A' things Scots, but the wages, whilk should be

Punds sterlin', and no punds Scot.

"Say there's a keeper o' the swans

Whose office ocht to cease,

Or Scotland behoves a keeper too,

To keep her Solan geese.

"There's the maister o' the music,

That the music maks ava',

For his thousand puns' a year

I trow he were best awa'.