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

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
And mony time wad wreyte and tell
They wadn’t see him scanted.
They brought him varra canny up,—
He had the best o linnen,
And keept it just to mense his death,—
’Twas peer auld Marget’s spinnin.
The house, and aw the bits o’ things,
Will just be for the brudder;
I only wish he’d meade tem owre
To Mary and her mudder!”
WE’VE HED SEC A DURDUM.
AIR—Come under my plaidie.
“WE’VE hed sec a durdum at Gobbleston parish,
For twonty lang years there’s nit been sec a fair;
“We’d slack reape, and tight reape, and dogs that wer
dancin,
Wi’ leytle roun hats on to gar the fwok stare:
A leytle black messet danc’d sae leyke auld Jenny,
I thought it wad niver run out o’ my head;
It was last thing at neet, and the first i’ the mworning,
And I rwoar’d leyke a fuil as I laid i’ my bed!
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And we had stage playing, and actors frae Lunnon,
At hed sec a canny and bonny leyke say;
I forgat the black messet, and gowl’d leyke a ninny,
Tho’ I said to rnysel, “Wey, its nobbet a play!”
But aw that was naething, for mony wer blinded,
And Jemmy, that brags aw the town for a feght,
He twistet and twirlt—it was just for an off-put,
But aw wadn’t dui, for he gowl’d hawf the neet.
And Betty Mac Nippen, and five of her dowters,
As feyne as May garlans, were clwose at my back;
I was flayt they wad hinder fwok hear aw the speeching,
But they gowl’d sec a guid’n, that nin o’ them spak:
And Betty hes heard frae her sister in Lunnon,
And she’s sent the bairns sec a mwort o’ feyne things,