LINES, To the PRINCIPAL and PROFESSORS of the University of St. Andrews, on their superb Treat to DR SAMUEL Johnson. ST ANDREW's town may look right gawsy, Glowr dowie owre her ruins high, Regents! my winsome billy boys! 'Bout him you've made an unco noise; Nae doubt, for him your bells wad clink, To find him upon Eden's brink; And a' things nicely set in order, Wad keep him on the Fifan border. I'se warrant, now, frae France and Spain Baith cooks and scullions mony ane, LINES, &c. To fleg frae a' your craigs the roup, But hear, my lads! gin I'd been there, To cow and horse, and sicken beast; While, in Scots ground, this growth was common To gust the gab o' man and woman. Tak tent, ye Regents! then, and hear My list o' gudely hameil gear; LINES, &c. Sic as hae aften rax'd the wyme O' blyther fallows mony a time; Imprimis, then, a haggis fat,. Secundo, then, a gude sheep's head, Whase hide was singit, never flea'd, And four black trotters clad wi' girsle, Bedown his throat had learn'd to hirsle. What think ye, niest o' gude fat brose, LINES, &c. Whan he could never houp to merit But thraw his nose, and birze, and pegh, And learn, that, maugre o' his wyme, I'll bairns are ay best heard at hame. Drummond, lang syne, o' Hawthornden, The wyliest and best o' men, Has gien you dishes ane or mae, That wad hae gar'd his grinders play, Not to "Roast Beef (4)," old England's life! He lang'd for skate to mak him wanton, LINES, &c. Ah, willawins for Scotland now! Wha thro' the week, till sunday's speal, Devall then, Sirs, and never send For daintiths to regale a friend ; Or, like a torch at baith ends burnin, Your house will soon grow mirk and mournin! ⠀ What's this I hear some cynic say (6)? Robin, ye loun! its nae fair play; Is their nae ither subject rifə To clap your thumb upon but Fife? Gie owre, young man! you'll meet your cornin, Than caption waur, or charge o' hornin; |