The Contract of Enster.
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ON July just upon the penult day,
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which is the second Moneth next to May.
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It is agreed and finally Contracted,
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and all the Parties living yet that spake it,
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Between two Graceless Persons of Renoune,
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None more Infamous dwelling in the Town,
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The one a silly Raggit Sutor Man,
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Servitor to Thomas Ferguson who can,
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Make Boots and Shoone, a Shoe-maker to Craft,
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he lives above the Thieves hole in the last.
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The other she's no cast away nor Hissie,
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but the good Daughter of old Andrew Bizie,
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Thir parties both are finally content
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in one advice and Mutual consent,
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To Solemnize in every point and Jott,
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of Marriage the holy Band and knot,
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In Face and presence of the Hally Kirk,
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Because none of the two has will to work,
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And when they have no will to work ye ken,
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it is hy time that they were married then,
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To this effect the foresaid Andrew Bizie,
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has promised the Fellow with the Hissie.
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An under mark and that to be well pay'd,
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yea and a ---- if that it be delayed,
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At Martinmass withoutten longer tarry,
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or sooner if the parties please to Marrie,
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And for the foresaid under mark and score,
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the silly Sutor is content therefore.
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That after the Death and the decease of his Wife,
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Andrew shall bruike the hail during his Life,
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And if he Chance to die as pleases God,
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the foresaid Sutor shall have all that's o'd.
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For more Assurance they are contented that
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thir pretents be Insert and Regestrat,
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Into our Stubborn Lords Book o're the water.
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or Commissar Books of St. Andrews with a clatter
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Or in the Books of Enster Easter or Waster,
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what Clerk in Fise can bind the Fellows faster,
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To have the Force and strength of an Decreet;
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of either of the Judges they think meet,
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That Letters both of Doding and of Horning,
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may pass hearon without all Let or Scorning.
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Thir presents were written the foresaid day and year,
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before thi[?] Witless Witnesses Witnessing here,
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John Jocobisty in the Shaddow Shaw,
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and Peter Pickthank in the Paddock Raw
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And Symon Sidebags in the Slypan Stank,
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with Friar Fuck-dock in the Pryor Bank,
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With diverse others honest Men well kend,
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except my self, when this Contract was Pen'd.
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Ita est ego Joannes Moravius Bublicus, in Premissis re-
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quisitus, de mendato Dict. Thomae Ferguson & An-
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dreae B[?]ssie, & reliquorum Personarum Contractan: Scri-
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bere Nescian: ut asservere Testamentum his meis Sig-
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no, & Subscriptione manualibus.
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John Jacobist, Witless.
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Peter Pickthank Witless:
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Friar Fuckdock, Witless.
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Symon Sidebags, Witless.
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I myself, Witless.
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