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but mony daily weet their weason wi' liquors nice, an' hardly, in a winter season, e'er spier her price. wae worth that brandy, burnin trash! fell source o' mony a pain an' brash! twins mony a poor, doylt, drucken hash, o' half his days; an' sends, beside, auld scotland's cash to her warst faes. ye scots, wha wish auld scotland well! ye chief, to you my tale i tell, poor, plackless devils like mysel'! it sets you ill, wi' bitter, dearthfu' wines to mell, or foreign gill. may gravels round his blather wrench, an' gouts torment him, inch by inch, what twists his gruntle wi' a glunch o' sour disdain, out owre a glass o' whisky-punch wi' honest men! o whisky! soul o' plays and pranks! accept a bardie's gratfu' thanks! when wanting thee, what tuneless cranks are my poor verses! thou comes—they rattle in their ranks, at ither's a-s! thee, ferintosh! o sadly lost! scotland lament frae coast to coast! now colic grips, an' barkin hoast may kill us a'; for loyal forbes' charter'd boast is ta'en awa? thae curst horse-leeches o' the' excise, wha mak the whisky stells their prize! haud up thy han', deil! ance, twice, thrice! there, seize the blinkers! an' bake them up in brunstane pies for poor damn'd drinkers. fortune! if thou'll but gie me still hale breeks, a scone, an' whisky gill, an' rowth o' rhyme to rave at will, tak a' the rest, an' deal't about as thy blind skill directs thee best.