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

58 The Gentle Shepherd,
Tho' without a' the little helps of art,
Thy native i weets might gain a prince's heart,
Yet now, lest in our Ration we offend,
We muss learn modes, to innocence unkend$
Affect aft-times to like the thing we hate,
And drap serenity, to keep up state :
Laugh when we're lad.speak when we've nought to say,
And, for the fashion, when we're blyth, seem wae :
Pay compliments to them we aft have scorn'd,
Fhen scandalize them, when-their backs are turn'd,
Peggy. If this is gentry, I had rather be
What I am still—but I'll be ought with thee.
Patie. No, no, my Peggy, I but only jest
With gentry's apes; for still amangst the best,
Good manners give integrity a bleeze,
When native vh tues join the arts to please.
Veigy. Since'with nae hazard, and sae (mall expence,,
My lad frae books can gather siccan sense ;
Then why, ah! why shou'd the tempestuoussea,
Endanger thy dear life, and frighten me ?
Sir William's cruel, that wad force his son,
for watna-whats, sae great a risk to run.
Patie. There is nae doubt but travelling does improve,
Yet I would (hun it for thy sake, my love:
Butsoonas I've shook off my land wart cass
In foreign cities, hametothee I'llhaste.
SANG XIX. Tune, BussiaboonTraquair.
Peggy. At sitting day andrismg morn,
With soul that siili fiall love thee,
I'll ask os heaven thy fase return,
With all that can improve thee.
I'll vi sit ost the birken-bu(h,
Where sir st thou kindly told me
Sweet tales of love, and hid my blush,
Whilst round thou didst ensold mt.

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