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24
Some said it was the pith o’ broom,
That she stow’d in her masking loom,
Which in our heads rais’d sic a foom.
Or some wild seed,
Which aft the chappen-stoup did toom.
But fill’d our head.
But now since ’tis sae that wo must,
Not in the best ale put our trust.
But when we’re auld return to dust,
Without remead;
Why should we tak’ it in disgust.
Since Maggy’s dead.
Some said it was the pith o’ broom,
That she stow’d in her masking loom,
Which in our heads rais’d sic a foom.
Or some wild seed,
Which aft the chappen-stoup did toom.
But fill’d our head.
But now since ’tis sae that wo must,
Not in the best ale put our trust.
But when we’re auld return to dust,
Without remead;
Why should we tak’ it in disgust.
Since Maggy’s dead.
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Wit and humor > Dominie deposed, with the sequel > (24) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/108963618 |
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| Description | By William Forbes, A.M. late schoolmaster at Petercoulter. To which is added, Maggy Johnston's elegy. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2852.F(20) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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