321. Findlay MSS, I, 120. ‘The Yerle o Aboyne,’ from Mrs Main, Inchmarlo, Kincardineshire.
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The Yerle o Aboyne’s to London gane,
He met in wi a temptin woman;
For she sat an sang an birld at the wine,
An she wadna lat him hame fae Lunon.
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2
‘My cook-maids a’, be well in ca,
Had pots an pans a boilin,