Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
OJiU-
ILLUSTRATIONS
SCOTLAND.
BY THE LATE
WILLIAM STENHOUSE.
PREFACE.
new
edition of
The
The
which
it is
now
original publisher
of the
Illus-
accompanied.
and the
ostensible editor of
it
PREFACE.
11
cation.*
Dr
airs
gress of the
Dr
Mr Tytler
of Woodhouselee,
who interested themselves in the prowork but, whatever aid Johnson might
;
taste,"
Scots Musical
beyond a couple of
parts or volumes
or, at least,
it still
it
pro-
mises to retain.
ing.
The
of ballad-poetry,
the peasantry,
of Antiquaries of Scotland."
'
PREFACE.
which such
dies with
strains
first
The
interest,
contributing
felt in
He
the work.
and
efficient editor
of
it,
but he
as
might be required
and, at the
The following
to
has taken
all
it
is
an undertaking exactly to
This,
meet with."
To
and
you
will easily
my taste.
have
the Rev.
John Skinner,
PREFACE.
IV
in reference to the
it,
and
authors, &c."
James Johnson,
in
about collecting
them
been
all
assist in collecting
and Drs
Mr Tytler of Woodhouselee,
make
to the
utmost of
his small
a stanza
when it has no
November I788,
spirit.
and your
such
aid,
his original
plan
a Second,
One Hundred
dis-
extend
Songs, having
PREFACE.
Mr
George Thomson
Mr Thomson's select and elegant pubThat the progress of the Musical Museum
expressly for
lication.
was retarded
Hitherto, an average
two years had intervened between the
but five years elapsed, and
publication of each part
the Poet himself died before the Fifth Part was completed, to which he had, however, furnished the chief
portion of the contents; and the Sixth Part, with
which the work terminates, did not appear till June
y/fcvui^
^N^.
Museum was
his let-
and Cromek
fix as
An
affecting letter
is
this Preface, as
PREFACE.
a suitable accompaniment to a
work which
the pub-
lisher
tains."
this letter,
Music."
To
Burns rendered
how
far
It is
but
such ser-
tinction to
which
It is
it
a dis-
it is
in
ceive
it
PREFACE,
years previous to
VU
in
spirits
and that
it
fairly
be put in competition in
there
is
like-
uncontrolled
to
less delicacy,
than
if
want of
author, this
name
as the
amply compensated
spirit, and vivacity of his
polish
is
compositions.
than quote
and with
Dr
his
less careful
in general affixed,
work of Mr Thomson.
47
Songs]}
The
Author
known.
last corrections
PREFACE.
The
inserted.
among
Nor was
Muse."
many
of
it
Burns enriched the Musical Museum and the liteThe diligence which he used
from
all
ment
but the
skill
Muse
as
she went " high-kilted o'er the lea," have never been
surpassed.
all
spirit),
through
all
was unrivalled
He
could glide
like
dew
into
He
and fragrance."^
marked Z
in the
himself says,
Museum,
is
many
of
them
body
skill.
little
is
"
into beauty
The songs
of a good
it
fading
the
world
but, in fact,
no reason
In regard to this
" The Scotish
Sir Walter Scott remarks
iv. p,
269.
vol.
i.
p. 66.
ii.
p. 194<.
PREFACE.
IX
pressible
his
countrymen.
He
to
its
it
more than
ever possessed.
many
have
It
self."^
same high
indeed been
authority, whether
by the
were fortunate, or
questioned,
it
writing.
Notwithstanding the
spn-it
of
many
of
much
away
tions.
in
.
regret
that so
of his time
When
was intent on
suiting a favourite air with words humorous or tender, as the subject demanded, no poet of our tongue
ever displayed higher skill in marrying melody to
the songs of Burns.
immortal verse.
for
large
musical collections,
which no
to negligence, and above
slavish labour,
his
his soul
series of
degenerated into a
vol.
songs
i.
p. 30.
lb. p. 32.
PREFACE,
That Burns
in
many
airs, is
is
The
equally certain.
instantaneous
May we
not therefore
had succeeded
in
writing one
or
two
if
Burns
successful
name only
among
his
countrymen only.
call
Him who
it is
when he
speaks of
But
Happy,
it
indeed, had
side.
PREFACE.
XI
official situation,
appointed " to guard ale-firkins ;" all these conjoined, left him neither time nor disposition for any
efforts.
It
must always be
might have
culties.
left
From
Poems
at
Edinburgh, to that of
own
may be
no pecuniary advan-
as if this implied a
knows
his
connexion with
collection.
stances,
widow, it is stated, that her husband had " on more than one occasion befriended our favourite
scriptions in favour of Johnson's
am
not aware of
PREFACE.
XU
during fame.
cir-
past,
in-
but
and
for
generations."
He
name
and
life,
fee
of Burns to
all
future
original publisher
of the
work nearly
not
much
is
eight years.
known.
From
Of
it
still
pre-
appears that
Had my
8
march to-morrow.
Edinburgh Review,
i.
p.
little
229.
older,
PREFACE.
I
Xni
would have asked the favour of your correspondmet with few people whose company
ence, as I have
genial to
he
says,
we
Mr
Clarke
the
finish
fifth
may
my own
and
criticisms
copy of
this
kind I
after period,
to the
my friend Mr Wallace,
volume.
Mr
the cocks.
his
have
fifth
if
still
make
The words
he
You
my
we
should
them
as
one
letter.
PREFACE.
XIV
me
long ago
all this
almost hung
my
And
is
"I
it.
Many
I fear
may
it."
Museum
the Musi-
as those of
still
Mr
Dr
was
first jjrojected,
Blacklock and
Mr
When
the publi-
Tytler of Woodhouselee,
it
genius
full
XV
PREFACE.
first
and
last
it
grace-
of publishing our
and chaste
Stephen Clarke.
select,
Mr
a task which,
and profound
scientific
perform."
florid
In regard
mendation.
tion
is
many
so
Johnson died
ruary 1811.^
at
He
left
widow
it
p.
has been
377.
Edinburgh [26th of February 1811], much regretted, Mr James Johnson, Engraver, Musicseller, and Copperplate Printer
being the first who attempted to strike music upon
pewter, whereby a great saving is made in the charge of that
article.
Mr Johnson will long be remembered in the musical
3
<'
Died
at
world.
p. 318.)
PREFACE.
XVI
stated, she
subsist
and acquaintance
some time
as
;"
an out-pensioner, she
at length
found
shelter as
of "
The
pewter
after
plates
Scots Musical
Mr
Johnson's death,
Museum," including
the
and such of Burns's manuscript communications^ as had been preserved, were exposed to sale, and became the property of the late
Mr William Blackwood, bookseller. In the view
of bringing out the work in a new and improved
form, he was desirous to have it accompanied with
copyright,
Mr Thomson
upon
his
own
collection.
Burns
itself,
Dr Beattie's
On my
be a treasure.
part, I
ing
in
in Burns's autograph,
Museum.
still
The
preserved.
greater por-
mean
to
PREFACE.
XVll
draw up an appendix
containing-
Songs.
my
All the
late
Mr
my
own mouth.
mage
took
'
den' excepted.
the
title
So
made
such
several
a pilgri-
am
my
acquaint-
'
Braes of Ballen-
from
my
Muse."
Neither the
first
four volumes of
and
modern
in-
works.
Museum,
R. H.
1812.
in
London.
vol. v. p.
456*.
He
died in
PREFACE.
XVIU
wood
applied, according to
my
Mr
Black-
recollection, to
more
William Stenhouse,
Esq.,
Accountant in Edin-
rian research,
by
whom
To
numbers of " Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," Mr Stenhouse, under the signature of " Scotus," communicated a notice of the projected edition, accompanied with two specimens of
his illustrations to Songs 37 and 66
which shows
that at the time, in July I8I7, he must have made
considerable progress in his undertaking.
Having
completed his series of Illustrations, the printing was
commenced towards the close of 1820, and in the
course of a few months was completed, extending
Some delay unfortunately ocin all to 512 pages.
one of the
earliest
Whether
Episcopal
this preface
was intended
to
He
survived
little
the Musical
Museum.
PREFACE.
XIX
and
Mr
Song-,
tions prevented
its
member
no
as
but
this point
now
cannot
his papers
and
be ascertained,
an imperfect work.
as
^
Although
my
regret
He
knew
Mr
inability to furnish
any particular
He was
year 1773.
in
the
office
By William
accurate.
Edinburgh, 1806,
large 8vo.
(see the present work, vol iv. p. 373*), he thus describes, while
New
"
Mr
Mr
Stenhouse's
me
to
old gentleman
calling
my
him
above eighty,
is
still
excepted (being a
cheerful.
He
told
Mr
The
who
Stenhouse,'
acquaintance
Mr
William
old gentleman
impaired),
sensible, conversable,
little
me many
is
entertaining anecdotes of
my
is
sight
and
friend,
who showed a very early turn for mental acquireThe Blucher (a diligence coach) coming up, we nodding,
ments.
parted."
Mr
November 1827,
Cuthbert's churchyard.
in
St
XX
PREFACE.
At
when
this time,
Museum
sical
terval,
brought
edition of the
Publishers have
it
knew Mr
Mu-
may be
it
new
the
who
the poetry
ing-
regard to
same
when
as
Work
itself
last
In
century.
originally published
by Johnson,
re-
off,
new
by a
To
nal appearance.
the portion of
lates to the
Mr
each volume
is
now added
songs which
accompanied with a
it
contains
series of additions
and correc-
Mr
subjoined.
Stenhouse's Notes,
it
will be
Had
make
by omission or correction.
that
many
;
It
various changes,
will be remarked,
position of persons
authors
who never
appeared as professed
late a period as
during the
last
at so
PREFACE.
mation to be obtained respecting their personal history is far less satisfactory than could have been desired.
much
known
who have
its
enriched our
finest compositions.
where
it
myself of
many
and
have availed
mode
of giving
my
best thanks to
book,
written
Graham,
in
James Chalmers,
Gordon
1627
to
of Straloch's
manner
airs
in
which
from that
William Dauney,
old airs
and above
Sharpe, Esq.,
my
Esq., Advocate,
to
to these
Charles Kirkpatrick
coadjutor in what
may be
truly
DAVID LAING.
Signet Library, Edinburgh,
m.dccc. xxxix.
INTRODUCTION.
The
There
is
it
a theme of more
much beauty
indeed so
in the modulation
and general
convey delight
fail
to
although uninflu-
land
and
the words
whether
it
it is
and
airs
Muse
how
of Scot-
happily
each other,
timent, or of comic
humour and
rustic festivity.
It
would
made
music;
yet, notwithstanding
it
the
ingenious speculations
What
at best,
adopted
It
may
be
have preserved an
affinity
to the old
Enharmonic
scale
INTRODUCTION,
XXIV
of the Greek Music; or assuming for Scotish Melody an Oriental origin, that
it
found a resting-place in
in the
Westward progress of
this
remote
civilisation.
our popular
airs,
striking resemblance
The
mish Church-service.
Ro-
invention or improvement of
1437
;)
James the
to
or to
David
First,
King
Rizzio, (1563
of Scotland,
1566.)
(1424
Such a
distinc-
South of Scotland.
historical evidence of
inability to
at
is
It
to
An
which of the
original
care,
airs
now
embodied
in
his
INTRODUCTION.
XXV
He
was
led,
now known,
as one of these
1660
sumed
re-
MS.
The
author,
Mr
Dauney,
has, with
to light
monly used
and
this
an enthusiastic antiquarian
This volume
Dun, an eminent
proper
is
further
Mr
Finlay
cannot
fail to
Still, it
may
is
yet in
little
it
its
probability that
may be
effectual
it
suggested, whether
mode
to
is
remove
it
rounds the origin of our music, to institute a more profound and comprehensive inquiry into the
affinities
of the
In this place,
it
INTRODUCTION.
XXVI
interest, it
might
Museum.
The
following
list
practice
in
kinds of
all
names on the
title-pages, renders
difficulty.
Oc-
Composers or Collectors
Of
by
number of those
1565.
book printed
first
edition of
it,
in 1565, is the
It
two perfect
title
" The
in the English
Church
at
Geneua, ap-
proued and receiued by the Churche of Scotland, whereunto besydes that was in the former bokes, are also added
sondrie other prayers, with the whole Psalmes of
in English meter.
Dauid
XXVU
INTRODUCTION.
The
ence
is
made when
It
may
or a refer-
was appropriated
more
to
the sub-
all
1650 when
that
by the
its
general
which may be
as
music
The
fol-
James
John
the displeasure of the Court, says, " Within few days thereafter,
Edinbruche
at
whase retourning
going up the
streit,
to the praise of
God, and
the
124th Psalm,
trulie,'
&c.,
till
[of
Bow
Nafher
testifeing of grait
'
Now
Israel
and,
may
say,
Lennox] being
[High
for anger,
in the
and
that
This noyes,
street], luiked
(Diary, p. 95.)
lation,
thair
at the
'
Old
24th,
')
used in our
characteristic
enough of
wood's manuscripts
The
1366-1578.
INTRODUCTION.
XXVlll
Andrews, in
It is,
partly because
Mr
and
It
because they
also,
Hymns
of the
Church used
in this
it
seems
to
that
have been
One
tals.
of the
set,
pre-
is
been presented
late
Mr
death,
to the Library
by
Mr
James Browne,
in the
year 1672.
when
after his
by auction,
The
it.
fate
On
writing
is
first
house
Wood
in 1566.
Most
The hand-
yet
volume, as
if
Mr
written
which
Mr
The Christmas
S. quotes,
by
Sten-
must be considered
collec-
Medley
as inserted in this
INTRODUCTION.
MS.
and they
"
of
Cantus, Songs,
;
was surprised
privilege of
(in the
the
title
" This
is
the fyft
Buke
addit to the
spirittis,
when
nes; not only musitians, but also euin to the ingnorant (sic)
with us.
Wood's portion of
page 33.
This
common
is
this
" which
sung with."
pairt they ar
Tennor
The handwriting
of
airs,
Some
till
and 1592.
of St Andrews,
hand occur,
as late as 1584,
It
is
Andro Huntar,
while
in 1585,
Thomas Wood
is
specially
named
as vicar of Carn-
XXX
INTRODUCTION.
Wood was
Another Thomas
bee, in 1585.
minister of'Dysart, in
admitted
first
November 1584.
It
may
Angus, John,
usually styled
'
in Dunfermline.
gude Angus,' or
'
In Wood's
MS.
he
is
Protestant ministers
name
He afterwards became
one of the
He was
translated
Musselburgh, and
In October
life.
592,
the
"
greifit
Mr Andro
;"
and in October
Synod
of thair brother,
Mr
Andro
and greitnes of
his flock.
The
and
for
sum
Dalkeyth
INTRODUCTION.
XXXI
it
insist in
samin."
but
the
preserved
in 1601, in 1607,
hall's colleague,
Adam
at In-
Blackball pro-
advanced age.
The
A moral
priest.
title
song, beginning,
in four parts,
that
is,
Wood,
in the
'
O God
abufe,'
'
first
on organs
hame
and
zit is
this is wreatin in
I"
v''
fourscore
zeiris since
&
xij.
he com
(1592.)"
;
for,
He
accord-
may
twenty.
Fethy,' and
'
were by
tyne, pp.
74 and 76.
Johnson, Robert.
Wood
calls
accusation of heresy
knew him
the
Heggie, Francis.
preist,
'
hymn,
weill."
'
fled for
In another volume.
Dominus
Scottis
Wood had
father
added to
INTRODUCTION.
XXXll
parts,
was blind quhen he set it." This he has erased, and says,
" This was set in Ingland be ane Seottis preist baneist."
at
Hawthornden, informed
dale to Carlisle
had
and that
was imprisoned
fled or
his father
for heresy
Drummond
was a
minister, and
Query,
a posthumous son.
Dramatic Poet
error,
as
styles
him a
minister
appears that
trates of
year
1570.
the
in
while
it
the Magis-
One
Quod Kemp, and noted
p. 135.)
Wood
but this
"
vol.
ii.
memorandum by
the Reformation.
Church of St
of St Catharine's Altar
Giles,
Edinburgh, before
"The
in
be
mon
INTHODUCnON.
XXXIU
find a
Church of Logybryde,
office
in Stratherne
In 1567,
conjecture.
left to
we
of Exhorter in the
In
"
Wood's volumes
is
Marche Pauen.
one of
My
Lord
the Canticle,
Bassus,
Si qiiis
'
Wood
says,
God 1530
this
Pablis,
Pinky
MS., we
in the
in
ane noueice
In the Dublin
or thairby
set
MS.
this
verray weill."
In the
dissyple,
find,
Abbay
of Sanctand-
tyme.
XXX
zeiris."
Wood
the desire of
The
set
I",
v"'.
Psalm,
my Lord
'
Quam
Dominei
multi^
sunt,' at
of March, in 1576.
" Printed
at
after
Hai't,
mentioning the
Tunes
God
correctly, in
names of some of
The
we should
name E. M.
be so ignorant respecting
melody, as even not to
"
regret that
know
his
name
XXXIV
INTRODUCTION.
of this Art,
not popular
I affect
in that shadow-like
seeming substance, studying to approve myself to God in a good conwhich testimonie finding in my soul, I contemne all worldly
;
science
The
approbation, or opprobration.
down by
first
collecting all the sets I could find on the Psalmes, after painfull tryal
thereof, I selected the best for this work, according to
my
simple
judgement."
playford's dancing-master
Mr
Stenhouse,
1657.
it
work, and
this
See, in particular,
"A
described in
books,"
Catalogue
of
printed
late
Book
or a
New
Dancing Tunes
work
is
of Rules for
to each
Dance
first,
of 1657,
is
1662.
by T. D. M^.
Dom.
thus
Musick-
it is
M,Dc,Lxii."
This
is
To
Thre, Foure, or
viols.
With a
briefe
of Musick.
Aberdene, printed
Anno
leaves.
un-
;;
XXXV
INTRODUCTION.
fortunately a set of English
tunes, or of tunes
composed
The above
dies.
title
is
melo-
This cut
although
Mr
is
It usually
is
airs,
Thomas Davidson
Da-
(Kennedy's Annals,
edition of the
first
" Cantus"
The
is
vol.
ii.
p. 135.)
The
dedication,
it
by Forbes,
may amuse
is
in
the
Thomas
Mitchell,
Ross,
Theasurer
and
hath been the chief Honor and singular Praise of this famous
City, to have been the Sanctuary of Sciences, the Manse of the Muses,
Seeing
it
and Nurserie of
all
Artes
Predecessors prudent patrocinie, vigilant care, and fatherly inspection, so little a Plate of
who
through out
many
all
Notwithstanding of
XXXVl
INTRODUCTION.
could have claimed, as the proper native and heritable lewell of the
Place ; In which Her Excellency hath been so eminent, that to have
attaining the
shine on
it
let it
the meanest Schrub in Bon- Accord, can share of your Influence aswell as the talest Cedar
if suffered to lay
may
who knowes ?
flowrish and winter its greenness with its growth, as the Summer
Bowre, and Winter Bush of many sweet singing Nightingales: while
either it answer the expectation of many, or get its stature and perfect
period, from your Hs. ever acceptable commands.
Accept of it as an
Interlude to your more serious Effaires, and measure not the minde of
the offerer, by the Leannesse and Leamness of the offering, whose
Honor and Dignity depends on your gratious acceptance ; which is
onely able to cover its escapes, attonne its presumption, and shield it
INTRODUCTION.
from
all
XXXVll
you
shall
So posterity shall
(if
we
Musick, as
is
School of Aberdene.
larged.
brief Introduction to
Thomas Davidson,
in the
Musick-
Small oblong
50 leaves.
tion.
but
1666.
the
edit.
With a
viols.
taught by
lOHN FORBES."
the
The
it is
is
very rare.
has on
only 55 songs
It
is
changed,
It contains
37th.
42d.
47th.
55th.
56th.
60th.
Come
Shepherd
pity.
in a shade.
againe, sweet
at the
invite.
INTRODUCTION.
XXXVlll
celebrated medley,
entitled a
" Pleugli-Song.
Cantus.
My heartly
service to you,
my
Lord,
And two
Adam,
&c..
The
following
is
edition.
" Unto
Right Honorable,
A FEW
less
an obser-
down my
'
INTRODUCTION.
XXXIX
1682.
edit
and a second
title as
title like
follows
four, or five
Musick, as
The Third
deen.
Together
also,
New
and
to the
With
a brief Introduction
English-Ayres,
humours.
viols.
is
all in
Aberdeen,
Two
printed
This edition
is
not uncommon.
It contains
only
fifty-five
new English-Ayres,
by Giovanni Gia-
As the
Printer
still
and
quoted.
his dedica-
Musick,
may
be
we cannot
Italian-Songs and
new English-Ayres,'
instead of a series
" Unto
Provest, &c. &c. &c., and to the rest of the Honorable Counsell of
Right Honorable,
Your Honors'
INTRODUCTION.
Xl
ago, at two severall occasions, to present your Honors' worthy predecessors with the patronage of this Musick Book, of which two
invited
when we
Courteous Reader,
" To
all
The
two former
by adding a considerable number of choise ItalianSongs and English- Ay res, all in three parts, (viz.) two treebles
and a bass, which were never printed with the former Impressions,
and that for the severall humour of all persons, male and female, old
and young ; wherefore (I may truly say) this Musick- Book, (as it is
now published,) for such sweet harmonious songs, hath never been extant in this nation.
You have also herewith printed, for the encourdell the whole,
INTRODUCTION.
agement of young beginners
Gam
xli
hand,
Gam, and
parts
Gam, and
moods, degrees, concords, and discords, &c., and that into a plain and brief
manner, for every one's capacity. I must confess, the work as to the
musick is not mine, but for printing and publishing hereof, I am still
cliefs,
d'urfey's collection
" There
are
many
fine
Tom
seem
in the
by
1720.
'
Pills to
their passing
through
it
is
very
difficult to distinguish
(Hawkins' Hist.
The
this
earlier
volumes of
between the
and printed
1725.
INTRODUCTION.
xlii
ment."
Folio.
This volume
dedicated to
is
on separate
folios,
by
followed
eight leaves, containing the airs of the songs " for the
may be
This work
flute."
Although
Tunes.
to
it is
it
first
In the index,
Thomson
affixes a (*) to
January 1725.
volume of
his
1/
Orpheus,
in 1733,
THOMSON'S ORPHEUS
first
affixed.
1733.
or a Collection of Scots
W. Thomson.
London
printed
1733,"
2 vols. 8vo.
The
to
license granted
" our
by George
I. for
Thomson, of our
The
May
Each volume
1733.
contains
fifty
Queen
;"
the 2d vol.
"
To
"
is
Songs.
To
the
Hamilton."
Thomson,
iNTRODUCTioir.
xliii
Mr
parts, in the
sian,
the stage.
dis-
manner
don
in
and
manner
at Court,
Thomson, the
first
for
Mr
'
Tweed.
After this
performed
Scottish
Song."
(Burney's
p. 647.)
Hawkins
Thomson
Hist.
vol.
" The
was
iv.
editor
collection is
TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY
" Musick
for Allan
circa 1726.
Edinburgh
by Allan Ramsay."
INTRODUCTION.
xliv
This
is
six parts,
first
printed in 1724.
It is
There
ever appeared.
is
is
the
name
of the
Each
title,
"
Musick
Scots
for the
lady Ramsay
of Eglintoun," (Susanna Kennedy. To
Gentle Shepherd.)
dedicated
" Part Second inscrib'd to the Right Honourable
Lady Somerville," (Anne Bayntun, grand-daughter of the
this
his
inscrib'd to the
Stanhope,"
of her Parents.
See
who was
vol.
ii.
p.
(of
inscrib'd
Blackwood
to
Christian
the
Lady
Honourable
Anstruther, afterwards
Countess of Traquair.)
to
own
composition,
by
Violoncello,
with
Mr Ramsay
Subscribers
may have
their copies at
Mr
John
Steill's
any
more copies
of
first
xlv
Any
March ensuing.
may
person that
off
"
Scots Cantata,
p. 271, is inserted
ii.
Music by L,
Bocchi."
is
uncertain
It
begins,
Steill
Mr
haill
Pictures, Prints,
belonging to
was a
John
Steill."
{Caled.
Mercury^
1729-1731.
Masters.
fit
and
spoils.
Shakespeae.
Volume
First.
at the Printing-office in
Fields, 1729."
John Watts,
for
masters.
Thomson's
INTRODUCTION.
xlvi
craig's collection
\y
"
1730.
German
Voice, Violin, or
R. Cooper,
burgh, 1730.
Oblong
Hall."
"
Edin-
Craig.
Entered in Stationer's
fecit.
It is thus dedicated
tion.
By Adam
Flute.
the
titles
and dedica-
" As you
Musick,
it is
patronage, which
collection,
:"
is
being the
my
highest ambition.
first
The
following
I flatter
much
of,
to the benefit
my
Cecilia's
Day,
Adam
Craig."
in 1695, at Edinburgh.
Mr
Tytler,
i.
1792,
The Order
of the Instrumental
St Cecilia, 22d
November 1695
the performers.
Mr
T.
says,
remember him
"
;"
Music
Adam
violin,
Gentleman's Concert."
M' Gibbon,
in the
Lord
Colville, to
November 1728,"
articles, as
4to,
pp.
70,
are
several manuscript
INTRODUCTION.
as
or
Italy,"
xlvii
it
may
be added, was
Lord
He
is
He
and died
said to have
to
been
have understood
at
St Cecilia," in 1695.
The God
And
all
of Musiek joins
the
The charms
Muses dance
when
Colvil plays.
to Haddington's Essays
De
MS.
"
Adam Craig,
Obituary, (see
1741.
MUNRO'S COLLECTION
Alexander Munro's
1730.
Collection,
is
thus quoted
by
native
of the best
Scotch Tunes
fitted
is
lost in the
to the
;
German
Flute,
was printed
at Paris
men-
and that
accompany the
INTRODUCTION.
xlviii
I regret
tunes.
collection.
i/
" Airs
1735.
chord."
" To the
Madam,
The following
posed by a Gentleman
began
for
airs
thought
my
for beginners
airs
fair
were made
originally
I could not
made
for
first
put a pencil in
my
were
me
so
Madam,
servant,
Who
JAMES OSWALD
The
1735-1742.
Mercury.
From
these
it
wards came
and music.
to
and that he
after-
INTRODUCTION.
xlix
Each
master.
with
line,
first
occasion.
tas
tion
may
"
if it is
in time
is
several Sona-
be published."
Mr Oswald
is
to publish his
Therefore,
Mr Andrew
who have
have not."
paid the
first
" Whereas
Ma
who
Oswald, musician
in
Edinburgh,
is,
at the re-
by subscription a
Italy, which will con-
sist
of above 50 Tunes,
Close
at
have Subscription Papers, before the 1st of June next, by which time
the book will be published.
The Price to Subscribers is 5s., on delivery of the Book, and to others 6s."
(May 8th, 1740 ; repeated on
the I5th, 19th, and 22d of the same month.)
Whether Oswald
are uncertain
visited Italy,
1741
or 1742.
addressed to
INTRODUCTION.
him on
his leaving
present work
Edinburgh, in
405, of the
vol. iv. p.
are given.
,.
"
1740.
or
Viol,
Harpsichord
parts,
Flute, with
as also a
a Violin, Bass
voices
to
which
is
for three
German
No
By James
Flute.
date
oblong
folio,
pp. 42.
This work
is
dedicated "
of
Perth
;"
pearing in a numerous
list
of subscribers, that
The above
"
it
was pub-
it
till
ad-
June 1740.
German
London
By Mr James
Flute, or Harpsichord.
;
The name
Paul's Churchyard."
Oswald.
Thompson
in St
At
the end,
"
Philips,
Sculp."
*'
A Second
and German
chord.
By Mr James
Oswald.
London, &c.
(as above.)"
These two
list
of
they
new
1742
INTRODUCTION.
MS.
dicts this,
as Oswald's compositions.
" The
"Died
year,
Nov.
Composer
13, 1821,
to his late
the author of
'
Roslin Castle,'
'
macfarlane's collections
"
A Collection of Scotch
1740.
David Young, W. M.
in
Edinburgh, 1740."
By
ilk.
MS.
3 vols,
folio.
The
whom
this collection
who
died in
was
His
The above
tunes
it
collection
contains.
is
chiefly curious
They
we may
Library.
W. M. added
to his
name,
The volumes
Unfortunately, the
first
INTRODUCTION.
lii
volume was borrowed from the Society many years ago, and
has never been recovered.
date of which
None
is
torn
airs.
M' Gib-
few also
have the
initials
of the compiler,
D. Y[oungJ.
WALSH'S COLLECTION
"
A Collection of original
and sold by
I.
is
circa 1740.
London
printed
airs.
them the
292
off,
dated 1740,
graved and sold as single leaves, without any order or arrangement, and including English imitations of Scotish
Songs, sung at Vauxhall Gardens, and other places of
public amusement.
i/
now
in
vogue, with
or
German
Harpsichord.
corrected.
Engraven
in a fair character,
London, printed
for,
and carefully
and sold by
J.
Walsh,
Hoboy
Eight
There are
vols.
Many
work.
INTRODUCTION.
BARSANTl'S COLLECTION
"
liii
1742.
Lady
Baillie,
(Lady Char-
Edinburgh, printed by
Alexander
humbly dedicated
Erskine,
January
for
1742.)
He commenced
1690.
law at Padua,
England
He
many
continued
years a
may be
by
said to
collecting
is
asserted of
santi returned to
on the stage.
for
1746-1755.
German
M' Gibbon.
flute or
Edinburgh
1740."
Violin,
cello
MACGIBBON's COLLECTIONS
number of the
siderable figure
"
to a great
David Rizzio, he
Oblong
violin,
printed
by
folio.
or Harpsichord.
By
William M'Gibbon.
Book
1st.
INTRODUCTION.
liv
N. B.
Where
there
is
Edinburgh
is for
printed
"
(Third)
A second
printed for
folio,
two
first
printed
by
pp. 36.
collections (in
" Edinburgh
title,
at the
Another edition
don
Oblong
1755.
edition of the
by R. Bremner,
Edinburgh
Collection, &c.
Richard Cooper.
1755 or
D. Rutherford,
in
" Lon-
St Martin's Lane,"
&c.
An
edition of
M' Gibbon's
Collection,
additions,
is
in
three books,
There
is
also
an edition,
by Robert Bremner.
London,
opposite
Somerset-house."
Oblong
4to,
pp.
120.
It
contains 4 books.
well
known and
celebrated
His
Matthew Macgibbon, was esteemed a good performer on the Hautboy and was one of the performers at
father,
Mr
many
and composer.
many
for
INTRODUCTION.
Iv
His
and judgment.
with variations
editor of the
Magazine,
Royal Infirmary.
He was
recollection
of the musician.
Macgibbon's gane ah wae's my heart
The man in music maist expert,
Wha could sweet melody impart.
And tune the reed,
:
Wi'
sic
Ilk carline
Ilk
bonny
lassie
Can
The
fill
his stead
There
is
or the
1773.
L,
1749.
sets extant
at the
This
the words
Edinburgh; printed
a genuine copy of
INTRODUCTION.
Ivi
the
first
extremely
(MS.
"A
The
rare.
Mr
note by
title
it is
Stenhouse.)
chord.
London
for a
Voice or Harpsi-
for
By
Bremner.
vertised in Scots
"A Collection
V'
Bass
Magazine,
"A
\^
Oblong
May
4to, pp.
18
ad-
1760.
Hautboy,
Robert
Harpsichord.
Price 6s.
by Robert Bremner,
in the Strand."
[1764?]
at the
Oblong
Lon-
Harp and
4to.
Music,
2s. 6d.
Bremner."
Aug. 1759.
" The Songs
iy
Guitar.
Music
in the
Is.
6d.
Bremner."
Scots
December 1759.
" Thirty Scots Songs, by Robert Bremner.
by Allan Ramsay. London, printed and
ner, opposite
sold
Magazine,
The words
by R. Brem-
Is.
Bremner, as above
stated, settled in
"
at
Mr
in the Strand,
died
INTRODUCTION.
IvH
fa-
German Flute
By James
or Violin.
Oswald."
or parts, at
his
for J.
all
of
them without
Oswald
dates.
on
himself,
"The
lumes
;"
bound
in
two volumes.
