They’re no brocht here without brave darin’:
Buy my caller herrin’,
Hauled through wind and rain.
Wha’ll buy my caller herrin’?
Oh! ye may ca’ them vulgar farin’:
Wives and mithers, maist despairin’,
Ca’ them lives o’ men.”
Yet in another strain take this little advice of ethical wisdom, which, simple though it is, might have been written by Goethe:—
“Saw ye ne’er a lanely lassie,
Thinkin’, gin she were a wife,