...Sair, sair she flet wi' me 'tween ilka smack, But v/eel I kend she meant nae as she spake. Dear Roger, when your jo puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your thumb. Seem to forsak her, soon she '11 change her mood ; Gae woo anither, and she '11 gang clean wood. SANG II. Tune,...

...Sair, sair she flet wi' me 'tween ilka smack, But weel I kend she meant nae as she spake. Dear Roger, when your jo puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your thumb. Seem to forsak her, soon she 'll change her mood ; Gae woo anither, and she 'll gang clean wood. SANG II. Tune,...

...flet wi' me 'tween ilka smack, But well I kend she meant nae as she spak. Dear Roger, when your joe puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your...II. Tune — " Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae." Dear Roger, ij your Jenny geek, And answer kindness with a slight, Seem unconcerned at her neglect, For...

...an' never fasji your thumb. Seem to forsake her, soon she'll change her mood; Xiae woo anither, an' she'll gang clean wood. . ' " ' SANG II. . " Tune—" Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae." Dear Roger, if your Jenny geek, An' answer kindness wi' a slight, Seem uncojtcem'd at her neglect, For women...

...But weel I kend she meant nae as she spak. Dear Roger, when your joe puts on her Do ye sae too, an' never fash your thumb, Seem to forsake her, soon she'll change her mood? Gae woo anither, an' she'll gang clean wood.. SANG IL Bear Roger, if your Jenny geck» An' answer kindness wi' a slight,...

...'tween ilka smack, But weel I kend ehe meant пае as she spak. Dear Roger, when your jo pute on lier ! Does youth, does Ijcauty. read the line Î Does sympathetic fear their she Ml change her mood ; Une woo auither, aud she '11 gang clean wild. Dialogas, on Marriage,. PEOOT...

...stand." Mr Burchett has still farther mistaken his author when he renders jo by wife. " Dear Roger, when your jo puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash ye'r thumb." This will scarcely be recognised in its English dress, " Then said she, Roger, when your...

...stand." Mr Burchett has still farther mistaken his author when he renders jo by wife. " Dear Roger, when your jo puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash ye'r thumb.'' This will scarcely be recognised in its English dress, " Then said she, Roger, when your...

...Sair, sair she flate wi' me 'tween ilka smack, But weel I kenned she meant na' as she spak. Dear Roger, when your Jo puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and...her mood : Gae woo anither, and she'll gang clean wud. Ramsay, unlike his great democratic successor in the field of Scottish song, Robert Burns, had...

...right, Wull, my man. That's the way to bring the jade to her senses. Mind what Rab Fcrgusson says : — When your jo puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too, and never fash your thumb," he said, with an oracular wink. The words may have comforted the love-sick youth when his guests took...