The works of Allan Ramsay edited by Burns Martin ... and John W. Oliver [... and Alexander M. Kinghorn ... and Alexander Law] |
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THE TYKES TOOLY
Of all the Rangers of the Moor
fair Juno was the greatest whore,
none froister scowered the Knows and Bogs,
She was a Toast among the Dogs,
but, ah! what dire mischeifs are spred!
from ills, by Love and Beauty bred,
Empires distroy'd, and private Jars,
Assasinations, bloody wars,
thus fierce were Toolys 'mongst the Tykes
for Juno, when she took the sykes,
even blood-relation pled no grace
'mongst the Love-bitten barking race,
The father in the madest Ire
'gainst the Son's throple did conspire,
and uncle curst thought it no sin
to rive his yowling nevoy's skin,
for Juno's Love, the panting croud
Shew'd all their fangs, & gowld aloud,
Ringwood, Ranger, Tray, & Towser,
Ventured their heart's blood to espouse her,
The rageing Pack, all in a fury
Gowl, snarl, & bite, & tear, & worry,
'till many a Dog with gaping wound,
and horrid yelling, bitt the ground,
and meikle blood, and dirt, was shed,
before the Amorous plea was redd.
fair Juno was the greatest whore,
none froister scowered the Knows and Bogs,
She was a Toast among the Dogs,
but, ah! what dire mischeifs are spred!
from ills, by Love and Beauty bred,
Empires distroy'd, and private Jars,
Assasinations, bloody wars,
thus fierce were Toolys 'mongst the Tykes
for Juno, when she took the sykes,
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'mongst the Love-bitten barking race,
The father in the madest Ire
'gainst the Son's throple did conspire,
and uncle curst thought it no sin
to rive his yowling nevoy's skin,
for Juno's Love, the panting croud
Shew'd all their fangs, & gowld aloud,
Ringwood, Ranger, Tray, & Towser,
Ventured their heart's blood to espouse her,
The rageing Pack, all in a fury
Gowl, snarl, & bite, & tear, & worry,
'till many a Dog with gaping wound,
and horrid yelling, bitt the ground,
and meikle blood, and dirt, was shed,
before the Amorous plea was redd.
Like them the Humane race appears
who go togither by the Ears,
and think it an Heroick play
to murder thousands in a day,
and when the Bloody race is run
by either side ther's nothing won,
Our Tale, this Morall fairly teaches
Mankind act oft like Dogs & Bitches.
who go togither by the Ears,
and think it an Heroick play
to murder thousands in a day,
and when the Bloody race is run
by either side ther's nothing won,
Our Tale, this Morall fairly teaches
Mankind act oft like Dogs & Bitches.
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