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DAVID FERGUSSON.
MANUSCRIPT]
1040] Men may meit bot montaines may not
My shoon is good for colheughes 1 they can draw water
Myce wants kned 2 water.
My nose runes lyk a sope wyfes arse.
My heill wil be welcom if my forfoot wil not
My cunt had ye not sein if in my hour ye had no bein
My eyes is gathering straes
Mell not wftA them quhom God hes marked
Many wants a feist for fault of calling
Mony spils a feast for fault of good chear
1050] My goodsc/zi'ris grandsc/wris godfather wore ane hat &
ye shall call me mistres for that
Mak not a midwyf of me
Mariag is maid in heaven
Mony kisses the mouth wold byt of the nose
Mony speaks of my grit drinking bot few of my sore
thrist
1055] Mony goodnights is loth away
edition 1641]
N
645] "XT Ature passes norture.
^ Na man can baith sup and blaw at once.
Nothing enters in a close hand.
Need makes vertue.
649] Need hes na law.
1 coal pits. * musty.
645. KH 646. ARK He 647. K
648. KHe *649. KH.
DAVID FERGUSSON.
MANUSCRIPT]
1040] Men may meit bot montaines may not
My shoon is good for colheughes 1 they can draw water
Myce wants kned 2 water.
My nose runes lyk a sope wyfes arse.
My heill wil be welcom if my forfoot wil not
My cunt had ye not sein if in my hour ye had no bein
My eyes is gathering straes
Mell not wftA them quhom God hes marked
Many wants a feist for fault of calling
Mony spils a feast for fault of good chear
1050] My goodsc/zi'ris grandsc/wris godfather wore ane hat &
ye shall call me mistres for that
Mak not a midwyf of me
Mariag is maid in heaven
Mony kisses the mouth wold byt of the nose
Mony speaks of my grit drinking bot few of my sore
thrist
1055] Mony goodnights is loth away
edition 1641]
N
645] "XT Ature passes norture.
^ Na man can baith sup and blaw at once.
Nothing enters in a close hand.
Need makes vertue.
649] Need hes na law.
1 coal pits. * musty.
645. KH 646. ARK He 647. K
648. KHe *649. KH.
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| Description | Together with a larger manuscript collection of about the same period. Edited by Erskine Beveridge. With facsimiles. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1924. Completed and extended after the editor's death by J.D. Westwood. cf. Preface. |
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