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IS The GENTLE SHEPHERD.
Roger.
As ye advife, I’ll promlfe to obferve’t;
But ye maun keep the flute, ye belt deferve’t.
Now tak it out, and gie’s a bonny fpring;
For I’m in tift to hear you play and fing.
P A T I E.
But firft we’ll take a turn up to the hight.
And fee gif all our flocks be feeding right.
Be that time, bannocks, and a fliave of cheefe.
Will make a breakfaft that a laird might pleafe,
Might pleafe the daintiefl: gabs, were they fae wife.
To feafonmeat with health inttead of fpice.
When we have taen the grace drink at this well,
I’ll whittle fine, and fing t’ye like myfell. [Exeunt,
A C T I. S C E N E II.
A flow’ry howm between two verdant braes,
“Where lafles life to wafh and fpread their claiths,
A trotting burnie wimpling thro’ the ground.
Its channel pebbils, Ihining, fmooth and round.
Here view twa barefoot beauties clean and clear;
firft pleafe your eye, next gratify your ear,
"While Jenny what fhe wjthes difcommends.
And Meg with better Icnle true love defends,
PEGGY and JENNY.
Jenny.
O M E, Meg, let’s fa’ to wark upon this green-,
^ The Ihining day will bleech our linen clean ;
The water’s clear, the lift unclouded blue,
Will make them like a lilly wet with dew.
P E G. G Y.
Go farer up the burn to Habbie’s-how,
Where a’ the fweets of fpring and fummer grow;
Be-