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	IX. MISCELLANEOUS 307
	No. 327. Wee Willie Gray. Tune : Wee Totum Fogg Scots Musical Museum, 1803, No. 514.


	Wee Willie Gray and his leather wallet, Peel a willow wand to be him boots and jacket: The rose upon the brier will be him trouse and doublet, The rose upon the brier will be him trouse and doublet! Wee Willie Gray and his leather wallet, Twice a lily flower will be him sark and cravat; Feathers of a flie wad feather up his bonnet— Feathers of a flie wad feather up his bonnet!
	No. 328. He clench o' his pamphlets in his fist. Tune : Killiecrankie (see No. 256).

	LORD ADVOCATE. He clench'd his pamphlets in his fist, He quoted and he hinted, Till in a declamation-mist His argument, he tint it; He gaped for't, he graped for't, He fand it was awa, man ; But what his common sense came short He eked out wf law, man.	MR. ERSKINE. Collected, Harry stood awee, Then open'd out his arm, man ; His lordship sat, wi¹ ruefu' e'e, And ey'd the gath'ring storm, man: Like wind-driv'n hail it did assail, Or torrents owre a linn, man ; The Bench sae wise lift up their eyes, Half-wauken'd wi' the din, man.