18, 19. _Wanting._

20^2. Fa monie merry day I hae been.

_After 20 a stanza as in #b#, #c#, #d#, and then this silly one_:

‘O they would be bad stockins,

O they would be worse sheen,

O they would be bad stockins

Ye’d get for half a crown.’

21^1. they cam to bonnie Aberdeen.

22^4. awa wi your Ogilvie.

23^3. But a messenger.

23^4. Which proved a counterman.

24^4. You’re the heir o.

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