Among
lowing
set to
(The
thorough Bass
musick by
Mr
for the
for
By James
MS.
4to.
Organ
or Harpsichord, composed
Printed
by
James Oswald.
" Airs
Oswald.
by Robert Dodsley).
long
fol-
Ob-
Price 5s."
pp. 16.
for the Spring,
Oswald.
4 parts,
folio,
German
Flute, or
set
INTRODUCTION.
Iviii
is
It
has no date;
uncertain
is
Mr
fitted
that were
to
be
his, as tljose
that
names of
difficult to
guess.
them
to please themselves,
by addressing
His
tion of his
is
a publication no apology
is
sufficient to
them
to all
is
necessary.
his,
and recommend
German
Burk Humoth. London
circa 1760.
Irish Airs,
with Variations,
by
Mr
by John
1770.
Price 5s.
Oblong
4to, pp. 3 1
'
INTRODUCTION.
German Flute or
for a
lix
Temple of Apollo.
"
London
Oblong
all
mem-
printed for J.
Os-
folio.
by Bremner,
also
as ap-
remembered
in this place
it is
likely
in this country, a
may be
excused.
Woodstock
Street,
sex, Esquire,
Oxford
Street, in the
county of Middle-
" the
last representative
which on
my
alias
Reid of
a fa-
He
burgh, and
He was
we find
son's Classes, in
his
name
where he
says,
How
"
he attended
is
at the University,
It
long he continued
my
had
uncertain, as the
lists
of students at
when he bequeathed
University.
education,
But
its
this re-
influence,
Having embraced a
military profession, he
INTRODUCTION.
Ix
By
his will,
Music
and as
now become
who had a
for
endowing a Pro-
available
there can be
no doubt
amount of
by the death
we may
eJ0Fect
and
may be
this country,
in the
name and
He directs
own
last century.
1773.
German
chord.
and
Scots
celebrated
Adapted
Tunes, Reels,
Hautboy,
of Forrester's
Wynd, Edinburgh."
Folio, pp.
viii.
8vo.
was
to
be published in
twenty numbers
773,
but
INTRODUCTION.
not mentioned.
bon,"
is
Ixi
"David
title
Rizzio
is
how
is
In the pre-
page.
now
generally fixed
delicate songs
but
older
who
is
The
editor professes to
and
to
The number
tive simplicity."
ULORD
" The
.
of tunes given
KELLY'S MINUETS,
is
22.
&C. 1774.
petre, given
by Lord Stanley
at the
Oblong
Lady Betty Hamilton, daughter
1774.
Some
This
to
4to, published
of the
Duke
1774 or
fete
Lord Kelly
(See
vol. vi.
is
5.
of Hamilton,
notice of
of this work.
London
was married
Cham-
in
their nuptials.
He
died at
age.
1774.
all
the different
Ixii
INTRODUCTION.
figures
made use
There
ir
is,
circa 1775.
The words
J.
Folio,
Johnson, sculpt."
third.
1st,
pp. 31.
Book
Edinburgh.
of Allan Ramsay.
No.
or Harpsichord.
pp. 33.
3s.,
Book
Shop,
Johnson, sculpt.
Edin-
Street.
J.
common
Price
flute.
Is.
6d.
Oblong
Wynd, Edinburgh."
German
or Harpsichord.
Edinburgh
Oblong
This
by Neil
Tron Church."
which
is
German
for
Two
Harpsicord.
by N. Stewart,
at his shop,
Edinburgh
Parliament
INTRODUCTION.
Closs.
and
Airs.
I/"
first
Ixiii
Collection of Marches
Price 6s."
Harpsichord.
art, at his
Edinburgh
shop, Parliament
Square."
by Neil Stew-
Folio,
circa 1790,
pp. 28.
[^
sixteen Reels or
Daniel Dow.
Edinburgh
at the music-shops, in
tioners' Hall.
circa 1775.
Dow's MINUETS
Country Dances,
Oblong
his
mother
told
Entered at Sta-
Mr
him
that
Dow
was
girl.
Daniel
folio,
Dow,
by
Oblong
pp. 44.
\^
"
peacock's airs
circa 1776.
German
Flute,
London printed
by Mrs Johnson
;
&c.,
by Francis Peacock.
in
Paul's Churchyard
burgh
Cheapside
Thompson
Sons,
St
and A. Angus
in
Aberdeen."
The
&
Folio,
title
pp.
page.
" No
35,
His
species of
INTRODUCTION.
Ixiv
is
all
pastoral music
admiration of
We
Rizzio.
we determine
but
we may
if
believe tradition,
now
has
affixed his
composition."
many
name
Francis Peacock
memory on
is
lately taken
and custom
mode
of musical
subscription.
Church, at Aberdeen.
There
down.
is
Aberdeen,
side of St Nicholas
been
to this particular
eighty-four years, as
his
to
it is
1811.
2 vols. 12mo.
The
a notice of
Thom,
Mr
aisle
him
vol.
ii.
is
called after
in
A lane on
am
192.
sum
to
the north
make way
Banking Company.
I
p.
The
Peacock died in
has
in
down about
Aberdeen
Tunes published
in that place,
at
He was
on the
violin
INTRODUCTION.
IxV
ments he used
Aberdeen
Duke
Kintore,
Dr
Beattie, &c.
Dr
who
Mr
for
George
many years
had
retired
He had
in Aberdeen.
from public
life,
Littleton,
been a
who
was
lived
barrister,
but
for his
fishing,
he changed
his
known in that
Some account
patronymic to Smith,
him
will be
name
found in
and,
his family,
Fis&ing Smith.'
Mr
Pryse Gordon's
of
FOULis's SOLOS
circa 1776.
(after-
Folio, pp.
26
The above
is
date 1776,
A Collection of favourite
By the
late
and a Bass
Mr
Charles
INTRODUCTION.
Ixvi
Edinburgh; printed
for,
^J
"
Oblong
folio,
pp. 37.
Violoncello or Harpsichord.
Edinburgh; printed
for
By
Alexander M'Glashan.
Oblong
*'
at bis
pp. 34.
AUe-
ander M'Glashan,
Edinburgh; printed
Oblong
folio,
stately appearance,
besides,
\r
his tall
spirited leader of
(Chambers's Diet.
cumming's collection
vol.
ii.
p. 477.)
1780.
Angus Cumming,
at
Come and
airs,
was
composer of Scottish
"
Price 5s.
and who,
Alex-
pp. 36.
Alexander M'Glashan,
tion of
By
Grantown
trip
it,
as
By
in Strathspey.
you go
with thee
Liberty.
Milt.
Edinburgh, 1780."
Oblong
folio,
pp. 20.
/'
:>
INTRODUCTION.
1/
"
Ixvii
1781.
To which
published.
Isles
By
Edinburgh
of
North Highland
airs,
first
late
Mr
still
remembered by many.
He
native
was born
in
passed the
ther,
years of his
first
who was
life
fa-
He
left it
with a
sister as
a token of
to
He
did not live to accomplish his plan (of completing his collection of
Highland
in the prime of
life,
airs.)
off,
INTRODUCTION,
Ixviii
twelvemonth
misfortune
from
his abilities
him a
lovers of
Highland music,
will
be
as a public
as,
in the country.
by the
considered,
and
zeal, there
was reason
to expect
from
as minister of Kilmore,
12th of
May
1757
is
a Dissertation "
On
the in-
It is
and died
at
t^
"
N. Stewart, Edinburgh."
Neil Gow,
also as a
shire
for
1784.
Violoncello or Harpsichord.
and
1772,
By Neil Gow,
at
Dunkeld,
5s.
composer of Scotish
airs,
was born
in Perth-
Ac-
Rev. Dr Macknight.
memoir of
his son,
A fuller account
Nathaniel
of Neil
Gow, and
Gow, with a
notices of their
Without
it
may
INTRODUCTION.
be
Gow
sufficient
Ixix
I,
"
German
Flute. 3 vols
Reels.
to
seller,
to
airs.
and
circa 1784.
lin,
aird's collection
^ JOHN
last century.
riddell's collection
circa 1786.
German
Flute.
Stationers' Hall.
Glasgow
Composed by John
greatly improved.
printed and sold
New
Street."
Riddell,
Entered in
by James
Oblong
4to,
pp. 60.
Riddell's Scots Reels for Violin or Pianoforte. Published
by
J. Aird,
Glasgow, price
5s.
Advertised in the
title-
considered
it
to be
Glencarnock, at Ayr."
J macdonald's
"
reels circa
1786.
Newbyth.
Mrs Baird
of
INTRODUCTION.
IXX
Oblong
date.
"
No
favourite
Sig. Corri.
Two
and Sutherland."
for,
likewise
Bass.
By
The
title-page
Gow.
Folio.
DoMENico Corri,
in 1810, published
To
folio.
which we
learn, that
He
1746.
early
by the
benefited
The
this
he was born
showed an
at
Rome, 4th
used
was confectioner,
all his
death
him
left
but,* after a
way
I lived
expense to
introduction to the
my
parents,
The name
of
in
preceptor, Porpora,
disinclined.
my
my
and was
father
and
of October
first
Rome.
society in
whom
the
Dukes
INTRODUCTION.
Lighten, Hanbury,
my
particularly
Sir William
Ixxi
Dr Burney. These
me in a situation
consonant to
Roman and
to con-
among
the
who was
of Ganganelli,
which time he had kept entirely private, not seeing any one
whatever,
it
had refused
to
acknowledge the
title
employed
he assumed.
who
In his
I usually
gether
little
sombre
pieces of music
The apartment
cast.
in
ttte's
which we
sat
were of a
was hung
with old red damask, with two candles only, and on the
table a pair of loaded pistols, (instruments not at all con-
genial to
my fancy,)
to
Edinburgh
" About this time
:
(in
tain for
tioned
Society ot
them,
if possible,
either of the
by Dr Burney. At the
INTRODUCTION.
Ixxii
impediment to the proposal from Edinburgh, on the contrary a favourable occurrence, he immediately concluded
for us
handsome provision
Italy about three
August 1781
months
and here
We accordingly left
beg leave
to
make my most
sin-
families of
Argyle,
Hamilton, Lauderdale,
Buc-
Athol,
Scotch nation
The
in general.
we were enabled
to accept
for the
to
These proposals
me from Lon-
to
years."
London and
by
diflS-
management of
At
&c.
length, finding
it
life.
"
life,
now
my
good health,
am
enabled to pursue
still
my
professional
blessed with
musical career,
INTRODUCTION.
Ixxiii
in
Vocal Music,
continue to take
them
young persons
as public professors,
I also
as apprentices, to qualify
N. B, Mrs
or private tutors
Domenico
Corri, died at
Hampstead, 22d of
May
1825.
He
and Musicseller.
The
Bess,
1788.
by Andrew
Shirreffs,
A.M.,
4s."
(Advertised along
of Original Music,
A.M., containing
his
by the Author
Aberdeen
at
Two
1788.)
Shirreffs,
Sold
CLARKE'S SONATAS
"
May
by Andrew
circa 1790.
Mrs
Ersldne,
juni".
of Mar,
Price 5s.
Oblong
folio,
by
Edin-
pp. 16.
Some account
of
is
the
xviii.
NAPIER'S COLLECTION
"
1790.
INTRODUCTION.
Ixxiv
ment
By
for a Violin.
eminent Masters.
Respectfully in-
scribed to
L.l, 6s.
to their Majesties,
[1790.]
Folio.
The
lent.
Selection of
harmony by Haydn.
[1792.]
Mr
London,"
" Campbell's
First
Book
of
Dean
Book
Wm.
12th.
of the
1791.
To which
for the
8,
W. Campbell.
bryson's collection
Some
"
Campbell, No.
Street, Soho."
continued to
favourite Country
Harp, Piano-forte,
for the
and Violin.
circa 1790,
new and
are added
German
upwards of
fifty
J.
Bryson."
(Scots Magazine,
June 1791.)
I''
Selected by D.
printed for
W. Gordon,
a Collection of the
&c. 1792."
David
Sime
also
Edinburgh,
Thesame, "
1
Vol. II.
Compiler."
Songs, set to
Irish
Sime, Edinburgh.
The
1792.
selected
abilities
the
of the
Songs
in
INTRODUCTION.
Mr Whyte
He
Ixxx.
many
in
see
page
years ago.
'-^
"
IXXV
1793, &C.
voice, to each of
by Pleyel, with
select
and characteristic
and
verses,
dialect.
The
" Blair
preface dated
''^"'
1793."
Street,
Edinburgh,
Folio.
1st
May
'"
at
An
lished in
1822
edition, in
;
and another
is
in five
also
Sixty-eight
new
volumes
folio,
has
at press.
1793.
Quick Steps
Composed by Robert Mackintosh, and dedicated by permisHon. Mrs Campbell of Lochnell. Price to sub-
sion to the
scribers, 5s.
non-subscribers, 6s.
Mr
February 1807.
London,
in
INTRODUCTION.
ixxvi
Collection
by
Mr
Stennouse.
riddell's collection
1794.
cello or Harpsichord.
riddell,
Esq.
Johnson
&
Selected
Co., Musicsellers,
Lawnmarket."
"
New
Music
Violon-
Edinburgh
Price 7s.
for the
by
May
1794.)
Harpsichord, com-
;)
consist-
taste,
with variations to
ver. Bell's
some
celebrity as
re-
an antiquarian,
"
Mr
any merit
his compositions
might possess."
Mr
Sharpe, in
Grose,
"
Mr
Riddell was
it
me
" The
by Cap-
for the
one
member
in their
INTRODUCTION.
He was a
Transactions.
IxXvU
at his
Dum-
fries,
ritson's collection
i/
his death,
in
1794.
London
two volumes.
Whitehall, 1794."
An
12mo
2 vols.
printed for
and
Egerton,
J.
by Joseph Ritson, an
rate
of William
assistance
is
the well-known
Shield,
y
"
and
chiefly
taken
in
The music
in
URBANi's collection
A Selection
January 1828.
circa 1794.
cated to
English
Ritson died
airs.
Most
respectfully dedi-
[Elizabeth DalrympleJ
music.
Book
I.
Entered
at Stationers' Hall.
Price 12s.
Printed for the author, and sold at his house, foot of Carrubber's Close, and at
M'Gown's, Glasgow;
all
Longman and
Brodrip,
London;
i.
ii.
in
1794
In vol.
and
iv. p.
vol.
iii.
in 1799.
The
Mr
Stenhouse
following ex-
INTRODUCTION.
Ixxviii
tract is
ber 1816.
" Died
lately, in
Peter Urbani,
professor of music, a
The
Doctor of Music.
They
home
same time,
He
eclat.
now
has
left
many
ence."
1797.
for the
by C. Stewart
Irish
&
royal 8vo.
Each volume
and
bound.
The
is
said to
Edinburgh.
Sibbald, bookseller in
It
was published
After
at Is. 6d.
it
it
in
had reached
terminated, with-
new
series
79
airs
when
its
airs.
It is also
James Sibbald,
INTRODUCTION.
Ixxix
Ross's COLLECTION.
"
Modern
Scottish
and conclu-
Edinburgh
Price 12s.
I.
by John
Hamilton, No. 24, North Bridge Street, &c." Folio pp. 62.
"
Mr
John Ross,
late
in the
Paul's
November
18th of
seven years,
He
above chapel
to St
He
studied under
Paul's Chapel.
in the
1783.
He was called
to the
Mr Handen
managers of St
for
He
53 years.
He was
who was 44
predecessor
when
Mr
On
Ross succeeded.
Mr
Mr
Tait,
Barber's
his retiring
ele-
gant piece of plate, in testimony of esteem, by the congregation, and also with a splendid edition of Bagster's large
Bible,
Paul's Chapel.
Two
notices of
clergyman of St
senior
him appeared
in the Aber-
In the one
it is
said,
'
He
possessed
music
;
'
'
celebrated
The
last
Paul's."
style.'
"
as a
INTRODUCTION.
IxXX
By
and accompaniments
for
and
I.
Edin-
II.)
Folio,
1,
first
In the advertisement to
The Harmonies
March
st
of the Songs,
of
and
The Harmonies
talent.
by Haydn
exclusively
From
masters.
this
confessedly the
circumstance
accommodated
luxuriance, has
teristics of
each diiferent
air,
it
is,
all
itself to
of
first
modern
the varieties of
its
to give
to the
pleasure
classical ear.
" The
it is
different classes to
to comprise the
The
who
tion,
of
Mr
Sime, by
whom
taste
and professional
with so
much
industry and
{^
The
its
comple-
accuracy."
commenced
in
Preface to this
new
edition.
1803.
See the
Ixxxi
1566-1578.
On
the 21st
Mr John Wjnrame,
Superin-
(Registrum Secreti
Sigilli.)
p. xxviii.,
which belonged
came
might have
into
my
possession
it
was unfortunately
lost.
The
may presume
period
he me^
four yeiris
it
had
to
labours.''''
it
hukki's
Sanctandrois.,
added
at
a subsequent
Of the Composers
been discovered.
APPENDIX TO
Ixxxii
He was
Angus, John.
Master
Hew Rig
and
samyn
chaptourlie convenit,"
May
22, 1543."
After the
was ap-
of Stirling.
Leonardis in Dunfermling,"
yeiris bypast preceptor
"
Pensions of
(Register of Presentations
10 each were
assigned out of
Crieff,
Secundo^ vacand
last
it
to the
personage of Creif,
be deceis of umquhile
callit
Creif
[Ih.)
This presentation,
to
Mr Thomas
was granted
to
Mr Andrew Lamb,
to
Minis-
THE INTKODUCTION.
Blackhall,
Me Andeew.
Ixxxiii
is
said to
On
Mr Andro
Synod
confir-
Abbay
of Halyrudhous,
In October 1593, he
Kyng."
was born
in
According to
became
1536,
1609.
slab
When
was
35 years.
son, of the
He was
20
He
who
King's Col-
obtained a grant of
yearly, 11th
letter
Scule of Hadington,
all
and
haill
callit
all
probably related
in the
(Register
of Presentations to
ruites, &c.,
last
vaikand
possessour thair-
Benefices,
13
March
APPENDIX TO
Ixxxiv
1583-4.)
another
Andro Buchan,"
to
vallettis of his
4th
January
1585-6. (/6.)
On
Hagie, Andrew.
Andro Hagie."
(Register of Presentations
Heneyson, Edward,
to Benefices).
Sang Schole
of
Abbay
of the
of Sanctandrois," died in
December 1579.
At page
Psahns
" that
in
we
xxxiii., in
Four
some
him with
Royal,
know
his
name."
It
satisfaction, therefore,
now
Mr Edward Millar,
who
resided in
Edinburgh
to
be able to identify
as a teacher of music.
tiane, indwellar in
The
presentation
"
Charles R.
to
Mr Edward
is in
Mary Kirk
in
1634, to
of the Lowis.
iiiakand mentioun.
Millar, musi-
in
dew forme,
crediblie in-
THE INTRODUCTION.
formed of the
and
qiialificatioune
ixxxv
of
abilitie
Edinburgh,
Mr Edward
undergoe the
to
skill
in the airt of
Mr Edward
his
Mr Edward
Lowis, lyand
in
rentis,
fruittis,
now vacand
in his
vatioune of
Edward
prebendar
Kellie, last
Deane of the
Adame
Bishope
Re-
thairof, &c.
Mr Edward
Millar
and conver-
meitt and abill to use and exerce the chairge and functioune
him
thairto
authoritie
and prerogative
by " E. M."
in
his
Hienes
Gevin
The
acknowledging of
royall,
vii.
f.
to the
It
may
August 1624.
tation,
some MS.
ward
Millar, in Blackfriars
In
APPENDIX TO
Ixxxvi
Mr Edward
Millar stayes
vil.)
circa 1620.
probably "
Mr John Skene
who
Clerks of Session,"
was
was confirmed
p. 110.
He
Dr
Glennie, at Dul-
wich, near
London
Soon
cient Scottish
This manuscript
to
me by Mr
is
now
in
my
to
Mr
It
to
Mr Andrew
appeared, he obtained
Motherwell,
it
circa 1625.
possession.
have restored
whom.
It
was given
MS.
had remained
it,
Mr
and having
lent
it
to
Mr
THE INTRODUCTION.
his
lamented decease.
sessor of
Mr
do not
Ixxxvii
know who
playfoed's dancing-mastee
Although
Mr
lished in 1657,
made
is
now
the pos-
Blaikie's manuscripts.
Stenhouse quotes
it
is
by no means
is
1651.
work
this
as
first
pub-
and being a
two of the
In the third
new Tunes
added, to be played
The
first
Dancing Master
or,
"
The English
engraving,
W.
Hollar, fecit).
Oblong
4to,
Of
seum
this
;
volume a copy
is
was bought
for a small
The
was printed
in 1657.
sum
Heber's
at
New
There
is now in
The Dancing
and
sale,
Mu-
for sale,
According
list
of edi-
by Dr E. F. Rimbault, the 3d
edition
to a
appeared in 1665, the 4th in 1670, the 5th in 1675, the 6th
in 1680, the 7th in 1686, the 8th in 1690,
1695.
five
in
subsequent editions,
The
APPENDIX TO
Ixxxviii
volumes
and
in 1728,
Young
and [1725],
consist of
two
The 17th
&c.,
edition, containing
was published
London, printed by
at
The 18th
revised,
Pearson,
this
W.
Of
dates,
and the
1666.
more
merly
easie
And
set forth
with Lessons
la
for-
and Jiggs.
Ayres
to
Musicce.
Sing
By John
to the Cithren.
London, printed by
W.
Playford, Philo-
Temple, 1666."
Small oblong
In
this
fecit."
at least Scottish
such as " Gen. Leshley's March," p. 31 ; " Highlander s March," p. 66 ; " Montrosses March," p. 67.
titles,
In a note
to the
moirs of Musick,"
Dr Rimbault
interesting "
Me-
title
of the
(p.
New
The Second
part of this
Book
THE INTRODUCTION.
Dance Tunes, used
several
at
new Brawls,
Ixxxix
as
As
Playford's
works on music,
year 1623.
marked "
A.D. 1663,
MS., quoted
in
Play ford was Clerk of the Temple Church, near the door of
which
in
his
Arundel Street,
A faithfull
self "
in the Strand.
servant to
Lovers of Musick
all
"'"'
and was
lar
It
was
to the Skill of
first
An
is
enlarged with
treatise
under a similar
tioning Playford,
is
of Music, vol.
it is
men-
iv. p.
in
mistaken when
1693." (Hist,
John Hawkins,
Sir
title.
The 11th
473.)
Music"
edition of
is
ly
"
"
An Ode
Henry
Playford, 1687
on the Death of
and
Mr John
A Collection
of Original Scotch-Tunes
yet Printed
Being the
London
Printed
in
in this
volume
Playford."
Flute.
1700.
(full
of the High-
first
of this kind
by William Pearson,
in
Eed-
APPENDIX TO
XC
Temple-Change,
in the
Henry
1700."
Fleet-street,
Oblong
4to,
pp. 16.
Henry
The
John Playford,
also
was a
As Henry
second copy
is
known, a
list
of the
is
no
so rare that
Mr
Mr
Mc.Laine's Scotch-measure,
Mc.CIauklaine's Scotch-measure.
my Love in seacreit.
Madam Mc.Keeny's Scotch-measure.
Dick a
Dollis.
A new
Scotch-measure.
Widow my
I love
Wappat
Cronstoune.
Keele Cranke.
Sefoth's Scotch-measure.
Ale.
The Lard of Cockpen's Scotch-measure.
Ginleing Georde.
Collier's Lass.
Wallis'
A New
Scotch-measure.
The
Finis.
ADAM
CRAIG.
(Page
xlvi.)
we
said
Adam
find
that
Ann
Montire
his
Adam
xlvii.],
O.
Bess-Bell.
relict,
sun-
der.
Greek's Scotch-measure.
My Lady Hope's Scotch-measure.
Peggy vi^as the pretiest Lass in aw
the Town.
Bride next.
The comers of Largo, A reell.
From
Lady.
Madam
sure.
My
the
If
in
and the
said
daughter, Helen
Ann
p.
Craig,
THE INTEODUCTION.
Teacher of English in Leith.
(Conf.
XCl
Commiss. of
Test.
Vol.
fair
for
and
Maker
sold
by
J.
Flute, the
Engraven
London
in a
Printed
in
Cathrine
in
Scotch
airs.
MUNEO'S COLLECTION
This collection, noticed at
of
German
1.
its
1732.
only for
its
Mr
scarcity.
A.
on account
p. xlvii., is curious
It
is
of importance
two
title-pages, viz.
Tunes,
fited to the
(1.)
"
German
Dumont,
(2.)
It has
sculpsit.
At
Avec
Mr Munro.
avec Permission,"
folio,
pp.
plusieurs Divisions, et
Paris,
July 1732.
It contains
Traquair,
Fy
strae.
APPENDIX TO
XCll
Among
the
MS.
collections of
1733,
George Chalmers, I
find
it
on the 3d of
that,
March 1753, Thomson received from Dodsley, the wellknown London bookseller, the sum of 52, 10s. for the
The
copyright, with the plates of his Oiylieus Caledonius.
booksellers, Hicks, Millar,
equally concerned in
remained
itself
in the
and Rivington,
in quires,
it
till
treatise,
whether
1735.
The
Humbly
Bass.
Lord
added, were
is
purchase.
this
Colvill.
Inscrib'd
By
year M.DCC.XVII."
to
A. B.
title is,
the
Edinburgh
The
Printed in the
dedication copy,
To my Lord
title-page, "
James Maidment,
cate.
An
of the Thoro'
"
is
Col-
Esq., advo-
a neatly-wi'itten MS.,
Two
Parts,"
pp. 22.
Dedicated to the
N.B.
The
four last
the
German
THE INTRODUCTION.
Edinburgh, printed by R. Cooper
Flute.
Mr And.
"
XClll
is
This
followed by a
list
title,
of Subscribers.
And
Mr Chs.
Masters.
sculpt.
Oblong
Edinr."
folio,
is
edition,
(See page
in
li.)
Dumbartonshire,
Lennox."
las's
J. Johnson,
Another
pp. 37.
macfarlane's collection
was
at his
Author,
for the
An
Baronage of Scotland,
contained in
is
He was
pp. 93-97.
and
Doug-
esteemed
his collections,
made
historical investigations.
He
and died
at his
house in Canongate,
Oswald's collections.
1/ "
By James
Lord Bute).
and Harpsicord
Hon*^'.
Most humbly
Oswald.
London, printed
for the
Churchyard
Companion,
variety of
of
whom may
New
German
Flute, with
APPENDIX TO
XCIV
In a
the
and
number
title
sold
by
Bland,
J.
is
at
of Tunes, 43,
is
added on
his
Holborn."
/^
"
for the
Harpsichord
Church Composer
and
Her Eoyal
Dowager of Wales, by James Oswald,
J. Oswald,
to
his
sold at his
London, printed
Majesty.
may be had
sculpt."
Phillips,
J.
for
New
Music, &c.
to
a variety of
Folio,
pp.
36.
Third
is
the Princess
Dowager
may be
may
he Jiad^
Two
Collections of
all
is
or Harpsishord
in
German
Flute, Violin,
Prince of Wales, by
new
Mr James
Oswald."
in royal 8vo.
It
begins on page
Cowdenknows
and Peggy. The music
Broom
of
with
Mary
ending, on page
consists of the
Air
and the Bass; and may be the First Book above mentioned.
Sir
Walter
who
viii.),
says of
it,
THE INTRODUCTION.
it's
himsell, I reckon
cheat
that
it
Wandering
Mr
Willie."
It
of "
name
m'gibbon's collections
following
mentioned
a note of the
is
at p. liv.
own
it
titles
Book
London
German
may
Flute
By William
of Glams."
1 746-1 762,
" A Collection of
First.
M'Gib-
occurs in
M'Gibbon.
ite
composition,
The House
With
it
is
The
Oswald made
whilst, as
XCV
in
be had
St Martin's Court,
the most favour-
all
Book
Book
pp. 21.
III.,
same
title,
same
II.,
title,
pp. 21.
we hare
been.
bonniest Lass in a' the World,
The
and 2 variations.
The Busli aboon Traquair.
I love my Love in secret.
Steer her up, and hand her gaun.
Polwart on the Green.
Mary
Scot.
An
my
thou were
Tweedside.
"
Book
the Music
House."
I.,
Oblong
moaning.
Tunes
With some
shop
my
German
William M'Gibbon.
ner.
the cause of
I'll
Collection of Scots
and a Bass
is
ain thing.
Flute,
Love
of
Robt.
4to.
additions
London
Bremner,
By
by Robert Brem-
II.,
Somerset
III.,
and
APPENDIX TO
XCVl
The
First
Book
contains 32
German
Wm.
M'Gibbon
Tunes
the Second, 36
in all,
Mr
by
Flutes, compos'd
London; printed
of Edinburgh.
the
for J.
Eoyal Exchange.
Anthems
to
Six
set of
The
title
bears,
date.
bremner's collection
1749-1789.
The
No
Opera Quinta."
"
See pp.
liv.
and xcv.
Songs," and
at
London.
Change," price
"
3s. each.
Edinburgh
James Read,
Oblong
folio, pp.
See
"
"
Oblong
By
Music
is
p. Ivi.
work
(Circa 1785).
at his
6d.
20.
Robert Bremner.
Ivi.)
pi'ice 2s.
is
(See
p.
Ivi.)
This
THE INTRODUCTION.
XCVll
London
and
in the Strand,
Oblong
is
He
1761.
Printed by K. Bremner
in
Edinburgh, &c."
4to,
Collection
Music shop
at his
This
inclusive.
Minuets in num-
is
"
different Authors.
Bremner,
E,.
'
i^'
Oblong
the Harpsichord or
for
Bremner, London."
for
Edinburgh
at his
" Miscellany
Price 6 pence.
August 1761.
3s.,
and advertised
Oblong
folio,
printed for
4to, pp. 8.
Spinnet,
by
E..
Magazine
in Scots
pp. 26.
fitted
By
that Instrument.
for
Oblong
V/
"
Price
Flutes.
may
3s.
the
Is. 6d.
German
Bobert
Bremner, London.
Printed
for,
and
sold
Two
Violins or
by Rob*. Bremner,
price,
Where
bound and
gilt,
ments of Music"
is
at his
in 1
762
and
ANONYMOUS COLLECTION
"
The
Songs
liand of Cakes.
set to
Musick
in the
Book
circa 1760.
the
True Scots
first,
containing Six
Taste.
To which
is
APPENDIX TO
XCVUl
The Tears
added,
Williams, price
Loudon
of Scotland.
T. Kitchen, sculpt."
Is.
By
circa 1760.
"Six Solos
for a
German Flute
is
Mr Walsh,
J. Shuter, Sculp.
" Three
for
Member
Temple
of
to
London, printed
SOLOS.
the late
Iviii.,
Humoth."
GENERAL REID'S
Apollo.
E..
Folio, 8 leaves.
printed "
full
printed for
of the
John Shuter."
Oblong
folio,
Price 3 sh.
pp. 17.
Military Band,
Reid?]
London, printed
Price 6s.
for
William Napier,
Oblong
Square."
4to,
separate
in
sheets
for the
different instruments.
gilson's collection
1769.
by Cornforth Gilson.
Mr
Edinburgh
at
Mr
1769."
Bremner's music-shop,
Gilson was a teacher of music, and had previously published " Lessons
tion of the
Hymns, Canons,
beginners.
burgh.
By
Airs,
in four Parts,
and Catches,
In
and a Collection of
Edinburgh, 1759."
Magazine,
2s. 6d.
Church Tunes,
May
In the Scots
is
his Introduction
1759,
it
THE INTRODUCTION.
XCIX
The
such performances
utility of
cially
of
so
is
now
well
known
espe-
happily prevails
in
this
country."
May
improvement
Town
Edinburgh con-
Bremner,
gregations.
also
makes
in congregational singing.
By
an Act of the
Music" were
was
tried
1773.
Ixi.,
title,
The 22 Tunes
in the separate
Number, mentioned
folio.
at pp. Ix.
are interspersed.
1774.
in
Edinburgh,
He
accord-
list
of other composi-
phical notice,
is
a biogra-
Thomas Earl
APPENDIX TO
Edinburgh, 1836.
of Kelly;'
Edited by the
4to.
late
engraved
title
In mentioning
distribution,
that
it
this
taste, skill,
who
in the
He was
shire.
life
at Edinbui-gh,
The
Hoddam, Dumfries-
chief portion of
Mr
where he
in the family
Hoddam.
purchased, after his death, by the Right Hon. Lady John Scott.
