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FY, LET US A' TO THE WEDDING.
(AN AULD SANG NEW BUSKIT.)
1 FY, let us a' to the wedding,
2 For they will be lilting there;
3 For Jock's to be married to Maggy,
4 The lass wi' the gowden hair.
5 And there will be jibing and jeering,
6 And glancing of bonny dark een,
7 Loud laughing and smooth-gabbit speering
8 O' questions baith pawky and keen.
9 And there will be Bessy the beauty,
10 Wha raises her cockup sae hie,
11 And giggles at preaehings and duty,
12 Guid grant that she gang na' ajee!
13 And there will be auld Geordie Taunner,
14 Wha coft a young wife wi' his gowd;
15 She'll flaunt wi' a silk gown upon her,
16 But wow! he looks dowie and cow'd.
17 And brown Tibby Fouler the Heiress
18 Will perk at the tap o' the ha',
19 Encircled wi' suitors, wha's care is
20 To catch up her gloves when they fa', —
21 Repeat a' her jokes as they're cleckit,
22 And haver and glower in her face,
23 When tocherless mays are negleckit, —
24 A crying and scandalous case.
25 And Maysie, wha's clavering aunty
26 Wad match her wi' Laurie the Laird,
27 And learns the young fule to be vaunty,
28 But neither to spin nor to caird.
29 And Andrew, wha's Granny is yearning
30 To see him a clerical blade,
31 Was sent to the college for learning,
32 And cam' back a coof as he gaed.
33 And there will be auld Widow Martin,
34 That ca's hersel thrity and twa;
35 And thraw-gabbit Madge wha for certain
36 Was jilted by Hab o' the Shaw.
37 And Elspy the sewster sae genty,
38 A pattern of havens and sense,
39 Will straik on her mittens sae dainty,
40 And crack wi' Mess John i' the spence.
41 And Angus, the seer o' fairlies,
42 That sits on the stane at his door,
43 And tells about bogles, and mair lies
44 Than tongue ever uttered before.
45 And there will be Bauldy the boaster,
46 Sae ready wi' hands and wi' tongue;
47 Proud Paty and silly Sam Foster,
48 Wha quarrel wi' auld and wi' young:
49 And Hugh the town-writer, I'm thinking,
50 That trades in his lawerly skill,
51 Will egg on the fighting and drinking
52 To bring after-grist to his mill:
53 And Maggy — na, na! we'll be civil,
54 And let the wee bridie a-be;
55 A vilipend tongue is the devil,
56 And ne'er was encouraged by me.
57 Then fy, let us a' to the wedding,
58 For they will be lilting there,
59 Frae mony a far-distant ha'ding,
60 The fun and the feasting to share.
61 For they will get sheep's head, and haggis,
62 And browst o' the barley-mow;
63 E'en he that comes latest, and lag is,
64 May feast upon dainties enow:
65 Veal florentines in the oon baken,
66 Weel plenished wi' raisins and fat,
67 Beef, mutton, and chuckies, a' taken
68 Het reeking frae spit and frae pat:
69 And glasses (I trow 'tis na' said ill),
70 To drink the young couple good luck,
71 Weel filled wi' a braw beechen ladle
72 Frae punch-bowl as big as Dumbuck.
73 And then will come dancing and daffing,
74 And reelin and crossin o' hans,
75 Till even auld Lucky is laughing,
76 As back by the aumry she stans.
77 Sic bobbing and flinging and whirling,
78 While fiddlers are making their din;
79 And pipers are droning and skirling,
80 As loud as the roar o' the lin.
81 Then fy, let us a' to the wedding,
82 For they will be lilting there,
83 For Jock's to be married to Maggy,
84 The lass wi' the gowden hair.
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Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL., 1840, pp. 275-280. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [40.17].)
