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

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But he was fican 4 a baftifu' wooer,
That he cou'd fcarcely fpeak unto her,
Till blinks of her beauty, and hopes o'her filler,
Forc'd him at laft to tell his mind till her.
My dear, quoth he, we'll nae langer tarry,
Gin ye can loo me, let's o'er the march, and marry.
She.
Come, come away, then my norland laddie,
Tho* we gang neatly, fome are mair gaudy ;
And albeit I have neither govvd nor money,
Come, and I'll ware my beauty on thee.
He.
Ye laffes of the fouth, ye'r a' for drefling ;
Laffes of the north, mind milking and threfhing ;
My minny wad be angry, and iae wad my dady,
Shou'd I marry ane as dink as a lady.
For I maun hae a wife that will rife in the morning,
Crudle a' the milk, and keep the houfe a fcaulding,
Toolie with her nibours, and learn at my minny,
A norland Jocky maun hae a norland Jenny.
She.
My father's only daughter and twenty thoufand pound,,
Shall never be beitow'd on fie a filly clown ;
For a' that I faid was to try what was in ye.
Gae name, ye norland Jock, and court your norland
Jenny. Z,
The auld yellow haird Laddie.
THE yellow hair'd laddie fat down on yon brae,
Cries, Milk the ews, lafly, let nane of them gae J
And ay fhe milked, and ay me fang,
Tbe yellovo baited laddie Jhall be my goodman.
And ay Jbe milked, &c.
The weather is cauld, and my daithing is thin ;
The ews are new clipped, they winna bught in :
They winna bught in tho' I fhou'd die,
O yellow hair'd laddie, be kind to me :
They winna bugbt in, &c. The