He's at the wars bene, and can faicht,
Wi' ony ghaist, or warlock-

O dier, sychs Bess, I wuss he had
Bene wi' me frae the Carlop!-

Quod Hab, fyrst, Tib, let's tayst a scon ; And with't zour covenanter!

They'll gi'e us heat; and mak us bauld ;Quoth Tib, Hab how zou banter !

Sche hurries ben to hir ayn boal.-
Bie thys slae roung and bonnit!
Wynks he to Bess, I'll wager zou
We'll wayt an hour upon it!-

Kynd Is'bel brocht the bottyl butt,
Cryand, Hab, zou'd gar a fox lauch!-

Throuch it, or lang, bayth Hab, and Bess,
War saifly huised at Monk's Hauch.

Niest day spunk't out, the hail affair;
How Jok pass'd for Bett's daddy:
And, as he cudna' kiep awa,

Sche saw hir muirland laddy.

He stappet o'er the burn tae hir,
Hir favour tae recover;

His schadow in the watter shon;

He stuid hys leefu' lane thare ;
Upon its edg, a' quhyt, and straucht,
Juist lyk a lang hied-stane thare!

Quhane'er the chiel saw't, and was sure

His ene war no baith reeland,

He bang'd up lyk a loun bewitch't,
Or lyk a thief catch't stieland.

Quhan in's ain voice it cryed " O Bess! Attend to quhat I say now ;"

I skriecht! and, als the rever did,

I'm sure it's bene a lucky thyng
That I ha'e fund zour fyre-syd;
For had I no, bie chanss, cum here,
I had died at sum myresyd.-

Says Is'bel, Hab wyll zie ze haim,
Sae suin as ze ha'e warm't ze;
Zour midder wyll be grievand sair
Wi' thinkand somethyng's harm't ze :

He's at the wars bene, and can faicht,
Wi' ony ghaist, or warlock-

O dier, sychs Bess, I wuss he had
Bene wi' me frae the Carlop!-

Quod Hab, fyrst, Tib, let's tayst a scon ;
And with't zour covenanter!

They'll gi'e us heat; and mak us bauld ;-
Quoth Tib, Hab how zou banter !

Sche hurries ben to hir ayn boal.-
Bie thys slae roung and bonnit!
Wynks he to Bess, I'll wager zou
We'll wayt an hour upon it!-

Kynd Is'bel brocht the bottyl butt,
Cryand, Hab, zou'd gar a fox lauch!--

Throuch it, or lang, bayth Hab, and Bess,
War saifly huised at Monk's Hauch.

Niest day spunk't out, the hail affair ;
How Jok pass'd for Bett's daddy:
And, as he cudna' kiep awa,

Sche saw hir muirland laddy.

He stappet o'er the burn tae hir,

Hir favour tae recover;

Tae offer hir hymsell again,

And styll remayn hir lover.

Sche, now, tho', was mair canny grown.
Afore he cu'd obtain hir,

He was oblyg'd tae ca' a priest,

Tae say a grace, tae gayn hir.

Bayth Will and Bess, next zier, war at
The howm at PEGGY'S MYLL-0:
And, now, being married fo'ks, the rest,
Wythout sturt, danss'd thair fill-o.

Zet a' the niechbours still are clier,
And Will hymsell has sayd it,
That hadna' myller Jok appiered
Tae Bess he'd ne'er bene wedded,

Swa myller Jok, in fek, wass he
That tyd thaim fast thegidder;

And buxom Bess that nycht sent hayın

Als sche had left hir midder:

For wythout hym, sche'd lost, I fier,
E'er, for a husband, Willie ;
;
And or 'twas lang, without remied,
Had luiked bayth sadd, and sillie.

Thus, actions aft lied quyte contrair
Frae quhat bie thaim's intended;

For Jok ne'er driem'd hys prank wa'd bie
Wi' Bess's wedding ended.

THE CARLOPS GREEN:

OR EQUALITY REALIZED:

A Ballad,

Written in the year 1793.

WITH an EPISODE, founded on a real event, containing a comparison between Tweeddale Mutton, and the Edinburgh Races; including a SOLILOQUY on Pleasure, particularly that of eating, the way we like it, and the different kinds of it.

ON one side of the conic rocks
The carline louped between ;

A glen bends northwards to the Esk,
On t'other side's a green * :

Along the glen, a little town

Frae th' rocks runs to the brig;

* See the Map; with the Descriptions of Mause's Cottage, and Roger's Habitation; and of The Lin Burn.