cks and witches in a dance:
illon, brent new frae france,
but hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels,
put life ale in their heels.
a winnock-bunker in the east,
there sat auld nick, in shape o' beast;
a towzie tyke, bck, grim, and rge,
to gie them music was his charge:
he screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl,
till roof and rafters a' did dirl.—
coffins stood round, like open presses,
that shaw'd the dead in their st dresses;
and (by some devilish traip sleight)
ea its cauld hand held a light.
by which heroic tam was able
to not
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