[buttocks]
Nae doubt but they were fain o' ither, [glad]
And unco pack and thick thegither; [intimate]
Wi' social nose whyles snuff'd and snowkit;
Whyles mice and moudieworts they howkit; [moles, dug]
Whyles scour'd awa in lang excursion,
And worried ither in diversion;
Until wi' daffin' weary grown, [merriment]
Upon a knowe they sat them down, [knoll]
And there began a lang digression
About the lords of the creation.
CAESAR
I've aften wonder'd, honest Luath,
What sort o' life poor dogs like you have;
An' when the gentry's life I saw,
What way poor bodies liv'd ava. [at all]
Our Laird gets in his racked rents,
His coals, his kain, and a' his stents; [rent in kind, dues]
He rises when he likes himsel';
His flunkies answer at the bell:
He ca's his coach; he ca's his horse; [calls]
He draws a bonny silken purse
As lang's my tail, where, through the steeks, [stitches]
The yellow-letter'd Geordie keeks. [guinea peeps]
Frae morn to e'en it's nought but toiling
At baking, roasting, frying, boiling;
And though the gentry first are stechin', [cramming]
Yet e'en the ha' folk fill their pechan [servants, belly]
Wi' sauce, ragouts, and sic like trashtrie, [rubbish]
That's little short o' downright wastrie.
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