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

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
But were he a’ hung round wi’ goud,
He’d find himsel mista’en, sirs.
There’s Wat aye tries to glowr and sigh
That I may guess the cause, sirs;
But Jenny-like I hate to spell
Dumb Roger’s hums and ha’s, sirs.
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There’s grinning Pate laughs a’ day through,
The blithest lad ye’ll see, sirs;
But troth he laughs sae out o’ place,
He’d laugh gin I did die, sirs.
There’s Sandy, he’s sae fou o’ lear,
To talk wi’ him is vain, sirs;
For gin we a’ should say ‘twas fair,
He’d prove that it did rain, sirs.
Then Jamie frets for good and ill,
‘Bout sma’ things makes a phrase, sirs;
And fears and frets, and things o’ nought
Ding o’er his joyfu’ days, sirs.
The priests and lawyers ding me dead,
But gude kens wha’s the best, sirs;
And then comes in the soldier brave,
And drums out a’ the rest, sirs.
The country squire and city beau,
I’ve had them on their knee, sirs;
But weel I ken to goud they bow,
And no to downright me, sirs.
Should like o’ them come ilka day,
They may wear out the knee, sirs;
And grow to the ground as fast as a stane,
But they shall ne’er get me, sirs.
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AE NIGHT IN DARK DECEMBER.