Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries, or, John Falkirk's carriches

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A. Nothing but ale and ill wicked
wives,
Ck How was it abolifhed ?
A. Becaufe thofe that went to it
once would go to it no more.
Ch For what reafon ?
A. Becaufe there was no money to
be got for them, but fair barter, wife*
for wife, and he who put away his
wife for one fault, got another with
two as bad.
Q^What was the reafon that in thofe
days a mail could put away his wife for
piffing the bed and not for lh- —g it ?
A Becaufe he could Ihute it away
with his foot and lye down.
What is the reason now a days
that met*.court, call, marry, and re¬
marry fo many wives, and keep but
only one in public at laft ?
A. Becaufe private murriages are
’ become as common as fmuggling, and
cuckolding the kirk no more thought
of than to ride a mile or two on his
neighbour’s mare ! men get will and
wale of wives, the beft portion, and
properefl pprfon is preferred, the firft
left, the weak to the worft, and flic