Happy, like Damon *, had he found Then, when he'd meet her with her friends, Of equal use, in winter storms; And in the heats of sultry days; * In Thomson's Seasons. See the Description of Habbie's How. Simple, and rural is thy HuT; But merit only calls for praise. PEGGY'S MYLL, below the CARLINE'S LOUPIS. A Ballad; CONTAINAND the hystorie o' the Myll-a description of it-its stanss-and of the howm forenent it.— Of the impudence o' myller Jok quhan Kate trampit at the edge o' the howm-and of the zearly meetand on it, below the Pyper's Know. Als alswo how Bess Bamphray maist lost a husband on the road haim to her midder's cot-house at Monk's Haugh; and how a ghaist gat her ane against hys wyll.-Togydder wi' a fryendly hynt tae zoung lasses—an observation on the uncertain issues o' schemes and projects the uselessness o' envy-and mony odder thyngs whylk the auld-farrand wyll not myss tae notys in bygaand. QUHAN Patie gat Sir William's lands, Was sair fa'n into disrepair, Frae th' pit-whiel tae its ruif-topis; Tho' on the Uisge, in Roger's farm, It, ance, bayth late and early, Below the mouth o' Mause's glenn, Culd grynd aits, pease, an' barley : At t'idder mouth atween its rokkis He wrychtis and masonis set to wark, He chang❜t its name to PEGGY'S MYLL, The myller's name is Mathew Meal, Jok Duist is Mathew's servant, Quho, wi' hys maister's, hys ain dues To draw is maist observant : To Mathew Meal the multuris fa'; Jok Duist gets a' the sequels, The knaveschipis, bannocks, gowpens or lokis; For suckent, it has nae equals. Its wa's are whyter, now, than snaw; The staneis are layde fu' neitly; * See the Gentle Shepherd, Act 5. Scene 1. ; the Description of Mause's Cottage; and the Map. + Extent of thirlage, or astricted grounds. And' a' the fo'k als they zie bye, Its ruif's now blew wi' bonny sklateis An' ay the jawps flee frae the whiel The klapper gangs sae kantily, That a' the nychbours lyk it; E'en Nepis's tung was ne'er sae loud, Quhan chierily she krackyt. Abune, the road lieds throuch the glenn, Up frae the rumblan' water,. Atween the hyllis aman the craygis, That maks an unka klatter; But frae the ford and Pyper's know * Wi' cauler shankis, and kyltit coatis, Here trampit Kate fu' tychtly, * Below the present bridge at the north end of the village of the Carlops, and of Mause's glen. Quhan duisty Jok jeer't frae the myll I ne'er saw legs sae sychtly. Now, a' the lasses every zier, The pyper sits upon the know Sae smart ilk lad, wi' bonnet blue, Ilk quene wi' cockernonny, The grannies own, even in thair day The howm was ne'er sae bonny. And round, and round, lyke Peggy's quhiel, They danss bezond the water : And sae they chier the auld anes heartis, They clack lyk Peggy's clapper. Than, O, quhan Pate and Peggy cumis, And crownis the merry mietand; Wi' joy, it maks thayr heartis sae grit They're a' maist at the grietand! See the Description of the 'Spitals of New Hall; and the Map. |