[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...

" It's neither your stot nor your staig I shall crave ;
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KELLTBURNBRAES.
portion of his writings have been lost.
His attachment to the old faith,
which he describes in the foregoing verses as a ship driving in the tem- {
pestous sea of Lollerdry, the principles of the Reformation having then be-
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gun to be keenly agitated in Scotland, may in some measure account for
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their disappearance. It is not improbable that his MSS. perished along \
with many other valuable works belonging to the collegiate church of \
Maybole. Unlike most of the Makars of the time, Kennedy was a staunch \
adherent of Catholicity. The popularity of most of his contemporaries,
on the other hand, was greatly promoted by their satiiical exposure of the
abuses of Popery.
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There lived a carle on Kellyburnbraes
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And he had a wife was the plague of his days
(And the thyme it is withered, and rue is in prime.) }
Ae day, as the carle gaed up the lang glen,
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(Hey, and the rue grows bonnie wi' thyme ;)
He met wi' the deevil, says, " How do ye fen' "
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" I've got a bad wife, sir ; that's a' my complaint
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(Hey, and the rue grows bonnie wi' thyme ;)
For, saving your presence, to her ye're a saint."
(And the thyme it is withered, and rue is in prime.) \
(Hey, and the rue grows bonnie wi' thyme ;)
But gie me your wife, man, for her I maun have."
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(And the thyme it is withered, and rue is in prime.)
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