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that night come; it's beſt to keep the feaſt the feaſt day.
Jock. Dinna be angry Maggy, my wife be: but I have heard my mither ſay in daffin, that fouk ſude ay try if their houſe will had the pleniſhen.
Mag. Ay but Johnny a wife is ae thing, an a houſe is anither, a man that's a mind to marry a woman, he'll no make her a whore.
Jock. It's a true Maggy, but fouks may do it yence or they be married, and no hae nae ill in their minds.
Mag. Aha Johnny mony are has been beguild wi' yence, and do it yence we may do it ay; what an we get a byſtart, an hae to ſuffer for the foul act of fornication.
Jock. Ay, but my mither ſays, if I dinna get thee wi' bairn, I'll go get thee; ſo it is the ſureſt way of wooing,
Mag. Indeed Johnny, I like you better nor ony lad I ſee, an I ſall marry you an yence my father's muck were out, my mither downa work at the midden.
Jock. Ah! Maggy, Maggy, I'm ſcar'd ye beguile me, an then my mither will murder me for being ſo ſilly.
Mag. May jo Jockey, tell your mither to provide a' things for the bridal, an I ſall marry you in three ukes after this; but we maun gie in ſiller to the pecentor, a groat and a drink to the bellman an then the kirk wa's maun hear o't three Sundays or it come.
Jock. But Maggy, I'm no to make a blin