ANGUS GUMMING.
The
original copies
but the
title
followed
is
taining a long
list
by two leaves of
letterpress, con-
name
of Grant), several of
whom
them sub-
scribing for
Cnmming
says,
forefathers,
in Strathspey ;"
in
forming
and
states that
this collection.
"
In the Preface
''
A Collection
Angus Cumming,
the
list
Grantown
in Strathspey.
title,
by James
of
With
Piano Forte.
Aii'd, at his
By
a Bass
Glasgow,
music shop
in
New
THE INTRODUCTION.
Street.
Where may be
CI
Airs,
Adapted
Neat Octavo
to the
Fife, Violin, or
Clagget's 6
Op. 6th, 3
and Foreign
German
Flute, in a
Easy Duets
for 2
Favourite Scots
sh.
month
Oblong
Johnson, Edinburgh."
Musical Instruments
Graved by
or quarter.
folio,
J.
pp. 20.
DANIEL DOW.
"
Collection of Ancient
Harpsicord, or
German
Daniel Dow.
lisher,
and
Edinburgh
to
try.
folio,
By
list
New
Duchess of Athole.
1/.
" Thirty-seven
Harpsichord, Pianoforte, or
Daniel
Dow.
German
Flute.
Price 2s.
Composed by
Edinburgh
ment Square, where may be had, Scots Songs with Symphonies; each
4to, pp. 26.
Book
Conc^
2s.
6d."
(J.
Johnston, sculpt.)
Oblong
'7?t>-
circa 1776.
and
Composed by John
likewise
by
Mr
APPENDIX TO
CU
Rob'. Bremner in
Harp and
shope at the
EnterM
Price 5s.
Stationers Hall.
Wm.
Edward,
Sculp*.
-r^
r^
T^
Oblong
This
tion described at
page
is
the
first
> -m.
,,
>-Edinr.
it.
Ixix.
was
is
who
blind,
not correct.
anonymoUkS collection
"
circa 1776.
..
German
or
Flute,
One
Each num-
To
Shilling.
be had
" N.B.
collected the
above
Num-
bers has avoided inserting any one Air found in other Collections of the kind,
it is
in his
hoped
own
taste,
meet with
a favourable reception."
Oblong
4to.
The copy
it
I have
and
1780.
THE INTRODUCTION.
Edinburgh
and
sold at his
ciii
Where may
be had,
i/'
A New Collection
2s. 6d.
N. Stewart,
is
dedication, "
To
the Catch
publisher,
The
1782-1809.
humbly dedicated
By
Niel
Gow,
at
to her
Dunkeld.
"
Her Majesty."
the
By
Dunkeld.
had of him,
Close,
Edinburgh
Street,
Golden
at
;
Dunkeld
Squai'e,
London."
will
Pp. 36.
Andrew Gow,
sons of Niel
all
talent, but
Gow,
were eclipsed
May
above
at
Gow,
28th
Niel
Price 6s.
to be
by
Pp. 36.
1766.
title,
had
settled in
London
it
as music-sellers
and
it
also carrie^i
on business
in
Edinburgh
for
some years.
An-
APPENDIX TO
CIV
Collection
" Edinburgh,
has
"
for the
keld.
Gow
printed by
Bridge Street
all
Street,
Edinburgh."
sculpt.,
this intimation,
"
sellers.
at
Dun-
Edinburgh,
No. 41 North
Price 6s.
may be
And
[I]
had.
On
J.
Johnson,
is
Collection
Athole.
(my
first)
Price 6s.
this
Gow
U'V ./
Street."
printed for
1808.
page
to
title,
Gow
Gow
to
The date is ascertained by the reference on the titleCkomek's Reliques of Bums which was published in
^
Dedicated
THE INTEODUCTION.
to the Marchioness of
Huntly."
Price 8s.
CV
Published 1822.
Pp. 36.
" Part Second of the Complete Repository of Original
Scots Slow Tunes, Strathspeys, and Dances.
the Duchess of Buccleuch.""
Price
Being
lished
in all
by Neil
to
Pp. 38.
Price 8s.
Gentry of Scotland."
Dedicated
Pp. 88.
8s.
Price 8s.
Pp. 38.
Gow &
Sons.
"
Compositions of Neil
as Medleys).
forte,
and Jigs,
Gow &
comprising the
Gow.
thaniel
chiefly
Sons.
of the Caledonian
Price 6s.
Hunt, by Na-
Edinburgh
Part
&c.
1st, pp.
all folio.
"
the
Gow.
Edinburgh
"
by Nathaniel
In three parts, at
8s.
36 pages each.
and Violoncello.
Nathaniel
Gow.
Price
8s.
Edinburgh
APPENDIX TO
CVl
1823. Folio,
pp. 36.
Most
to the
Many
of which are
burgh
Price 8s.
&
Co.,
Edin-
39 Princes
Street."
"
A Collection
for the
Ar-
much
obliged
by Alex. Robertson
&
Co,,
39 Princes Street."
There
Published 1849.
pp. 22.
servant, Nathaniel
Gow.
Price 6s.
is
Memoir
Folio,
of Neil and
The Works
of Neil
Gow
consist of
4 Parts
of the Repositories.
In
all
Works.
The
Gow
"
A Collection
last
century
THE INTRODUCTION.
Old and the most fashionable
New
CVU
&
Airs.
Irish
To
Price 6s.
Royal
don
N.B.
Edinburgh.
in this Collection
ment.
"
Johnson, sculpt,"
J.
New
Violoncello.
Gow.
burgh
24.
(On
Mr
Wighton's copy
is
Price 5s.
&
written "
Co."
Edin-
Folio, pp.
Composed by the
Earl of Eglintoun.")
"
Collection of much-admired
Airs, &c.
much
2s. 6d.
&
sellers,
"
Marches, Quick-steps,
Co., Musicall
the dif-
Folio.
Collection
of entirely
Original
Strathspey Reels,
by Ladies resident
in a
Corrected
by Nath. Gow.
To be had of Gow & Shepherd, and of the principal
Music-sellers in Town and Country." Johnson, sculpt. Folio,
Highlands of Scotland.
N.B.
Pr. 5s.
pp. 24.
"
Accompaniment.
for
Camp-
APPENDIX TO
CVlll
by Nath. Gow.
bell,
Where may
Price 6s.
Gow &
Entered
at Stationers' Hall.
be had, Petrie's
New
A Second
spey's, Reels,
Edinburgh
Oblong
Prince's Street."
with Index.
New Scotch
Strath-
German
Flute.
for the
J.
lished soon."
"
N.B.
&
Shepherd, No. 40
two pages
Price 5s.
5s.
"
Price
2s.
all
6d."
Music shops in
the
It
Town and
others,
With a
Bass, &c.
By Malcolm
albane.
Dunkeld.
at
"
first
and second
Miss
Drummond
keld.
sold
Price
collections).
of Perth,
2s, 6d.
Dedicated by permission
by Malcolm McDonald,
Some
Co., R. Bryson,
Brysson, &c.
to
Dun-
at
Price 3s."
title,
and
all
J. Johnson, sculp<^."
THE INTRODUCTION.
"
CIX
above).
Edinburgh, printed
Shepherd's."
Price 3s.
Gow &
COERl'S COLLECTIONS.
One
is,
"
A Select
Italian, English,
By
Dominico
"
Songs.
&c.
in
In Three Books.
Corri.
by him, and by C.
Irish,
Elliot,
Parliament Square."
vols, folio.
With
By D. & N.
The
Corri.
fourth Edition,
Edinr.,
Room, head
ofLelth Walk."
m'intosh's reels, &c.
The
Collection, described at
page Ixxv.,
And by
"A
1793.
7s."
pp. 39,
was
Strathspeys."
folio,
and dedicated
to
Mrs Oswald
by Robert M'ln-
of Auchincruive.
Price
To which
is
first.
Harpsichord.
Price
7s. 6d.
set
APPENDIX TO
ex
Edinburgh
afterwards.
and
Edinburgh."
J.
Suthersculpt.,
New
" Sixty-eight
also
&
Johnson,
at Corri
some Slow
and
Price 6s.
in Stationers' Hall.
Edinburgh
rip,
"
London."
&
of
Famous
Compiled
&
by permission,
to
Mi"S
"
May
&
1st
&
of
all
A. Macgowan, Glasgow
of Airs,
New
Brod-
by permission,
be had at the
2nd Book
Fourth Book of
Famous
De-
London."
Oswald of Auchincruive.
Price 7s.
Reels.
rip,
Brod-
Edinburgh
New
dicated,
chord.
all
A. Macgowan, Glasgow
to
Harp.
Dedicated,
Price 8s.
London
Entd.
at
THE INTRODUCTION.
Music Sellers
No. 29
to
liis
New Bond
CXI
Street."
NAPIER'S COLLECTIONS
It
may be
first
in 1807.
1790-1792.
volume of
this Collection,
published in February
Thomas
Carter, and F.
Dr
S. Arnold,
William Shield,
The Harmony
H. Barthelemon.
Accompaniment.
Haydn
any Symphonies.
but in
This Second
seller to their
design by
"
W.
Hamilton, R.A.
Dedicated by permission to
London; printed
for
Her
Willm.
may be
Entered
.
Inn Fields.
Neele,
sc.
Strand.
The above
each.
7s.
at Stationers' Hall."
Wm.
6d.
Printed for
new
Harp,
to his
Where may be
The Harmony
APPENDIX TO
CXll
72d year of
skill,
and
He
his age.
Mr
William Napier,
was distinguished
he edited.
Band, and
retire
became a victim."
See
Scots
his
in the
which
to his Majesty's
was obliged
to
hands, to which he
pp. 648.
URBANl'S COLLECTIONS
The
1792,
means complete
page
&C.
Ixxvii.,
dated 2d
May
1793, a request
is
made
by no
should be
I.
is
In a letter,
by a friend
to a lady,
new
Book
II.,
trait of
Lady Catherine Douglas, has a porBamsay and the same imprint as the first, and
50.
Book III. is dedicated to the Hon. Lady
dedicated to
Allan
contains pp.
Carnegie.
Book IV.
is
entitled "
is
Book
III.
to-
as
The imprint
is
Edinburgh, February
1,
1804.
dated from
the Music
new
edition
of
this
Collection bears
" Edinburgh,
THE INTKODUCTION.
second with Books III. and IV.
CXIU
Mr Graham
remarks, "
In
this Collection, as
Harmony
up
filled
Accompaniments
and a Viola,
hand
for
and the
the
first
Two Violins
all
is
the
Accompaniments
and the
Symphonies
"
to the Melodies."
A Favourite Selection
as Duettos, for
Book
Urbani.
Harmony
and concluding
time, of introductory
first
Two German
Flutes or
N.B.
Edinburgh
by Urbani and
Two
The
:
first
by P.
part arranged
Listen.
Violins,
Oblong
4to,
pp. 24.
from page 25
to
48
se-
as above),
title
inclusive.
Books
First
and Second,
parately,
same
size
for
Collection of Catches,
Works
Vol.
I.
Edinburgh
Printed for J.
Music
sellers to
Edin^"
The
volume of
first
vols,
Her Majesty.
J. Johnson, sculpt.,
APPENDIX TO
CXIV
The
Square/^
this imprint
and
is also
sellers.
J. Sib-
and
sold
Gow &
by
an edition of the
first
sold
Price
Shepherd, Music
There
imprint in
still
:
to "
two volumes
seller,
34 North Bridge.
6d."
8s.
6d."
8s.
" Printed
Two German
tj'll '
Flutes or two
Violins.
By
many
men.
Edinr.
Music
seller. Cross,
Museum
in
a Society of Gentle-
24s."
consisting of
100
AIRD (jAMES).
"
A Selection, &c."
See
by Aird's
"
p. Ixix.
It
Humbly
German
number
III., pp.
six
volumes,
155
to
233
I.
Bands of
Vol.
Flute.
In
VL, each
pp. 80.
THE INTRODUCTION.
Except the
last
CXV
German
Flute.
Volumes
GlasFirst to
Volume
Flute.
by
M'Fadyen, Music
J.
G. Walker,
&c.
seller
sculpt."
German
sold,
and
stationer,
Willson Street,
Pp. 80.
ANDEESON (JOHN).
]y
"
&
Violoncello Bass.
the Musical
Edinburgh
By John
Society of Greenock.
Anderson.
and Booksellers
Price 6s.
in Scotland.
by
all
Music
J. Johnson, sculp."
BOWIE
"
(JOHN).
By John
Author.'"'
Bowie, at Perth.
BUTLER
i/'
"A
for
(T. H.)
(Entd. Stationers'
Plall.
Most
APPENDIX TO
CXVl
Eight
Hon'^'s. the
Earl of Cas-
silis.
&
Wood,
CAMPBELL (ALEXANDEE).
" Sangs of the Lowlands of Scotland, carefully compared
with the original editions, and embellished with characterdesigns composed and engraved
istic
Andrew
by the
Edinburgh
High
late
David Allan,
4to,
pp. 222.
This
collection,
is
advertised "
Twelve Songs
At
set to
An
together
Camp-
is
result of his
and died
at
Edinburgh
Tours
under the
folio,
title
of " Albyn's
in 1824.
of his
i.
in 1764,
life is
p.
con-
463.
CAMPBELL (JOSHUA).
^
"
Collection of
New
E.eels
Campbell.
A number
Glasgow, printed
-in
sculpt.
Edin."
and sold
own Composition.
at the
Music shops
J.
Johnson,
THE INTRODUCTION.
V'
"
CXVll
Thorough Bass
Oblong
A7f<-*
air of
or
Chivey Chase,
two German
all
flutes
with
and a
The Airs
by
Variations,
CLAGGET (WALTER).
which
New
Joshua Campbell.
in the binding).
German
se-
the Music
be had at
all
Walker).
The Part
for the
shops."
same
to
(Engraved by George
as above
published
is
folio,
pp. 12.
In a
list
by
M'Fadyen,
J.
by Walter Clagget.
Opera, 2do.
at the
Composed
London, printed
for the
CLARK
\/ "
Collection
of
&
Sons
in
New
(JOHN).
John Clark,
Perth.
Composed by
APPENDIX TO
CXVIU
CLARKSON (JOHN).
V " Clarkson's Musical Entertainment, being a Selection
of
London: Published
forte or Harpsichord.
to be
3s,
had
at
Clarkson,
and
many
Author;
Mr John
at Kirkaldy, Cupar,
1812,
for the
6d."
Died
at his
and Dunfermline."
(Scots Mag.
p. 158.)
at the Balls
and arranged
to his Scholars,
ing, Edinburgh.
milton,
Edinburgh
24 North Bridge
A Collection of Reels, by
(ISAAC).
Glasgow
Ha-
Post Office."
COOPER
"
Collection.
Price
DALE
" Dale's Collection
of
Pub-
3s.
(JOSEPH).
Sixty favourite
Scotch
Songs,
German
Flute.
J. Dale,
Oxford Street."
Book
II., price
Oblong
4to.
5s.
London
printed for
THE INTRODUCTION.
CXIX
published
Folio, in
of " Music
list
Eoyal
to his
DANIEL (jAMES).
A Collection
"
Strathspeys,
Adapted
Aberdeen
By
DING (LAWEENCE).
"
Airs,
and Violoncello.
Citizen.
Slow
Hornpipes, &c.
Waltzes,
Quadrilles,
Reels,
or,
"'^,
ster's
for
Inscribed to
all
Edinburgh printed
Music
by Lawrence Ding,
16.
DUFF (CHARLES).
1/ "
To which
to his
Dundee.
Corri
&
Co., Johnson
Edinburgh
&
N.
&
J. Johnson, sculpt.
added Four
J.
and Longman
N.B.
Charles
M. Stewart
R. Ross, and
Co.,
by A. M'Gowan, Glasgow
London.
By
Price 6s.
is
Brysson
&
Dufi",
&
;
Co.,
and
Broderip,
The Tunes
marked
APPENDIX TO
CXX
J.
M'D.
are composed by
Master, Dundee."
Mr
Jno.
M' Donald,
late
Dancing-
ELOUIS
(j.)
may
Voice or without
as Familiar Lessons;
it,
spectfully Dedicated,
by permission,
which are
to
to the
Kight Honorable
Price
Lady Montgomerie, by J. Elouis.
each vol. One Guinea. Edinburgh Sold by Messers Gow
& Shepherd; Messers Muir, Wood, & Coy., Music-sellers
Enf^. at Sta. Hall.
:
New
at his
The music
&
is
engraved by J.
Every copy
Co.
Folio.
The
former, pp. 49; the latter, 51; also pp. 11, with 3 Airs
(without the words) repeated with Variations, and a Glossary.
In the preface
it is
said,
" There
is
7iot
one Edition
be met
with.
restoring the
upon the
wife.
It
sense),
can
now be
&c.
ton,"
Volume
is
author^s
no other
same
as the
first vol.
Pp.
THE INTRODUCTION.
50 with words, and 50 music
Each
variations.
vol. contains
Is
subscription.
The advertisement
to the second
dated 1807.
GOW
\/"
Pubhshed by
subscribers.
CXXl
Collection of
De-
6d."
King
Street,
GRANT (dONALD).
U"
"A
Grant.
By Donald
121 Tunes, 76
Author
Grant.
and
(Folio, pp.
38
original.)
at Elgin,
Mr Gow,
Edinburgh, and
Mr
Davie,
Aberdeen."
gunn
\y'
(john).
ment
to the
Examples
In the
By John Gunn."
London.
Folio.
mark**.,
new
and
being a Supple-
Ent.
of finger-
Stat.
Hall.
;"
APPENDIX TO
CXXU
"
also,
The School
German
for the
Flute, Part.
I.,
are
5s.,""
of "
edition.
No.
at
&c."
Bennet
and
by him,
sold
and by Preston,
Drawn up by
the
in the
was
desire of
(fee."
its
Edinburgh, 1807,
Queen Mary's
The Author announces, in
of publishing a much more detailed
Harp and
work
but
it
never appeared.
HAMILTON
"
(JOHN).
Bridge.
Oblong
Price 3s."
"
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German Flute or Violin. Book HI. Price 3s. Edinburgh
[r
J. Hamilton,
page 52
to
4to.
From
Hamilton died
in 1814.
See note
to
Song 592,
p.
537.
JENKINS (GEORGe).
" Eighteen Airs for
Two Violins
by George
THE INTEODUCTION.
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CXXV
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THE INTRODUCTION.
V "A
CXXvii
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Town and
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Street
jj.'
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t
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of Ross
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67.
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1793 resided
into
in
Hamil-
partnership
THE INTEODITCTION.
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with Nathaniel
CXxix
on business as
music-sellers
Shepherd, on an extensive
Gow
Shepherd died
scale.
at
and
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STEWAET (CHARLES).
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N.B.
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to
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By
Price 5s.
and
Dedicated (by
to
Wood,
&
Co.
"A
Collection of a few
lions, Jigs,
By
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for
was communicated
The Songs
many
Mr
G. F. Graham, and
i.
is
printed
Mr Thomson,
p. vi.
Edinburgh, died
at the
to
of Scotland," vol.
at
It
may
be noticed as a
The
series of the
to
auction in
fetched
Thomson,
to sale
by
of 210, and
CXXX
APPENDIX TQ
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Is.
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(JAMES).
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Jigs, &c.,
Dedicated
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WILSON (WILLIAM).
" Twelve Original Scotch Songs, for the Voice and
sichord, with an
Accompaniment
Harp-
or Flute,
dedicated
of
Entered
at Stationers' Hall.
Op.
III.
Lon-
list
Songs,"
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of Subscribers.
One
and
THE INTEODtrCTION.
Of the preceding
to the period
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which
this
some are
CXXXl
iio
doubt posterior
George Thom-
Aberdeen
with
To
many
more or
importance.
less
Campbell
Isles,
the
Donald Macdonald
Angus Mackay.
these Notices,
it
may
volume
not be out of
Memoirs of
by
The title
of this
Graham
Dalyell, Edin-
many
Mr
also
be mentioned, as the
Museum
in-
Musical
CXXXll
" The
kind
liberality of the
ers of this
work
to avail
and
Illustrations
new
Collection
above referred to
and thus
to I'ender this
much more interesting than it could otherThe work referred to contains an extensive
forte
J. T. Surenne,
Illustrated
Wood
Graham.
1848."
As
and
Co., 12
reference
is
made
may
also
some
be per-
volume
and German
is
entitled "
Tunes
with
many
other
in
authentic
sources,
the availPsalters,
faithfully compiled
all
Geneva
'
editions,
and arranged
for
1852.
Folio.
Dow,
Anonymous
Collections,
97, 102,
113, 114.
Baillie,
Eglinton, Earl
of,
107.
Foulis, 65.
Gow,
103, 121.
'
Haydn, Joseph,
79.
Corri,
Craig,
Adam,
Gumming, Angus,
66, 100.
Macdonald, Malcolm,
69, 108.
INDEX.
VM'Glashan, Alexander,
66.
Andrew,
Shirreffs,
VM'Lean, Charles,
Edward,
86.
33, 84.
Munro, Alexander,
Mure,
Rowallane
Thomson, George,
(Manuscripts), 86.
":'
47.
Sir William, of
Millar,
73.
75, 129.
Thumoth, Burk,
92.
58, 98.
Henry, 89-90.
Walker, James,
Walsh,
John, 127.
43.
130.
Wood,
Thomas
27-33, 81-84.
/C
(Manuscripts),
ILLUSTRATIO^JS
OF THE
LYRIC POETRY
AND MUSIC
OF
SCOTLAND.
PART
I.
I.
The
words and
vicar,
when
air
man
Mr
Mac-
published as a half-sheet song, and Oswald afterwards inserted the music in his Caledonian Pocket
xi, in
volume of
first
Companion, book
1750.
The Highland
young
burgh.
It first
this
AN'
The
late
Mr
must
Mr
That the
air,
and
first
it
to
have
verse,
II.AN THOU
Thomson
of
printed
it
as an ancient song
it
is
who wrote
now known.
adapted, are
is
its
Tea Table
pheus Caledonius.
" Of race
my
arms,"
is
not to be found in
Miscellany, although
The
Ram-
it
X to the
Ramsay, but
Mr
>.
iii.
p.
celebrated
it
vol.
as such in his
in 1689.
The
is
likewise
to
The
now
title of,
" Peggie,
must love
which the
air
to the
same
His
iii.
p.
friend,
Mr
George Thomson's
124, where
it
the celebrated
Dr Haydn.
It
may
Crawfurd,
air,
Of
title,
is
in the Scots
fully
was born.
also
is
beauti-
voices,
by
be noticed enpasmni.
HI.-PEGGY,
that
swains,''
Mirth," printed at
London
volume of
first
*'
Wit and
in 1698.
The song
testants in 1641.
in their
1686, on the king's nominating General Talbot, a furious pa(newly created Earl of Tyrconnel) to the lieutenancy of
pist,
Ireland.
little
revolution in 1688.
An-
365.
p.
ii.
IV.
THE GAWKIE.
BESS,
This song
is
way.
I mean
We
taste.
the pastoral
it is
have
of nature,
Jew
pastoral composi-
this.""
in
Herd's
collection in 1776.
v.
LORD GREGORY.
This
is
from the
which was
The two
first
"
remarks, that
were compiled
it
is
somewhat
ii.
singular,
p. 41
that in
Burns
Lanark,
is
scarcely
and
to,
This, I conjecture,
which
is
a long one,
in printed collections,
I take to be Lochroyan, in
'
is
title,
or be the production of
is
called,
The Lass
o'
both by tradition
Lochroyan^ which
VI.
by the
The music
is
shall,
in these strictures,
appellation of
beg leave to
tempt."'
For
been a regular
Mr
Hook,
to
it
does not, at
what genuine
all
recitative prefixed
meant
certainly never
it
The English
composer,
Mr
name on
Museum
of the
The
first
volume
came acquainted.
VII,
ROSES.
Mr
Stephen Clarke.
boy
it
by
to the editor
from
These
itinerant
visionaries
were so denominated
About
by whom
and be
in
proselytes,
Scotland.
all
women span
flax
several parts of
in a
re-
VII.
was
heaven
but
In Black-
wood's Magazine,
663, there
vol. vi. p.
a very interesting
is
ROSLIN CASTLE.
" These beautiful verses (says Burns) were the production of
'whom
am
Dr
that
Blacklock (to
an amanuensis.
cond song
same tune.
to the
is
own
man
air to
Oswald
but
in Oswald's
make
the least
that
The same
The
are
title
of the "
House of
now
The words
lost.
Glams.""
however,
air,
Edinburgh,
in 1779.
IX.
SAW YE JOHNIE
" This song,
for genuine
COMIN'.
humour, and
lively originality in
be very old."
Biirns's
air, either
the
I take
unparalleled.
air, is
it
to
Reliques.
when played
or sung slowly, as
one of his
tune
guage of
letters to
he
says,
when he plays
it
Were
it
despair.
ought to be,
is
exceedingly
it
Thomson,
sensible of
inserted in Currie's
in singing,
to give
it
make ah admirable
pathetic song.
it
in playing,
it
would
it
will
be any improve-
ment.
I.
Mr Thomas
Fraser, to
whom Burns
alludes,
was an
inti-
is
peculiarly chaste
and masterly.
X.
in his
it
The
in the
genuine
spirit
of the
to ca
AN MARRIED AND a\
X>-MrOO'D
But
III.
She
8^c.
IV.
The road
Wha
she took
"
was
to her mither,
Lassie,
how
Quo
she,
" Was
And
at
it
it
for
reel'd
by a cheelie^
draw ?"
S^c.
v.
Her mither
said
till
her,
" Hech
Lassie,
awa hame
to your haddin,
Ye're the mair fool for comin awa.
Ye manna be ilka day gaddin.
Nor gang sae white finger'd and braw ;
!
a'.
And
Or
wi'
else
VIII.
And
fa'.
standing.
Mrs Grant
Scott's song,
lection, vol,
of
which
iii.
XI.
There
them.
and which
(says Burns)
Ramsay's
to
verses,
familiar,
Saw
ye
older,
much
and
older
but though
be called
in-
as he calls
still,
it
has
The
and are
much
is
I take to
older,
is
verses, are
still
ear.
my
Maggie,
Saw ye my Maggie,
Saw ye my Maggie,
Linkin o'er the lea
Though
an
air
it
by no means
silliest
verses to
yet I
The two
of our
XI.
Ramsay,
is
in
hi-s
Burns's
Collection.
Reliques.
called
Peggy
title,
is still
r'
to
but he
The
till
other,
that of
The
alludes.
which
songs
find
is
first
to
be sung in a draw-
fit
any regular
David Herd
in 1769,
from whence
The melody,
Museum.
and was
Ramsay's
of Scottish
collection
edition of the
song,
his
Saw ye my
left
which Burns
ing-room.
we
Miscellany
the
to
was
it
however,
is
in the editor's
to the
calls
The
"
it
The
old verses,
" Nancy's
several
bars,
between
this
air
and that of
Caledonius, in 1725.
Collection,
appears in Craig's
cations.
XlII.
is
It
Orpheus
Delight,''''
Liverpool, 1754.
In
this
work
it is
entitled,
John
Sadler,
10
XIII.
of the
printed in 1742
'
Herd's
vol.
iii.
collection,
though
his al-
The
Liver-
is
^ /'
in
pool editor
Pocket Companion,
his Caledonian
air in
is
it
was com-
became a fashionable
is
1740; and
that
verses appeared
Burns
it
The
of Jacobitism.
song "
title,
is
verses,
so I suspect
Vide
No
the
when
this period
was subsequent to
by an anonymous hand.
Ms
title
is
all
Reliques.
effusion,
do not appear
is
to
be
sufficiently plain.
known
to exist.
Sub-
To your
To your
But
ai-ms, to
this ballad,
hurgh.
It seems
attending the
dancing schools.
Scottish
muses were
that
all
"
it is
Jacobites.
any body
and
do not
recollect
one single
most
11
which
mean
it
as such.
compliment to have
head
it
said,
that
my
it
as a
my
many
heroic ages,
is
Our
for there
The
loyal songs,
composed
MSS.
collection
of
Donaldson and
J. Reid, in
1761,
may not be
unacceptable as
counter specimens.
HIGHLAND LADDIE.
When
Bonny
u.
Whan
Bonny
You
laddie.
Highland
laddie.
Your
X^
If e'er you
come
dance again,
Highland laddie.
New dancers you must bring frae Spain,
Bonny laddie. Highland laddie ;
And, that all things may be secure.
Bonny laddie. Highland laddie.
See that your dancers be not poor,
Bonnie laddie. Highland laddie.
Bonny
to
laddie.
V.
I think insurance
O BROTHER SANDIE.
To
the
Tune of "
Lilli Bullero."
I.
O Brother
An
news
la,
II.
lad,
* Cardinal York, brother of Charles, and second son of James, denominated " the Pretender."
XUI.
Who,
Highland
13
plaid.
To arms,
to arms,
&c.
III.
Rome
And, what
more
is
doth advance,
<Sfc.
rare, it brings
To
&c
arms, to arms,
IV.
news strangeryet,
He brings
To
You must
take
it
in coin,
affords,
To arms,
to arms,
&c
VI.
And
sure this
is
is
want more.
To
To
To
May
For
who have
ventur'd and
lost.
their cost.
these
! !;
14
may be
They
are
as follow
T.
Here
fall.
II.
is
Xiv.
The
JAMIE GAY.
author of the words of this song
the music
is
the composition of
Mr
is
unknown, but
This song was
Berg.
fre-
It
originally entitled,
is
printed in the
Nicoll, St Paul's
is
a tolerable Anglo-
Scottish piece."
XV.
MY DEAR
'^
collected
JOCKIE.
ed in 1779-
The melody
in the style of
Mr
We do not know,
The name
is
a small
river,
it is
is
much
Scottish productions.
actually his.
Mr
Jo-
J
^
XV. MY SEAR
15
JOCKIE.
title
fa-
This
air is
unknown
tion is
Queen Mary,
as
but
it is
it
is
its
composi-
inserted in a
written
in the old notation or tableture for the lute, about the begin-
This
it
was adapted
to
an
Who
beauty's
powers
ed
it
as a
melody
author''s de-
cease.
of Deidamia.
verses in his
Thomson published
Orpheus Caledonius
in
this
tune to Ramsay's
London,
1731.
lines of this
it is
As
is
mor6
and poetry,
localized (if I
particularly
may
be allowed
why
two
so
many of our
sets
of
lines,
is
all
To
this
day,
:"
/ /
;;
16
Wl' STRAE.
a bonnie lassie,
Gie her a kiss and let her gae ;
But gin ye meet a dirty hizzie,
Fye, gar rub her o'er wi' strae.
Fye, gae rub her, rub her, rub her,
Fye, gae rub her o'er wi' strae ;
And gin ye meet a dirty hizzie,
Fye, gae rub her o'er wi' strae."
Burns
The
song, as
Johnson's
Ramsay's
it
is
inserted in
is
efforts
s Reliques.
an abridgment
is
" Vides ut
of
The
as
read-
Look up
And
Thea
let's
Good
And
drives
away
Leave
to the
Which
will
spare.
Then
command
day come as
Let
niest
The
it
thinks
fit.
:
And
it
Watch
When
she'll
smiling say
;"
ye greedy rook
Syne frae your arms she'll run away.
And hide hersel' in some dark nook.
Her laugh
will lead
you
to the place
Now
And
As
The
o'er
wi""
strae"" is
composed of the
first
four
9th Ode.
The
Ad
Thaliarchum.
Museum,
begin-
Shepherd.
B
18
XVII.
many
it is
airs, in
it,
Mrs
inserted in
1684, gives
to
is
Crockat's
709
but, in
all
probability,
for
as an ancient tune.
it
in
verses
They
The
original
known
The
To
lie
her lane, to
lie
her lane.
&c.
&c.
&c.
xviir.
CAME
O'ER
THE MUIR.
title
of the charming
air,
be quite in the
spirit
all,
of the
air."
titles
to
six
ment, with a
of
be amazingly cor-
MSS Collections
Sir
old
Burns's Reliques.
When
title.
treatise
De
in
verhorum
sig?it/icatione, in
1597.
John's descendants.
