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Mucking of Geordy’s Byer.
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Sung by Symon, p. 19.
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THE laird who in riches and honour
Wad thrive, should be kindly and free,
Nor rack the poor tenants, who labour
To rise aboon poverty:
Else like the pack horse that’s unfother’d,
And burden’d, will tumble down faint;
Thus virtue by hardship is smother’d,
And rackers aft tine their rent.
