Gormless.
She never prevaricated about what
she had screeved,
she seemed unhaffled on being reft.
But she was no rumbustious piece.
of ignorant gowk.
She knew all about making a gyle
and could skitter the quaking top
of virago-fresh brew like a matron.
Firkin or pottle she bottled the lot,
cocked a snoop at her unwashed
whinnock then set out for a quiet
turn on the high rock-ridden carn.
The moortop felt queachy as Bess
stumbled along but dinna get riled
hummin\' sea shantys all to herself.
Waverous this maid, skin-full and
somewhat unsteady had sampled
that slake all too well.
She byways roved \'til her smicket
got spottled.
A churlish young yokel spied that
girlie a-slocken
and yon stripling clod-hopped her
there on the heather then grassed,
one gormless lassie was weltered
when slathered.
Bess \'tho undone merrily trundled
her vagous way,
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dosily dazed,
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home again but well impregnated.
N.B.
Haffled = Quibbled - - - Reft = Left destitiute
Gowk = Simpleton - - -- Skitter = Skim
Verago = Whirlpool - - - Queachy = Miry
Vagous = Erratic - - - - - Smicket = Smock