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Ye ugly, creepin, blaftit wonner, Detested, fhunn'd by faunt an' finner, How dare ye fet your fit upon her,

Sae fine a Lady!

Gae fomewhere else and feek your dinner,
On fome poor body.

Swith, in some beggar's haffet fquattle; There ye may creep, and fprawl, and fprattle Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle,

In fhoals and nations;

Whare born nor bane ne'er dare unsettle

Your thick plantations.

Now haud you there, ye're out o' fight,

Below the fatt'rils, fnug an' tight;

Na, faith ye yet! ye'll no be right

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Till ye've got on it,

The vera tapmoft, tow'ring height

O' Mifs's bonnet.

My

My footh right bauld ye fet your nofe out,

As plump and

gray as onie

grozet;

O for fome rank, mercurial rozet,

Or fell, red fmeddum,

I'd gie you fic a hearty doze o't,

Wad drefs your droddum!

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You on an auld wife's flainen toy;

Or aiblins fome bit duddie boy,

On's wyliecoat;

But Mifs's fine Lunardi! fie,

How daur

ye

do't!

O, Jenny, dinna tofs your head,

An' fet your beauties a' abread!

Ye little ken what cursed speed

The blaftie's makin!

Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread,

Are notice takin!

O wad fome Pow'r the giftie gie us To see ourselves as others fee us!

It wad frae monie a blunder free us

And foolish notion:

What airs in drefs an' gait wad lea'e us,

And ev'n Devotion !

ADDRESS

ADDRESS

TO

EDINBURGH.

I.

EDINA! Scotia's darling seat !

All hail thy palaces and tow'rs,

Where once beneath a Monarch's feet

Sat Legislation's fov'reign pow'rs!

From

From marking wildly-fcatt'red flow'rs,
As on the banks of Ayr I ftray'd,
And finging, lone, the ling'ring hours,
I shelter in thy honor'd fhade.

II.

Here Wealth ftill fwells the golden tide,
As bufy Trade his labours plies;
There Architecture's noble pride

Bids elegance and fplendor rife;

Here Justice, from her native skies,
High wields her balance and her rod;
There Learning, with his eagle eyes,

Seeks Science in her coy abode,

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