“ For truly modesty ought to be set on high,
Among all young men, and maidens likewise
For temtations are not good, nor yet easily withstood
When they come unto you in a pleasant guise.
But O this day! there’s no man knows
The grivious torment that I have endur’d;
For my melancholy I think will make me die,
My diseases they will not he easily cur’d!
I’ve had many a weary night ay longing for day-light
Tormented with many a vexing dream:
My eyes they are grown blear’d with weeping for I’m fear’d,
That l m driven quite out of all esteem. ”

“ Altho’ that it be to my shame and disgrace,
How I have been slighted by a maiden fair
Who has taken another man into my place.
This lassie I did love, and after her did rove,
Endeavouring for to win her heart ”

“ So ’twas settled by old father Luke,
Who dissolv’d all our family sins,
As we both were born on the same day,
that we sartinly must have been twins.
Fal de ral, &c.
'Twas agreed I should not go to school,
As learning I never should want,
'Nor would they e’en teach me to read,
For my genus they said it would cramp:
Now this genus of mine,——— where it lay,———
Do but listen a while, and you’ll hear———
'Twas in drawing—not landscapes and pictures ”