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And there will be blencht Gillie-whimple,
And pewter- fac'd flitching Joug ;
And there will be happer-ars'd Nanzie,
And fairy-fac'd Jeanie be name,
Gleed Kittie, and fat-lugged Lizie,
The lafs with the gauden wame.
Fy let us all, &c.
And there will be girn- again Gibbie,
And his glaked wife Jennie Bell,
And mizlie chin'd flyting Geordie,
The lad that was flapper himfell.
There'll be all the lads and the laffes,
Set down in the midft of the ha,
With fybows, and ryfarts, and carlings,
That are both fodden and ra.
Fy let us all, &c.
There will be tartan, dragen and brachen,
And fouth of good gappoks of date,
Pow-fodie, and drammock, and crowdie,
And callour nout feet in a plate ;
And there will be partons and buckies,
Speldens and haddocks anew,
And fing'd Iheep-heads, and a haggize,
And fcadlips to fup till ye're fow.
Fy let us all, &c.
There will be goodlapper'd-milk kebbucks,
And fowens, and fardles and baps,

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