"I've brought many a yin into the world, and I'm likin' him fine.

But ye can no care for him, and he's like to dee on your hands.

Yer wife's in the same case.
She maun ha' nourishin' food, and plenty on't.

Noo, I'm rich enough, and I'm a bachelor, with no wife nor bairn o' my ain.

For reasons I'll not tell ye I'll dee, as I've lived, by my lain.