Wit and humor > Bonny Annie's elopement, with the pursuit and disappointment

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BONNY ANNIE.
TT was on a day in the middle of April,
l went to Louphmay the maids to beguile.
My dear and my jewel, my honey, faid he,
Will ye go to the North Highlands with me.
Many broad letters to Annie I did fend,
The old wife her mother {he did apprehend,
From whence comes all th “fe broad ler.crs faid (he.
They come from Dry menus, faid Annie to me.
I went to Drymenus my Annie to fee,
But little I thought what {hom'd happen to me,
T went to Drymenus fo bold was myfel,
And the bid me to call at the Ggn of the bell.
But I Ihqpt at the tree till: (he came unto me.
And I focn made ter glad tc follow with me i
Look iip bonny Annie and never look down,
A well ami I giant you need never frown.
Look always to me with a blythe blinking eye,
For I knew (lie w*ts fondfo follow with me,
The night it is cold and my clothing is thin,
And a far way to ga, FH die or I win.
The night it is coldj and I know your afraid.
But I’ll kindly roll you in my braw Highland ptoidg
Your pitiful pay it nukes me for to fay,
How can I live well on fixpence a day f
There's twopence for fugars & twopence for tea.
And twopence for bifket and all is away.
But a captain's commiflion perhaps may befall.
Where youfhaU get madam frombctb great Sc fmalh j