with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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And there will be happer-ars'd Nansy,
And fairy-fac'd Flowrie be name,
Muck Madie, and fat-hippit Lizie,
The lass with the gauden wame,
Fi/ let us all, S^c.
And there will be girn-again Gibbie,
With his glakit wife Jennie Bell,
And misle-shinn'd Mungo Macapie,
The lad that was skipper himsel.
There lads and lasses in pearlings
Will feast in the heart of the ha',
On sybows, and ryfarts, and carlings,
That are baith sodden and raw.
Fi/ let us allf S^c.
And there will be fadges and brachen, •
With fouth of good gappoks of skate,
Pow-sodie, and drammock, and crowdie,
And callour nout-feet in a plate ;
clumsy attempts at gentility, they are as ridiculous as the ass
imitating the spaniel in the fable : So that their ^^ ganging to the
South for manners," and " supping boarding-school brose" have be-
come proverbial among the reflecting peasantry of Scotland, for
laxity of morals, and Repentance-stool qualifications. Ed,