Ha, ha, the wooing o’t.

‘Shall I, like a fool,’ quoth he,

‘For a haughty hizzie die?

She may gae to—France for me!’

Ha, ha, the wooing o’t.

How it comes let doctors tell;

Ha, ha, the wooing o’t;

Meg grew sick—as he grew hale,

Ha, ha, the wooing o’t.

Something in her bosom wrings,