A Full and Particular ACCOUNT of a most wounderful WEDEING; which was keqt in the
Country, near the Town of Falkirk, without a Bridegroom, etc. To which is added a
Comical Advertisement, and reward for Catching the Run-away Bridegroom.
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WE hear from Castlecary, that last week
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a young man who had been paying
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his address to a woman for two
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years by-past, at length obtained her con-
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sent to marry him; in consequence of
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which, she immediately set out for Falkirk,
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in order to procure provisions and other
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accessaries for the wedding, which she for-
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warded in great profusion; and next day
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she went off attended by all her friends and
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neighbours to the number fifty or more to
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meet the Bridegroom, who, on their near
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approach, sud[d]enly altered his mind, slipt
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out at the back door, and run off into the
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adjacent woods. The bride no ways mov-
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ed at this disappointment, immediately dis-
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patched some of her Friends to the woods
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in quest of him, and in the meantime order-
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ed the music to play up Because he was a
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Bonney Lad, I bade him ay come back again.
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Finding on their return, that the bridegroom
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could not be found, she concluded the enter-
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tainment with uncommon spirit, by leading
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down a country dance, to the tune of I lost
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my love and I care na.---The company were
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so taken with the brides surprising gaiety on
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this trying occasion. that they raised a hand-
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some subscription for her.
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A SONG to the tune of, I fixd my fancy on he
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BRIGHT Stirlings power divinely great,
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What heart is not obeying?
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A thousand Cupids on her wait,
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And in her eye are playing
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She seems the queen of love to reign;
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For she alone dispenses
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Such sweets as best can entertain
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The guest of all the senses.
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Her face a charming prospect brings,
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Her breath gives balmy blisses;
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I hear an angel when she sings,
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And taste of heaven in kisses.
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F[o]ur senses thus he feasts with joy,
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From n[at]ures rich[e]st treasure:
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Let me then the sense employ,
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And I shall die with pleasure.
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The Brides SONG, to the tune of The
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kirk wad let me be.
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TIS I have seven braw new gowns,
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And ither seven better to make;
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And yet for a my new gowns,
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My wooer has turnd his back.
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Besides I have seven milk-ky,
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And L-----e he has but three;
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And yet for a my good ky,
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The fellow winna hae me.
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My daddies a delver o dykes,
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My Mither can card and spin,
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And I am a fine foge, lass,
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And the siller comes linking in.
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The siller comes linking in,
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And it is f[ull] fair to see,
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And fifty times wow! O wow!
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What aile the fellow at me?
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Whenever our B[e]tty does bark,
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Then fast to the door I rin,
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To see gin ony young spark
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Will light and venture but in:
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But never a ane will come in,
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Tho mony a ane gaes by,
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Syne fur ben the house I rin;
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And a weary wight am I.
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When I was at my first prayers,
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I prayd but tuies i the year,
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I wishd for a handsome young lad,
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And a lad with muckle geer.
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When I was at my neist prayers,
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I prayed but now and than,
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shd na my head about gear,
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I falsto go handsome young man.
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Now when Im at my last prayrs,
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I p[r]ay on both night and day,
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And O! if a beggar wad come,
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With that same beggar Id gae.
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And O! and whatll come o me!
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And O! and whatll I do?
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That sie a braw lassie as I
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Soud die for a fellow I trow.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
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For the good of the public, and protection of the fair Sexs character, in all time to come,
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that no hen-hearted Bridegrooms, unless he has the courage of game-cock, and has plaid the
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part of a man, be admited into the proclamation of intended matrimony, without bail, that
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hell attend the bridal and beding thereafter, and that no back doors for the future be kept
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open on wedding days, whereby they may escape, as this hair braind, capon-headed sheep-
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taid Bridegrooms has done; some thinks he has bewildered himself in the Wood, to avoid
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the cares of the World, and the plagues of a married life, others, that he lost he Key of the
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B[r]ides trunk, and afraid to come before her, others, that he had a full issue, and burnt his
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tail on hot haggish the night before, and has fled to East Lothian, to mend the high-ways,
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as harvest comes on. So if he can be found out of a hole, or in of a hole, eating or drinking,
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courting or kissing, or keeping company with any Women young or old set justice upn him
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for a Women-hater, a breaker of brides hearts, and you shall obtain reward, the Brides blessing,
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the prayers of the parish, and a New Song of exaltation to a Troy tune, and high praise a-
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bove your neighbours.
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