EBBA 34862

Houghton Library - EBB65

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A New Scotch Whim.

DEel faw mine Ey'ne

If e'er Ise ken

Syke a Parcel of Loons in a Nation.

Since the Laird of the Boyn

Does Covet mere Coyn,

They repent of their geud Abdication.

For the Loons of the Kirk

Do now find their Work

Is a muckle too big for their Purses;

And the War that's begun

by the geud valiant Son,

Will be Crown'd with a Trophee of Curses.

II.

What a Deelish stir

We make with War,

To confoond our Estates for Ambition,

With a crafty Pretence

Of conquering France,

To drill out the Coin of our Nation.

a muckle thing

To exchange our King,

Lubber-Loons ha' got weel by the Barter;

For our geud valiant Prince

Takes the faw Loon of France

As the stoot bonny Scot teuk the Tartar.

Edinburgh: Printed in the Year, 1693.