waving on her cheek;
Her cheek fae ruddy and her een fae clear;
And O! her mouth’s like ony hinny-pear.
Neat, neat (he was, in bufline wade-coat clean.
As (he came (kiffing o’er the dewy green.
Blythfome I cry’d, my bonny Meg, come here;
I ferly wherefore ye’re fae foon adeer:
But I can guefs; ye’re gawn to gather dew.
She fcowr’d away and faid. What’s that to you ?
Then fare ye well, Meg-Dorts, and e’en’s ye like,
I carelefs cry’d, and lap in o’er the dyke,
I trow, when that (he faw, within a crack,
She came wi’ a right thievlefs errand back;
Mifca’d me fird, then bad me hound my dog
To wear up three waff ews dray’d on the bog.
I leugh, and fae did (he; then with great hade
I clafp’d my arms about her neck and wade.
About her yielding wade, and took a fouth
Of fweeted kifles frae her glowand mouth.
"While hard and fad I held her in my grips,
My very faul came louping to my lips.
iSair, fair (he (let wi’ me ’tween ilka fmack;
But well I kend (lie meant nae as (he fpake.
SANG