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My friends comforted me, and said,
I could not live alone;
They said, they knew a dainty lass
that would do well with me,
But oh, alas! she's dead and gone
that never took the gee.

With counsel and advice of them,
at length I went to see her,
But she appear'd so very nice,
that I thought shame to speir
At first, if she would marry me,
Till courage wan the day;
At last I fought and marry'd her,
she never said me nay.

She was so very fair and clear,
and comely for to see,
You would have thought in twenty years
she would not take the gee.
But or the was a month marry'd,
she paid me back and side.
And aff my face with her lang nails
she rave the very hide.
Chor. The gee wife, the gee wife,
Chor. my wife has ta'en the gee;
Chor. And by my sooth I canna guess,
Chor. how Betty's ta'en the gee.

⟨I⟩ ken not what to do with her,
I can find no remeed;
⟨she⟩ causes me aft times to pray,
and wish that I were dead;