XVIII.
of "
The
twice,
last
CAME
THE
O'EH
sets
19
MOOIl.
less
than
first lines
my
the song
letters to
came
me."
Mr Thomson
several lines in
pardon
moor
o'er the
love beliind
Burns, although he
is
concerning this
it
have
an aversion
felt
to alter
In another
it.
to
happy
still
Mr W-
as
Let a
the moor.
ther,
and work
it
liberties
The
own
sacrilege
but
gun
let
I grant that
Mr W's
as every
;
with an author
up the
I came
o'er
idea of ano-
addressed
in his pieces
last time
letter,
Ramsay,
is
now mute
for
by Heaven, 'twould be
version
an improvement,
is
he gave
it
a ne w stock^^ a
new
and a newjmvrel^
lock,
XIX.
song, beginning,
have I Jcnown,
is
written
by
Mr Edward
works.
In
this
How
blest
has
my time been,
It
was
charming picture of
Mr Moore
Mr
also
in
is
One specimen
their marriage,
She had
husband
20
in
XIX.
174-9,
It was ad-
page 192.
dressed to a daughter of the famous Stephen Duck, and beghis with the following stanza
You will tliink it, my Duck, for the fault I must own.
Your Jessy, at last, is quite covetous grown ;
millions if fortune should lavisUy pour
should be wretched if I had not More.
Though
I
still
name with
You
will
Mr
He
1756.
thereafter, viz.
4to. in
on 28th Feb-
ruary 1757.
XX.
THE LASS OF
Her
PATIE'S MILL.
Statistical
Ac-
le-
gitimate child of
parish of Keith-hall,
was
parish of Fintray,
From
her
and Standing-stones
uncommon
in the parish of
Dyce.
many
admirers.
Mr
Sangster,
the
The
He
A more favoured
air
now
living
of which only
Anderson.
On
gets but
lover
is
this
now
my
gets her.
auld sheen.
composed a song
preserved.
His name,
likewise,
fair
was
hand.
THE LASS OF
XX.
and had
several children
PATIE'S MILL,
by him.
21
whom
to
Her
man
in the
burgh of Inverurie,
His
flight
and
estate.
fled to
the derangement of
this celebrated
Allan Ramsay adapted his modern words to the old melody, and transferred the heroine of his
muse
to the parish of
name
Avas existing.
this translocation,
at
would be a
fine
theme
for a song.
returning to Loudon-castle,
and
Burns' s Rellques.
identical song."
omitted in
Mr
to any,
most
George Thomson's
and even,
in point of
The
second verse
Collection, probably
teenth century.
is
Ram-
but the
air,
middle of the
six-
is
from
99
XXI.
With regard
in 1724.
of
it
in his
to the tune,
Tea-Table Miscellany
is
it
ginally consisted of
was copied
in the
Orpheus Caledonius
tune
is
now
lost,
and
The
in 1725.
It ori-
Ramsay's
and
verses,
ancient words to
Jthe
a modern interpolation.
XXII.
This
beautiful
The
Ah !
Lane
Dr
Arne's
at
Drury
in 1775.
XXIII.
THE TURNIMSPIKE.
This
beginning, Hersell
he
High-
It
is
hand.
From
its
frae
excellent broad
districts
it
of Scotland.
It is
if
THE TURKIMSPIKE.
XXIII
him
so
much
23
by the way.
Museum
In the
and 10th
stanzas.
It
as follows
is
left out,
apparently
It should
Me
tell tern,
me
sic
hae seen
te
day,
command, man.
The old song, beginning, " Have you ony pats or pans,"
may be seen in the Tea-table Miscellany, and the Orpheus
Caledonius, 1725.
Burns observes, that " the air is also
known by the name of the Blacksmith and his apron, which,
from the rhythm seems to have been a line of some old song
to the
same tune."
Reliques.
XXIV.
BLYTHE JOCKEY,
Both
ginning,
dern.
the
mo-
vols
was inserted in
It
first
are comparatively
The
first set
Museum
of verses in the
and
II. p. 2^0.
XXV.
These
is
the
title
verses, with
first line,
which
They
About
some
Burns was
so fortunate as to recover
He
af-
Museum,
24
to
to
Mr George Thomson.
Burns speaks
Mrs Dunlop, he
letter to
says,
poet
In a
who composed
of the
of native genius in
fire
it
The
English bacchanahans."
it is
It has since
syne.
Lowland
air,
if ever,
somewhat
now
air,
Mr
George Thom-
generally
known by
This
The
the
tune
latter
curious.
p.
of Auld lang-
Doti's Strathspey.
dom,
Mr
been published by
beautiful
air
now
sel-
is
two
altered, entitled,
thereafter,
strains of
Mr Gow published
Collection of Reels
Shield's
and Strathspeys
Don was
from
years
slightly
Some
The
late
it
the
Sir
name of
Alexander
this circumstance,
to
ima-
air.
xxvir.
Theke
Museum, both of
gray hreelcs. With
and
'
has
it
is
Wearoer
is
The
is
Oswald him-
the more
first
believed,
it is
it,
25
time,
not be
many
common
time,
and
Museum,
it is
vice versa,
as
Every
in
Oswald, however,
it
composed
and inserted
to change a tune
from
though, to an unex-
"
to sing so beautiful
right (prostitution) of
adds,
an
air to
common
The
sense.
down-
Burns, however,
Reliqices.
tolerable."
is
Scots verses," he
is
though
do not seem
The
epithet of execrable.
poet alludes, beginning, " Jenny's heart Avas frank and free,"
was written by Mr
who likewise composed some
tune of " Logan Water," Mr Mayne
tolerable,
also the
As
this
not permit
it
to slip
away unwedded
to his muse.
The
fol-
Thomson's
Collection, p. 108,
air.
They appear
under the
title
of
I.
in
Mr
26
XXV[.
Amang
the braes
o'
Ballochmyle.
II.
With
careless steps I
My heart
maiden
Her
Her
look
The
lily's
stray 'd.
When, musing
onward
in a lonely glade,
chanc'd to spy
morning's eye.
fair I
was
like the
hue and
dye
rose's
o'
Ballochmyle.
III.
Fair
is
the
And sweet
When
morn
is
May,
autumn mild.
in flowery
night in
IV.
O had
Through weary
winter's
V.
Then
me
The
These
artless
fire- side,
strains are
and
it
still
sung
in
now becomes a
XXVI.
; ; ;
27
When
was
in
my se'enteenth
year
He
And
breeks
finely, O.
II.
He was
a handsome fellow,
His humour was baith frank and free;
His bonny lockS;, sae yellow.
Like gowd they glitter'd in my ee ;
His dimpl'd chin and rosy cheeks,
And face so fair and ruddy, ;
And then a day his grey breeks
Were neither auld nor duddy, 0.
III.
For
he's
pen
of delicacy.
xxviir.
says Burns,
is
one.""
Reliques.
set,
is
This beautiful
the composition of
XXVIII. HE STOLE
28
Sig.
Thomaso
was
It
originally
Museum
un
are an English
simplicity.
piano-forte or harpsichord,
admired by
all
it
deservedly
it.
XXIX.
of considerable antiquity.
It
An
and Wit,
first edition,
is
imperfect copy
way
1698.
in
cr
inserted in a
into
Henry
The two
some
liberties
with the
Both of
air.
1773,
howIn
Mr
of his
air
these,
Museum.
/;
XXX.
BONNY
This song was
his
written
Tea-Table Miscellany,
BESSY.
in
would seem
Scottish song,
have been a
to
now supposed
to be lost.
Caledonius in 1725.
About
Ken
Four good
lords
It began,
haggles ?
Bessy's haggles
ladies^
Ae gude
BONNY BESSY.
XXX.
This song
vol.
ii.
is
29
inserted at large in
p. 191, et seq.
XXXI.
plaintive
and simple
very-
a copy of which,
No
lection,
Napier,
snood."
who
of "
title
The
lassie lost
her silken
first
Mu-
anti-
verses to the
suem.
quity,
in
is
same
air
which
is
Burns
observes, that
"
it
is
finished,
Dr
else,
had
known
first
in time, I
Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany, en" The young Laird and Edinburgh Kate."
The
is
And
And
a'
the simmer's
gawn
to smile.
other.
30
XXXII
The
this as it
may,
it
Mr Thomas
Carter,
and sung by
Mr
Vernon
at
Vauxhail in
of the Tweed.
is
here
/^-^
Music hy
Mr Thomas Carter.
1773.
H.
XXXir.
THE
^FAlREST OF
PAIR.
31
i^^Si^^^^;^^
silk -
en sheen^
No
long- - er
Ji
Sr^^^
Iq
P-
rare
-"P-
Ifegp-CXfegga
- els
ly scene.
P^
0-
ig:
-sh:~
tm
:ai:
of
fair - est
the
fair ?
p-^- ^-.
Say,
thou
canst
quit
each
^iS^liii^^^
courtly scene.
of
B^
t:
thou
I
wert
f
fairest.
Where
thou
wert
I
the fair?
Where
fairest.
Where
32
xxxrir.
THE BLATHRIE
This
artless
ries
with
the
Museum
it
melody of one
mark of
every
O'T.
strain, in the
antiquity,
an old song.
In
Yair''s
Kelly,
air.
tells us, it
who
was then
is
di-
it is
here annexed.
I.
When
I think
And how
little I
II.
Yet
Burns
says,
the earliest I
child,
"
the following
remember
word, at
first
to
it
is
set
When
it
up, every
hearing."
I.
O Willie
" Shame fa
the gear and the lladry o't," says Kelly, is the turn of an old
spoken when a young handsome girl marries an old man upon account of his wealth." Scots Proverbs, page 296. It would, therefore, seem, that
Scottish song,
Museum
is
; ;
XXXIII.-THE BLATHRIE
33
o't,
II.
I'll
I'll
For
virtue
And
is
rot.
III.
Tho'
We
we hae nae
will toil
we'll find
it
the blaithrie
o't.
V.
lent
content
For they say they hae mair pleasure that wins but a groat.
Than the miser wi' his gear and the blaithrie o't.
VI.
not meddle wi' th' affairs o' the kirk or the queen.
They're nae matters for a sang, let them sink, let them swim;
On your kirk I'll ne'er encroach, but I'll hold it still remote,
Sae tak this for the gear and the blaithrie o't.
Vide Reliques.
I'll
As
it is
of
ed by Burns were written in the time of Queen Anne, perhaps about the year 1710.
is
strain to this
title
Compa-
it
human
an oc-
tave higher.
XXXIV.
LUCKY NANCY.
In Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany
verses are directed to be
Davie.
''''
Museum.
these
air
truly comic
of " Dainty
34
LUCKY >rANCY.
XXXIV.
ford's
Dancing-Master,
published in 1657.
first
It
is
clear,
therefore, that there was a song under this title, long before
the well-known story about the Rev. David Williamson and
From
the letter
being affixed to
tells us,
the song.
this
song in Ramsay's
but the
was induced
Ramsay
houselee to
is
In a communication, however, by Lord WoodMr R. H. Cromek, his Lordship says, " I have
good reason
to believe, that
song
this
by good
Ramsay's Collection,
critical observations
vol. ii.
So7iffSi
and biogra-
p. 188.
XXXV.
by Mr Jonathan Battishill, a celebrated English compowho obtained the gold medal in 1770 for his well-known
ser,
Underneath
This
at
Young
Burns
says, that
" Kate of Aberdeen" is, I believe, the work of poor Cunningham the player, of whom the following anecdote, though
told before, deserves a recital.
"A
in
as the
church,
his na-
se-
his
XXXV.
35
of that pool. This, Mr Woods the player, who knew Cunningham well, and esteemed him much, assured me was
true.""
The
Reliques.
Mr
late
Durham
He was born in
nativity.
the
At
he wrote several
little
still
admired, and he
Love in
a Mist, before he was seventeen. Although both his voice
and figure were rather against him, his passion for the stage
obtained so strong a power over him, that he secretly left his
parents,
left, viz.
He
obscurity.
pieces, and, as
Mr
Love.
Here he wrote
by whom
gaged by
Mr
Digges,
He
Digges' management of
and which,
home.
At
mo-
Mr
derate subsistence,
he used emphatically to
call his
several of the
Mr Cunningham
36
XXXVI.
TWEED-SIDE.
it
Lord
Yester.
When
Maggie and
I carried
my
noddle
were acquaint,
fii'
hie
plain.
she.
and I sang,
came nae great speed.
Therefore I maun wander abroad.
And lay my banes far frae the Tweed.
To Maggie my love I did tell,
I whistled, I pip'd,
I woo'd, but I
Her
Her
The
Flora
in
heart
pride
beautiful
disclose,
song,
What
beginning,
The
beauties
it
does
was printed
author was
in
Mr
the
Hamilton of Bangour.
Lord Kaims,
ter
vol.
Walter
Scott,
on the north
rose,
i.
See
Mary
who
is
celebrated in Crawfurd's
Tweed, about four miles below MelThis lady was a descendant of another celebrated
beauty,
side of the
Mary
Scott,
daughter of
Mr
Scott of Dryhope,
XXXVI. TWEED-SIDE.
in Selkirkshire,
famous by the
Scotland.
in
her youth,
youngest
in
sister,
traditional
Miss M. L. Scott
Flower of Yarrow."
certainly,
37
sister,
excellent
frequently
particular,
who was
rather
The
singers.
The Duke
her.
of Hamilton,
who
it still
Reliques,
it is
this picture
to a
Mary
name of
Mary he
is
un-
In Burns's
the poet was
celebrated was a
Mr
John
Ritchie.
As
to
Mr Gay
day
The
stag,
when
chac'd all
printed in 1729.
XXXVII.
MARY'S DREAM.
This
the composition of
Mr John
more
in Galloway,
Mr
first set
that un-
fortunate nobleman
for his
was the
eldest son of a
bound apprentice
Heron,
At
to a respectable
late
Robert
necessity of a parent,
By
his
own
to the feelings
industry, however,
38
of
Mary's dream.
XXXVII.
Mr
upon
These
the violin.
qualities,
many
spirits,
friends,
On
burgh,
the family of
Mr M'Ghie
who had
tleman,
from
college,
he became tutor in
In
this ro-
Lowe
pieces, of which,
in his
own
He
part of
and another
hand-writing,
He
Ghost.
it is
still
to be regretted,
to
it is
fine
song, Pompey's
now
to
be found.
About
this
time
Mr
to
Mary,
no
Alexan-
lost at
to
it
immortality.
It
is
presumed,
passion
but
it
was not
their fate to
young
be united.
no prospect of obtaining a
Lowe,
in
Mr
For sometime he
Wa-
who
unfortu-
39
his
Overwhelmed
an untimely grave,
into
fell
in-
mek
As
may be
it is
some readers
here subjoined.
!"
II.
She
lifted
be.
III.
The wind
But soon
He
when we
wak'd and
it
And God,
Who
slept
he bore us
left
the bay,
rais'd the
down
main.
the deep.
strave wi'
stretch'd his
Tho'
laith I
1 look frae
Sae,
nlair for
me
IV.
Take
Which thou
hast faulded
Cro-
in the
it
interesting to
I.
The
Mr
Lowe
down
for
me
stole
wi' thee.
in
XXXVII.MARY'S DREAM.
40
wing.
flapt his
said.
for
ee.
me
XXXVIII.
NEW
This second
set
the composition of
my
Mr
friend
is,
I believe,
Mary M'Ghie,
SEA.
We are indebted both for the words and music of this fine
Thomas Augustine
It
Mr
Tenducci
Garden
Mrs
in
Dr Arne was
February 1762.
the brother of
of Michael Arne,
Many
Dr
of
who
likewise
became an
it,
he frequently dropped
He
"The
excellent musician.
Covent
Dr
is
generally
at
London
a spasmodic complaint,
in
Dr
died there of
XL.
fine pastoral
Mr
Robert Dud-
Some
(still
unpublished)
^'^
Melodies.
The
editor never
met with
5
this
Highland song,
Mr
Dudgeon's
it
41
GOATS.
.verses.
XLI.
This
melody
old
is
a manuscript music-book,
inserted in
in 1709,"
now in
The
my
I wish
That
in the
poetess,
Muse.
Christian era.
It
is
is
six
said,
own
self
The
the sea.
was Ambrose
translator
Mr
been
set to
Philips,
is
music by
Mr
This
spirited
Stubley, as well as
ever, continues to
Esq. the
allowed to have
who
It
still,
by
how-
air.
The
lovely maid,
how
dear^^s
air,
initial
beginning, "
in the
Tea-Table
left
no clue
XLII.
LOGAN WATER.
This
script
book
to this air
.
in 1709.
Though
itself,
which
is
slow,
: !!
XLII.LOGAN WATEH.
42
plaintive,
that
it
was adapted
at
nevertheless,
it is
certain,
;
it began
Ae simmer night, on Logan
different cast
braes,
I ken'd
I would,
The
of delicacy.
The
is
was
done.
an unrelenting foe
to love,"
Seasons,
the
a'
verses in the
written
when
ken now,
&c. &c.
of the song
rest
glaiks
what
About
the year
air,
at
Vauxhall and
May
23d
1789.
LOGAN WATER.
By Mb. John Mayne.
Bt Logan's
Fu'
Nae mair
Mr
of
Mr
Mayne was
43
In a
of considerable antiquity.
letter to
a cor-
"I remember
Logan
These two
lines
stanzas to the
Dr
Mr
letter ad-
ever,
my
dear
felt
sir,
who
divide
desolate provinces,
and
more ignoble passions ? In a mood of this kind toLogan Water; and it occurred
me, that its querulous melody had its origin from the
from
still
plaintive indignation of
at the
whelmed with
ruin.
some
tyrannic strides of some public destroyer, and overprivate distress, the consequence of a country's
hour's meditation in
my
composed
elbow
LOGAN WATER.
By Robert Burns.
I.
glide.
bride
years sinsyne hae o'er us run.
II.
feel-
an
merit."
And
my
in three quarters of
chair,
to
bow'rs.
breathinar flow'rs.
44
LOGAN WATER.
XLII.
morning
Blytlie
And
lifts
Logan
far frae
braes.
in.
Amang
her nestlings
sits
the thrush
O wae
state.
to deadly hate
As ye mak mony
Sae
may
it
to
Logan
braes.
and
printed at
Songs,
Irish
1816, four
18mo.
Mayne's
song.
stanzas
additional
They
Scottish, English,
considerable
possess
vols,
annexed
merit,
to
and
free
from
absence on
altar of
and
so
many
Scottish bards,
tedious.
by
falls into
after
ALLAN WATER.
This tune
is
no
title
prefixed to
it,
so
it
is
uncertain what
it
was
It has
called
XLIII.
ALLAN WATER.
45
some reason
There
My love Annie's
is
to believe
very bonnie,
as
My
titles,
The
Museum,
in the
What numbers
verses
my muse
They were
ed
shall
adapt-
first
in 1725.
The
shire,
which takes
its rise
is
by Dunblane, discharges
itself into
The
poetical works.""
Museum,
to 1776.
^*t-^ songs
it
stands in the
is
Herd's copy.
\i"f
It
" This
Dr
was supplied by
(says Burns)
is
is it
in
Beattie, subsequently
These two
lines,
are unequalled
and the
in't.
the stair."
lines,
first
About
poet.
It
is
ain.
long posterior to
last lines
it
came
first
Ramon the
Dr
46
XLIV.
HOUSE.
streets as a ballad,
Thus
Mr
Burns.
far
at con-
At
ballad.
to a Miss
first
he seems
to
to ascribe it
who
died in the
1765.
The
Town
conclusion were,
3d April
Hospital of Glasgow, on
wo, That
Mr Cromek
to
form
it,
and
this
pupil
affirm
it
2do,
'
was written
ballad,
There''s
in Crawford's-dyke,
the town where her father lived. I do not recollect that I ever
it
it
sition
Qtio,
The
it
My
aunt,
Mrs
as a song of Jean
Mr
Mickle
supposing Jean
it
it
known
ed
it
as
it,
Mr
Cromek's own
Adams
Mr
asser-
Mickle was
repeatedly declar-
when Mr Mickle was living to discan now only be matter of sincere re-
to be her's at a time
prove her
gret, that
title to it
it
4T
Mr Mickle's
known
an author.
as
poems were
sent to
Mr
in print,
Mickle was
Lord
Lyttleton,
who was
so delighted
directed,
The
poetry.
Adams'
Mr
idea of
is
really too
Mickle never, in
all
Jean
absurd to
probability,
heard of her name, nor the story of her claiming his ballad as
her
own
The
life.
Mr
putable right.
now
indis-
Cromek's own
words
" As the
editor,
Sim, A. B. editor of
Mr
friend,
incloses,
ballad to
Mr
(Mr Cromek)
it
in conceding the
MicJcle.'''
Dear
Sir,
Since
py of which you
I received
Mr Mudford's letter,
(a co-
among
lieve,
Mr
from
Mickle's
its
be the very
MSS. what
to be-
sketch
of the ballad,
'
Besides
>
48
the verb
I;
mun
and
two stanzas
u and an
One
e.
a, at the dis-
lines
first
eight,
by
four or the
Other inaccuracies
last
a^piece
will perceive
"
Since I wrote
Mr
recollects,
and explained
little assistance,
and
the whole of
the song, except the eight hnes, which I have, and I think
Dr
When
Beattie.*
I asked her
coming
said
me
at the time to
diffi-
have
a paralysis.
"
his
own
poetical powers, to
On
and
certainly too
much
Aberdeen.
The eight lines omitted in Mr Mickle's copy are likewise not to be found in
Herd's early edition of this song. They are as under
" The
That
thrilled thro'
my
heart,
Mr
51
XLVI.
is difficult
now
go
beginning, "
spring,"
one morning
early,
is
the
in
and
it
is
said,
" As down on
Banna's banks I strayed, one evening in May," is the com" This anecposition of Mr Poe, a counsellor in Dublin.
his
confinement in Bedlam.
lady, the
M'hom
Mr
second,
who
verses.
Molly'
The
"
How
in its core."
Reliques.
last set
we
Had
I a
pen of the
late
introduced
it
in 1775,
Mr Herd
and performed
at
Drury-
p.
little interest.
XLVII.
LASSIE.
last century,
is
by
Mr
Gay,
for a tune to
one of
It
was
his songs,
also se-
in his
mu-
52
THE
XLVII.
BONNY
COLLIEIl's
sical
Mr Gay
wrong's decided."
of other Scottish
"
LASSIE.
When
it.
number
and
right
selected a considerable
Though
partly
is
written the
Duke
of Grafton,
refused to license
who was
it,
what motives
Walpole and
his party
is
it
then
but from
It was, however,
and
friends,
in
much money
it
and
as he could
at the theatre.
gan thus
" The
collier
And, 0,
laird
she's
has a dochter.
unco bonny
The
colour
o'
her daddie."
may be
Mr George
seen in
set
of verses to this
Thomson's Collection
air,
which
but they
There
is
entitled,
" 'Twas
is
rea-
ed in Playford's
The
air is also
key of
first
volume of
minor.
The words
in the
Museum,
it is
in
the
beginning,
XLVIIT.
" 'Twas
53
mo-
composed by
Mr
a new
air,
known
well
XLIX.
MY
The
ject,
ning,
The
appear in Oswald.
verses in the
Museum,
excellent song
title,
rowe thee
My
I'll
rowe thee
begin-
There
however, which
is
is
an
much
It begins,
My
And
I'll
My
The
verses,
row thee
were written by
At
gloamin,
if
my
fine songs.
lane I be.
And mony
Wi'
thee,
my
I've courted
kind dearie,
till
Of honest chanticleerie,
;
Yet never mist my sleep ava.
Whan
wi'
my
kind dearie, 0.
O.
sae dark.
O,
54
XLIX.
O.
While
me
sae
L.
in
its
file
of Ramsay,
It ap-
by
which
letter
Ramsay
in
intrinsic circumstances,
is
it
may
fairly
be
Covent Garden
The
*'
ning,
by
Mr
Museum,
He
riod he
Stair
and
Sir
to
At an
begin-
were written
early pe-
latter
of
whom
he was
So
title
of Sir Robert
in the
53d
BLINK O ER THE
LI.-
OO
Aaron Hill,
James Thomson, David Mallet, and Allan Ramsay.
In the Orpheus Caledonius the two following verses of
several eminent poets of his time, particularly
As
By
As
ivys, oaks
do love.
twining round aspire
So I my Betty love.
So I my Betty woo
I coo as coos the dove.
And twine as ivys do.
And
By
As
living fountains
do
The measure
of these stanzas
lent.
is
" Lass of Patie's Mill," to which air it is probable their author had intended them to be sung.
But Thomson, in
adapting the old air to these two stanzas, in his Orpheus Caledonius has taken some liberties with the melody
and,
by
Museum.
The
original
rectified in
sweet Betty,
The moon
It's a' for
the sake
That ever
I tint
lassie let
Until
It's
it
and
it
thunders.
me
o'
day.
be break
And Betty
sweet Betty,
o'
my way
my bread.
my ale
brew
;!
; ;
56
LI.
And Betty
When
shall
be
my
Blmk over
love,
dale
And
My
LIT.
JENNY NETTLES.
Mr
Chalmers,
lines
This old
attri-
Ramsay himself. He is
much more ancient, though
so far right
belong to a
Ramsay,
uncommonly
air is
here inad-
is
pretty
and,
when
delightful air
was formerly
called,
"
LOVE.
Jean, I love
thee ;" but the words of this ancient song are supposed to be
lost.
adapted in the
Mu-
was
When
in 1724,
and again
in 1725,
Ramsay
cer-
set to
The
Disappoint-
When
is
printed in
Henry
Playford's
London, 1685.
I, p. 5.
nymph
my
I love,
no more
flame remove.
as they I'eturn
And
my moan.
too well
" Theater
It consists of the
LIII.
The
English
air
by Farmer
is
LOVE.
57
you^
in treble time,
but greatly
known both
BONNY JEAN.
This fine pastoral melody was in former times called " My
bonny Jean of Aberdeen," the last line of the chorus of a
very old song which Ramsay had deemed inadmissible in
This poet, however, wrote the song in the
his Collection.
Museum,
1723^,
and music
in the first
it
to the old
volume of
Adam
Craig,
collections.
22d of
November 1695, published a Collection of Old Scottish Airs
The
in 1730, one of which is " Bonny Jean of Aberdeen."
the concert held at Edinburgh on St Cecilia's day the
reader will find a plan of this concert, with the names of the
professional
lume of the Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh, and likewise in the Edinburgh Magazine or Literary
Miscellany for February 1792, communicated by the kte
Mr
My
bonny Jean"
London 1730,
58
the audience on the
author published
first
night of
its
it
O'ER
This old
air
slight variation
of the
first,)
was united
to
is
only a
It appeared
donius.
called,
" The
Harmonious Grove,"
ber 1733.
It
Novem-
is
Tunes by
Oswald ; but both of them are merely the old tunes slightly
varied.
LVI.
The
PINKY HOUSE.
of Pinky House was anciently
air
Of this
Lament."
remain.
It
Mr
title
" Rothe's
are
all
that
called
earliest
David Mallet.
I.
As
Sylvia in a forest
lay-
Ah
my
you
So worthless and so vain ?
Why is your wonted fondness now
Converted to disdain ?
!
is
II.
You vow'd
composi-
59
PINKY HOUSE.
tVI.
may
In shades you
:;
creation mourn,
Was
it
gave
To
III.
was
mankind
The
Alas
My
practice of
I see
itj
but too
made me
love hath
To
all deceit.
late.
blind.
could die
fill'd.
And
The
House
song in Johnson's
oft let
me
walk,"
of
Joseph Mitchell,
Museum,
said to
is
whom
beginning,
" By Pinkie
Mr
to the
riv'let lay,''
vol. v.
''
which
air,
As
is
for
love-
print-
London, 1731.
LVII.
lines,
air,
first
stanzas, each
of
The
four
last
still
they be-
Burns always
felt
this
for
it
60
in
LVII.
Here aw a,
Come
to
my
my
bosom,
TeU me thou
me my
bring'st
II.
III.
Wauken, ye breezes
row
gently, ye billows
my arms.
IV.
But oh
Flow
May
if he's faitliless,
still
Mr
to
George Thomson,
Scottish Songs.
my
Willie s
ain.
to
as well as that of
verses in
my
first
the
fused to adopt.
Mr
Thomson, "
which
to
it is
in
my
The
" Give me
to criticise
your
and
point,
either in a song,
essence of a ballad, I
this last feature
mean
and which
little
I ought
pathos, sentiment,
but there
simplicity.
you are a
You know
Of
trade.
opinion reprehensible.
Now,
is
a quality
is
the very
if I
mistake
foregoing."
LVIII.
in
in
LVIII.
170a
61
It is there titled
placed next to
This
pi'obably coeval.
is
tive state.
to
us in
primi-
its
ancient language of Scotland as well as of the coarse but lively manners of our peasantry in the olden times, circumstances
is
his-
torian.
inserted in the
Museum
is
in the
of stanza 4th.
last line
The copy
Orpheus Caledonius.
bang'd up her
And
is
It
burgh
This
air
It is there titled,
1598.
first line
no doubt of a song, or of
its
as
Now
is
and published
Mons-Meg was
castle of
the
Edinburgh.
in his
name
Ram-
Tea-Table Miscellany.
gang
Mons domi
Meg
castle of
with
Mons
doun, 10
On
sli.
to be
upwards of
Edinburgh
to
five tons.
*7*.
am
21.
Item
To
to the
informed that
Mons-
computed
now
is
adapted to
year
bein," the
chorus, which
lost.
to the
we hae
feet,
is
still
preserved
62
The
WE TWA HAE
SAE MEKRY AS
LIX.
verses in the
Museum, however,
in
BEEN.
They were
key
for ascertaining
"
beautiful
I never
truly pathetic.
left
no
Burns, alluding to
could learn
LX.
BONNY CHRISTY.
This song was
by Ramsay, and
written
it
of
Bonny
''
original
is
song was
and
is
it
to the old
The
lost.
editor
and wife of
is
It
tune
muse.
first
1724.
air
supposed to
is
his
to
be found
of Alva, Bart.
in the Collections
This old
of M'Gibbon, Oswald,
several others.
LXI.
This humorous
little
poetic
is
another
It appears in the
which denotes that the song had been composed time out of
mind, as Ramsay expresses
author was unknown.
in the
title
is
In Ramsay's Tea-Table
" For the love of Jean."
725.
entitled
sung
it,
is
Orpheus Caledonius in
This
It
to the
same tune
sort of relation
in the
days of Ramsay.
LXII.
O'ER
The
title
is
hills
and
far
is
many
It is
probable that
03
this,
with
England about the year 1603, when James VI. left his native
In the Pepysian
Collection,
is
A pro-
plaid awa,
or a discourse betwixt a
To
he
sung
to its
first
may
serve as a specimen.
From
burthen
dialect of the
line,
it
silly
old Scottish
begins.
The
the
hills
Jenny Juir,
hills
and
far
is
It
was made
and
Pills to
Ramsay only
altered
struck out the last stanza of the English song, which runs thus
There by
myself
That
I'll
sing
and
and
far
away
say,
my
Which makes me
But
To
if I live this
vow
I'll
make.
hills, Sjc.
64
Lxii.
Gay
o"'er
Greenland
and
coast."
It
patriotic ballad,
Queen Ann,
was
and printed
written
'
entitled,
Were I
The
laid
on
a loyal
the reign of
in
ry Volunteers,"" beginning,
&c.
&c.
This
of
latter ballad
&c.
was inserted
London
printed at
in 1709.
LXIII.
The
chief of the
On
tember 1513.
many
of Scots, and
Monarch, with
of his nobles
army, com-
his
Of the
field.
old ballad,
commemorating
but
title
of "
remain
the
The
and
in
melancholy
are
preserved in Skene's
in Oswald's Collection,
this
I believe,
many
It
all
that
MS.
with
also printed
is
OLD FRAGMENT.
I've heard a lilting
At the ewes milking,
*
*
*
#
'
The
The
loss
wede awa.
going specimen,
is
it
has been
by
ladies
no
all
of them, too,
life.
of their ta-
The
65
earliest
Rutherford, daughter of
county of Selkirk.
Mr
Mr
to
The
ments in agriculture.
A gentleman of her
intervals
by playing on a
his flocks,
flute.
The
so exquisitely wild
frain
but
to the attractive
young shepherd.
