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It may escape the courtly sparks,
It may escape the learned clerks;
But weel the watching lover marks
The kind love that's in her ee.
O this is no, &c.
It may escape the learned clerks;
But weel the watching lover marks
The kind love that's in her ee.
O this is no, &c.
WILLIE WASTLE.
Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed,
The spot they ca'd it Linkumdoddie,
Willie was a wabster guid,
Could stown a due wi' ony bodie;
He had a wife was dour and din,
Tinkler Maggie was her mither;
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wadna gie a button for her.
The spot they ca'd it Linkumdoddie,
Willie was a wabster guid,
Could stown a due wi' ony bodie;
He had a wife was dour and din,
Tinkler Maggie was her mither;
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wadna gie a button for her.
She has an e'e, she has but ane,
The cat has twa the very colour;
Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump,
A clapper tongue wad deave a miller;
A whiskin beard about her mou,
Her nose and chin they threaten ither;
Sic a wife, &c.
The cat has twa the very colour;
Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump,
A clapper tongue wad deave a miller;
A whiskin beard about her mou,
Her nose and chin they threaten ither;
Sic a wife, &c.
She's bow-hough'd, she's hein-shinn'd,
Ae limpin leg a hand-breed shorter;
Ae limpin leg a hand-breed shorter;
