Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
46 . The Belles of Mauchline
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The pride of the place and its neighbourhood a’;
Their carriage and dress, a stranger would guess,
In Lon’on or Paris, they’d gotten it a’.
Miss Smith she has wit, and Miss Betty is braw: There’s beauty and fortune to get wi’ Miss Morton, But Armour’s the jewel for me o’ them a’.