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To colliers, carters, and to cooks,
To Jock and Tom my rhyme shall be directed.

— David Lyndsay

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That nicht he sleipit never ane wink,
Bot still did on the Ladie think.

Unthrift, sweirnes, falset, povertie, and stryfe
Pat polacey in dainger of hir lyfe.

The Dreme (1528)

Ere I depart this natioun, I shall mak Reformatioun!

And to the Devill of hell condemne this mein3e;
For quhy sic reformatioune, as I weine
Into Scotland was never hard nor seine.

Heir sall Wantones ga spy them and cum agane to the king

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