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Sae leaving them to drink her ale,
I sling’d awa’ and let them rail:
Then running till my breath did fail,
I was right glad
Frae Kirk an’ wives to tak leg-bail.—
Nae doubt they said,
The Lettergae has play’d the fool,
And shifted the Repenting Stool;
To Kirk and Session bids good-day,
He’ll o’er the hills and far away.
———
THE
SEQUEL.
NOW loving friends I hae you left,
Ye ken I neither stole nor reft,
But when I found mysell infeft
In a young Jack,
I did resolve to change the haft
For that mistak.
An’ reasons mae I had anew,
For I had neither horse nor cow ;
My stock took wings an’ aff it flew;
Sae a’ was gone,
An’ deil a flee had I was new,
Except young John.