One of
and
pathetic, that
artless strains
of
he could no longer
in order to obtain
some
re-
infor-
mation respecting
he learnt that
it
up every
note,
his return
supposed,
Rutherford,
to play
he was determined^
air.
He
it
Delighted with
who
this
new
discovery, as he
no time in communicating
lost
it
and
to
Miss
however, to have a
lody,
if possi-
accordingly prevailed
home.
he
of the
set
Anxious,
Mr
in point of
Bangour,
literary society of
Edinburgh, so distinguished
Sir
still
abler
men, David
;;
6G
Sweet
is
But soon
it is
fled
it is
fled far
away.
II.
With
Full sweet
a'
wede away.
III.
And
way.
IV.
fickle
Fortune
why
Why
Thy
The
which made
of
a'
wede away.
and
air,
written
by Miss Jane
Elliot, a sister
late,
and grandfather
two of
also
Museum.
Miss
Elliot's ballad
year 1755.
manners,
it
From
its
close
is
The manners
Its
author
It
was so
Walter
Scott,
ed.''^eZig-w^*.
Sir
how-
fine ballad,"
of yesterday.
tertyre,
It did not,
" This
and
to
Mr Ramsay
is
discover-
of Och-
!
;
67
in-
I've heard
Lasses
them
lilting at the
ewe-milking.
dawn of day
III.
At
V.
Dool and wae for the order sent our lads to the border
The English for ance by guile wan the day ;
The flowers of the Forest that fought ay the foremost
The prime of our land are cauld in the clay.
VI.
lilting at the
ewe-milking.
Women
The
Forest,""
inserted in the
Mr
fine
Museum
at
Glasgow.
The Cherokee
My mother bids me bind my
and many
death-song
after-
airs
Indian's
hair,"
68
LXIII.
Her
were published in a
ed by
herself,
and
LXIV.
This
delightful
Yarrow."
that which
is
inserted in the
poem
still
remain
first
it
but
comr
which
Hamilton of Bangour
posed a
old song
Museum
is
identi-
Both of these
is
printed in his
be
cy
The
favourite,
which
ii.
is
MSS.
to
Collections.
The most perfect of
found in the " Minstrelsy of the Bor-
under the
title
of the Doraie
Dens of Yarrow
by
Scott of
The
it is
said, originated
C9
LXV.
THERE'S
This
MY THUMB,
It appears in the
strain.
I'LL
ancient Scottish
in this
simple garb, with the same verses that are inserted in the
Scots Musical
Maying."
Museum,
in the fourth
volume of
same air in Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany, 1724, beginning " My sweetest May let love incline thee," in stanzas
to the
From
had about
tune, though
The
nius.
unknown
this
circumstance
this time
is
it
evident
Orpheus Caledo-
are supposed to be
The ceremony
now
irrecoverably
lost.
it
is
taining sales
being
first
among whom
it
Ar-
It has
off
^y
We
this
symbol./See Judges,
likewise learn
their right
chap.
i.
strait
by
the
slight punctures,
contract.
Vide
verse 1th.
it
cord
was then
Ann.
lib.
tied
and when
let
out
parties to
The Moors
xii.
of
Lxv
70
there's
my thumb,
I'll
by
licking
To
this
way which
in the very
is
Scotland.
in
last
There's
or burden of
line,
my
thumb,
I'll
ne'er
heguile thee.
LXVI.
GILDEROY.
This song
is
improperly
titled in
Johnson's
Museum.
It
should have been called, " Ah, Chloris, to the tune of Gil-
deroyT
The
Museum
They were
addressed to Miss
of Kilravock.
To
this
lady, with
Mary
Hugh
whom
Rose,
Rose, Esq.
Mrs Forbes
son,
who was
his heir
and
successor,
but
His Lordship,
till
his decease,
and
patriotic
statesman than
It
may
safe-
memory of this
truly great
London, 1783, and says, that he never heard of its being set
to music.
It would therefore seem, that he never thought
of looking for the song amongst the productions of the
sister
LXVI. GILDEROY.
kingdom, for
it
appears in the
of
The
Gilderoy.
it
is
71
first
at
late editor
With respect to
EOYj" we learn the
other historians
proper author.
its
Seven of these
ruffians,
and
activity
of the
February 1 638.
tried,
^20^^
^^^^^
revenge burned several houses Z^''^;^^ A:w?2Sibelonging to the Stewarts in Athol. This new act of atro- f^^ /^J^^
offering
1000
in
his ruin.
The
inhabitants rose
They were
cured.
trial
and
his associates,
se-
on the
death,
at length
gal-
we may
gor,"
till
lows, in the
If
more of
to
it
would
after his
who
unfortu-
talent,
habited with him for some time before his being apprehended.
That
There
is
England
it,
Both
is
evi-
these copies,
first
edition of vol.
iii.
in 1650,
another copy of
riations, in Playford's
printed in 1703.
it
contained
many
tt
12
GILDEKOY.
LXVI.
This was performed by a lady in every respect quasuch an undertaking, namely, Miss Halket of Pet-
hook.
lified for
Henry Wardlaw of
ferran,
Pit-
appear
till
some of the old stanzas are reexpunged, and several from her
own pen
are added.
excellent
and unexceptionable.
tion here,
but
The ballad,
it
now
Herd,
Collections of
LXVIT.
The
Museum,
in the
LASSIE.
By
Orpheus Caledonius
rally attributed
to
The
in 1725.
Allan Ramsay
to
be
Though
don
in a few
months
neither William
made
its
appearance in Lon-
Now,
Thomson, nor
it is
and again in
Adam
sung
sally
Secondly^ It
is
a re-
of Roxburgh
1740.
Can we then
moment
suppose,
that
Ramsay
1724 ?
and sweet
as
Aurora,"
The tune,
as well
73
cellany.
sic,
in
Watfs Musical
Miscellany, vol.
London 1730.
iv.
LXVIII.
The
first lines
LASSIE.
Museum,
verses in the
first
person
who
His attainments
machus.
terature
and
science were in
editor,
li-
He
He
was engaged, on
still
more
liberal princi-
is
ascribed to
him
and
the wild
irrational
and published a
He, however,
Here he
establish-
ed a newspaper, in connection with a printer, which he continued to his death in 1805, in the 58th year of his age.
LXIX.
The
is
little air
of one strain.
is
supposed to be
lost.
The
old
74
my
Milking
This
daddy's ewes.
probability,
" To a
is
after the
union of
Broom
With,
The broom
of
bonny broom.
Cowdenknows
The
first set
blyth ilk
of verses in the
morn was
I to
see,""
"
it
How
is
first
Mr Gay
Broom
Cowdenknows
" The
of
In Mrs Crokat's
not appear.
if ever,
It
is
been sung.
but by
whom
this
strain or part
was done
it
does
The
estate of
Cowdenknows
is
situated
on
the east bank of the River Leader, about five miles north-east
of Melrose.
It presently belongs to
fessor of Materia
Medica
in
Pro-
Dr John Home,
It
is
inserted in the
75
LXX.
OSCAR'S GHOST.
The8E
Museum, beginning
form tliat faintly gleams ! were written by Miss
Ann Keith. The tune, which is a successful imitation of the
Gaelic style, is the composition of Mrs Tough.
three pretty stanzas in the
see that
LXXI.
is
air
seum
song
this
See No
to
When
Orpheus Caledonius
in
The
original song
"
Nymph
Mu-
In the
1725.
is lost^
to the tune of
is set
53.
of the
love
is
ture.
last stanzas,
The
ideas
conquering
viii. v. 6.
and
7.
LXXII.
is
one of the
be sung
Thomson,
them
first
The
of Endermay.
Orpheus Caledonius, accordingly adapted
tune, which he also calls " the Birks of EnderScotch tune.
BirJcs
in his
to this
may."
To a
finest
Ramsay
volume
al-
end with
vermay.
the shades
Ramsay
of Endermay,
of In-
76
LXXII.
written,
ment
by Dr Bryce of Kirknewton,
it is said,
The
to Mallet's song.
The
now and
lav'ricks
first
as a supple-
sing;
lint-whites
but
Behold the
very
is
it
The two
faulty,
and
hills
vales
Museum.
in his
is
to the pleasui-e-grounds of
site
The banks
Castle.
native
of the
falls into
May
mth wood,
are covered
both
or birch, holds
hirli,
This, in
all
probability,
is
say.
is
May
river
which
is
by Ram-
viz.
syllable
would
If the
signify nothing,
is
These
It
Mr William
who was a
Thomson,
professional
Endermay.
Now
shire,
there
is
which
spells the
it
word
into the
Garry, at Dalmeen.
Without
know
word
that
May
..
for
.,..,, ^.,.,.
LXXII.
same tune,
to the
ments of some
in
fair native
Maid of the
days, a
Ender were
Lowland bard
Lady of
Clyde, a
in older times,
77
river
the LaJce,
fair one,
Ender
ce-
We have in our
Why
then,
whose residence
LXXIII.
MARY
This
The
strain.
octave,
SCOTT.
very
is
ill
its
Orpheus Caledonius,
son's
in
Thom-
written
which
in
is
style.
my younger
that
lines each,
I have fre-
o"*
This celebrated
Yarrow."
fair
The
old tower of
Dryhope, where Mary Scott was born, was situated near the
lower extremity of Mary's lake, where
sible.
who was
as
renowned
her beauty.
keep
his
Mary
Walter
ruins are
vi-
Harden,
their marriage-contract,
still
was
Dryhope agrees
for
to
for which,
of the
By
to
its
first
Lilias
is
the
Mary
alluded
to in
Song,
No d6.
78
MARY
LXXIII.
SCOTT.
may be
so,
but
it
though born
to a very small
Yarrow"
to her descendant,
Flower of
*'
the banks of
the Tweed.
The
had been
The
my
which
to
late
reel or
dancing
bonnie
lassie,
number of
Mr
spey
called
is
"
is
sition is
first
But, in the
mean
The
the air) of
"
the
Maiy
is
Mary
Scott
of.
LXXIV.
DOWN THE
Mr Burns says,
Down
the
"
BURN, DAVIE.
have been informed, that the tune of
burn Davie,
David
of
beginning
When
trees
But he
The
in 1725.
Orpheus Caledonius.
Reliques.
verses
were green,
They were
written
by
^XXIV.
verses,
79
air.
I.
And
To
ween.
shepherd's as to kings.
II.
Let
skilful minstrels
sweep the
string.
Our
But
rustic
The shepherd
The
But
is his
heart as true
The
courdei-'s
But
'tis
na love
like
love
mine.
Burns, in writing this song, had a very elegant model before him, thouffh in a different sort of stanza.
It
following.
James Thomson,
softer
And
take
it
was the
80
LXXIV.
No
LXXV.
air
ed in the
was composed by
first
verses in the
Mr
The
that
by an anonymous
of eight
lines,
Museum,
first,
fourth, fifth,
and
sixth,
deemed
likewise
They
air
appear to
had been
BANKS OF FORTH.
I.
More
More
daisies fair
Bethink thee
Nor
fear
all is
what
last
is
a striking
LXXV.
ten
by Mallet
ginning "
SI
to the tune of
The
But
both of these poets are evidently indebted to an inspired author for the principal imagery of their songs.
love,
my
the rain
fair one,
is
fair one,
is
Rise up,
is
my
past,
of the turtle
'
Cant,
ii.
is
Arise,
10
ver.
my
love,
my
13.
LXXVI.
SAW YE MY FATHER.
This simple and
melody
pathetic
Herd.
is
verses, so far as
do not appear
in
any
collec-
It is
time past.
sic,
An
mu-
ii.
and
The copy
in the
We
Museum
is
In a note prefixed to which, he says, that Pinkerton published the spurious verses, beginning, Saw ye my father^ or
saw ye my mother, six-and-twenty years ago, (viz. in 1784),
and that though he pronounced even them to constitute an
now presented
made
I.
pouk yere
kame.
gay morn star
For the morning's ruddie leam !
But if ye craw na till the day,
I'll make your bauk o' silk.
All'
to recover
to the reader.
rosie
82
SAW YE MY FATHER.
LXXVI.
II.
Flee up,
my
up,
flee
Wha's
Is
it
Which
O, mither,
Gaun by
Any
on Cromek
?7^
whom had
for if
Herd and
Cunning-
at least a
is
mo-
But why
by another.
fabrication
silly
it
at-
Horsfield out of
i-
LXXVII.
The
wald's
air
first
of this song
is
Collection,
old
740
song are
still
of
set
occurs in Os-
to
have forgot
Some fragments of
It begins.
A feather-bed
it
memory.
preserved.
We're
a bad
but he seems
is
As a bed amang
nae sae
saft.
the rashes, 0.
in
the an-
LXXVII.
The
remaining
83
but the
song seems to have been one of those burlesque and sly sa-
on the
tires
The
the reformation.
also
real or
known by
the
title
of "
Cow
thou
me
The
Museum
in the
member,
it
was the
if
verses
I rightly re-
first
work.
LXXVIII.
LOCH EROCH
Thbre
The
first
SIDE.
Museum adapted
to this tune.
written, I believe,
The
by Balloon Tytler.
was
other, begin-
ning
taken from the air of an old Scottish song and dancing tune,
called,
Lm
o'er
young
to
marry
The words
yet.
of this
humorous old song are well known, but they possess more
Loch Erocht, or Ericht, is the name of
wit than delicacy.
a lake in Perthshire, the largest in the county except Loch
Tay.
LXXIX.
The
editor of the
"Musical Biography,"" (2
Lon-
vols.
sung
to the words,
is
'
Tis
woman
""
The
air,
to
be well authenticated.
its
first
five
may
nights.
Now,
at least suppose
King
if
Mr
him
at
84
LXXIX.
this time to
be twenty years
old, or that
And
pel-royal in 1674.
this master, that
was
it
in this seminary,
and under
Dr
Burney acquaints
intolerable, that
Church-Yard,
more
in
like that of
he termin-
lodgings in St Paul's
July 1707.
a young
own
man
years old.
The
cate stanzas,
Wit and
Bonny
was printed
volume of Playford's
in the first
Mirth, in 1698.
The
song in the
Museum was
introduced by
Ramsay
as one of
LXXX.
called,
''
pastoral
melody
is
ancient.
It
Traquhair."
was
for-
It ap-
Museum, beginning
is
believed,
bonny Btish,
is
lost.
acted at
1728.
Mr Thomas Walker
for a tune to
my
selected
The
The
My
Quaker's Opera,"
Mr
this ballad-opera,
85
TKAtlUAlK.
Traquair
is
rivulet
mansion of Traquair,
In
Quair.
on the banks of the Tweed. On the side of a hill overlooking the lawn is the old " Bush aboon Traquair," still pointed
out by a few solitary ragged trees, in former ages the peaceful
and
resort of innocence
Adjacent to
love.
this spot,
his
ETTRICK BANKS.
This
is
It is
Orpheus Caledonius
same
inserted in the
summer's night.
and indeed
lane,"
first,
in place of
was changed
;"
is
Museum, beginning On
Ramsay has left no key
does not appeal*, how-
it
it
barefoot
a'
into
it
her
the
any improvment on
Perthshire.
The
kirkshire
it
is
a river in Sel-
86
which
it
Tweed
receives the
falls into
the
LXXXII.
MY
and again,
in 1725, in the
1724;
music; but the editor of this latter work has taken some
berties with the old tune,
improved
The
li-
it.
following
is
MY
=zn:
<
^^g^S^Si^^P
LXXXIII.
has been
Mr
scotified
was born,
in
an old
The tune
The same
1725.
for a
MSS.
is
is
by the
fine composition,
IN.
probably by Oswald,
The
air
is
is
inserted
in his
sound senses
affirm, that
XXXXIII.
ME
87
IN.
with the music, in 1683, were not only English, but English
But, oh
And
And I,
at last she
The
truth
is,
He
was a grandson of
Sir
James Semple of
Beltrees, the
ambas-
very
lately,
and,
if living,
descendants,
his
" The
ed
collections, is
Museum "
it
still
Mrs Campbell
the
into his
made
may
head
of Paisley.
is still
to be
but somebody,
I believe
it
Works
was,
hands of one of
Burns
found
says,
in print-
meaning that
in
it of some seeming
more chaste and more dull.
to clear
at once
it
much
be, in the
indelicacies,
Reliqiies.''''
and
No,
Museum
who has
its
elegant, in which
all
had
Burns
differ-
LXXXIV.
selected
who
short,
who were
of
those, in
and
education, and perhaps incapable of committing the pure inspirations of nature to writing
in fact,
page 79 and
Though Mr
80.
Essay on
it is
in merit, nor,
Song,
Scottish
is
the Scots here than in any other part of his work, yet he
never seems to
lish
He
sit
is
either
tumbling
Even
his
own
Collection of
From
Scotland.
produced,
it
by people of
many of
If
fact.
and edu-
fine taste
and
still
to
be
sons of both sexes, [no less eminent for their talents than
their
rank in
With regard
society.
a very
distinct question,
Mr
is
But
it
is
is
indeed
foreign to the
may be remarked,
frae
in fact a
is
which more
ble either
plicity
lody,
artificial
is
likewise, in
displayed, than
is
compati-
of his pipe.
it is
modulation
Nay,
all.
It
me-
was composed by
doct, son
of
Thomas Greene,
the Reverend
Dr
London.
put
it
"
in his
Henry Robarts to
or English Harmony ;" and it was
Calliope,
name of
its
by
serted
first
The
Dr John Hoad-
it is
said,
were written by
Bishop Hoadley.
Mr Oswald
volume of
in the sixth
his
afterwards in-
Pocket Com-
It is a
it
and
is
most
Tweed.
LXXXV.
toral
its fine
Tea-Table Miscellany
ditions
it is
but on comparing
melody, in 1725.
marked
it
as
In Ramsay's
Percy in
his
tion, as
its
We can
ible.
copies, such as
in place of z
spelling,
marks, that he
is
matter of very
is
little
Reliques.
It
The
to
is
air
tune,
up
to the present
moment,
it is
to
LXXXV.
90
The
publication whatever.
sical
family of Gordon,
the
now
of
title
it
must
and both
from
their ancient
domains
in the parish of
Gordon
in Ber-
wickshire.
LXXXV r.
LEWIS GORDON.
author of this modern Jacobite song was
The
the Rev.
priest at
Shen-
translation
died before
nished
The
it
Part of this
with annotations.
but
Dr Geddes
remains in an unfi-
state.
air
of Lewis Gordon
old tune of
*'
is
had
Indeed Burns
noticed.
Woo ;" and Ritson also takes notice of the same circumstance.
The lad I darna name,'' who wore a star, was the " Che-
*'
vaUer
;"
is
likewise alluded to in
He commanded
name.
Duke
of that
still
is
occasionally sung.
It begins,
it is
to
fragment, like
mour.
The
a young
many
others,
verses in the
is
not equal to
its
Museum, beginning
this ancient
My
Peggy
LXXXVII.
91
It
is
one
MY NANNIE,
This
O.
Museum,
begin-
Ramsay, appear
in the
is
pily with
it
be adapted
is
adapted to a
My
by
Burns
it
can possibly
his original
its
we presume
effect,
it
it
neither be
will
deemed
ill-
the work.
MY NANNIE,
O.
By RoBEBT Burns.
I.
Behind yon
hills
II.
My
Nae
artfu' wiles to
May
ill
Her
win ye,
face
is fair,
my
Nannie, 0.
her heart
is
true.
The Lugar
and discharges
is
its rise
in the
Cumnock
lakes,
LXXXVIII. MY NANKIEj
92
country lad
And few
is
HI.
degree,
my
But what
O.
how few
they be ?
I'm welcome ay to Nannie, 0.
care
And
But
My
thoughts are
guide
it
cannie,
my
a'
Nannie, 0.
IV.
view
and kye thrive bonnie, O ;
But I'm as blythe that bauds his pleugh.
And has nae care but Nannie, O.
Come weel, come wae, I care na by,
I'll tak' what Heav'n will send me, O,
Nae ither care in life have I,
But live and love my Nannie, Oi
His
delights to
isheep
LXXXIX.
OH ONO CHRIO.
Dr
but quite
lection,
different
air,
in the
is
Museum,
at Glencoe, in
by a
Campbell of Glenlyon.
many who
carnage, and
For a
reign and
;;
III, see
Glencoe
is
ministers of
on the
King William
historians.
is
some
of this lament.
Some
.'
98
OH ONO OHRIO.
LXXXIX
and celebrated
';
warrior.
xc.
LOW DOWN
IN
THE BROOM.
In
bald states
it
bert
Smyth
at
iii.
p.
274, Sib-
Wedderburn's godly
It begins,
My
&c.
He
hint
minde.
in
me.
&c.
&c.
This
Collection.
My
daddy
is
Herd rescued
melody
beginning
carle, does
from the
it
stalls,
and gave
it
canfcer'd
David
a place in his
in his Caledonian
In the
Museum
there
title
is
air.
xci.
I'LL
This
was
beautiful air
ballads, in
I 'feo'^'
Sibbald
Wedderburn's
spiritual
1549, beginning,
Ah my
me not,
Lief me not, lief me not,
Ah my love leif me not,
!
love
leif
music of which
original air of
is
alone.
&c.
Thus mine
probably a
&c.
"^ I'll
little
&c,
in
ed
This opiis
mention-
xc.
94*
I'll
WiUiam
the Rev.
WiUiam
Raitt,
and
of
Edin-
This
Colvill,
in 1683.
Several of Geddes"'s
"
have the
who
to very
honny broom
I'll
and such
the hadder,
like,
Well
these,,
go
all
pull
ment."
The
Leave
Ramsay wrote a
poetical dialogue
" Tho'
Nelly, beginning,
and
mair,'' to this
chorus or burden.
Watts printed
this dialogue,
iv.
with the
London, 1730.
It
"
to join
This
Reliques.
Tea-
is
in the
Orpheus Caledonius.
was printed
The
Mary
Mary
It
together.''
is
like the
The
title
Shade, written by
Thomas
for
Dr
hority I
am
The
composition of this
discover.
The
editor of Albyn's
XCII.
Anthology,
95
" In the
London, published
adventurers in
Companion,
Caledonian Pocket
his
in two) in
and
editor
he
is
among
The Braes
name would
tish
melody
Midas, his
live as lona: as
pieces of vocal
credit
in the burletta of
may proudly
class
him
with King James the First, the Earl of Kelly, and a few
Without entering
into
wald
musician,
the
it
I.
may be
remarked,
that
Oswald
published his
Pocket Companion
which he
pages
calls
numbers,
November 174^.
no claim
periodical
six
Magazine
in
to
it
by the
The Braes
asterism,
In the
number, ap-
fifth
The
is
air,
it
is
ascribed to
annex-
him
in
is
of
to moderate," another
Midas, written by
song
Mr Kane
composed
Oswald
" Lovely Nancy," in
it
;;
96
xcnr,
CORN
RIGS.
O CORN
And
And
The
tune appears in
Craig'*s Collection, in
1730.
Craig
he
Edinburgh con-
cert in 1695.
The
me
i.
p.
own
peculiar manufacture.
133,
serve as a speci-
n.
A SONG.
Sawkey was tall and of noble race.
And lov'd me better than any eane ;
But now he ligs by another lass.
And Sawney will ne'er be my love agen.
gave him fine Scotch sark and band,
put 'em on with mine own hand
I gave him house, I gave him land
Yet Sawney will ne'er be my love agen,
I
I
Mr Gay
bold
when honour
beginning
calls," printed,
" Should
I not
be
in 1 729.
xciv.
MY APRON,
The
DEARIE.
The
97
much honour on
Caledonius, 1725.
may be
ii.
seen in
the
worthy composer.
in 1776.
it
has re-
It is
in this
work.
In a
late publication
Airs,
ed
My apron,
be called in question.
served in
its
in his
Edinburgh
part,
pre-
melody
it is
Collection of
in 1730,
where
it
first
it is
as-
whom
he had then
asser-
melody was
origi-
made in 1816,
nally imported
My
me
apron dearie."
" The
internal
98
XCIV..
evidence," he says,
MY APUON, DEARIE.
appears to
*'
me
strong for
its
being a
more completely
it
was
it
words to an
which,
air,
To
infancy."
If
it is
these observations,
pheus Caledonius
in Eraser's
in
it
book of two
parts,
strain,
with that
swells,
mon
and
two melodies.
xcv.
This
fine
Farewell
to
LOCHABER.
old melody, as well as Ramsay's song, beginning
Lochaber, and farewell
it
ment
to
my
From
1725.
friend,
it
in compli-
probably a native of
John Duke of
long be remembered.
This
is
is
perhaps
lost.
it is
is
in Craig's
Collection.
Here we
have one proof, that although the old melodies have generally
to,
artists.
Some
many
of these alterations,
improvements, but in
by injudicious alterations,
is
frequently
XCV. LOCHABER.
99
destroyed.
to the
sheets
but
it is
Mr
flat.
xcvi.
;"
My father^'s a
"
in the
delver of
Orpheus
annexed.
is
t.
And
a wearie wight
am
I.
III.
to
my
grannie.
lang.
Ramsay wrote an
ginning Ti's
of the
last stanza,
and
in place
at
vit/ first
prayers.
The
his
song,
let
me
be.
The
editor of the
Orpheus Caledo-
idO
rejected
Ramsay's
verses, of
fell
life,
young man of an
and
and
ballad of
fa-
inferior station
It begins
gard
me weet my
cheeks.
my
een.
my father's will.
Nor yet my mither's desire.
That e'er I should file my fingers
It
was not
Wi' mucking
o'
Geordie's byre.
thus:
The
Had
And
This beautiful
air,
humorous
it
when played
The
cast.
slow,
is
tune appears in
title
of "
The
all
of a very
Mrs Crokafs
book, in
three
must have been the name of another old and now forgotten
The
Museum, beginning " As
the
were written by
lines,
Mr
James
verses to which
I
it is
adapted in
Ty tier,
There
is
BIDE YE YET.
as rich a vein of lively and innocent humour
any
to
in
It
fire.
It begins
101
is still
anonymous.
Some
by-
stanzas also,
much
afflicted
victim.
by composing
Scottish songs
Graham's song
It
was
is
highly spoken of
by Burns,
it is
The Wayward
title
of
two
lines
my
son,
II.
When
annexed.
vmder the
S^c.
102
too.
Were
you.
stronger
And felt
men
than
I or
by their dears.
the distaff and the sheers.
baffled
S^c.
VI.
These
Lauder.
544.
three
see
Notes on Song
No
.'^
XCIX.
BONNIE DUNDEE.
known
in Skene's
title
of "
Adew
is
certainly
delicate,
as usual,
The
was
made
it
Dundee.
It begins.
Where
got'st
With
Where being
And
free.
BONNIE DUNDEE.
XCIX.
The
first
first
The
monly
lOS
bannocJCf which
lad,
iracom-
last verse is
pretty.
My
My
blessings
blessings
Thy
And
I'll
Aild
mak
Burns
dead
thee a
man
like
Mr
first
epistle
*'
added a stanza
do,
you may
to
set
it
'
will see by
Bonny Dundee.'
Mr
Cleghorn, farmer.
Mr Gay
But
it
selected
R. B,
God
was known
will
it
instrument.
prepared,
If you think
agoing
in
London
in 1728.
time, as
it is
This
mead,
song,
the
vourite
in the opera of
1762.
tells us,
The
that
was
first
last line
Mary
Love
in
a Village,
This opera, by
Mr
Mary
C.^JOHNNY
104<
as
it 19
AND MARY.
on a certain charac" She eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith I
a better
line in place
of
this,
faultless.
Miss Cately,
it
it is
list
END OF PART
FIRST.
105
ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
PART
I.
I.
The
MS.
Burns's
is
note,
in
his
Mr Macvicar
interleaved
copy of the
Museum, which
states that
Dr
Blacklock.
But no
particulars respecting
vered.
first
1758.
title
of
being a
I.
W. Gor-
12mo.
II.
There
is
no kind of evidence
Thomson, indeed, in
Orpheus Caledonius, 1725, ascribed to " David Rezzio"
this and six other old tunes ; but, in republishing that work
his
in 1733, the
name
These were
1741^
ofl
his
own
his leaving
When
To
compositions
as a friend of his, in
Edinburgh, says.
106 *
And cheat
to the Preface of
work.
this
In asserting
correct
MS.
for
be an old tune,
this to
we
find
''
An
thou wer
Mr
Stenhouse was
myn oun
thing," in a
IV.
Galloway, in 1742.
College of Edinburgh
was licensed
to preach in
1769
year 1770.
ferred
advanced period of
Dr
(in 1806),
life
cessor.
and
at a
his assistant
and suc-
Dr Muirhead
more
Dum-
fries
boroughs,
who
fell
Dr Muirhead
which
reflect
Chambers's Lives,
of Burns, vol.
i.
vol.
i.
p.
p. 310.
Rev.
some
viru-
440
See
him
by mistake William
is
him
replied in
May
16,
At
Dr James Muirhead,
pel at Urr, in the 68th year of his age, and 38th of his
Ministry."
LORD GREGORY.
* 107
V.
LORD GREGORY.
" O, OPEN the
me
in
" This
is
much
and
better than
'
hair,
my
scarlet
robes,'
is
as generally
\i.
married in Ireland
indifferent voice, as I
figurer in
the
she,
man-
while in Edinburgh
own
and published a
is
folio
volume of
the title"
his
Collec-
at
Mrs
at
R. Bremner's music-shop."
Minuets are mingled with the sonatas, but only two have
the names of ladies prefixed
Ladies Hope
of Gogar).
is
and Cunning-
extremely beautiful,"
(C. K. S.)
108 *
"
ROSLIN CASTLE.
VIII.
ROSLIN CASTLE.
some verses to
Mr
warm
he entertained
master.
affection
Mr Henry Mackenzie,
Blacklock, which
for his
us, that
Hewitt subse-
Duke
and Sub-Minister
of Argyle)
his health,
for Scotland,
under Archibald,
and he died
in 1764.
IX.
SAW YE JOHNIE
COMIN'.
Stenhouse mentions in
this
vols.,
8vo.
X.
Mr
New
first
edition.
The
first
collected edition
* 109
a'.
of this popular
" London,
The
On
tion.
The Twelfth
792.
XIII.
'
(C. K. S.)
" N.B. Our ancient Border rhyme runs thus
Our
of Bowelaw,
wig
of Boyrelaw,
am
after
clad.
XVI.
Mr
MS.
music-book, as in his
own possession,
Queen Mary.
it
As he mistook
a date
of that
but unfortunately
MS.
it is
to a
written in tabla-
not
much
MSS.,
too early
no
The MS.
Crockat,
1709," which
Stenhouse,
is
now
is
Mrs
Mr
frequently mentioned by
Sharpe, Esq.
XVIII.
Mr
of the
MS.
The volume
consists
the age
whom
little
there can be
little
formed.
of Curriehill,
Note DLxxxix,
it
it
date,
is
contains a
and
in
airs of earlier
are
known
to
MS.
modern notation, is
by William Dauney, Esq.,
now on
fail
to
be
THE TURNIMSPIKE.
" That person of the Kenmure family
tradition,
alluded to in the
THE TURNIMSPIKE.
* 111
loyalty,
morous song
terpart,
'
'
'
Carritches,'
'
'
lion in 1745,' in
His works,
in
presses of Paisley,
Stirling,
classic
with them, the sides of the Scottish lieges have been convulsed with them for the greater part of a century."
(Edition of Burns, by Motherwell, vol.
v. p.
299.)
Mr
"
1745,
and was
full,
in the years
was
first
a favourite
His
'
History of the
work of
Sir Walter
title
1745-6.
Composed by
the Poet D.
Graham,
To
the
Tune
of
To which
is
add-
12
THE TUBNIMSPIKE.
Poems by
Several other
printed and
that he
sold
in Stirlingshire,
and that he
The
known
edition
is
reprinting
although
it
it
copy
is
might be worth
Glasgow
Bailies,
on account of
his
being a Jacobite,
The world
that
To
live
is
devotion's bane
(C. K. S.)
XXXVI.
TWEEDSIDE.
John Lord Yester, second Marquis of Tweeddale,
died at Yester, 20th of April, 1713, in the 68th year of his
age.
Rhyming
Lordship
TWEEDSIDE.
