O JENNY DEAR. Susanna Blamire Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII. 1842 pp. 234-235.

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O JENNY DEAR . Air — The Mason Laddie . O JENNY dear , lay by your pride , Or else I plainly see Your wrinkles ye'll be fain to hide , May-be at sixty-three . But , take my word , 'tis then o'er late To gain a wayward man ; A maiden auld her hooks may bait , But catch us gin you can ! An unco prize forsooth ye are ! For , when the bait is tane , Ye fill our hearts sae fu' o' care , We wish them ours again . To witch our faith , ye tell a tale O' love that ne'er will end ; Nae hinny'd words wi' me prevail , For men will never mend . But , Jenny , look at aunty Kate , Wha is a maiden auld , I's warrant she repented late When wooers' hearts grew cauld . An ape to lead's a silly thing When ye step down below , Or here to sit wi' chittering wing Like birdies i' the snow . That's better than to sit at hame Wi' saut tears i' my ee ; An ape I think's a harmless thing To sic a thing as ye . Good men are chang'd frae wooers sair , And naething do but slight ; A wife becomes a drudge o' care , And never's in the right . There's bonny Tibby o' the glen , And Anny o' the hill , Their beauty crazed baith their men , And might delight them still ; But now they watch their lordies' frowns , Their sauls they daurna own ; 'Tis tyranny that wedlock crowns , And woman's joys are flown .