THE WIFE WRAPT IN WETHER'S SKIN—E
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Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 324.
1
There lives a landart laird in Fife,
And he has married a dandily wife.
2
She wadna shape, nor yet wad she sew,
But sit wi her cummers and fill hersell fu.
3
She wadna spin, nor yet wad she card,
But she wad sit and crack wi the laird.
4
He is down to his sheep-fald
And cleekit a weather by the back-spald.
5
He's whirpled aff the gude weather's-skin
And wrappit the dandily lady therein.
6
‘I darena pay you, for your gentle kin,
But weel I may skelp my weather's-skin.’
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