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Ramsay, Allan
The gentle shepherd: a Scots pastoral-comedy with new songs — Dublin, 1733

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42 The Gentle Shepherd.
"J-enny. With equal joy my safter heartdoes yield;:
To own thy well-try'd love has won the field.
Now by these warmed: kisTes thou has tane,
Swear thus to love me, when by vows made ane.
Roger. I s wear by fifty thousand yet to come,
Or may the first ane slrike me deaf and dumb j
There mall not be a kyndlier dawted wife,
If you agree with me to lead your life.
Jenny. Well, I agree-neist to my parent gac3
Get his consent,-he'll hardly say ye nay.
Ye have what will commend ye to him well,
Auldfowks like them that wants na milk and meaL
SANG XIV. Tune, O'er Bogie.
WtU, 1 agree, ye're Cure os me ;
Next to my father gae :
Make him content to give confent,
He'll hardly Jay you nay:
lor ye have what he wad be at,
And will commend you well,
Since parents anld think love grows cauid
Where bairns want milk and meal.
Should-he deny, I care na by,
He'd contradict in vain.
Tho* a' my kin had faid and fworn,
But thee I will have nane.
Then never range, nor learn to change,
Like thefe in high degree:
And is you prove saithsul in love,
Tou'llsind nae fault in me.
Roger. My faulds contain twice fifteen forroiv nowt,
As mony newcal in my bayers rowt:
Five pack of Woo I can at Lammafs sell,
Shorn frae my bob-tail'd bleeters on the fell.
Good twenty pair of blankets for our bed,
With meikle care, my thrifty mither made.
Ilk thing that makes a hartsome house and tight
Was still her care, my father's great delight.
They left me all, which now gi'es joy to me,
Because I can give a'5 my dear, to thee.
 
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