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gangs to the kirk I spee and I spee. Wha a deel do you spee. "Jockey of the high lane, and Jenny of the long cliff; if any know why these twa may not be wadded together, let them to speak for hold their tongue in the deel's name. Jockey wilt thou hae Jenny to thy wadded wife? I say Jockey say after me, Jockey wilt thou hae Jenny to thy wadded wife? forsaking, all joons, luberloons swing-bellied calves, black lips, and blue noses? Ay forsooth. If these twa be not well wadded as e'er I wadded twa these seven years, the deel and St. Andrew part them."

The wedding being ended, all the company went to bed, where we will leave them till the next morning, to relate Poor Robin's perambulation about the city.

CHAP. XVII.

Poor Robin's Perambulation about the city.

No sooner did Apollo begin to appear in the Eastern Horizon, but Poor Robin, shaking off melancholly sleep, his companion to prepare himself for their intended perambulation, and having armed themselves with a pot of nappy ale, they took their first walk to see the Royal Exchange, a most magnificent structure,