Madgie Cam to My Bed Stock
Madgie Cam to My Bed Stock - meaning Summary
Bawdy Domestic Humour
This short Scots lyric is a bawdy, comic vignette in which a woman checks whether the speaker is awake and the speaker responds with playful, sexual innuendo. Domestic and food images—pat, ladle, serving men—are deployed as humorous metaphors for genitalia and erotic encounter. The tone is mock-innocent and teasing rather than confessional, compressing the scene into a few vivid, rustic images that mix sexuality and household life. The poem trades on dialect and shock value to create its comic effect.
Read Complete AnalysesMadgie cam to my bed-stock, To see if I was waukin; I pat my han' atweesh her feet, An' fand her wee bit maukin. Cunt it was the sowen-pat, An' pintle was the ladle; Bollocks were the serving men That waited at the table.
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