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The poet of good Scotch drink, of merry meetings, of the cup that cheers, author of the best drinking song in the world:

"O, Willie brew'd a peck o' maut,

And Rob and Allen came to see;

Three blyther hearts, that lee-lang night,

Ye wadna find in Christendie.

Chorus.

"We are na fou, we're no that fou,

But just a drappie in our ee;

The cock may craw, the day may daw,

And aye we'll taste the barley bree.

"Here are we met, three merry boys,

Three merry boys, I trow, are we;

And monie a night we've merry been,

And monie mae we hope to be!

We are na fou, &c.

"It is the moon, I ken her horn,

That's blinkin in the lift say hie;

She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,

But by my sooth she'll wait a wee!

We are na fou, &c.

"Wha first shall rise to gang awa,

A cuckold, coward loun is he!

Wha last beside his chair shall fa',

He is the King amang us three!

We are na fou, &c."