The works of Alexander Pennecuik of New-Hall, M.D.; containing the description of Tweeddale, and miscellaneous poems. A new edition, with copious notes, forming a complete history of the county to the present time. To which are prefixed, memoirs of Dr Pennecuik, and a map of the shire of Peebles, or Tweeddale |
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EX GRÆCO.
THUS TRANSLATED.
Chaste Bilia's husband, at a friendly feast,Did unawares meet with a scornful jest,
They told him to his teeth, O man, thou hath,
A comely wife, but yet a stinking breath.
Then, all in tears, to Bilia home he goes,
And chides her thus, Fy, should you not disclose,
And warn me of that foul infirmity,
Which strangers, to my shame, cast up to me.
Dear heart, quoth she, that fault I no ways know,
Because I never kiss'd a man but you:
So, if thy breath was foul I could not tell,
Thinking that all men's breath had such a smell.
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