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

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He was not in wedlock, thank heaven ! but in hell.
(And the thyme it is withered, and rue is in prime.)
Then Satan has travelled again wi' his pack,
(Hey, and the rue grows bonnie wi' thyme ;)
And to her auld husband has carried her back'.
(And the thyme it is withered, and rue is in prime.)
" I hae been a deevil the feck o' my life
(Hey, and the rue grows bonnie wi' thyme )
But ne'er was in hell till I met wi' a wife
(And the thyme it is withered, and rue is in prime.")
Burns is said to have been the author of Kellyhurnbraes. The owercome
is old.
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5 cam' ijoton fig j)on fflastle b3a\
As I cam' down by yon castle wa'
And in by yon garden green,
O there I spied a bonnie, bonnie lass,
But the flower-borders were us between.
A bonnie, bonnie lass she was.
As ever mine eyes did see
O five hundred pounds would I give.
For to have such a pretty bride as thee.
To have such a pretty bride as me
Young man, ye are sairly mista'en ;
Tho' ye were king o' fair Scotland,
I wad disdain to be your queen.
Talk not so very high, bonnie lass,
O talk not so very, very high ;
The man at the fair that wad sell.
He maun learn at the man that wad buy.