On the much lamented Death of merry Maggie Wilson
On the much lamented Death of merry Maggie
Wilson, Poultry-Wife in Edinburgh.
[ Done by Rorie Pringle Drawer in the Tolbooth. ]
Walliwafaw your Fingers, Death,
That stappit Maggie Wilson’s Breath;
Had I been ye, I’d been right leath,
And wae to fell her.