As wild and as skeig as a muirland filly:

Black Madge is far better and fitter for you."

He hem'd and he haw'd, and he drew in his mouth,

And he squeezed the blue bannet his twa hands between;

For a wooer that comes when the sun's i' the south

Is mair landward than wooers that come at e'en.

"Black Madge is sae carefu'"--"What's that to me?"

"She's sober and cydent, has sense in her noodle;

She's douce and respeckit"--"I carena a bodle:

Love winna be guided, and fancy's free."