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THE GENTLE SHEPHERD. 41
Patie.
Wlien corn rigs wav'd yellow, and blue het'ier bells
Bloom'd bonny on muirland and fweet riling fells,
Nae birns, briers, or breckens gae trouble to rne.
If 1 found the berries right ripen 'd for thee.
Pegsy.
When thnurqn, nr wreflled, or pufred the (lane.
And came aff the viftor, my heart was ay fain ;
Thy ilka fport rr.anly s:;ave pleafare to me ;
For nane can putt, wreftle, or run fwift as thee.
Patie.
Our Jennv flngs faftly the Coimlen-htoom knoivs.
And Rofie lilts fweetly the Milking the eius ;
There's few Jenny Nettles like Nanfy can fing ;
At Thro' theivood, laddie, Befs gars our lu^s rinjj.
But when my dear Pecgy fings wi' better flciil.
The Boatman, Tvjeedfide, or the Ltfi of the mill,
' Tis mony times fweeter and pleafing to me ',
For tho' they fmg nicely, they cannot like thee.
Pear.
IIcw eafy can lafTes trow what they defire -'
And praifes iae kindly increafes love's fire:
Gi' me ftill this pleafure, my ftudy (liall be.
To mnke myfell better and fweeter for thee.
Patie. Wert thou a gij-det gawky like the la\'e.
That little better than our nowt behave.
At naught they'll Ferly, fenfelefs tales believe.
Be biyth for filly hechts. for trifles grieve-
Sic ne'er cou'd win my heart, that kenna how
Either to keep a prize or 5'et prove true :
But thou in better fenfe, without a flaw.
As in thy beauty, far excels them a'.