* 1 13
of Auchinames.
have
by Robertson,
This seems
p. 371.)
younger of Auchinames,
who
when
his father
This, however,
would be much too early for the writer of the fine songs
which appeared in the Tea- Table Miscellany. In calling
the poet William, Mr S. and others appear to have relied
on the opinion of Lord Woodhouselee, who quotes a letter
from Hamilton of Bangour to Henry Home, afterwards
Lord Kames, in July 1739, where he says, "J have made
the corrections on the moral part of Contemplation, and in
it
to
Kames, 8vo
refers to
edition, vol.
i.
is
understood."
p. 97.)
The
(Life of
Lord
letter in question
printed in 1744
was a merchant
in
Mr
Hamil-
ton."
It is singular that
'
114*
TWEEDSIDE.
Ramsay
of
which
I think ascertain
beyond
all
Tweedside,'
'
Mr Ramsay
dated 22d of
of Ochtertyre, in a letter,
meet him
talents."
will enquire
In another
letter,
Dr
Blacklock,
Mary
whom
it
life,
effusions."
soy,
merchant
in
ii.
whom
first,
to a
he had two
sons, 1st,
* 115
TWEEDSIDE.
He
2d,
Ro-
to Jean,
His
father,
daughter of Ar-
It
the Poet,
'
tion of old
therefore,
plainly,
is
his
to
in
designate
to the informa-
According
of Auchinames.'
Mr
a mistake
in returning
to
Scotland for
interment.
In this Note,
Scott,
of Hamilton.
milton,
Mr
Duke
quite animated
when he comes
to
speak of this
by Ramsay
" Irresistless beauty " (he
says) " brings up the rear, in form of Miss Mary Scott,
a most elegant figure and
a full length, in white satin
list
with
what
is more powerful than all
thus concludes the
than the arms of the warrior, the art of
that has preceded
the politician, the admonitions of the churchman, or the
wisdom of the philosopher." (Tour in Scotland, vol. ii. p.
Another picture of " the Flower of Yarrow," also
125.)
by Ramsay, if I remember right, is in the Marquis of Bute's
portrait painted
possession, at
Mount
Stuart.
xxxvii.
" It
is
Mary's dream.
quite evident that this Dream,
116
Mary's dream.
One
is
Pale
of
too long
ee.
"
(C.
K.
S.)
the
poem
sure,
to
my
it
affected
reputation as a poet,
Lowe's
originality of
am
but I
In Cromek's Remains of
first
appeared, there
is
Mr
Burns
Cunningham, however,
addressed his
whom
he
Mary's Dream.'
XLII.
John Mayne,
LOGAN WATER.
" The
the author of
Siller
Gun," and
He was
long
Magazine,
May
1836, and in
for
1837.
XLIV.
who had
As
fate.
it
is
made
which greatly
defect
charming verses."
117
spoils
the
(C. K. S.)
" The authorship of this song" (says the late Mr Motherwell) " has been disputed, some ascribing it to Mrs Jean
Adams, and others
was
author
its
am
not
on the con-
\
I
'
cir-
We
cumstances on which
may
it
of a religious and
all
remotest resemblance to
it."
(Edit, of Burns,vol.v.p.308.)
life,
it
Had Mickle
himself in-
any
written evidence claiming it as his own composition, no
doubt on the subject would have remained; but the manucluded the song in the collection of his Poems, or
left
It
begins thus
is
true ?
hia
back
at last
1
|
common
118
Chorus.
^
to
at
war
vol. of the
original song.
Musical Museum,
for
When
What
is
Scotish song,
'
There
way
of the old
will be found at
page
244 of that most strange production called " The Scottish
Gallovidian Encyclopedia, by John Mactaggart."
Lonevidently
and circumstances
station
and
is
ordinary
and having
several years
lot for
* 119
To
fabulous bird on
Mount
The
may be
relished
by Album
ON ASTREA.
AsTKEA, why so pale and sad ?
all
the rest
Why
a pair of Scales
sky
Are valued
as they shine.
Rather
Whose
radiant
beams
touch
will
my
Yet never
Lament thou
shall aspire.
Shall see no
I'll
Son of mine
Like Jove
in spight
of time.
wings
120 *
The volume
lines
concludes
with
the
following
singular
TO THE MUSE.
Come
The walks
Thou mayest
pull, if
Wit
thou think'st
fit.
Thou mayest
SCORNFUL NANCY.
" I POSSESS a MS. copy of this excellent ballad, subjoined to an early transcript of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, which contains, what seems to me, an improvement
on the printed editions. In these, Willy enumerating the
dignities of his father, mentions
An
no peculiar
distinction
He
but in
my MS.
foot,
which
is
rest of the
LI.
in
LII.
JENNY NETTLES.
" There
is
JENNY NETTLES.
for love,
is still
* 121
The
pointed out.
following
notice respecting
'
usage.
stranger,
happening
to visit a farmer in
that
cir-
cumstance, and was shown the place where the cairn once
stood.
research, he
One
at least a cen-
to France,
who went
(C.
K.
S.)
LVIII.
William Scott
as the composition of
Sir
" There
tiiat this
is
a tradition in the
by
who married
Their marriage-contract
is
237-239.
to himself
Edinb. 1835.
from the
late
8vo.
He
122 *
"
'
Fye^
let
us a'
to the bridal
was printed
in
a volume,
Med.
Archibaldi Pitcarnii
stane Equitis,
Thomae
Poems
" Selecta Poemata
Doctoris,
Kincadii,
Edinb.
aliorum."
et
therein eulogized
printer,
by
" Robertus
the
is
first
person
who " is
Fribarnius Lectori
(piT^oixaaca
by the
S.,"
which
LXIII.
CANNOT
ascertain
where the
first
published.
different sets
It is also
of these
somewhat
A few
whom
1.
by
Rutherford
of Ormiston,
1735, in the
of fortune
Her
pathetic verses,
in
123
period of
Her
life.
at her
The
admiration.
Editor,
iii.
i.
edit.
1833.)
p. 358.
Mr
to
ii.
338,
p..
vol.
burn
est,
"
which begin,
was daughter
to
Selkirkshire.
is
still
Forest,
some imprudent
lairds or proprietors,
engaged
became insolvent in one
speculations,
year.
to
Cockburn,
124 *
Mr
land.
of
from his
in the intrigues
which preceded
is
supposed to
remember
having heard repeated a parody on Prince Charles's proclamation, in burlesque verse, to the tune of ' Clout the
Caldron.'
Adsit to
Mrs Cockburn
copy of the parody about her person, she was not a little
alarmed at the consequences especially as the officer talked
;
city.
coach were recognised as belonging to a gentleman favourable to the cause of the Adventurer, so that Mrs Cockburn
escaped, with the caution not to carry political squibs about
'
fantastic
thus
young lady of
The
fasliion.
first
verse
ran
I farther
last verse,
Wad
Na,
I'll
which describes
fence,.
25
They were
were assembled.
so accurately drawn,
that
One
runs thus
Who may
hear the
last
This was written for my father, then a young and remarkably handsome man.
" The intimacy was great between my mother and Mrs
She resided
Cockburn.
father's
in
Crichton
Street,
and,
my
character,
My
degree I
know
not,
last
for conversation
An
She
street-porter
and the
Edinburgh.
great
number were always hanging about the doors of the Assembly Rooms-
126 *
self.
plates of delf.
off
costlier enter-
tainments.
wittily
and
well,
and maintained an
if it
continues to exist,
My recollection
nearer to a
is,
interesting.
Frenchwoman than
to a native of
much
England
vieille
am
and particularly,
The
parties in
much
which wit
As
little
lodging where
trical
apt to
a farther specimen of
(Sir
Walter
Mrs Cockburn's
Scott.)
talent for
me-
municated by
Mr
Kirkpatrick Sharpe,
>
127
now
at Land."
1,
shall see
A portrait just
and true
Here's of mankind th' epitome,
Form'd in our right Sir HewSprightly, witty, gay, and glad
Thoughtful, serious, sour, and sad
Pray,
o-
is
TT
pie.'ilJ'rbaS'of
fn"pornr;.^t 'as mV.'!
ber
eliire,
Hew ?
don,
Haddington.,
for
-N
and died
at
Lon-
i7<;o.
We
find
Fond of public
And
Who
is
Hew ?
3.
Humane and
for
poor Sir
Hew
tear.
Who
is
Hew
the
lady
a4iiiirod
that
her
plishinents.
Forsakes no friend
oJice
iiig
to
he
to
red
128*
THE
"
THE FOREST.
FLOVv'ERS OF
6.
Said,
And
sends
Shows
him
tries
her tricks.
to the senate
fix
Hew was
first
returned
to Parliament in 1741.
the tune of
"
All ye Ladies
now
at Land.
1.
All
James,
fifth
Earl
Balcarras, married
Anne, daughter of Sir
Robert Dalrymple of
of
Hew
him.
The
frolic
took
its
inspir'd.
birth.
To
all
conspir'd
Fa,
la,
&c.
To
seldom to be found.
And here's to charming Elphinstone,
May she soon of two make one
Is
Fa,
la,
&c.
Robert
Dalrymple
Horn Elphinstone,
af
terwards a g-eneral in
the army. He married
Mary, daughter of Sir
John
ElphinstO[ie
of
Miss
stone.
Peggy Elphin"
Colonel Horn's
sister-in-law.
To
And
Though he be
pie,
Fly,
away
gentle Peace, -with downy wing.
And
to her
Fa,
far
arms her
Governor of Guada-
soldier bring.
Dalrymple
of
North
Berwick.
&c.
la,
129
5.
Come crown
And see it
quickly done.
Captain Kydo.
Fa,
&c.
la,
6.
Now,
To
this
Behold,
how good
a thing
la,
it is
to love
and
kiss.
&c.
Anne Keith.
And
let
name
It will
la,
&c.
Mrs Cockburn,
Miss
Catherine Cockburn.
Catherine
From
Rutherford
and
Mrs
it is
certain
was mistaken
"12th March, 1731, Mr Patrick Cockburn, Advocate,
130
in this Parish,
in the Parish
after
Mr
admired.
Burnet of Kemnay,
Mrs
in 1704, in writing to
" Je
suis
faites
She died
May
me
les eloges
aged 71
in
1749,
collection of
November, 1794.
2.
Sir
The Flowers
of the Forest,'
755
is
and when
said to
first
published
passed as
it
Mrs Cockburn's
These stanzas
^J
slay.
and of a modern
and
Miss
Elliot's
" The
says,
safely
in writing them.
Sir Walter
Border Minstrelsy, 1803,
following well-known and beautiful stanzas
printing
in
Scott,
may
it
Elliot or
* 131
in
it,
the
were composed,
Roxburghshire.
it
a lady of family in
ancient Minstrels
is
latter period of
" Miss
ed
it
her
Elliot
shaped figure.
am
indebted
life
had a sensible face, and a slender, wellHer manner was grave and reserved to
strangers
wit
this lady, I
had high
common
She
aristocratic notions,
to
conceal.
to read his
was
Forest
'
told
'
by a lady very
The Flowers
of the
make
She had
during
life.
detested the
able nation.
"She
remember
It
in
Edinburgh who
always stood
in the
lobby
1-32
lately-
city
improvements.
" Though a
is
literary character,
made many
acquaintance."
it is
stated, respecting
Miss
Elliot, that
" This
craigs,
then only
covered with broom and long grass, she received and entertained the officers, and,
There
is
tradition,
'
down by
in a
been equalled."
It is to
learn that
but
cannot
Elliot
published.
at least
Edinburgh
Mount
Teviot, Rox-
3.
Miss
Museum,
Anne Home,
beginning,
'
to
whom
the
verses
in
the
was the
eldest daughter of
133
Home
Robert
of
was married
to
The above
in July 1771.
'
The Flowers
1765.
The
Musical
Museum
there
no reason to suppose that they have been erroHer poems were formerly
is
much
She died
at
in the
79th
Sir Everard
Home.
LXVI.
GILDEROY.
"
The
song of
'
Ah
Chloris, could I
now but
Garden
for
nothing
In the
Museum,
his,
and a near
the song
relation of mine,
(C. K. S.)
is
Forbes and
a connexion of
sit,'
Mulberry
is
lady,
told
me
whose baptism
in 1668,
slender authority.
His character
is sufficient,
among
for
however, to
although his
134 *
GILDEROY,
established, I
and venerated by
that he
was a
We
countrymen.
his
know, at least,
Ramsay, Thomson,
lines.
It is
No wonder
that
AppoUo
To honour
That
blest
left
cleft.
At
And
ing lines
Colin,
The
My
you see
thumbs unus'd
And
The
to
is weak.
dance upon the reed.
since I play,
hear, your
humble
thol
servant, Hobinol.
bility, is
However,
To
my
first
cousin,
Mr
all
proba-
Forbes, mar-
Lord Gray's
family."
(C. K. S.)
LXVIII.
this
first lines
song
is
too
in the
who though he
mortal,
common
* 135
LASSIE.
shoes,
George-by-the-grace-of-God,' and Solomon-the-son-ofDavid ;' yet that same unknown drunken mortal is author
and compiler of three-fourths of Elliot's pompous Encyclopedia Britannica, which he composed at half-a-guinea a*
'
week."
(Reliques, p. 224.)
LXIX.
The
"
MS.
Lady Vane."
(C. K.
S.)
Like a turtle
I will
And drown
Unto some
desarts
My penetrating
my
that
is
gone.
I'll
weed arrayd.
wander and go.
But
my jewel
In the clouds of
The
for
Through the
Where
moan
in a deluge of tears.
stones,
all in tears
sympatMzing with
my groans,.
do reveal.
I'll
bend,
And
I'll
For a patren
to ladys behind.
darline
I'll
resign.
for
why
?.
hij
136 *
Now
And
Yet methinks
From
the evils of
life
to a crown.
LXX.
OSCAR'S GHOST.
as
Mrs Murray
whom
he has
Mrs Bethune
Baliol,
She was born in the year 1736, and died in April, 1818.
" Miss Anne Keith resided many years in Edinburgh
(51 George Street), keeping house with her elder sister,
Miss Jenny both universally beloved and respected they
were the sisters of Sir Robert Murray Keith, commonly
called Ambassador Keith, from having been employed in
many
world.
talents.
amused
He
me
He
after her
that
her
the
life,
by
did not
decease.
all
Sir
translating
know what
Robert M.
In a letter to
Mr
we have
You
Mrs Murray
She enjoyed all her spirits and excellent faculties
till within two days of her death, when she was seized with
a feverish complaint, which eighty-two years were not cal-
that
lost
Keith.
culated to resist.
Much
tradition,
and of
the.
very best
O.SCAll's
* 137
GHOST.
it
of Scott, vol.
iv. p.
Some account
in the additional
In the
desirable.
(Lockhart's Life
of Sir Robert
Note
to
Murray Keith
will
be given
Song ccxxi.
LXXII.
The
ascribed to
Mr
At page
Dr
tion,
is
erroneously styled
This
renders
it
written
by Bryce
period of
life.
Mr
still it
S.'s
were
at a very early
name
of Inver or Inner.
days,
The
people of Peebles, in
my
young
memoir
inserted of
family information.
iv. p.
Mr
493, there
is
an
" In
to
early
life
'
The
Birks of
was born
year 1713.
He was
scientific
138 *
Upon
the recommendation
to
employ
"
A Map
of
by
North, he was
licensed to preach in
June
He
composed
by
his friends,
his genius
Edinburgh
newspapers,
Chambers's work,
vol. iv. p.
and are
reprinted
in
Mr
495.
LXXVII.
MS.
Having ob-
am enabled,
through
139
^^Fp=f4I
H-t-LElT
f
-m-
-P-
The
-P-
#--P-
it
" These
extremely confused.
Graham
will at
it
airs,
Gordon's
MS.
however," as
is
Mr
the modern
Rashes.'
air,
known under
In Gordon's
KIST
-#
r
p- . -^^
MS., and
MS.
the
it is
HER WHILE
name
of
'
entitled,
SHE. BLUSHT.
-T-|
y^
4=-
is
a small
140 *
title
" An Playing
At Aberdein,
end
"
this colophon,
is
In februaree."
At
the
Anno
In Straloch."
xc.
J-
LOW DOWN
^ ift
%..
1765
and
l'
printed in
THE BROOM.
The
'
Lark,' at Edinburgh,
it
is
connected
Mr
about
five miles
refers to
'
north-west of Brechin."
This, of course,
vol.
ii.
p.
273.
xciv.
MY APRON,
The
dearie.
My
neglected,"
him
Mr
Note
to
Some notice
Song
ccvi.
The
title
of the
work
is
and English.
J. Yair, bookseller in
first
the
a choice collec-
There
is
I.
MY APRON,
DEARIE.
*141
in 1752,
There
is
The Charmer,"
published
12mo.
" The fourth Edition with improvements."
It is, in fact, the sheets of the edition 1752, with a new title,
and a few leaves reprinted to supply the place of some corresponding pages which appear to have been cancelled (pp.
at
Vol.
I. is
called
Vol.
The
;"
professes,
it
classed,
" Chronicle
however, as
II.,
He
vols.
name
is
best
known by
his
its
publication, in
May
1803.
xcvi.
REMEMBER
in
my
but
" muck the byre," her husband used to beat her every now
and then a meet return for her folly." (C. K. S.)
xcvii.
BIDE YE YET.
The
page 101,
is
this tune,
'
as follows
Alas,
my
composition of Miss
" There
son,
you
is
little
Jenny Graham
is
m^-de at
a beautiful song to
know
'
which
Charmer,' vol.
ii.,
is
of Dumfries."
the
This
'
The
am
The
Graham formed
part of a
142 *
BIDE YE YET.
the daughter of Mr
good-humour, and
to perpetual
Grahame
One
resided.
Lady
years ago."
fifty
Young
Miss Jenny
liam
at
Graham
Shaw,
Graham was
in the small
The
estate,
in possession
Lady
who
married
[the
of Avenel.
Mr
by the
Mary
Young's account
is
as
follows
of the daughters of
"
Graham
Miss Jenny
of Shaw, an
Hutton and
Corrie, of which
my
qualifications
When
with
BIDE YE YET.
143
when
was a boarder
at
I afterwards
this
Dr Chapman's,
grammar-school at Dumfries.
lady
the
Johnstone of Westerhall, who was one of the original partners of Messrs Johnstone, Lawson, and
bank-notes were
first
Company, by whom
issued in Dumfries.
on Saturdays, and
happened
to
tice of cursing
I shall
be present.
and swearing
Major
himself,
who
burst into a
fit
of laughter
when she
proposed to desist
would promise
to
was
if
he
told, several
known
thenceforth
in
Edinburgh when
I attended
remem-
know
to raise a laugh in
144*
BIDE YE YET.
Mr Graham
Graham)
nature."
Graham
"
follow-
Mr Young
"
am
satisfied,
must appear
who knew
her as
The
in truth."
anecdote, however,
is
quite correct
who
at the time
Guid forgi'e me
tub in
Mrs
my
for saying so
was never
in a
washing-
life."
Her
private uneventful
life
the pilblic;
intellect still
endear her
Of
and
to say, in
Hope-
Graham, remarks,
can offer
little
to interest
now
remains.
And the
as she
ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MUSIC
LYRIC POETRY
SCOTLAND.
PART
II.
CI.
WHEN
The
said,
gaelic air, to
which
GUILFORD GOOD.
this
song
is set,
was composed,
it is
by
when
period
it
was
first
"
exhaust volumes,
title
of
title
and meritorious
have
far
Museum, was
it
The
by Burns
written
but though
it is
The
incidents of this
nerally
humorous
it,
so justly merited.
air in the
style
is
unnecessary.
CII.
This
fear,"
ballad,
is
Avritten
TRANENT MUIR.
beginning *' The Chevalier
being void of
Mr
It
was
Skirven, an
106
TRANENT MUIE.
CII.
The
burgh.
eminent painter,
late
battle
of
Mr
Young
mander of the
Skirven of Edin-
king's forces,
Chevalier, at
The
September 1745.
and
John Cope
Sir
He
dation.
royal
from the
fled
was afterwards
field
tried
vil-
22d of
routed,
by a
The
following notes
some of the
Stanza
may
assist the
reader to understand
2.
same
pointed to the
and
5.
young master.
command
"
Cameron
a gentleman of
Stanza
He
valour.
He
Menteith
in 1748.
Having
he
pushed him over, seized his musket, and bore it off in triumph
to Cope's
camp.
Stanza
5.
"
And Simpson
reverend volunteer,
who
keen."
having a
On
in his belt.
rest.
Stanza
man."
"
7.
He
Myeie
staid,
and
sair
107
mangled
Stanza
8.
lant Colonel
Highland claymores.
by
<i-^'s<"
brave."
Though
his troops,
he disdained
dd--
Stanza
when
his
9.
extraction.
of the ballad, he
publication
after
left
Major Bowie
Mr
sent
move with
reported, that,
is
Skirven a
challenge to meet
Conduct in
awa
Mr
hack^'' said
Smith,
likes to
come here,
Jiave
nae
T'll
gae
tdk a look
tell
o'
Tiljust do as he did
Fll rin
Preston
The
old,
cient family of
entitled,
" Prae-
Edinburgh University,
sung to the same tune.
is
Its author
may be
Kennedy of Haleaths,
macaronic ballad
at
awa.''''
Gillicrankium,"
lium
Mr
Haddington, but if he
him, and if I think I can
to
in
Annandale.
This
is
Musical Museum.
cm.
TO THE WEAVERS GIN YE
Burns
GO.
My
is
old.
" Here
Alluding to
let
me
this
once for
all
apologize for
wanted words.
Many
many
sUly
of the beautiful
avocations, if 1
cm.
108
was fain to
them
let
He must
pass.
Aird published
adapted for the
it
the tune
in the second
violin,
be an excellent
Reliques.
excellent."
is
or german
is
volume of
The
pretty enough.
Collection,
his
flute.
CIV.
These
on the sultry
heacli,
expiring Streplion
the
guiding
o't,
lay^'' to
All lovely
the tune of
Dr
*'
known by
the
and habits of
life-
their friends
thought dan-
by no means adequate
To
elude the
to
bad conse-
with a commission, and perished in Admiral Vernon's unfortunate expedition to Carthagena, in the year 1740.
cv.
The
communicated by the
late
Dr
Museum,
it is
calls the
Johnson, the
tune lanthe the
quite a different
London,
Mr
air.
The
John Bar-
and was
Pills, in
were
Both of
Beattie of Aberdeen.
after-
1703, to
CV.ON A
109
was
by
selected
Mr Gay
arraignedfor
Oswald
life.
for
When he
holds
up
his
hand
same English
Book Fourth.
it
was adapted
to a song written
Garden
in 1783.
be-
by John O'Keefe,
The
first
posed by the
late
it
Dumfries) he
This
air
and by
is
all
Museum, and
They
In
in
it."
787, he wrote
August 1793, he
song.
* In some
whistle,
MSS.
the two
O
O
whistle,
first
(viz.
Reliques.
under
110
I'lL
whistle,
court me.
court me.
see.
(Sfc.
whistle, Sfc.
me,
a wee
&c.
fear,
whistle,
<Sfc.
CVII.
I'M O'ER
The
title
and chorus of
this
When
the air
is
the rest of
played quick,
it
it
lowing stanza
may
My
minnie coft
The
kirk
the gracing
Were
The
fol-
me
maun hae
I to lie
new gown,
o't.
sir,
o't.
To
tak
me
modern
Song
is
frae
my mammie
yet.
strathspey, called
See Notes,
78.
CVIII.
HAMILLA.
This song, beginning Look where my dear Hamilla
smiles,
title,
To
Miss A. H.
(i.
e.
in the Univer-
CVITI.
The
HAMILLA.
warld^
Mr
It
is
Ill
subscribed, 2. C. be-
Crawfurd furnished
to
Ram-
say's
of "
Crawfurd
Traquair,*" which
title
of a
is
the
in that Miscellany.
still
Mr
song of
Mr
first
as the
name of so
re-
Both the
Hamilton of Bangour.
Craw-
who was a
The
warld," as well
able to discover.
cix.
LOVE
The
IS
this song,
beginning
*'
By
X. to denote that the auunknown to him. I have heard this song attributed to Lord President Forbes, but have been unable to trace
it to him authentically as the author.
Mr Burns, however,
says, that the verses were composed by a Mr R. Scott, from
thor was
BONNIE May.
Both
the air
and words of
and the
sixth of the
strong proofs of
self, I
its
key
is
The music,
only, which
sti*ain
is
recitation, it
It
With
will
be ob-
altogether omitted.
antiquity.
was rescued
it
These are
it-
ballad published
by
Sir
knows
unquestionably
;"
Walter
Scott, in his
" The
original
" Minstrelsy of
Broom of Cowden-
112
"
BONNIE MAY.
ex.
fication
Both
Museum.
an amour of a gen-
Avhich
lass,"
Auchentrone I
parties.
sus-
in the
W.
Scott's
same county.
CXI.
MY
The
title
lad
tune
of "
is
very
is
The
ancieiit;
the
is
it
struc-
of a very
Ramsay, Burns
observes, that
frail
MSS. under
in Skene's
also in the
ballad, in
it is
keiking Glass."
JANET.
JO,
left
Mr
My
spinning wheel
The rock
state
winna stand,
o't
To keep
the temper-pin in
Employs
right aft
But
like it
o't
auld and
is
my
stiff.
sir.
tiff,
hand,
sir.
that ye can,
Janet, Janet
never wail a man,
My
Jo, Janet.
In December 1793, Burns wrote the following comic ballad to the same tune, in which he appears to have equalled,
if not surpassed, the rich
MY
humour of the
original
SPOUSE, NANCY.
Written by Burns,
to the
tune of "
My Jo,
Janet."
I.
Husband, husband,
Nor
cease your
longer idly rave, sir ;
Tho'
Yet
strife.
still
obey,
Nancy, Nancy;
Is
it
man
or
woman
? say.
My
spouse, Nancy.
MY
CXI.
JO,
JANET.
ll'i
ir.
If
'tis still
desert
And
my
sovereign lord.
so good-bye allegiance
will
Yet
I'll
I be
Sad
if so bereft,
Nancy, Nancy;
make a shift.
try to
My
spouse, Nancy.
III.
My
My
it
must,
last
When
you lay
me
in the dust.
Nancy, Nancy
Strength
to
bear
it
will be given.
My
spouse, Nancy.
IV.
Sir,
CXII.
written
SUN.
Mr
The
account of
its
it
on
CXIII.
Ayre."
in
title
is
very old.
The
call-
114
"
ed "
CXIII.
The
Burns composed
Birks of Abergeldie."
song
his
in September 1787, while standing under the Falls of AberHe was, at this period,
feldy, near Moness, in Perthshire.
Mr
his friend,
Wil-
Edin-
burgh.
cxiv.
MACPHERSON'S FAREWELL.
robber, in the beginning of last
Macpherson, a daring
century, was
said to
is
at Inverness.
when he came
upon a favourite
and, holding
violin,
While
up
It is also re-
he played
this
the instrument,
it
to
Reliques, vol.
i.
London, 1810.
p. 3.
That
this
me
to be partly probable
and partly
compose the tune even while lying under the awful sentence
of death may possibly be true ; but, that he played it while
standing on the ladder with the halter about his neck,
do not believe
which situation
a
violin or
The
it is
the
conducted
closely pinioned, in
him
to play
on
ballad in
the
arms
is
The
is
mouth of
It
is
;
but
it
is
by Burns.
115
cxv.
is
young widow
Museum
a fragment of
last
is
Galloway,
in
The
to Holland.
Herd published
stanza altogether.
In Os-
769.
is
copy
this
seum
is
is
The
very indifferent.
The
it is
ballad
is
air in the
It
Mu-
constantly sung to
to
same
Mr
was from
title
in
Bremner,
of Gordon,
formed the tune called " Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey,"
the late
principally
Burns
airts
lection of Gaelic
The
is
inserted in the
The Low-
air,
and that
it is
called,
The
This
O HAUD
Be
still,
And
he's
drowned
in the sea.
is
rather
Museum
is
116
CXTI.
prosaic song
is
select-
hi
'
;'
is
Mine
lay by night.
Selma
it
the hall
sleep.
mine
to
ear.
It
the
bosom of a swan,
Colna Dona.
She
my
for
she
hnew
that
it
soul
was a
Oina Moeul.
side
The
of " Todlin'
air
ed various shapes
which,
common
in
in
is
Oswald.
from
CXVII,
This
song,
sae fair,"
to
ne'er
the old
Burns informs
known
in the world,
"
My
life,
Highland
lassie,"
says he,
at all
" was
man
young creature
117
as ever blessed a
by the
spot,
matters
her
which hurried
fever,
my
dear
illness."
Mr
Cromek further acquaints us with the following particulars respecting the parting of Burns with the object of
" This adieu," says he, " was performed with
his first love.
all
those simple
and
The
awe.
brook
striking ceremonies,
which
lovers stood
on each
side of
its
rustic senti-
and
to inspire
a small purling
They
parted
never
to
meet again.
lively emotion,
solitary
resid-
on the
became
so great, that
side of
corn stack, and there conceived his sublime and tender elegy,
his address
with
To Mary in Heaven^''
Remarks by Cromek,
vol.
i.
p, 115.
London 1810.
CXVIII.
The
first
The
air
of
in Oswald's
is
it
is
an imi-
118
tation of
ses to
origin.
our
which
style,
originally adapted
was
it
They
air.
The ver-
to be of Englisli
seem
THE NORTHERN
LASS.
I.
Her
lass
II.
If
How
is it
that I feel
my
Within
No
But summer
all
the rest.
III.
melt.
felt.
And
balanced in extremes ;
Then, like our genial wine, she'll charm
With love my panting breast
Me, like our sun, her heart shall warm.
Be
Mr
to the
same
verses,
volume of Robertson's
Calliope, in
739$ but
Museum. The
it is
and
first
quite dif-
in Johnson's
Museum,
beginning " Tho' cruel fate should bid us part," were writ-
CXIX.
characteristic
melody
is
said to
be the com-
It
119
FIFE
AND
A'
in
imder the
Jamie's
Lad
allane,"
title
of " Let
title.
Mr
"
mun
Jenny I
Fairest
love thee."
cxxi.
WAD
DIE.
was printed
and again
donius.
in
It
The tune
consists of
a single
Orpheus Cale-
in the
strain,
and
is
evidently
very ancient.
CXXII.
is
undoubtedly
Museum,
The
title
of "
first
The
Thomson
volume of
his
in 1725.
it
Watts
air,
selected
it
auld yel-
more an-
Music-Book,,
far
when
with the
reprinted'
120
cxxii.
my
beginning "
this air,
When
first
intro-
cxxiir.
THE MILLER.
The humorous
verses,
stanza,
by
beginning "
miller,"
Sir
The
afterwards added a
Charmer,"" vol.
fifth
stanza,
ii.
in 1751.
Sir
John
as
too
ed form
Tlie
it
" Who'd be
lines,
and 1776.
beginning
No
in 17(>9
last
-See notes
on song
4^5.
CXXIV.
is
LADDIE.
my
song, which
air.
"
Wap
at the
title
Ramsay new-modelled,
Thomson very
pro-
The widow
can bake and the widow can brew," and united them to this
old
melody
in his
Orpheus Caledonius,
in 1725.
cxxv.
terminating on the
very ancient.
title
of "
The
fifth
single
CXXV.
Mr
Dr Haydn, who
harmonized
MSS.
121
it
for
On
the
Dr Haydn
favorite song."
The
first is
The
is
the
following
And
my
follow
of Gala
lads of Gala
coats aboon
my
Water ;
Water
my knee.
And
my
follow
And
Yet
tho' I
was nae
laird.
It ne'er
That
was wealth,
it
ne'er
was wealth
bliss o'
mutual
love,
'
122
CXXV.
The
heather
and
rhymes
rhyme very
But he
well.
tocher
better,
and
water
do
his
not
many
about
this point.
Mid
tion of
county
Tweed about
falls into
the
cxxvi.
This
easy,"
is
ballad,
Mr
another production of
I lay
most
this
work.
CXXVII.
MITHER DEAR,
O,
TO FEAR.
" Jenny dang
and enlarged by Ramsay, who, for
'GIN
name of
the
The
donius, in 1725.
lection.
old song
may be
It begins,
As
I came in by Fislierrow,
Musselburgh was near me,
I
And
Up
stairs,
Timber
down
stairs.
stairs fear
me,
cxxvm.
