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Here are we met, three merry boys,
Three merry boys I trow are we ;
And monie a night we've merry beer,
And monie mae we hope to be.

It is the moon--I ken her horn,
That's blinkin in the lift fae hie:
She shines fae bright to wile us hame,
Eut by my footh fhe'll wait a wee,

Wha firft fhall rife to gang awa,

A cuckold, coward, loon is he! Wha first befide his chair fhall fa', He is the king amang the three!

CHORUS -We are nae fou, &c.

The BLUE-EY'D LASSIE.

IGAED a wafu gaet yeftreen,

A gaet I fear I'll dearly rue,

I gat my death frae twa sweet c'en,
Twa lovely e'en o' bonie blue!

Twas not her golden ringlets bright,
Her lips like rofes wat wi' dew.
Nor heaving bofom, lilly white,
It was her e'en fae bonie blue!

She fpak', fhe fmil'd, my heart the wyl'd,
She charm'd my Soul I wiftna' how!
But ay the ftoun, the deadly wound,
Came frae her e'en fae bonie blue.

But "fpare to speak and flow to speed,"
She'll aiblins liften to my vow :,
Should the refuse I'll lay my dead,
To her twa e'en sae bonie blue!

EPIG R Α Μ.

The late FRANCIS GROSE, F. R. S. was of a very corpulent perfon.-This gave birth to the following Epigram, by the Author, while over a bottle with the celebrated Antiquarian :

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HE Devil once heard that old Grofe was a-dying, HE And whip! on the wings of the wind he came flying; But when he beheld honeft FRANCIS a-moaning, And mark'd each bed-poft with its burthen a-groaning; Confounded he roar'd, 'I fhall leave him, by G, Ere carry to H-ll fuch a damnable load.'

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GLOSSARY.

THE ch and gh have always the guttural found.

The found of the

English diphthong oo, is commonly fpelled ou. The French u, a found which often occurs in the Scotch Language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scotch words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a fingle confonant, founds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scotch diphthongs, ae, always, and ea very often, found like the French é mafculine, The Scotch diphthong ey, founds like the Latin ei.

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A', ball

B

B Bad, did bid

Bade, endured, did stay
Baggie, the Belly
Baith, both
Bairn, a child

Bairntime, a brood, a family of children

Bainie, having large bones, stout
Baklins-comin, coming back,
returning
Bane, bone
Bang, an effort

Bardie, diminutive of bard
Barefit, barefooted
Barkin, barking
Barkit, barked

Barmie, of or like barm
Bafhfu', bashful

Batch, a crew, a gang
Batts, butts
Baudrons, a cat

Bauld, bold, Bauldy, boldly
Bauk, a cross beam
Baukin, the end of a beam
Baws'nt, having a white stripe
down the face

Be, to let be, to give over, to ceafe

Beastie, dimin. of beaft
Beet, to add fuel to file
Befa', to befall

Behint, or behin', behind
Belyve, by and by
Belly-fu', bellyful

Ben, into the Spence or parlour Benlomond, a noted mountain in Dunbartonshire

Bethankit, the grace after meat Be't, be it

Beuk, a book

Bicker, a kind of wooden dish,

a fhort race

Biel, or bield, fhelter

Bien, wealthy, plentiful
Big, to build, Biggit, builded
Biggin, building a houfe
Bill, a bull

Billie, a brother, a young fellow

Bing, a heap of grain, potatoes, &c.

Birkie, a clever fellow Birring, the noife of patridges &c. when they spring Bit, crifis, nick of time Bizz, to bustle, a buzz Blaftie, a fhriveled dwarf, a term of contempt

Blattit, blafted

Blate, bashful, sheepish
Blather, the bladder

Blaud, a flat piece of any thing; to flap

Blaw, to blow, to boast
Bleatin, bleating

Bleezin, blazing

Bleflin, bleffing

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