The Laddies Dear Sel
the laddie's dear sel' there's a youth in this city, it were a great pity that he from our lassies should wander awa'; for he's bonie and braw, weel-favor'd witha', an' his hair has a natural buckle an' a'. his coat is the hue o' his bo sae blue, his fecket is white as the new-driven snaw; his hose they are blae, and his shoon like the slae, and his clear siller buckles, they dazzle us a'. for beauty and fortuhe laddie's been courtin; weel-featur'd, weel-tocher'd, weel-mounted an' braw; but chiefly the siller that gars him gang till her, the penny's the jewel that beautifies a'. there's meg wi' the mailen that fain wad a haen him, and susie, wha's daddie was laird o' the ha'; there's lang-tocher'd nancy maist fetters his fancy, —but the laddie's dear sel', he loes dearest of a'.