_Sir Will._ My son's demand is fair,-- Glaud, let me crave, That trusty Roger may your daughter have, With frank consent; and while he does remain Upon these fields, I make him chamberlain. _Glaud._ You crowd your bounties, Sir, what can we say, } But that we're dyvours that can ne'er repay? } Whate'er your Honour wills, I shall obey. } Roger, my daughter, with my blessing, take, And still our master's right your business make. Please him, be faithful, and this auld gray head Shall nod with quietness down amang the dead. _Rog._ I ne'er was good a speaking a' my days, Or ever loo'd to make o'er great a fraise: But for my master, father and my wife, I will employ the cares of all my life. _Sir Will._ My friends, I'm satisfied you'll all behave, Each in his station, as I'd wish or crave. Be ever vertuous, soon or late you'll find Reward, and satisfaction to your mind. The maze of life sometimes looks dark and wild; And oft when hopes are highest, we're beguil'd: Aft, when we stand on brinks of dark despair, } Some happy turn with joy dispells our care. } Now all's at rights, who sings best let me hear. } _Peg._ When you demand, I readiest should obey: I'll sing you ane, the newest that I ha'e. SANG XXI.--_Tune_, Corn-riggs are bonny. _My_ Patie _is a lover gay, His mind is never muddy; His breath is sweeter than new hay, His face is fair and ruddy: His shape is handsome, middle size; He's comely in his wauking: The shining of his een surprise; 'Tis Heaven to hear him tawking._ _Last night I met him on a bawk, Where yellow corn was growing, There mony a kindly word he spake, That set my heart a glowing. He kiss'd, and vow'd he wad be mine, And loo'd me best of ony, That gars me like to sing since syne, O corn-riggs are bonny._ _Let lasses of a silly mind Refuse what maist they're wanting; Since we for yielding were design'd, We chastly should be granting. Then I'll comply, and marry_ Pate, _And syne my cockernonny He's free to touzel air or late, Where corn-riggs are bonny._ [_Exeunt omnes._ NOTES. Page 5, line 11 from top; the reading in the text is:-- "She fled as frae a shellycoat or kow." This is the reading in the 8vo and 4to editions of 1721; (and also in the 12mo edition of 1761;) where was published the _first scene_ of the Pastoral, as a separate poem, under the title of "Patie and Roger." But, in all the editions of the _Gentle Shepherd_ that we have seen, the reading stands thus:-- "She fled as frae a shellycoated kow."