And now she must still be observ’d like a madam.

She’ll cause him to curvet, and skip like a frog,

And if he refuses she’s ready to scad him,

Poxtake such a life, it wou’d weary a dog.

Ere I were so serv’d, I would see the de’il take her,

I hate both the name and the nature of sneaks;

But if she were mine I would clearly forsake her,

And let her make a kirk and a mill of the breeks.


SONG
ON
WILLIAM CARSTAIRS, SCHOOLMASTER.