She’s bow hough’d, she’s hem shinn’d,
A limpin’ leg, a hand-breed shorter;
She’s twisted right, she’s twisted left,
To balance fair in ilka quarter:
She has a hump upon her breast,
The twin o’ that upon her shouther—
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad nae gie a button for her.
IV.
Auld baudrans by the ingle sits,
An’ wi’ her loof her face a-washin’;
But Willie’s wife is nae sae trig,
She dights her grunzie wi’ a hushion.
Her walie nieves like midden-creels,
Her face wad fyle the Logan-Water—
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad nae gie a button for her.
CXXXIV.
LADY MARY ANN.
Tune—“Craigtown’s growing.”
[The poet sent this song to the Museum, in his own handwriting: yet part of it is believed to be old; how much cannot be well known, with such skill has he made his interpolations and changes.]
I.
O, Lady Mary Ann
Looks o’er the castle wa’,
She saw three bonnie boys
Playing at the ba’;
The youngest he was
The flower amang them a’—
My bonnie laddie’s young,
But he’s growin’ yet.