VI. THOU art in Friendship with thy Fae, Regarding nane but them perfay That cures the nocht. VII. THOU chirriefs them that with the chyds, Thay furder warft in thee confyds, Quod ALEXT. SCOT. THE Auld Mans inveighing against MouthThanklefs. A I. Ne agit Man twyce Fourty Zeirs, 1 hard him carp amang the Freirs, II. THROCH Ignorance, and Folly, Zouth, Till Aige faid, Fuse, let be thy Fare, And now my Heid is quhyt and liair, For feiding of that fowmart Face, Quhairfor I murn baith late and air, That I fervit evir Mouth thankless. III.-. SILVER and Gold that I micht get To pleife the Mulls attour all Things. Right as the Swan for Sorrow fings, Before her Deid a little Space, Richt fae do I, and my Hands wrings. That I fervt evir Mouth-thanklefs. IV. BETTIR it were a Man to fervé. With Honour brave beneath a Sheild, Nor her to pleis, thocht thou fould sterve, That will not luke on the in Eild, Frae that thou has nae Hair to heild Thy Heid frae harming that it hes, Quhen Pen and Purfe and all ar peild, Tak then a Meis of Mouth-thankless. A V. It may be in Example fene, The Grund of Truth wha understude, Call ze not this a cankert Cafe: Now GOD help and the haly Rude, And keip all Men frae Mouth-Thankless. VI. O brukil Zouth in Tyme behald, And in thy Heart thir Words gae graif, All this I hard an auld Man raif, Quod KENNEDY. I 2 * Makes Ufe of Spectacles. The Soutar defcryvit by by the Tailzior. 1. Hou lies Loun, thou leis, thou leis, TH Zone are Soutars that thou feis, Thair Gods till adorn. Be Saint Girnega, that grim Ghaift, Of moltin Tauch thay tak a Teft On Monandays at Morn. II. To hald them halefome at the Heart, Uthers a Pynt for thair awn Part, |