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An’ warn him what I winna name, To stay content wi’ yowes at hame An’ no to rin an’ wear his cloots, Like ither menseless, graceless brutes.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

The libelled Mistress Margaret gave no further time for calumniation; slamming open the door, she came down upon us, gaunt, grim, and unescapable—“Ye menseless tawpies! ye bauld cutties! ye wanton limmers! ye—wha’s this?”

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert

An' warn him—what I winna name— To stay content wi' yowes at hame; An' no to rin an' wear his cloots, Like ither menseless, graceless brutes.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert