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Roseberry to his lady says, "My hinnie and my succour, "O shall we do the thing you ken, "Or shall we take our supper?" Wi' modest face, sae fu' o' grace, Replied the bonny lady; "My noble lord do as you please, "But supper is na ready".
This is a song by Robert Burns. It is read here by Annette Crosbie.
Pauline MackayThe bawdy song 'Supper is na ready' was collected by Robert Burns and appears as part of the collection of bawdy song, The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799).
Here a sexually keen yet outwardly modest couple exercise the utmost propriety in making the decision to go to bed together before supper. And so, the song mocks the sexual restraint exercised in response to strict eighteenth century codes of social and moral conduct.
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