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Reading edition
Ower haly was hang’d, and rough and sonsy wan awa’.
Ower muckle o’ aething is gude for naething.
Ower mony grieves but hinders the wark.
O’ twa ills choose the least.—Out o’ debt out o’ danger.
Out o’ the peat-pot into the gutter.
Reading edition
Ower haly was hang’d, and rough and sonsy wan awa’.
Ower muckle o’ aething is gude for naething.
Ower mony grieves but hinders the wark.
O’ twa ills choose the least.—Out o’ debt out o’ danger.
Out o’ the peat-pot into the gutter.