He never mist.
“Then with new keenness wad they caper,
He sliely smudg’d to see them vaper;
And, if some glakit girl shou’d snapper,
He’d gi’ a wink,
Fie lads, quoth he, had aff, ne’er stap her,
She wants a drink.
“If a young swankie, wi’ his joe,
In some dark nook play’d bogle-bo,
John shook his head, and said, why no;