“ Don’t you think it convenient for a drop of a dram?
⁠My husband he is a very bad man,
He will not allow me one drop of a dram,
And when that he does, it is little that I take,
It is altogether for company’s sake.
⁠In comes t’other gossip, what news have you got?
O I have brave news, and ’tis quite piping hot,
If one man should lie with another man’s wife,
You must not speak a word, not a word for your life. ”

“ When Strephon appears, how my heart pit a pat,
shews the tender emotion with which it is seiz’d,
To the the shepherd’s bewitching gay innocent chat,
I could listen for ever, O dear! I’m so pleas’d.
My grandmother frowns, & protests I’m too young,
with the lesson of Cupid to soon to be teaz’d,
But so sweet is the honey that falls from his tongue,
I laugh at my grandmam, O dear! I'm so pleas’d. ”

“ If o’er the hills lassie you do go away.
⁠It’s father keep what you’re not willing to give,
For sain I’d go with him as sure as I’d live;
What signifies gold or treasure to me,
When the highland hills is ’tween my love & me. ”