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fport it will be when we are all drown¬
ing, to fee how that man’s red nofe
will make the wate;r biz when it. comes
about it; at which words they all fell
a laughing and cheriihed the crew, fo
that they made another attempt to
weather out, and got all fafe alhore at
laft,
John Falkirk's Love Letter to the Fid¬
dler's Widow
My lovely Bet, the beauty of old
age, thy hoary head, and louching
fhoulders incline to mortality; yet I
will compare thee to the Eagle that
has renewed her youth, or leek with
a white head and a green tail, this
comes to thee with my kind compli¬
ments for kiffes of thy lips and the
kindnefs I had for thy late bed fellow,
Fiddler Pate, my brother penfloner ;
ah! how we drank others healths with
thebroe of thebucketewes,webrought
from boughts of the German Boors;
but it’s popfenfe to praife the dead,
when in the daft, yet a better Vialer
never freeded on a lilken cord, or
kittled a cat’s trypes wi’his finger-ends.
ing, to fee how that man’s red nofe
will make the wate;r biz when it. comes
about it; at which words they all fell
a laughing and cheriihed the crew, fo
that they made another attempt to
weather out, and got all fafe alhore at
laft,
John Falkirk's Love Letter to the Fid¬
dler's Widow
My lovely Bet, the beauty of old
age, thy hoary head, and louching
fhoulders incline to mortality; yet I
will compare thee to the Eagle that
has renewed her youth, or leek with
a white head and a green tail, this
comes to thee with my kind compli¬
ments for kiffes of thy lips and the
kindnefs I had for thy late bed fellow,
Fiddler Pate, my brother penfloner ;
ah! how we drank others healths with
thebroe of thebucketewes,webrought
from boughts of the German Boors;
but it’s popfenfe to praife the dead,
when in the daft, yet a better Vialer
never freeded on a lilken cord, or
kittled a cat’s trypes wi’his finger-ends.
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries, or, John Falkirk's carriches > (23) |
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| Description | To which is added, his comical and witty jokes, when in courtship with an old fiddler's widow, who wanted all the teeth. With a copy of a love letter he sent to her, who was commonly called Flinging Betty. Edinburgh : Printed by J. Morren, [1790?]. John Falkirk is a pseudonym. Attributed to Dougal Graham. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2803(7) |
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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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