Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Tea-table miscellany, or, A collection of choice songs, Scots and English

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I am gawn to feek a wife,
I am gawn to buy a plaidy ;
I have three ftane of woo,
Carling, is thy daughter ready ?
For the fake offomehody, &c.
Betty y laffy, fay't thy fell,
Tho' thy dame be ill to moo,
Firft we'll buckle, then we'll tell,
Let her fly te and fyne come too :
What fignifies a mither's gloom ,
When love in kiffes come in play ?
Shoifd we wither in our bloom,
And in fimmer mak nae hay ?
For the fake, Sec,
S H 1.
Bonny lad, I carena by,
Tho' I try my luck with thee,
Since ye are content to tye
The haft-mark bridal band wi' me ;
I'll flip hame and wafli my feet,
And Ileal on linnings fair and clean,.
Syne at the tryfting place we'll meet,
To do but what my dame has done.
For the fake, &c.
He.
Now my lovely Betty gives
Confent in fick a heartfome gate,
It me frae a my care relieves,
And doubts that gart me aft look blate ;
Then let us gang and get the grace,
For they that have an appetite
Shou'd eat ;— - and lovers fhou'd embrace ;
If thefe be faults, 'tis nature's wyte.
For the fake, &c.
Norland Jocky and Southland Jenny,
A
Southland Jenny that was right bonny,
Had for a fuitor a norland Johny ;
But