“What needs there be sae great a fraise

Wi’ dringing, dull, Italian lays;

I wadna gie our ain strathspeys

For half a hunder score o’ them;

They’re dowf and dowie at the best,

Dowf and dowie, dowf and dowie,

Dowf and dowie at the best,

[Wi’ a’ their variorum;]

[They’re dowf and dowie at the best,]

Their allegros an’ a’ the rest.