with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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TO DAUNTON ME.
The two following old stanzas to this tune have
some merit:
To daunton me, to daunton me,
ken ye what it is that'll daunton me ? —
There's eighty eight and eighty nine.
And a* that I hae borne sinsyne.
There's cess and press and Presbytrie,
1 think it will do meikle for to d^iunton me.
But to wanton me, to wanton me,
ken ye what it is that wad wanton me ?
To see gude corn upon the rigs.
And banishment amang the Whigs,
And right restored where right sud be,
1 think it would do meikle for to wanton me."'^
* A third verse runs thus :
But to wanton me, to wanton me,
O ken ye what maist wad wanton me?
To see king James at Edinb'rough Cross,
Wi' fifty thousand foot and horse,
And the usurper forc'd to flee,
O this is that maist wad wanton me.