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Gie him strong drink until he wink, / That's sinking in despair; / An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, / That's prest wi' grief and care: / There let him bouse, an' deep carouse, / Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, / Till he forgets his loves or debts, / An' minds his griefs no more. / (Solomon's Proverbs, xxxi. 6, 7.)
Let other poets raise a fracas / 'Bout vines, an' wines, an' drucken Bacchus, / An' crabbit names an'stories wrack us, / An' grate our lug: / I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us, / In glass or jug.