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Ballads on Mr. Herons Election, 1795 (第4/5页)
t how ye purchase a dram!) and there will be gay cassencarry, and there'll be gleg el tam. and there'll be wealthy young richard, dame fortune should hing by the neck, fal, thriftless bestowing— his merit had won him respect. and there will be rich brother nabobs, (tho' nabobs, yet men not the worst,) and there will be collieston's whiskers, and quintin—a lad o' the first. thehe chaste i hton and hey! for the blessin's 'twill bring; it may send balmaghie to the ons, in sodom 'twould make him a king; and hey! for the sanctified murray, our land wha wi' chapels has stor'd; he founder'd his horse among harlots, but gied the auld naig to the lord. ballad third john bushby's lamentation. tune—“babes in the wood.” 'twas in the seventeen hunder year o' grace, and y-five, that year i was the wae'est man of ony man alive. in march the three-an'-tweh morn, the sun raise clear an' bright; but oh! i was a waefu' man, ere to-fa' o' the night. yerl galloway lang did rule this land, wi' equal right and fame, and thereto was his kinsmen join'd, the murray's noble name. yerl galloway's man o' men was i, and chief hton's host; so twa blind beggars, on a string, the faithfu' tyke will trust. but now yerl galloway's sceptre's broke, and broughton's wi' the slain, and i my a craft may try, sin' hoy is gane. 'twas by the banks o' bonie dee, beside kirkcudbright's towers, the stewart and t
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