• On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church

    HA! whare ye gaun, ye crawlin’ ferlie?
    Your impudence protects you sairly:
    I canna say but ye strunt rarely
            Owre gauze an’ lace;
    Though, faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
            On sic a place.

    Ye ugly, creepin’, blastit wonner,
    Detested, shunned by saunt an’ sinner,
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