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Other works by Joanna Baillie
- ADDRESS TO A STEAM VESSEL. ()
- ADDRESS TO THE MUSES. ()
- THE BANISHED MAN, ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICH HE IS QUITTING FOR EVER. ()
- THE BLACK COCK, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH AIR, CALLED “THE NOTE OF THE BLACK COCK.” ()
- A CHEERFUL-TEMPERED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER. ()
- DEVOTIONAL SONG FOR A NEGRO CHILD. ()
- A DISAPPOINTMENT. ()
- THE ELDEN TREE. A BALLAD. ()
- EPILOGUE TO THE THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION AT STRAWBERRY HILL, WRITTEN BY JOANNA BAILLIE AND SPOKEN BY THE HON. ANNE S. DAMER, NOVEMBER, 1800. ()
- FRAGMENT OF A POEM. ()
- HOOLY AND FAIRLY. (FOUNDED ON AIN OLD SCOTCH SONG.) ()
- THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. ()
- A HYMN FOR THE KIRK. ()
- HYMN FOR THE SCOTCH KIRK. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- A HYMN. ()
- JOB XIII. 15. ()
- THE KITTEN. ()
- A LAMENTATION. ()
- LINES FOR A FRIEND'S ALBUM. ()
- LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. ()
- LINES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ. ()
- LINES TO A PARROT. ()
- LINES TO A TEAPOT. ()
- LINES TO AGNES BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY. ()
- LONDON. ()
- LORD JOHN OF THE EAST, A Ballad. ()
- MALCOLM'S HEIR. A TALE OF WONDER. ()
- A MELANCHOLY LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- THE MERRY BACHELOR, (FOUNDED ON THE OLD SCOTCH SONG OF “WILLIE WAS A WANTON WAG.”) ()
- THE MOODY SEER, A BALLAD. ()
- A MOTHER TO HER WAKING INFANT. ()
- NIGHT SCENES OF OTHER TIMES. A Poem, in Three Parts. ()
- A NURSERY LESSON (DEVOTIONAL). ()
- A POETICAL OR SOUND-HEARTED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- A PROUD LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- A REVERIE. ()
- RHYMES FOR CHANTING. ()
- RHYMES. ()
- A SAILOR'S SONG ()
- SCHOOL RHYMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN. ()
- A SCOTCH SONG. ()
- SECOND DEVOTIONAL SONG. ()
- A SECOND HYMN FOR THE KIRK. ()
- SECOND NURSERY LESSON (ADMONITORY). ()
- SELECT VERSES FROM THE 147TH PSALM. ()
- SIR MAURICE. A Ballad. ()
- SONG WRITTEN FOR THE STRAWBERRY HILL FOUNDLING PLAY, AND SUNG BY MRS. JOURDAIN. ()
- SONG, (FOR A SCOTCH AIR.) ()
- A SONG, (WRITTEN FOR MR. STRUTHER'S COLLECTION OF SONGS.) ()
- SONG, A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD SCOTCH SONG. ()
- SONG, CALLED THE COUNTRY LADY'S REVEILLIE. ()
- SONG, FOR AN IRISH AIR. ()
- SONG, FOR AN IRISH MELODY. ()
- SONG, POVERTY PARTS GOOD COMPANY, ()
- SONG, WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A', ()
- SONG, WRITTEN AT MR. THOMSON'S REQUEST, AS A KIND OF INTRODUCTION TO HIS IRISH MELODIES. ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH AIR, CALLED “THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT.” ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH AIR, CALLED “THE PURSUIT OF LOVE.” ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH MELODY. ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR AN IRISH AIR. ()
- A SONG, WRITTEN FOR AN IRISH MELODY. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. (TO THE SCOTCH AIR OF “MY NANNY O.”) ()
- ST. JOHN XXI. 1. ()
- ST. LUKE VII. 12. ()
- ST. LUKE XVIII. 16. ()
- ST. MATTHEW V. 9. ()
- A SUMMER'S DAY. ()
- THIRD DEVOTIONAL SONG. ()
- A THIRD HYMN FOR THE KIRK. ()
- THOUGHTS TAKEN FROM THE 93RD PSALM. ()
- THUNDER. ()
- TO A CHILD. ()
- TO MRS. SIDDONS. ()
- TO SOPHIA J. BAILLIE, AN INFANT. ()
- THE TRAVELLER BY NIGHT IN NOVEMBER. ()
- TWO BROTHERS. ()
- TWO SONGS. ()
- VERSES SENT TO MRS. BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1813. ()
- VERSES TO OUR OWN FLOWERY KIRTLED SPRING. ()
- VERSES WRITTEN IN FEBRUARY, 1827. ()
- VOLUNTEER'S SONG, WRITTEN IN 1803. ()
- A WINTER'S DAY. ()