Dougal Graham

Name: Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their bedding
Author: Dougal Graham

Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

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“Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their bedding”, published in November 2020, is a work by Dougal Graham. It explores elements such as mither, Maggy and guidame.

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Dougal Graham, Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

“ I'm sure mither, I eould ne'er get her wi' bairn wi' my breeks on.
Mith. Na, na, poor simple silly lad; the wean's no yours, ilka ane loups on o' anither, and ye'll get the wyte of a' the bytarts that are round about the eountry
Up gets Maggy wi' a roar, and rives her hair, and eries, O her baek! her belly! and baith her sides! The weed and gut gaes through my flesh like lang needles, nails, or elshin irons! Wae be to the day that e'er I saw his face. I had better married a tinkler, or followed the sodgers, as mony an honest man's dochter has done, and lived a better life than I do. ”

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Dougal Graham, Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

“ Johnny, thou's no want twa kisses, ane on every side of the mouth, man.
Jock. Ha, ha, Maggy, I'll hae a merry night of kissing you shortly.
Mag. Ay, but Johnny, you maun stay till that night come; it's best to keep the feast till the feast day.
Jock. Dinna be angry, Maggy, my wife to be; for I have heard my mither say in her daffin, that fouk sud aye try gin their house will haud their plenishing.
Mag. Ay, but Johnny, a wife is ae thing and a house anither; a man that's a-mind to marry a woman, he'll no make her a whore. ”

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Dougal Graham, Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

“ Joek. I seena how he can be angry. I wat we'll I'm a gay sturdy fallow, when I laid a bow and five peeks of beer on the Laird's Bawsy, and he's as bilshy a beast as in a' the barony.
Mag. Ay, but my mither is aye angry at ony body that evens themselves to me, an it binna them she likes, indeed she bade me tak ony body, if it wasna auld tottering Tammy; for his beard is aye brown wi' sucking tobaeeo, and slavers a' the breast of his fecket.
Jock. O Maggy take me, and I'll tell you what I hae. First my father left me, when he died fifty merks, twa sacks, twa pair of sunks ”

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Dougal Graham, Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

“ Up gets auld Rabby, and auld Sandy, the souter of Seggyhole, and put every thing in order; they prapet up the bed wi' a rake, and rippling kame; the stoops being broken, they made a solid foundation of peats, laid on the caff bed and bowsters, and Jockey and Maggy were bedet the second time.
Jockey not being used to lie wi' a naked woman, except heads and thraws wi' his mither, gets his twa hands about the bride's neck, and his hough out-o'er her hurdies, saying, I ne'er kist wife nor lass naked before, and for fainness I'll bite you, &c. ”

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Dougal Graham, Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

“ Jockey's mither fell a-flyting, and he himself a-rubbing his lugs, and riving his hair, erying out, O gin I were but half an ell higher, I sud be a sodger or it be lang; and gie me a good flail or a corn fork, I sud kill Frenehman anew, before I gade to face yon flyting Ministers, and be set up like a warld's wonder, on their cock-stool, or black stool; and wha can hide the shame when every body looks to them, wi' their sacken sarks, or gowns, on them, like a piece of auld eanvas prickt about a body, for naething but what every body does amaist or they are married ”

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Dougal Graham, Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

“ Mith. Ay, brose! blaek brose indeed for thee, my bairn; here's Marion Mushet saying ye hae gotten her dochter wi' bairn.
Jock. Me, mither! I never lay in a bed wi' her dochter a' my days; it'll be the young Laird's for a saw him kiss her at the Lammas-fair and let glaum at her nonsense.
Mith. Ay, ay, my man, Johnny, that's the way she has gotten her belly full of bairns; 'tis no you, nor the like of you, poor innocent lad, that gcts bastard weans; 'tis a wheen rambling o'erfull lowns, ilka ane of them loups on anither, and gies the like of you the wyte o't. ”

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Dougal Graham, Whole proceedings of Jocky and Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at their… (November 2020)

“ Tell nae me about the mortifying of members, gin he has gotten a bystart, let her and him feed it between them, and they gie't soup about; but she maun keep it the first quarter, and by that time muekle blaek Lady will be eauft; we sall sell the eauf and foster the wean on the cow's milk; that's better mense for a faut, than a' your repenting-stools ”

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