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The Holy Fair (第5/5页)
rg heat, wad melt the hardest whun-stane! the half-asleep start up wi' fear, an' think they hear it roarin; whely it does appear, 'twas but some neibor snorin asleep that day. 'twad be owre lang a tale to tell, how mony stories past; an' how they crouded to the yill, when they were a' dismist; how drink gaed round, in cogs an' caups, amang the furms an' benches; an' cheese an' bread, frae women's laps, was dealt about in lunches an' dawds that day. in es a gawsie, gash guidwife, an' sits down by the fire, syne draws her kebbu' her knife; the lasses they are shyer: the auld guidmen, about the grace frae side to side they bother; till some ane by his bo lays, an' gies them't like a tether, fu' lang that day. waesucks! for him that gets nae lass, or lasses that hae hing! sma' need has he to say a grace, or melvie his braw claithing! o wives, be mindfu' ance yoursel' how bonie lads ye wanted; an' dinna for a kebbuck-heel let lasses be affronted on sic a day! now kumbell, wi' rattlin tow, begins to jow an' ; some swagger hame the best they dow, some wait the afternoon. at slaps the billies halt a blink, till lasses strip their shoon: wi' faith an' hope, an' love an' drink, they're a' in famous tune for crack that day. how mos this day verts o' sinners and o' lasses! their hearts o' stane, gin night, are gane as saft as ony flesh is: there's some are fou o' love divine; there's some are fou o' brandy; an' mony jobs that day begin, may end in houghmagandie some ither day.
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