Wit and humor > Dominie depos'd, or, Somr [sic] reflections on his intrigue with a young lass, and what happened thereupon

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THE DOMINIE DEPOS’D.
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She bartR’d her faul, and then fire blefl it,'
In the Kirk-books it would be lifted.
An’ thus the weary wife infifted,
Our Lettergae
Will fit whar he will not tie pifht at
By dogs fome day.
She wrung her bands until they cracked, j
An’ fadiy me file lham‘d an’ lacked j!
Ah, man! the Priefi:, how will he tak it.
Whan he hears tell.
How Maggy’s mitten ye hae glacket,
2e ken yourfell.
The Sefsion-Clark to play fuch prankies, |
Te'll flan, I fear, upon your {hankies,
An’ maybe flaver i* the brankies ;
It could na mifs.
But lifting Maggy’s callimankies,
Would turn to this.
A toothlefs Houdy, auld and teuq^i.
Says, Coiner hufht, we hae eneugh,
Thirfh mony ane has touch’t the plough,
Aih g.ude afh he.
An’ yetch gane backlench o’er the heugh, i
Shae let him be.
Hefii no, quoth file, though he’fii be leer’d, 1
'f'hat ye ken what, they hae crept near’t, 'j
Far you an’ I hafii aftimes heard
O’ nine or ten,
Wha thufii the Clergy haih befhraear'd j
Wj‘ their ain Pen.
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