BESSY BELL
The
ten
first
by Ramsay.
is
it
was
writ-
CXXVIII.
to the old air in his
it
MARY GRAY.
123
cellany, printed at
London
in Craig's Collection in
in 1729-
730,
to that period.
The
ter of
Mr
Mr
Gray of Lyndock,
handsome young ladies, and very
daughter of
at
Mary Gray,
intimate friends.
Lyndock, on a
visit to
While
Miss Gray
With a view
to
Lyndock House.
Here they
They were
their
late proprie-
and consecrated
to the
Mary Gray
Mr Gay
selected the
acted at
London
in 1728.
cxxix.
STAY,
This
MY CHARMER.
my charmer^ can youleave me,
Lad.
strain, entitled
An
to
Gilleadh diibh, or
minstrels
air
The
Black-hair'
who cheered
and
oblivion.
124
CXXIX.
STAY, MY CHARMER.
this
;;
loaded with
strains,
trills^
crescendos,
graces.
in their ancient
disce
airs
omnes
cxxx.
is
Poems, writ-
A more
first
Collection,
Orpheus Cale-
was copied
into Johnson's
it
Museum.
The
to a private story:
well,
"
by her husband or
ii.
p. 194.
The
lover,
composed these
af-
having been,
or rather Boswell,
child, deserted
poetess
Who
felt
what she
ing stanzas, without feeling emotions of tenderness and compassion for the lovely mourner contemplating her smiling and
own
BaloWj my
boy,
me
lie still
and sleep
unhappy
sair to
If thou'lt be silent^
I'll
Balow,
Balow,
my
And when
But smile
Sfc.
To cozen maids ;
nay,
God
forbjd
fate.'*
CXXX.
For
125
The tempting
Balow,
Sic.
now
perhaps
he.
Balow,
my
Too
soon, alas
Thy
God
griefs are
growing to a sum,
weep
for
me
Born
thou'lt
CXXXI.
title
" Alace
Whether
it
first
we
1598,
ed to oblivion from
conjecture.
But
it
its
is
it
now be matter of
and the
my
latter,
grief,"
for
" Peggie"
still
in the
Gentle Shepherd.
CXXXII.
STRATHALLAN'S LAMENT.
This song was written by Burns, as descriptive of the
feelings of James Drummond, Viscount of Strathallan, who,
after his father"'s death at the battle of CuUoden, escaped,
with several of his countrymen, to France, where they died
1
126
strathallan's lament.
cxxxri.
The
in exile.
air
who was an
late
Mr
Allan Mas-
fine
Reliques
thiest
Edinburgh.
we agreed
As
living
to dedicate the
words and
way of vive
in
la bagatelle!'''
my
But,
heat-
Reliques.
STRATHALLAN'S LAMENT.
Written ly
Burns
to
a tune composed hy
Allan Masterton.
my
distracted mind.
Wrongs
injurious to redress
CXXXIII.
WHAT WILL
Edinburgh, told
air.
CXXXIII.
ing-
WHAT WILL
MY
DO GIN
IIOGGIE DIE
12*7
was singing.
at her door,
tell
it
it
down."
it
was the
late
Mr
But
he had no occasion
him, as stated by
Dr
Walker.
CXXXIV.
Caledonius, in 1725.
proved copy
is
adopted
""s
im-
He
gae to
And
He
his
bade
The
me an
beard
ell
me wear the
gae to
And
He
Highland dress.
I'll hae him.
Hout
He
of lace.
new shaven
his
aiva,
S^-c.
a ham sark,
beard new shaven
me
me
in the dark.
New
hose
And
* Haggle, a
his
The
128
cxxxv.
me, that
in 1738, informs
this
song, which
cxxxvi.
CLOUD.
air called
in his
inserted in a
possession,
under the
ginal song
is lost.
title
CXXXVI I.
WILLIE WAS A WANTON WAG.
This very humorous song was written about the beginning of last century by Mr Walkingshaw of that ilk, near
Thomson
Paisley.
published
it
that a
song,
say,
much
older,
is
aii-
in
probable, however,
by a judicious
It
alteration of
Ram-
first,
an-
JUMPIN' JOHN.
This
clearly to
"
Lillibulero,"
Purcell,
It seems
who
which
is
Henry
died in 1695.
See
J. Stafford Smith's
Musica
HandA new
Purcell, however, appears only to have made a
Irish Tune.
very slight alteration on the second strain of the air. The tune
Antiqua,
vol.
ii.
p.
in both of
which
it is
called
JUMPIN JOHN.
CXXXVIII.
of Lilliburlero was
fore Purcell
common both
title
in Scotland
129
The
tune
was printed in
" Joan's
itself
The
To
Ho
which made such an impression on the royal army, as to contribute greatly towards the Revolution in 1688.
stanzas, beginning
for-
ballad, with
They
are a
some verbal
cor-
rections.
CXXXIX
Mr Tytler,
ing
strain
melodies
as.
Gill
fifth
of the
scale, often
plaintive
affect-
may
Morrice
Laddie I
mean
is
Door
coat.
and
is
artless
old
such
of our
(character)
melancholy;
fifth,
tation
maun he
thee
to
By
this
be traced,
Margarets
which
130
CXXXIX.
still
sung by nurses
is still
is
its
reader
as will
is
The
simple
here presented
ancient purity.
ral particulars,
modernized as
The
so
is
ancient simplicity.
its
erroneous in seve-
is
it
with
the following
ANCIENT
a=3
hap ye
I'll
wi'
^m
hap
ye
my
my
m
hap
The
me
thy petticoat.
wi'
reader
ain
kind dow,
I'll
m Fi
FFF=P^
My
ain
kind
dow.
The
M=f=f 5z:S:
eE
w=ft
My
petticoat^
pet-ti-coat.
3^5
3^^
wi'
AIR.
from
will,
thin^
My ain
this
dearie,
on
me
rue,
And
kind dow.
The
song, which
pubhshed
in the
certainly the
the
silly
is
MlPd my
hearty
Bell^
Orpheus Caledonius
in
1725
to
but
it
is
To work
CXL.
131
CXL.
it.
The
verses in the
Museum, beginning
were written by
Burns.
Sir
John Hawkins,
in his History of
Music, vol
iv. relates
" The
during the reign of Wilham and Mary.
Queen having a mind one afternoon to be entertained with
music, sent Mr Gostling to Henry Purcell and Mrs Arabella Hunt, who had a very fine voice and an admirable
hand on the lute, with a request to attend her ; they obeyed
her commands,
Mr Gostling and Mrs Hunt sung several
in 1691,
compositions of
Purcell,
the
it
Purcell was
to her lute.
all
little
it
posed an
air to the
to Cold
and
Raw
of
;
words
the
it
May
land
is
this
and accordingly
the year
in
692, he com-
is
the tune
Scots tune."
As
Purcell's
Orpheus Britannicus
is
is
now becoming
scarce, it
132
CXL.
Hawkins
alludes,
reader.
It
is
will
it is
by Henry Playford
in 1702.
eSee[
^^
^m^^^m.
^
r^ir^
p__3::^
w.
\==1
May
'T.-h^
her blest ex
am
z
Vice
chase
- pie
in troops out
^-
."cJ
^E
Itzzn
--
i^
the land.
of
trembling ghosts,
m^
itZP
Mhen
daj^'s
aw -
her
ful
May
hand.
Like
face^
he-ro
her
^zrEfe^^ti^^^
4-
(^
at
b:=sr=!>=^ixi^^=^^z^^^
bring us peace,
is^
^'!n3t3fc:i=3=
Won
ho
nour
^-P
in
the
field,
^^E
g=z:K:izp
And
with
He
ii^e-
still
S=:iE
&^^^^^^^^^^^f
CXL.
133
3^
must have borrowed the Idea of adapt-
Purcell, however,
ing the old air as a bass part for his song from
who introduced
In
printed in 1652.
in the
Morning
John Hihon,
"
early"
is
my sweet Peggy,"
" Up
I'se
this
humorous
Mr Gay
This
voice.
wench Venus'
girdle
This elegant
mourn !" was
donia,
written
by Tobias
hapless Cale-
Smollet, Esq.
M.D.
1746.
in the
No
at
'
told
me
its
4, p.
being a melo-
that Smollet,
who
Cumberland,
CuUoden."
Duke of
Reliques.
CXLII.
written
VALE.
In the Museum,
of Cumbernauld-house, which
it is
is
who
Scotti.<-h
died at Edin-
adapted to the
inserted both in
Macgibbon
134 CXLII.
and Oswald's
The
Collections.
original song of
Cumber-
This
song,
frosty breezes,''
to
Johnson for
Highland name
verses to the
for
Burns
Marion.
same tune.
SONG.
TuKE, " Morag."
O WHA
And has my
CHOEUS.
My
lassie ever
And
ne'er
my
heart.
dearer ;
that's the queen o ivomankind.
If thou shalt
a ane
meet a
to
peer her.
lassie.
And
And thou
O that's the
If thou hast
When
met
lassie, S^c.
But
And
^c.
CXLIII.
Dr
Currie, in his
135
at
Morag.
air
of
for the
seldom, if ever,
Johnson's
that
Dr
tune in
Currie
has been led into a mistake with regard to the tune, though
the verses undoubtedly are well deserving of being united to
a very
fine one.
136
" Morag,"
in
is
of
twice introduced
by Quantz, the
cele-
Tbe
Italians,
In
this
judgment,
taste,
and
is
preserved,
and
insipid, as if it
barrel of a street-organ.
CXLIV.
This
cheerful
tion in 1709,
as
and was,
Crockat's Collec-
The
verses to which
ning "
Hey
it
is
adapted in the
and
his
Scotland.
Museum,
begin-
THE WEDDING-DAY.
Ramsay
can I be sad on
my
How
How
wedding-day."
The
How
The
verses in the
young Colin
Thomas
137
night as
Dr
were composed by
Blacklock.
CXLVl.
compositions.
It
harmonized by
Mr
is
air,
Stephen Clarke.
CXLVII.
WHO AM
sea.
It was published
among
adapted to the
air
his other
poems
at
Edinburgh
of
taken
A COCK LAIRD,
FU' CADGIE.
This very humorous old song is generally, though erroneously, attributed to Ramsay by his biographers. Ramsay,
indeed, did make some verbal alterations upon it but William Thomson felt no scruple in presenting it, in its original
;
rustic garb, to a
1725.
As Ramsay
late as the
memory,
it
seems but
fair,
how
is really just.
I.
Gin
own
inferior
in justice to his
And
year
far,
such censure
138
Gin
gae alang
you.
w'l
Ye manna fail
To feed me wi' crowdie.
And good hackit kail.
What needs a this vanity,
Jenny ? quo he;
Are na bannocks and dribly beards
Good meat for thee ?
III.
Gin
kirtle-sark, wylie-coat.
in
Cockemonie.
Hout awa!
ihou'st gane
Jenny, quo
wud, I trow,
he.
IV.
me look bonnie,
And shine like the moon,
I maun hae katlets, and pallets.
And camrel-heel'd shoon.
And craig-claithsj and lug-babs.
And rings twa or three.
Gin you'd hae
Sometimes
Wi'
Gin
am
troubled
gripes
nae stoories,
I may mysel shame
I'll rift at the rumple, and
I get
flee.
Howt awa,
my
gae be hang'd,
Though
such
thought nothing
drawing-room
them.
broad-humoured
of,
for times
verses
were
formerly
now be tolerated in a
change, and we are changed with
:;
139
CXLIX.
DUNCAN DAVISON.
This very humorous song was composed by Burns, although
he did not openly choose to avow
Museum.
bacJc
inferior song,
it,
original manuscript
is
the same as
It is
title
Museum.
This
lively
of
deli-
ii.
p. 45.
It
is
also to
be found in Oswald's
collections.
DUNCAN DAVISON.
Written by Burns.
And ay
As
o'er the
burn was
moor they
lightly foor,
clear, a glen
was
green.
We
And we
wee house.
and queen
Sae blythe and merry's we will be.
When ye set by the wheel at e'en.
A naan may drink and no be drunk,
A man may fight and no be slain,
A man may kiss a bonny lass.
And ay be welcome back again.
will live like king
CL.
Both
140
and
CL.
lastly in
1682.
it
will afford
hrr-r^-rFFffni^
Rs^i
^^=?Ff=f;^f^ff-r
^^j;=^=t=.-=z
Over
i
fountains,
^_ii:.___._.4:_^_r:.
^^
ible
y-Tg
deepest,
the
The
way.
is
scarce discern-
lishments.
CLI.
The
old
title,
says Burns,
The
lost.
ginning of
piper
and
FATE.
which
is
now
century, 1700,
Mr
Cromek
by
Hamilton
of
Bangour.
them
in his
Reliques.
This old
AH
CLI.
Mr
Watts published
London, 1731.
iv.
CLTI.
The
ME.
this
Museum, about
This song
some of the
first
lines are
Dr
deficient in
little
down.
CLIII.
MY
LOV'D CELESTIA.
This song was written by Alexander Robertson of Struan,
Esq. and published in an edition of his works at Edinburgh,
In the Museum,
sine anno.
air,
The
Companion.
it is
is
copy
in
This
fine
by Ramsay, be-
ginning "
of sweet
which
is
As
early I walk'd
on the
first
In
the
also written
Dr
Blacklock commvinicated to
seum
It
May,"
Tea-Table Miscellany.
after those of
ought
sisted
to
same
air,
Mr
why
Sandy,
leaves
in the
Mu-
Ramsay.
Orpheus Caledonius.
The
it
is
this old
melody con-
so printed in
Thomson's
is
only a re-
142
petition of the
first,
Craig in 1730
Few
tal music.
but
it
When
twelve notes.
Adam
more than
skill
management
would be
much
better, therefore,
to
It
is
suf-
ficiently extensive,
any second
and
part.
CLV.
WHERE HELEN
This
LIES,
Helen
tury,
this ballad.
in the
name of the
in that neighbourhood.
Adam
The
sentment.
by
sacrifice
portunity of carrying
Fleming
to his re-
into execution,
it
addresses of
he vowed to
Bent on
The
by
wound
body of her
lover,
and, re-
in his arms.
The murderer
fled
beyond
fell
seas,
him
in the vicinity of
Madrid.
A furious
CLV.WHERE HELEN
assassin.
Helen
his beloved
stretching himself
with his
The
the grave of
and
he expired, breathing her name
His remains were interred by her side.
upon
last sigh.
A sword
visit
gible.
143
LIES.
is still
tell
you
gun
represents the
as a lasting
monument of
contemporaries
felt for
Scottish
Sir
more or
and other
collections,
but they
less
heap of
raised
is
le-
stone,
that shot
yet
is
all differ
airs to
which
All of
He
it
there-
fe4f-4r-g^^^^Pi
I
WISH
itb-^^
^i_L_|
me
r--rT~f^~~p~~^
p--f-^
___.A-_J^^__.1_Ll.
,_-p
she cries;
i^Ee
lies.
Helen
connel lee!
Helen
lovely, chaste
A ringlet o'
In
my
and
fair,
lies,
On
fair
Kirk-
CLV.WHERE HELEN
144
LIES.
When
in these
And
arms
fir'd
the shot.
my
Helen dropt.
died to shelter me.
To
bled,
my
When
Kirtle
And
close
On
Helen
Were
fair
fair
Kirkconnel
lee.
Helen chaste !
wad be blest.
lowly and at rest
I wi' thee I
For thou
liest
On
fair
Kirkconnel
lee.
Some of
by
an arrow
in place of a bullet.
Who
fate.
Fleming,
Thy
No
how wretched
love to see
wounded
thy doom.
to death
to.
WHERE HELEN
CLV.
145
LIES.
thine.
martyr
to love
and
to thee.
CLVI.
same tune,
also
composed the
following-
a forsaken
in the character of
lover''s
of the tune.
first strahi
Thus
cruelly to part,
my
Katy
An
my Katy ?
Farewell
That
may no
Thou may'st
my Katy
The
among
my
my
For ah
Wad
ivring
Tell
me
And
a'
me ;
me ;
my bosom
pang
my
146
CI.VI.
my
Willie, <kc.
my
Willie,
&c,
Could
Celestial pleasures
Stay,
Dr
Currie observes,
on
that
*'-
It
&c.
Willie,
changed the
my
may amuse
tish
by a young and
not,
The
tlie
Scottish dialect,
Scot-
the reply on
is, if
we mistake
iv. letter
Ixiv.
CLVII.
B-uidh,"or "
written
to a Gaelic
composed on a charming
this
girl.
song
is
nov/ married to
lines,
In a
letter to
Adam, now
ing;
Dr
for this
in
August 1787.
to Stirling.
river
De-
of Harrowgate, says,
burgh together
and Falkirk
down
little
From
life
of Burns,
We
Dr
Edin-
rode by Linlithgow
Stirling
fertile
I left
CLVII.
147
Thus was
much happiness."
The author of Albyn's Anthology,
rive,
These
fore published.
if it
is
by
ob-
three.
CLVIII.
Both
waly
" O waly
Mr Blackwood's
Thomas Wode In 1566,
ancient.
In
MSS. which
were transcribed by
from a
still
is
last
first
stanza of this
In the
first
we have
stanza
O WALY
little
waly
while, M'hen
But when
it's
auld
The
Hey,
Wae
like
trollie, lollie,
it is
new
it is
it
bonnie,
is
waxes cauld.
morning dew.
quhile, qvihill
Quhen
love
old
love
it is
it
is jolly,
new
grows
full cold,
Mary Queen
of Scots,
if
is
not
at least
earlier.
different edition of
148
WALY
CT.VIIT.
When
"
O wHEiiEFORE
need
Or wherefore need
Sin
my
And
he'll
thus,
my head?
my hair ?
busk
kame
says
way ran
me
never luve
forsook.
me
mair.
Arthur^'s Seat
and
so well
known
as to require
no
vici-
parti-
cular description.
CLIX.
Ramsay
Miscellany, ITS^.
what
have heard
it
Elliot of
The
authority.
to discover
and
upon
characteristic
love.
CLX.
DUNCAN GRAY.
It
is
by Duncan Gray, a
beginning of
from
city.
his whistling
It
is
carter or
century,
last
it
carman
in
inserted both in
Avas
taken
down
to a musician in that
Collec-
tions.
The comic
verses to which
it is
united in the
o't,"
rations,
Museum,
Ha,
be-
by Burns.
Our
poet, however,
1792, which
is
here subjoined.
here to woo^
On
blythe yule-night,
o't.
when we were
fou.
DtraCAN GRAY.
CLX.
149
Ha,
Shall
is sair
to bide,
ha. Sic.
I, like
fool,
quo' he,
Ha,
How
blin',
for
me
ha, &c.
it
comes
as he
grew
well.
And
sic things
Ha,
Ha,
Burns, in a
cember 1792,
to
Mr George Thomson, dated 4th De" The foregoing I submit, my dear Sir,
letter to
says,
as seemeth
o't.
good
in
your
sight.
Duncan Gray
is
that kind of
is its
iMie
ruling feature.*"
CLXI.
DUMBARTON DRUMS.
This sone
o
A
is
Thomson's
*
well known rock in the Fiitli of Clyde, betwixt the shores of Ayrshire and
It
Kintyre.
It is about two miles in circumference, and rises to a great licight.
is the property of the Earl of Cassillis.
150
DUMBARTON DKUMS.
CLXI.
of "
title
music."
It also appeared
in 1733.
of the
unknown.
is
West Highland
Burns
airs
says, that
and from
it,
is
origin from
The
made by
is
Cunningham,
alias
its
Lord Lyle;
since
Montgomery
Johnny Faa
is
Reliques.
CLXIl.
tions,
to
triple time,
Although
Kail in Aberdeen."
played slow,
is
this air,
The
posite description.
particularly
when
is
oldest
the following.
it
song to
this
The author
is
time that I
anonymous,
cond volume
in
1776
but he told
me
it
Avas
And
never
warm
the
coc-je.
much
older.
se-
151
The
II.
Wow,
Than
castocks in Strabogie.
in Dale's Scottish
an old
same tune,
to the
is
likewise
by an ano-
author, but
is still
it
song.
There's cauld
kail in
Aberdeen,
my cogie,
my three-gir'd
canna want
wadna
For
a'
gie
cog
Wha
upon
my
life,
wadna
For
a'
gie
my
sirs,
three-gir'd cog
Twa-three
The
pride
todlin
o' a'
Strabogie
O wae
O wae
It does
meat
That happen
"
for
ills
in Strabogie.
Bogie, celebrated by so
152
CLXII.
And what
wae
wae
It
That happen
a'
the
ills
in Strabogie,
V.
Yet
Wha
As
drinks wi'
me
a cogie
whingin
fool.
canna want
wadna
For
The
ballads,
must
fine
cog
The
present
Museum.
to discover
them,
a'
certainly be Avell
friends.
gie
sirs,
my cogie
my three-gir'd
air,
predecessors, he placed
its
Mr
it
in his
his
Mu-
There's cauld
And bannocks
But naething
kail in
Aberdeen,
in Strabogie,
driv^es
awa
the sjileen
a social cogie.
That mortal's life nae pleasure shares
Wha broods o'er a' that's fogie :
Whene'er I'm fasht wi warldly cares
Sae
Aveel's
drown them
in a cogie.
My
my
my
gie's
pass.
vogie.
buiks and
and
Then haste and
cronies
my
lass.
sweet
cogie.
When
o'er a social
co.iiie.
153
CLXIII.
and
to
Lord
Adam
Gordon, uncle
to
This
first
late
Duke
of Gordon.
;"
No
Pocket Companion,
iii.
same as
my Love
inserted in Oswald's
is
There are
p. 2.
several passages
in that called,
" I love
in Secret."
but
lie
afterwards
KATHRINE
This
to
view the
plain,""
OGIE.
beginning "
As
went furth
Mr
John
plause.
It
was
London,
in the
now
is
made
"
Pills,"
now
called
"
A new
licate verses.
The
The
Scotch Song."
is
;;
154<
liberties
old verses
; ;
is
correct
copy of the
therefore annexed.
I.
As
I ask'd her
My
name
name
is
sigli'd.
II.
1 paus'd a while,
To
Thou
IV.
!
if I
V.
Then
crowns.
his
KATHEINE
CLXIV.
Might
The
I caress
lass of
and
whom
still
155
OGIE,
possess
I'm vogie.
confess,
VI.
The/ates,
I fear,
For me so
fair
Whose
a creature.
makes her esteem'd,
lovely face
miracle of nature.
Clouds of despair surround my love.
That are both dark and fogie ;
pity me ye powers above,
1 die for Kathrine Ogie
to sing this,
and
" The king," says one of his biographers, " admiring his singing, had formed a resolution of sending him and another
English musician to the carnival at Venice, in order to shew
the ItaUans that there were good voices in England."
him
But
as
expressed an unwilling-
ness to take the journey, the king desisted from his purpose.
till
and
but, having
little
his receipts
foresight,
he lived
man
of qua-
lity.
and miseries of a
strolling musician.
as far as Poland
all
the hardships
to avoid
sent for
him
going
to the court.
Abell
On
he was seated
in a chair in the
156
middle of a spacious
hall,
great height.
to a
his attendants
let loose
The
below.
among
the
life
Having rambled about for many years, he returned to England in 1701, and published, in London, a
Collection of Songs in several languages, with a dedication
to
King William,
in
mency
in permitting
him
Mr
Ramsay
"'s
alterations, in his
The
tune appears in
Adam
Craig's
1730.
Both
in
We
ward swain,""
In a
is
letter to
"
says,
very poor
air.
Mr Thom-
I agree with
stuff,
I tried to
and
al-
mend it,
The
poet therefore wrote a new song for this tune, the theme
on the song,
No
first
I think
it
glance that
is
it
In the same
117.
new
in
my
happiest manner.
The
See remarks
letter to
"
Mr Thom-
It pleases
You
my-
will see at
is
much
KATHKINE
CLXIV.
to
an
'tis
air
the
rowed
still
glowing prejudice of
my
157
OGIE.
Perhaps, after
all,
HIGHLAND MARY;
By Burns. To
Ye
The
castle o'
Montgomery,
your flowers.
fair
Your waters
never drumlie
There shumer first unfauld her robes.
And
For there
As underneath the
1
clasp'd her to
fragrant shade
my bosom
Was my
We
But, oh
fell
That nipt
Now
my
flower so early
That wraps
my
clay,
This pretty
one
little
THE PLOUGHMAN.
tune, in common time,
consists only of
158
THE PLOUGHMAX.
OLXV.
called
very poor
of
set
it is
Companion, where
set of the
tune
The following
it is
is
it
editor.
-P
he's a
-.
->
the chorus.
in the
bonny
composition of Burns
lad,"
is
partly old
The
however, should be
last verse,
it
The
quite genuineviz.
G in
The melody,
first
The
leap from
too, in the
if
the work
Museum,
and second
old song
is
THE PLOUGHMAN,
Old
he's a
verses.
bonny
lad.
at e'en
Commend me
Now
He
to
the Ploughman.
And, whistling
o'er the
not
strains, is in-
here annexed.
The Ploughman
is
furrow'd land.
It
THE PLOUGHMAN.
CLXV.
Whan my Ploughman
comes hame
159
at e'en
Up
I will
wash
my
Ploughman's hose.
Of a'
bed.
my Ploughman;
is
Commend me
to the
do ken
Plough?nan.
Merry
but, S^c.
CLXVI.
WHAT ARE
TO ME
RICHES?
This song was written by DrBlacklock expressly for the Mu-
seum.
a Health to
my
ancient
air, called
"Here's
narch,
fell
mo-
One would be
rest,"
on Flodden Field,
triad,
rity,
Every
tion.''
in
ought to
when it is inconsistent
That man who could take upon
with common probability.
him to assert, that the inhabitants of Scotland are more credulous than their southern neighbours, must have very little
be received with caution, particularly
prince,
have thought so
having made an
air
If the Scottish
to
trivial
this
that
toral little
not, or
one instance of a
common
he could neither
160
The
lovers of
were
all
CLXVII.
DOWN TO JOCK.
This sprightly tune is the original melody of the old and
very humorous ballad inserted in the Bannatyne Manuscript,
finished in the year 1568, entitled " Rob's Jock."
The song
beginning " Jocky he came here to woo," is evidently more
HEY, JENNY, COME
modern by
many of
ballad.
One
Bedding
parties.
the hand.
Now
half I gotten
us, that
cock,
It
is
called
Then
On our
my
My father is
Some
fair
the nease.
dear lovey, can'st thou loof
left
me
land.
Thou
shalt
I doot,
me
.'*
CLXVII.
This
to be
1(>1
Noow
wad.
to the Kirk to he
Jenny,
and
to hold
O'ER BOGIE.
The uncommonly
which
is
Mrs
inserted in
1709, evinces
it
to
it is
serious
When
words in a
humorous
soft
On
pathetic effect.
to
produces
it
like
many
diame-
effects
trically opposite to
which
airs,
style,
" Hey
support of this
fact.
it
becomes
it
one of
We may
adduce the
example in
and sung to
produces a most
verses in a
set
When
this
wi'
melody
is
adapted to such a
and
in
moderate time,
to such a song as
it
But
blows
let
the
but consuming
lution),
and sung
in
felt,
from the
sensibility
of a slow
soft,
efltects
and
pathetic
style,
Before the days of Ramsay, the tune of " O'er Bogie" was
adapted to an old
silly
song, the
first
162
o'er bogik.
CLxviii.
I
WILL awa
I will
awa
Tho' a
my
wi'
my
wi' her
I'll
o'er
I'll
In spite
I will
Ramsay took
composed the
lished
The
it
luve,
my
o' a'
awa
said,
wi' her.
but he
Thomson pub-
rest
Gentle Shepherd."
Watts reprinted the song of '^ O'er Bogie," words and muin the fifth volume of his Miscellany, in 1731. And Gay
sic,
selected this tune for one of the songs in his musical opera
London
in
A.
LASS
W A LUMP
same tune.
adapted
in 1725.
Watts
it
written
O' LAND.
by Allan Ramsay,
as a sub-
Thomson
preferred
to the original
melody
Ramsay's
to the
version,
and
Orpheus Caledonius
in his
vi. in
1731.
CLXX.
The
Day
more ancient
daws," the
title
first line
now
the
in
It is
quoted
the prologue to
in
1513.
It
is
likewise
CLXX.
others.
be
to
163
lost
but
is
it
The
is
nuscript, united to
its
HEY,
original melody.
day
^^.
Hey, now
gi_2^:
the
^=zzJ=_J
Now
dauis.
-i
al.,,|
.,
The
=_z^
crauis.
'
iS
1-
^h^
E
'-F=^
::
^5ZjC
cok
jol - lie
lL=^
DAUIS.
ft
d^^
Throw na-ture
ai>one;
The
thissel-
S^^~
-^ J^^ ^rrffff^^^'^^-^'f'^-^U ^,
(^
cok cryis
..
ry:
bz=b=t:=^=bK-^ -if^=d^dg-^l]J
On lovers wha lyis. Now skaillis the skyis. The
J^
i
73-
<B
_
X.
V
a:_3g.^:
IS
nieht
g'Qt
near gone.
^
The fields ourflouis,
With gouans that grouis,
Quhair
lilies
lyk louis
164
CLXX.
hairtie pergeuis.
The night
is
neir gone.
III.
Now
and hynds,
hairtis
Conforme
to thair kynds.
They
Now
hiirclionis
On ground
Ay
with
hairs.
passis in pairs,
The
night
is
neir gone,
IV.
Now
sraellis
Cupid compellis.
Our
hairtis echone.
The night
is
neir gone.
V.
The
is.
To
The
Throw courage and
crampis.
The
night
is
neir gone.
vr.
The
frieks
on
fieldis.
With shyning
wieldis.
bright shieldis.
As Titan
in Trone.
Over cursors
Ar brok on
creists,
thair breists.
The
night
is
neir gone.
VII.
So hard ar thair
hittis.
they grone.
is.
is
neir gone.
CLXX.
Burns
says,
" I
liave
met the
165
hood of the
at the battle of
in 1314.
He
says,
for every
it
among them
man
in the host to
wear a
at this time.
at this period,
little
make such a
them.
by Bar-
bour."
From
the
is
reason to believe
had as
may, indeed, be
foreign artists,
who adorned
were erected by
is
no better proof
remember
of instruments in
Cambrensis,
But
Henry
the Second of
many,
These
facts prove, beyond dispute, that the musical art had at-
remote period.
dauis,"
is
That the
air
among
of " Hey,
the Scots at
now
the
Day
166
CLXX.
made
of Towers,
sister to
King Edward.
Four
by both
of one of
lines
historians, and,
lettres
common tune
Caxton
says,
all in cotes
made a
bile,
all
Scotland
over
and
upon the
men.
LONG BERDES.
A. D. 1328.
IVritten
^^^^iSi^^^
Long
berdes
hertheles^
^^
Gay
cotes
^^i"
^|?^=^^^^^^^3
graceles^
Makes Englond
last,
song in the
thriftyles.
tune in Johnson's
the
air, as
Museum
song
versifier
reversed.
is
is
stanza,
which
Avork.
The
last
century,
when Charles
CLXX,
167
It
is
We EL
111
God
And
Chokus
gude company.
a bumper high,
Drain, drain your glasses dry ;
Out upon him,Jie ! Ojie !
That winna do't again.
Fill, Jill
Ye
And
to every honest
That
man
Chorus
Fill, fill,
&c.
And
Chorus
Fill, fill,
&c.
May
Fill, fill,
When
&c.
Fill, fill,
&c.
Up
And
Burns
air,
also wrote
beginning "
Mr
an admirable
Scots
wha hae
patriotic
wi'
Wallace bled
;"
which
is
Sec.
it
to a very different
The
the
uifknown to the
168'
CLXX.
Like snaw
a thaw, Jean,
in
I'm wearing
awa
To
the land
the
o'
leal.
The day
is
ever fair
In the land
the
o'
leal.
II.
You've been
leal
and
true, Jean,
My
And
leal.
angels wait on
To
me
the land
o'
the leal.
III.
Our bonnie
To
But sorrow's
sel'
that's
aye to
Jean,
last
In the laud
the leal.
o'
IV.
leal.
leal.
CLXXI.
first
Ramsay
own
theTeaTable Miscellany
verses,
in 1724.
it
does not
The
second stanza
is
CLXXI.
the
ten
by Ramsay.
O Katie
And
wilt thou
l69
KATi'.
writ-
the tree.
lark
The
smile.
