Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard(4/9)
should tell,
amaist as soon as i could spell,
i to the crambo-jingle fell;
tho' rude an' rough—
yet ing to a body's sel'
does weel eneugh.
i am nae poet, in a sense;
but just a rhymer like by ce,
an' hae to learning nae pretence;
yet, what the matter?
whene'er my muse does on me gnce,
i ji her.
your critiay cock their nose,
and say, “how you e'er propose,
you wha ken hardly verse frae prose,
to mak a sang?”
but, by your leaves, my learned foes,
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