The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
And gin I put te into print,
The fwok wad caw’t a reyble:
For deil a clout can tou set on,
In ony form or fashion,
Or dui or say a single thing
To keep yen out o’ passion”
“Tou is a bonny guest, indeed!
Tou is a toppin fellow!
I think thy breast is meade o’ brass,
Tou dis sae rwoar and bellow:
I nobbet wish that I were deef,
There’s ayways sec a dingin;
I never ken what I’s about,
There’s sec a ring, ring, ringing.”
“Whea ever kens what tou’s about ?
Tou’s ayways in a ponder;
Ay geavin wi’ thy open mouth,
And wonder, wonder, wonder!
But of aw the wonders i’ this warl,
I wonder we e’er married;
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It wad hae been a bonny thing
Had that breet thout miscarried.”
“But, hark ye, Dick! I’ll tell ye what, —
‘Twas I that meade the blunder;
That I tuik up wi’ leyke o’ thee,
Was far the greetest wonder!
For tou was nowther guid nor rich,
And tempert leyke auld Scratchum!
The deil a day gangs owre my head,
But, fratchum, fratchum, fratchum!”