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<DATE>2008-11-02</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE Bonny Scotti&s;h Lad, AND THE <HI>Yielding La&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To an excellent new Tune much in Reque&s;t, called <HI>The Liggan Waters.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>BOnny La&s;s I love thee well,</L>
<L>bonny Lad I love thee better,</L>
<L>Wilt thou pull off thy Ho&s;e and Shoon,</L>
<L>and wend with me to <HI>Liggan</HI> Water?</L>
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<LG>
<L><HI>Liggan</HI> Water is &s;o deep,</L>
<L>and I am loath to wet my feet.</L>
<L>But if you'll promi&s;e to marry me.</L>
<L>I'll put off my Shoon and follow thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have Hou&s;e, and I have Land,</L>
<L>I have all things at command,</L>
<L>I have a thing that you ne'er &s;ee,</L>
<L>Bonny La&s;s wilt thou Mow with me?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I good &s;tore of Cattel keep,</L>
<L>Cows, Bulls and Oxen, Hogs and Sheep,</L>
<L>And all I have I'll give to thee,</L>
<L>bonny La&s;s wilt thou mow with me?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Bonny Lad it is all in vain,</L>
<L>before you &s;hall your will obtain,</L>
<L>I'll make you promi&s;e to marry me,</L>
<L>and then thou'&s;t freely Mow with me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For your Goods and Lands I do not care,</L>
<L>then bonny <HI>Jocky</HI> pray forbare,</L>
<L>For I will never yield to thee,</L>
<L>without you'll promi&s;e to Marry me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>As I went forth one Morning fair,</L>
<L>I met with a bonny La&s;s, fre&s;h and gay,</L>
<L>A bonnier La&s;s, I ne'er did &s;ee</L>
<L>until I chanc'd to meet with thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This bonny La&s;s did ogle me,</L>
<L>and I could hardly pa&s;s her by,</L>
<L>She began for to be &s;o free,</L>
<L>and &s;ighing &s;aid, &s;he'd dye for me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From her white hand a Ring &s;he took,</L>
<L>and &s;aid, My Lad this is for thee,</L>
<L>She gave me a &s;miling look,</L>
<L>and &s;oon did yield to lig with me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then bonny <HI>Jenny</HI> pity take,</L>
<L>I&s;e left that bonny La&s;s for your &s;ake:</L>
<L>Soon I began to fancy thee,</L>
<L>then bonny <HI>Jenny</HI> lie with me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>All night in &s;ofte&s;t Wool we'll lye,</L>
<L>and ki&s;s as clo&s;e as Cockles do;</L>
<L>Then we the Bli&s;s of Love will try,</L>
<L>in Summer and in Winter too.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How can you &s;o fickle be</L>
<L>to doat on all that you do &s;ee?</L>
<L>If I should yield to lig with thee,</L>
<L>thou &s;oon wou'd prove as fal&s;e to me</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I'd have all La&s;&s;es wi&s;er grow,</L>
<L>and not fond Love to young Men show</L>
<L>For before that I do yield to thee,</L>
<L>I'll make you promi&s;e to marry me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But yet alas! for all her Act</L>
<L>little <HI>Cupid</HI> shot a Dart,</L>
<L>That she could not re&s;i&s;t Love's Charm</L>
<L>but &s;trait did yield to <HI>Jocky</HI>'s Arms.</L>
</LG>
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<P>Printed for <HI>I. Conyers</HI> at the <HI>Black Raven</HI> in <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">born.</HI></P>
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