{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_For_the_love_of_Jean/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_For_the_love_of_Jean","id":"wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_For_the_love_of_Jean","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vanity_of_pride/For_the_love_of_Jean","summary":null,"tags":["Chapbooks","Love_poetry","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","Works_using_categories_parameter","Works_with_reconstructed_words_or_phrases"],"text":"FOR THE LOVE OF JEAN.\n\nJOCKY said to Jeany, Jeany, wilt thou do't?\n\nNe'er a fit, quo' Jeany, for my tocher-good,\n\nFor my tocher good, I winna marry thee,\n\nE'ens ye like quo' Johnny, ye may let me be.\n\nI hae gowd and gear, I hae land enough,\n\nI hae seven good owsen ganging in a pleugh,\n\nGanging in a pleugh, and linking o'er the lee,\n\nAnd gin ye winna tak me, I can let you be.\n\nI ha'e a good ha' house, a barn and a byer,\n\nA stack afore the door, I'll mak a rantin fire,\n\nI'll mak a rantin fire, and merry we shall be:\n\nAnd gin ye winna tak me, I can let ye be.\n\nJeany said to Jocky, gin ye winna tell,\n\nYe shall be the led, I'll be the lass mysell;\n\nYe're a bonny lad, and I'm a lassie free,\n\nYe're welcome to tak me than to let me be.","title":"Vanity of pride/For the love of Jean","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":156}