The Cotters Saturday Night
that bears a heart,
a wretch! a vilin! lost to love and truth!
that , with studied, sly, ensnaring art,
betray sweet jenny's unsuspeg youth?
curse on his perjur'd arts! dissembling smooth!
are honour, virtue, sce, all exil'd?
is there no pity, ing ruth,
points to the parents fondling o'er their child?
then paints the ruin'd maid, and their distra wild?
but now the supper s their simple board,
the halesome parritch, chief of scotia's food;
the sowp their only hawkie does afford,
that, 'yont the haln snugly chows her cood:
the dam
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