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His piercin words, like Highlan fwords, Divide the joints an' marrow;

His talk o' H-11, whare devils dwell,

Our vera

* "Sauls does harrow"

Wi' fright that day!

XXII.

A vaft, unbottom'd, boundless Pit,
Fill'd fou o' lowan brunstane,

Whase raging flame, an' fcorching heat,
Wad melt the hardest whun-ftane!

The half asleep ftart up wi' fear,
An' think they hear it roaran,

When presently it does appear,
'Twas but fome neebor fnoran
Afleep that day.

XXIII.

'Twad be owre lang a tale to tell,

How monie ftories past,

An' how they crouded to the yill,
When they were a' dismist:

* Shakespeare's Hamlet.

How drink gaed round, in cogs an' caups, Amang the furms an' benches;

An' cheese an' bread, frae women's laps,

Was dealt about in lunches,

An' dawds that day.

XXIV.

In comes a gawsie, gash Guidwife,

An' fits down by the fire,

Syne draws her kebbuck an' her knife;
The laffes they are shyer.

The auld Guidmen, about the grace,

Frae fide to fide they bother, Till some ane by his bonnet lays,

An' gies them't like a tether,

Fu' lang that day.

XXV.

Waefucks! for him that gets nae lafs,

Or laffes that hae naething!

Sma' need has he to say a grace,

Or melvie his braw claithing!

O Wives be mindfu', ance yoursel,
How bonie lads ye wanted,
An' dinna, for a kebbuck-heel,

Let laffes be affronted

On fic a day!

XXVI.

Now Clinkumbell, wi' rattlan tow,

Begins to jow an' croon;

Some fwagger hame, the beft they dow,

Some wait the afternoon.

At flaps the billies halt a blink,

Till laffes ftrip their shoon:

Wi' faith an' hope, an' love an' drink,

They're a' in famous tune

For crack that day.

XXVII.

How monie hearts this day converts,

O' finners and o' Laffes!

Their hearts o' stane, gin night are gane, As faft as ony flesh is.

There's fome are fou o' love divine;

There's fome are fou o' brandy;

An' monie jobs that day begin,
May end in Houghmagandie

Some ither day.

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THE DE I L.

O Prince, O chief of many throned pow'rs, That led th'embattl'd Seraphim to war

MILTON.

O

Thou, whatever title fuit thee!

Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie,

Wha in yon cavern grim an' footie,

Clof'd under hatches,

Spairges about the brunftane cootie,

To fcaud poor wretches!

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