A Scotch Song.
1.
I Needs must gang a Wooing,
I can no longer stay:
For Jinny is marr'd for doing,
Some Loon will steal her away.
London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
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- London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
- Author
- Hicks, William, fl. 1671.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by F. Eglesfield ...,
- 1673.
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- Songs, English -- Texts.
- English wit and humor.
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"London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43693.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Page 65
2.
I VVou'd not for a world
Leuse her gude companie;
For I have guds enough
To maintain her and I.
3.
A lang long live-long day
Is aul too little for me
To reckon up what I ha,
To derive my Pertigree.
4.
Feth Jocky, thou art to bleam,
I dare both say and swear;
Ise ne'er come at thee agen,
Till I know thy guds and thy geer.
5.
I have an awd Mear of mine awn,
She's twenty year awd and sean,
She cost me twenty good Placks,
And now she's well worth elean.
6.
I have three dozen of Buttons,
Gude Brass, and all in a string;
With a dainty Cale Whittle beside,
And a brave Curtain-Ring.
7.
I ha three shoes for a feut,
And twa o' them want soles,
With a dainty left-feut Beut,
And thrutteen dozen of holes.
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8.
The Grains of a Fire Pore in,
The Rim of a Spinning-Wheel,
An old Huke for an Elsing-Haft,
A Spindle, a Rock, and a Reel.
9.
I have a gude Hank of Yarn,
'Tis three year since it was spun,
With a pair of Socks for a Barn,
And an end of awd Pipe Bum.
10.
My Granny she gave me a Hickle,
And Jinny, I give it to thee,
With hawf of a gude awd Sickle;
And thus Riches run on with me.
11.
A Hook with a Lash in the end,
In money three Scotch Marks
On the wedding-day we'll spend,
Or else we'll pawn our Sarks.
12.
We'll send for Sir John the Vicar,
And Meg and Maudlin sune,
And we'll have Crook Dick the Piper,
He'll play us a merry tune.
13.
And now to the Kirk they are gean,
And Jinny has hausted Jock:
For the De'il a Sark had Jocky,
Nor Jinny had never a Smock.
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14.
And our Sir John the Vicar
Unto the matter did say,
Here Jinny tack thee Jocky,
And gea together gea.
15.
And the De'il gea with ye beath,
And send ye mickle shame,
For I ne'er coupled sike together,
Since I to th' Kirk first came.