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O Death, had'st thou but spar'd his life, / Whom we this day lament, / We freely wad exchanged the wife, / And a' been weel content.
Ev'n as he is, cauld in his graff, / The swap we yet will do't; / Tak thou the carlin's carcase aff, / Thou'se get the saul o'boot.