A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

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We, down to e'ening edge wi' ease,
Shall loiip, and see what's done
r the doup o' day,.^
No-w wliat the friends wad fain been at.
They that were right true blue
Was e'en to get their wysons wat.
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And fill young Roger fou :
But the bauld billy took his maut^
And was right stiff to bow
He fairly ga'e them tit for tat.
And seoiar'd aif healths anew.
Clean out that day*
A creel 'bout fou of muckle steins, t
They clinked on his back.
To try the pith o' his rigg and reins^
They gart him cadge this pack.
Now as a sign he had ta'en pains.
His young wife was na slack.
To rin and ease his shoulder-banes.
And sneg'd die raips fou snack,
Wi' her knife tiiat day.
Syne the blyth carles, tooth and nail,
Fell keenly to the wark
To ease the gantrees of the ale.
And try wha was niaist stark ;
* It is a custom for the friends to endeavour, the next day
after the wedding, to make the new-married man as drunk as
possible.
For merriment, a creel or basket is bound, f«H of stones,
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upon his back; and, if he has acted a manly part^'liis young
wife with all imaginable speed cuts the cords, and relieves him
from the burden j if she does not, he is rallied for a fumbler.
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