;
hynd
CLXXII.
KATIE'S ANSWER.
This humorous
little
song, beginning
"
My
mother's ay
Katy."
It
was
The
Health
and
is
to
Caledonius, in 1725,
of those
which were
it is
printed in 1657.
The
silly
The
in his
second strain
" Dancing
is
a modern addition.
LET us swim
The
in
blood of grapes,
And solemneeze.
Upon our knees,
miracle of nature.
Master,""
170
CLXXIII.
Burns informs
Isabella
M'Leod
death of her
sister's
pened
us, that
and the
sister,
husband, the
in 1786.
late
still
Earl of Loudon.
is
The
made
its
years ago.
MACGREGOR A RUADHRI.
I.
From
As
mountam
was
retunimg-.
stor}^.
On
lofty
Beinn Lara
O, where is Macgregor.^
Say, where does he hover ?
You son of bold Calmak,
Why
tarries
my
lover
.''
III.
Then
From
Low
your Macgregor,
Pale, mangled, and wounded
Overcome with deep slumber.
To the rock I convey'd him.
lies
Where
To
his foes
As the
blast
CLXXIII.
Macgregor
Macgregor
is
ITl
Macgregor!
Loud echo resounded ;
And the hills rung in pity,
wounded.
V.
And
From
foes
and
fell
slander.
spirits oft
wander.
CLXXIV.
his Picture
was
in
Chloe's
Breast,"" to the
it
in his
published
it
Tea-Table Miscellany
in 1724,
and Thomson
VMCLXXV.
by Burns,
written
up
IS
THE NIGHT.
in 1787, to a Gaelic
me-
and sent
The
Gaelic
air,
all,
to agree
much
CLXXVI.
Museum.
The melody
is
in the hand-writing of
Mr Al-
Mr
Stephen
by
172
CLXXVII.
The
fire
and sword.
Huntly,
to
In
to the ground,
man
himself,
a young noble-
the people.
The
Scotland.
Knight,
Lyon King
The
Huntley, at
his
house in Dunibrissel,
in
and publickly
talkt, that
It
FyfFe-shyre, and
satisfie
the King's
jealousie of
wisely,
The
many
epithets of a proper
abide a
tryall,
airt
nor part
MSS.
CLXXVII.
The
present Earl of
173
in his possession
had been
does not
for
he
is
If
there represented as a
graceful,
his death.
flatter,
It is
tall,
a tradition in the
fa-
mily, that
wound
spoilt
in
Upon
be as deep as
;''
body of Murray.-P^rc?/.
Burns observes, that " the
is
beautiful
and
affecting."
Oh
last
Bucky,
this,
"
You
shall
Reliques.
Look
CLXXVIII.
YOUNG DAMON.
This
flowers,"
volume of
his Caledonian
Pocket Com-
panion, p. 24.
CLXXIX.
seum
it
is
" Drimen
Duff";""
of "
air
but it
is
is
In the
Drumion
and
Mu-
dubh."'''
in compliofiicer,
Moray.
174
CLXXX.
BLYTHE WAS
There
cient
SHE.
the exception of two lines taken from the ^chorus of the old
song, was composed
Murray of
The
by Burns
in 1787,
on Miss Euphemia
and de-
second
set
The Flower
of Strathmore."
Andro and
is
his
Tea-
humour and
at hridal-trystes
convivial merriment, is
and house-heatings.
an intimate favorite
It contains a spirited
some gayety
all
the light-
Select Scottish
CromeJc, vol.
Scottish lyrics,
men of
who composed our fine
should be unknown ? It has given me many
a heart- ache."
In
weel
brandert
brown.'
it
sung,
'
Knuckled
kneaded out with the knuckles, and toasted over the red embers of
wood on a
have a delicate
nights the
quaigh to
gridiron.
relish
warm
the ale;
175
CLXXXI.
A certain Earl of
had
Cassilis
her
affections
The
disappointed
lovei*,
to
on
respectable
home.
left
his lady at
Faa departed
for the
residence of that nobleman, accompanied with eight of his retainers, all in the disguise
off.
some of
The
Earl, on his
his vassals,
and pur-
complices were
left
dead on the
Faa and
spot,
Avith
The
May-
seven associates
neath one of
who
fell
its turrets,
life.
his unfortunate
which
is still
ford,
smallest clue wdth regard to the truth or falsehood of the traditional story.
Burns
says, that
Johnnie Faa
is
176
CLXXXII.
TO DAUNTON ME.
This tune appears in the first volume of Oswald's CaledoThe composer
nian Pocket Companion, printed in 1740.
has stolen some bars of the second part of this tune from the
old air of
Andro and
his
Cutty Gun.
"
Collection of
little
book, entitled,
in the
A SONG.
To daunton me,
daunton me.
ken the things that would daunton
Eighty-eight and eighty-nine.
to
Do you
And
a'
With
Good
But
me ?
Cess,
faith, these
to
to
wanton me.
The
was, with the exception of some lines of the chorus of the old
song, wholly composed by Burns, in 1787
of
it
now
in his
own
is
CLXXXIII.
the
green,"
as
the production
by
a Captain John
Bochaldie.
it
at
" Polwart
of Allan Ramsay.
to have been
Drummond M'Gregor,
Mr
written
of the family of
POL WART OK
CLXXXIII.
misinformed
Mr
for
THE
177
GEEEIN^
hand,
it
is
Ramsay published
ed in
to the
same
air.
Polwarth
of the
are print-
last,
older song
in
air
his
Orpheus Caledonius,
name of a
the
is
middle of
in the
lines
in his
it
first
much
Thomson adapted Ramsay's version of the
show
wickshire
and the
in 1724,
Italics, to
1725.
pi-etty old
in
it
it
was
company
From
is
inserted in
one of his songs in the opera of " Polly," beginning " Love
now
is
nought but
in 1729.
CLXXXIV.
ABSENCE.
This
rivers so limpid
in the
song, in the
and
Museum, was
Blacklock, and
The
it
by him presented
tune to which
song and
to
Burns
the letter D.
air are
Ye
set
by Dr
by
is
both by
Dr
Museum
also ob-
Blacklock.
CLXXXV.
I
This
ed in a regular collection
till
its
Johnson gave
it
a niche in his
CLXXXV.
178
;n bis Ancient
Edinburgh
at
Burns
"
fact
ii.
printed
was founded on
John
ing family,
vol.
in 1776.
who
live in
found
it
some
for
youthful
little
he
follies
a retreat to the
West Highlands,
make
necessary to
The
present
Mr
me
the anecdote,
the
is
Reliqiies.
CLXXXVI.
IT GIVES
ME
PAIN.
is
name
air of
The
original song of
Museum
is
The
M.
the letter
is
Tunes.
supposed to be
lost.
CLXXXVII.
in
first
the
fourth
panion, page
cellent
about
appearance
uncommonly
sprightly,
volume of
Mr
7.
rondo of
it
his
Butler,
year
The tune
1746.
Oswald gave
it
The
by Burns.
made an
the musician,
fourth
ex-
which
Museum
verses in the
The
place
Pocket Com-
Caledonian
the
and
were
number of Os-
another and a
much
it
is
had no
probable that
relation to the
title
af-
The
o'er
CLXXXVII.
Shamhuy,
179
some
in
print-
A more
may be
complete version of
song
this
CLXXXVIII.
UP AND
This
is
lively Scottish
WARN
tune
WILLIE.
A',
of considerable antiquity.
is
It
Companion
It
Willie.
in 1741,
was
under the
of
title
Up and war
them a\
ning
a',
Willie,
Up
Up
And Laird
of Fisherraw, WiUie.
&c.
The
ballad, to
&c.
which the
air is
Duke
&c.
in this
Mu-
of SherrifTmuir or
Dun-
now adapted
battle
Both
The
late
Mr Thomas
the
Mar
Neil,
who was a
carpenter,
and one
Neil,
and
city,
The
much
pleasure,
serted in the
tions
"
Cromek
Museum
Johnson's
for
erroneous
effect.
himself.
This assertion is
Burns
says,
'
Up
and warn
a',
letter.
Willie,'
180
A^D WARX
UP
CLXXXVIII.
Notwithstanding of
arms.
and south
say,
Up
'
A',
WILLIE.
this,
a.'
"
But
Reliques.
tara^ or
excel another in
any thing.
The
introduced,
is
far
Museum,
ballad in the
chieftains
signifies to surpass or
a',
in
Willie,"
sufficient
specimen.
CLXXXIX.
Cruikshank,
liam
The
Edinburgh.
composed by
air w^as
Mr
David
Sillar,
"
He
is
whom
my
address
'
Cherry and
Reliques.
cxc.
TO A BLACKBIRD.
This charming song, beginning " Go on, sweet bird, and
end my care," is the production of the same lady who wrote
" Talk not of Love, it gives me pain." Vide Song 186, in
the
the
Museum,
The Address to
air of " The Scots Queen,"
nion.
Mr
bars to the
the Blackbird
in
is
adapted to
Oswald's Pocket
Compa-
melody might
suit
/^*c'*4?fVM;-t'.i? >%.."
CXCI.
The
I have
at
earliest edition
met with,
Edinburgh
Wife
o'
is
in 1751.
It
is
there called
'<
ii.
printed
The Druken
it
to
be
About twenty
CXCI.
^^HOOLY
AND FAIRLY,
Mrs Brown
181
that she
have
when
Ren-
frew,
" But
rants
up some
fool-sang, like
The following
Up your heart
Charlie^'''
it
after
The
its
composition.
but
it is
vol.
of
10th
same work,
As
Pocket Companion,
may be
p. 32.
Museum was
alter-
gin
my
wife
wad
CHORUS.
Hooly and fairly, Hooly and fairly,
O ! gin my luije wad drink hooly and fairly.
First she drank cromniy, and syne she drank garle.
And syne she drank my bonnie grey mairie.
That carried me thro' a' the dubs and the lairie ;
O gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly.
Hooly and fairly, S;c.
!
Wad she
But she
wad na care.
canna weel spare
drinks
my
claiths I
it is
here
;;
: ;;
;
182
CXCI.
When
I'm wi'
my
gin
my
wife
gossips
wad
it
My
me
angers
saiily
it
SjC.
wad
my
gin
wad
wife
My
S^c.
wore on
my
hands,
Wi' her
My
my
gin
wife
wad
pawns
^-c.
Nor
S^c.
When
there's
gin
my
sits
is fu',
wad
wife
When
Has
But rants up some
gin
my
fool-sang, like
wad
wife
Up your
heart, Charlie ;
When
The
And
she comes
hame
ca's mysel'
gin
my
wife
CXCII.
letter
is
marked
Q,
in
to denote
and her
Ramsay
that
""s
it is
;:
CXCII.
many
183
and naive remarks of the daughter, on the person and manners of Auld Rob, which Ramsay has evidentcurious
on account of
ly omitted
fore
is
much
published
it
1725, and
same way
in the
one of Craig's
tion the
ballad there-
Thomson
in his
it
The
their coarseness.
in the third
London, 1730.
volume of
same year.
In November 1792, Burns composed the following excellent verses to the old air ; in which the two first lines only
are borrowed from the old ballad
amang
As blythe and
And
But
dear to
as artless as the
my
the
May
new hay
lamb on the
kine.
lea.
e'e.
she's
And my
wander
And
my
I sigh as
my
heart
it
wad
burst in
my
breast.
CXCIII.
AND
own
pretty
little
hand-writing,
adapted to the
hiddei-,"
I'LL KISS
now
called
The
verses are
cxciii.AND
184
I'll kiss
inserted with
in
Stephen Clarke
for at the
its
bass, there
much
Mr
It appears
as the lover
is
is
this
tune
is
as
with
cxciv.
O,
The
two
first
does not appear to have been received into any regular col-
Museum, although
in Oswald's
vii.
The
p.
last stan-
bar,
*'
who took
that
title
at
Reliques.
cxcv.
that he
says,
composed
this
STORMS.
song " on one of the
burgh.'"
is
set to the
The
air
Moray of Abercairney,
is
is
Gow composed on
struments
is
not at
all
the death of
Mr
in-
A,
to
in
alt,
are
effect.
cxcvi.
TIBBIE
This
by Burns
"
in
Tibbie I hae
1776*,
when he
CXCVI.TIBBIE,
185
charm-
It is set to the
old.
Invercauld's Reel.
o old tune of
inar
cxcvir.
NANCY'S GHOST.
This
song, beginning
Museum.
It
is
in 1787,
air
CXCVIII.
CLARINDA.
This
by Burns
written
in 1787,
in
of my
soicl,
was
Mr
monized by
cxcix.
CROMLET'S LILT.
The
is
" Crom-
by
Her own
father
whom
fair
his wife,
late
Mr
Stir-
ling,
years,
was another.
From
these circumstances,
it is
obvious,
terested.
young Cromleck
goino- to
France
intrusted the
186
cxcix.
^ckomlet''s lilt.
in order to
secure her to himself, he not only secreted every letter intrusted to his care, but likewise artfully prepossessed the
stories
unfavourable to Cromleck
similar misrepresentations to
him
broken
off.
by
and
and,
composed that
mind
influenced
by her supposed
infi-
its
production, affords at
The
his love.
had
suf-
ficiently softened
young lady
Helen
himself.
overcome by
assent.
The
On
attempting
"
me
!"
with
it
young CromCromleck
ar-
is said,
that
James the
6th,
to Helen's
On
up on
two chalders
!"'"'
Her
mother, the
to
Lady
children were
all
uncommon
spectacle,
?"
"
to
he
Sire,""
said,
she jo-
The king
CXCIX.
'
CROMLET'S LILT.
187
on a stone
As
who was
The
Tutor,
The
vows,
his great
maid,"
the music, in
is
The
"
Since
all
thy
inserted in the
725.
Wilham Geddes,
His con-
knowledge of
life.
fair
Ma-
sit-
in the close.
hymns
in his Saints'"
1683.
This
hymn
is
entitled,
Museum, were
Caledonius.
In the
last stanza
to Paradise,
tune of Crom-
lines
The
courteous Red-breast, he
leaves will cover me.
sing my elegy
With
And
With
doleful voice.
No
The
James VI.
corresponding lines in
THE WINTER
The
IT IS PAST.
who was
but
Museum, and
the following
stall
188
CO.
THE WINTER IT
The
winter
And
the simmer's
come at last.
The little birds now sing on ev'ry
The hearts of these are glad,
But mine is very sad.
The
By
rose
PAST.
past.
it is
IS
tree
is
upon the
brier.
May
Their
little
And
But
my
My
love is like
lover
is
the sun.
And
cannot
it
The
woe
true
in love.
remove.
plaintive
little air
same
Companion, book
7th.
to
title
which
this
song
is
adapted,
is
in-
* 189
ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
PART
IL
cii.
TRANENT MUIR.
This song must have been very
popular.
have
it
in its
It
1751.
"And
beginning
is
described as
George Campbell,
as a wright in
Edinburgh, and
Mr Myrie,
The
called
"
Mr
Mr
is
Skirven" by Sten-
by Allan Cunningham,
" besides his gift at song-making, which was
considerable, he was one of the wittiest and most whimsical
of mankind."
His name was Adam Skirving, and I am
who
says, that
happy
some
The farm
of Garleton, where he
life,
is
to Gosford.
He was a remark-
by
left
a considerable
He was
twice married.
His
eldest son
the
portrait painter,
*p
in person
and
190*
TRANENT MUIR.
returned
home
and
still
survives, at Croys,
The
following
is
ving, addressed to
reply to
Adam
Skirving
Oct. 1838.
" My dear Sir, I have been favoured with the memorandum which you left with Major Yule on the 24th inst.,
and
am
much
fear it
printed epitaph
was
is
The
farmed Preston-mains.
as characteristic as I could
make
it,
and
staneford,
where
manuscript
is
by
his
my
The one
in
is
of the two.
" Our Father was, by his own account, a bad scholar, but
became an indefatigable reader, and knew more of history,
geography, and astronomy, tlian was usual with those of
His first farm was Prora, whence he moved to
his line.
Garleton, where he spent the rest of his days.
many
He
for
much
in his
am
left
In-
TRANENT MUIR.
him
say, he
*19l
would rather
When
ride twenty
he did write he was
with
a systematic acquittance
I counted
him
and
clear'd
The
as little."
deil
owe
who was a great favourite in that part of the counwas much admired. The battle of Preston,' which has,
galton,
try,
'
running thus,
'
naught,' which
may
be
for This.
By
the bye,
when
"
gied her
till
be Got,
Oh
after
who took
his
am
My partial friend.
Major Yule,
Adam's sons are addicted to
rhyming, advises that I should send some specimens, and
I have actually collected a good many
not many good
scraps, but only one in the Scottish dialect, and that you
shall have and were I not so lame a scribe, I might perhaps
fearful of
becoming
tedious.
all
To
be sure
in self-defence,
been
some copies
transcribed,
192*
TRANENT MUIR.
the tune
fifthly,
of,
'I'll
d esprit by my
Brother.
all
be excluded
know
should like to
try
will so far
honour
the
Per-
me
as to
organ.
"
have a picture of
my
Father in miniature by
my
some engraver
My
or lithographer.
bro-
As
in a ring.
by
I shall
my Father, viz.
mention a
that of
making
person boasting
"
It
has as
"R. Skirving."
" Lord Elcho,
P. S
My father went
sided at Beanston.
have done
make
his
bow
was
up the
skirt
to
deliberately took
None but
himself could
As there is no " Committee of Criticism" to sit in judgment upon Captain Skirving's communications, I shall here
add such pieces as seem
I.
ELEGY
to
me most
Ye
Lothian
lairds, in sable
With pomp
Ye poor and
weeds.
Put on a mournful
face.
;;
Whose
He
clay,
was
Of real humour,
unconflned.
at repartees.
Though keen
oflPence
By
every
man
ta'en
we
find
of sense.
A
A
And
he was so to
all.
From what he
His promise
Such was
all
might
trust.
II.
cease.
BY ARCHIBALD SKIRVING.
Are just
On
Is,
But
as soon
As keep
may
193
SKIRVING
194
LAMENT.
How
drown'd.
The
to concert pitch.
Ai'e all
drawn from a
and loud,
tuneless Croiod.*
The
many
eccentric,
character-
following
by Captain Skirving)
air,
first
comtwo
skill.
skirving's lament.
The Tune by
,--
^^^?5
;e^3
W-
Thy
rest-less
by Robert
i
Skirving.
:j=^-
^=r
:P2:
ZCAIZs..
r
&^^=p^=P
Sol
dier
to
Ben
=?gal
From
me he
flies,
for-
:ct:
-^*
'Crowd,'
signifies
t:
he
SKIRVING
LAMENT.
195
3
'r-F1~FsK-^l^r^
-j
De
'J-
and
No
all.
.m.
3iEEE
^z
;fc:f=:
^-^
cause
as
sign'd
for
change
of
mind,
He
Bi3E^
ends at -tain.
And
-_p
not
re
pent too
:pz!=i
:?z:
i3-l.
leave
my
befall
To join him
late.
in Bengal.
my
life,
196*
ADAM SKIRVING.
ing Epitaph on
Mr
me
Member
characteristic
of the old
I therefore transcribed
it,
and herewith
ADAM
As
Life's lease,
lofty
frank, candid, and
Soon bargain' d, and counted, and clear'd 5
On folly, and vice, and imposture, severe
Yet neither was hated nor fear'd.
fair
With
The
following
Inscriptions
is
less characteristic
in the
Church-
was removed.
those
later
favour,
by any attempt
ceits of individuals,
to
humour
He
died at Inveresk
*197
ARCHIBALD SKIRVING,
FARMER, MUIRTON,
LIVED ONLY
56
ADAM,
BORN, 1719
YEARS.
Farmer, Garleton,
DIED, 1803.
And happy
With
His
first
ARCHIBALD,
BORN, OCTOBER, 1749,
Knew how
The
He
He
scarce begun to
threescore-ten,
fail.
ail.
*'
when
At
following
Mr
Skirving,
by
198 *
ADAM SKIRVING.
memory, ready
praise
Was
wit,
alive
to
countenance of
still
superior character
made
and
frugality a compensation."
Don't think
author of
'
when
gave an opinion
I ever
as to the
(2.)
PROELIUM GILLICRANKIUM.
1689, beginning
Clavers
'
and
his
it
Herbert Kennedy,
is
unknown.
Museum,
is
The Latin
attributed to
of Halleatts, Dumfriesshire,
who was
appointed one of the Regents, or Professors, in the University of Edinburgh, in the year 1684.
CIV.
in April, 1748.
In August, 1750,
married Jean,
He
died at Glas-
is
W.
of Holmston, Ayrshire,
S.,
who
In December 1752,
died 24th of
199
March
William Wallace
was appointed Professor of Universal History in the University of
Edinburgh
this
Law
is
known
Alexander Robertson
Rannoch, Perth-
when it was
Magazine as being ready for subscriAnother edition, omitting several objectionbers, price 5s.
able pieces attributed to him, was reprinted at Edinburgh
This edition contains the " History and
(in 1785,) 12mo.
Martial Achievements of the Robertsons of Strowan."
out date, but published in October, 1751,
announced
in the Scots
cxx.
FIFE,
Burns,
AND
a'
IT.
sic."
CXXI.
WAD
DIE.
published by
Thom-
It is
to
have been
first
200
WAD
DIE.
was printed several years later. Lady GriSELL Home, by whom it was written, was the daughter of
She was
Sir Patrick Home, created Earl of Marchmont.
lany, which
Lady Murray
affectionate
praised.
It
was
first
made known by
extracts, in the
Ap-
that
Lady
Magazine
Grisell Baillie,
for
May, 1818
in
may
'
yet be recovered.
Lady Murray
many
some broken
collection,
off in the
of
them interrupted
half writ
Such a
would probably
not,
lyric treasures
was
Lady
evidence.
among
It
a parcel
Mr
Baillie in the
Prince of Orange's
WAD
DIE.
201
my
Dear Heart
all
soon
the
i'
morn
my
among
bution
"
It
his friends.
Murray, attributed
Lady
Lady
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, that
(C. K. S.)
CXXIII.
THE MILLER.
Sir John
the
Clerk
century.
He
was appointed
at the
constitution of that
Court, 18th of
Museum
appeared in
"The
The song
Charmer," 1751,
vol.
p. 291.
The
whom
202 *
THE MILLER.
these lines
On
and, on unscrewing
it,
she found
" Harmonious
When
pipe,
how
envye thy
bless.
And when
all I feel
Repeat
Since
my
I to
Take thou
The
lady to
you cannot
tell
too
my
air.
much
her
liberty resign.
whom
was Susanna,
whom
The
herd."
original manuscript
was sent
to her ladyship
it
would
in
It is pre-
Lady
Eglintone, says
Mr
much
celebrated,
membered
death."
Mr
thus from
Grange,
as
the
'
John Drummond of
London
much
re-
to his brother,
for Scotland,
was
William Drummond of
satisfied
set out
civilities
shown her ladyship by the Queen and all the Royal Family
she has done her country more honour than any lady I
have seen here, both by a genteel and a prudent behaviour."
(C. K. S.)
203
John Clerk was a man of great learning and accomBesides two papers in the " Philosophical
Transactions," he was the author of a tract entitled " Dissertatio de quibusdam Monumentis Romanis," &c., written
in 1730 and printed in 1750, 4to.
For upwards of twentyyears he also carried on a learned correspondence with
Roger Gale, the English antiquary, which forms a portion
of the "Reliquiae Galeanse ;" in Nichols' " Bibliotheca
Sir
plishments.
Sir
One
at
of his
for his
CXXVIII.
'
Among
to lie in
Meffen kirkyard
;
(C. K. S.)
cxxx.
Bothwell, sister
to
204
LAMENT.
I believe,
MS.
History of the
He had
Bishop Bothwell, who died 1593, he tells us,
also a daughter, named Anna, who fell with child to a sone
'
of the
Earle of Marre.'
which belonged
to his
mother (now
in the possession of
much
vivacity of counte-
Ah me
What
I fell,
Shakspeare.
to the
of Mar.)
"
The
father,
married a daughter of
Peace,
wayward barne
Wee
we
dye.
know
How
like the
205
dad
In
glad.
'
bonny bonny
mun
not goe
bird I
are
to't,'
(C. K. S.)
evidently Scottish."
CXXXVII.
This very
first
original
to
have been
What Mr
Ramsay's judicious
alterations,
Vol.
II.,
in
and
it
means by
therefore,
In Ramsay,'s,
W. W.
S.,
it
is
signed
Mr
George Thomson,
*'
It is
in print-
mentioned in
William Hamilton
and was born probably before the year 1680. Having early
embraced a military life, he was " distinguished during his
latter
days by the
tinction,
verse,
as
title
of
The Lieutenant."
His chief
dis-
in
his
contributions
to
the
first
''
206 *
WILLIE WAS A
WANTON WAG.
In 1719,
when
residing at Gil-
Ramsay,
in
" held
us,
that Hamilton
my
the stars,
his
wha
Be
to
my
And
tells
commission honourably in
adds,
shine aboon,
real merit
fine national
poem
of
" Wanton
styled,
The
W. W.
Still I
am
inclined, to
indicate no other
Willie."
Some
verses, in
which he
is
so
narkshire, where
he died at an
May, 1751.
CXXXVIII.
JUMPIN' JOHN.
is
Burns's ground-
JUMPIN' JOHN.
207
Her daddy
England,"
vol.
ii.
p. 110,
The
its
fitted for
air itself is
a very touch-
then in use.
it,
because
which connects
Had the
it
I see
it
in
no reason
to
my way,
and
have
which the
air is said to
but the
nothing more than the tune of " Joan's Placket"
arranged as a march.
See
p. 50. of
Mr
Chappell's "
Nait
The
Chohus.
Hey
the dusty,
may
&c." (C. K.
S.)
208 *
DREAMED
CXLVI.
DREAMED
The
born at
CLTV.
own
party."
(C.
much
K.
extolled
by the mem-
S.)
clv.
WHERE HELEN
"
The
uncertain,
poem
period
when
this
LIES.
is
quite
it.
As he
his
resided
at
Aberdeen,
1796,
is
here
given verbatim.
"
and uncommon
of Springhall, Baronet.
WHERE HELEN
LIES.
209
" She had for some time been courted by two gentlemen,
whose names were Bell and Fleeming. Bell was proprie'
tor of
and
"
situate near
'
firing,
arms,
whom
of his antagonist.
He
drew
was
raised
rial in similar
colonies,
cairn or
fell,
heap of stones
as a
to this day.
She
and
love,
for
not
still
retains the
name
proprietors of
minated
It
in the reign of
King James
WHERE HELEN
210*
LIES.
Queen Mary
for it is
commonly
(now Scotsbridge)
Bell of Gosebridge
stone of Helen
to
so that she,
who
it
died in
who
Mary's reign.'
" This statement
is
Lochmaben
Queen
fully
" As the
and often
spell the
them.
1.
On
fair
Kirkconnel
lee.
2.
And
my
arms scho
me.
lap.
think na ye
my
To
1 loutit
down,
I cuttit
him
him
I cuttit
On
fair
my
in pieces sma'
in pieces sma'
Kirkconnel
lee.
care.
;;
WHERE HELEN
* 211
LIES.
5.
Eelin
mack
I'll
without compare,
a garland of thy hair.
fair,
And wear
the
Untill the
6.
War
with thee,
Where thou
On
lies
wad be
Kirkconnel
fair
blest
8.
1 wish I war where Eelin lies.
For nicht and day on me scho cries
I wish I war where Eelin lies.
On
" The
different
air to
lee.
totally
by
edition
Kirkconnel
fair
Mr
Stenhouse." (C. K.
S.)
CLVIII.
WALY
The
correct
description of
;
and the
written at a
WALY
lines
much
Wood's
S. is not
later date
UP YON BANK.
MS. given by Mr
See afterwards
than 1566.
Song cccclxvi.
CLIX.
it
in the second
When Mr
volume of Ramsay's
" I
S. therefore says,
we may
safely conclude
it
was no
sufficient authority,
212
inasmuch
it
CLXI.
DUMBARTON DRUMS.
Burns was mistaken
of
in supposing the
vol.
i.
town
or castle
p. 59,
CLXII.
CAULD KAIL
IN
ABERDEEN.
was born
in the
whom Mr
to
Mr
by
Reid,
bookseller,
Glasgow.
William
Having
the late
been favoured by Mr James Brash of Glasgow (through
the kind application of Mr P. A. Ramsay) with some parsome
ticulars of
Mr
memory. He
was remarkable for a fund of social humour, and was possessed of no inconsiderable poetical powers, with some of
inserting them, as a tribute of respect to his
Mr
1764.
at
Having
in Perthshire.
in
at
of April,
Glasgow,
Gartmore,
of
Mr Andrew
ticeship with
Glasgow.
year 1790,
He
when he commenced
period
of twenty-seven
Mr
years,
till
the
business as a bookseller,
James Brash
and, for a
*213
and Reid."
Mr
tion of
Most
Reid.
it is
to
at
Glasgow, 29th
Mr
James Henderson,
notice of
Mr
two
Reid, by some
an extract
is
his admiring
He
countrymen.
not only
his converse.
In
Mr
'
These are
chiefly
It is
now
many
Mr
it
collectors,
Reid's earlier
memory. Perhaps, of
these, the
humorous
will
be the long-
est lived."
Mr
Mo-
214*
CAULD KAIL
IN
ABERDEEN.
poems
tion."
(vol. V. p. 282.)
may
in
words
Mr
Glasgow
periodicals,
He
Mr
contributed several
any of them. It is believed that the collection of " Poeand Selected," above alluded to, also contained two or three pieces of his composition. As a man of bu-
to
try, Original
siness,
strict integrity,
The
lady.
Mr
Mr Stenhouse's note,
His marriage
is
survived
The song
1793.
is
his wife
215
27th November,
printed in "
Edinburgh: 1751.
p. 7.
which
I take to
The
title
left
Mr
it
Oswald
me."
occurs in a
MS.
Blaikie, Paisley,
altered
it to,
is,
dated
" For
" she
lost
me, O."
CLXX.
Mr Stenhouse,
some of the older MSS., this indicates that the airs are
now commonly known under the same
The
"
air
Hey now
the
Day
daws,"
has been
and
it
mere conjecture, or
Bruce.
The
preserved in
it is
air,
allied to Burns's
The kind
known
JioUe
Work.
Mr
Stenhouse has
served in a
MS.
It
allude, at
Poems
of
216 *
He was
than 1580.
a younger son of
He was distinguished at
1584 for his poetical genius. See the collected edition of his Poems, Edinburgh, 1821, post 8vo.
" In former times another hunting song to this ^ir,
middle of the sixteenth century.
least as early as
common
tioned,
in
it
Annandale
bridekirk's hunting.
The
The
The
We're
Bridekirk's hunting,
Bridekirk's hunting,
Bridekirk's hunting,
The morn,
an'
it
be
fair.
a' will
be there.
Bi'idekirk's, &c.
the hare.
Bridekirk's, &c.
was
menlast
*217
BRIDEKIRK's HUNTING.
But bonny Nipatatie,
But bonny Nipatatie,
But bonny Nipatatie,
Thou
Bridekirk's, &c.
Fletcher's
Oft have
And
My
'
Ralph
fertile soil,
me
of a drink
Which
call'd.
(C. K. S.)
CLXXIV.
YE GODS
Tune
Burns,
air
Fourteenth of October.
shows that
it
" The
King
title
of this
Crispian, the
day
falls
St
style,
The
stately procession of
King
Crispian,
Edinburgh.
CLXXXI.
There
is,
or was,
much
was restored
Some
stanzas
go
218 *
lied
JOHNNY
FAA,
by a gipsy embrace
her maiden
two
which seems
It
to
to
whom
tradition hath
ladies of that
at
Culzean as that
and
Maga-
that, in the
Mr
Rev.
Wodrow
MSS., which
Collection of
very improbable
in such a case.
reader's consideration
"
"
'
Right Reverend,
"
'
I finde it so
friend, suche as
it
expresses a tenderness
It is
will
muche
my
my
Ladie Car-
having relation
to bothe,
fit
for presenting
come
to her eares
and howsoever
forting
may be
to the
judgement of us
it
suche a potion,
if as
yet
it
have not
My
losse
is
com-
great, bot
made a
full
submission to the
his presence
JOHNNY
FAA,
*219
asked
q*^
home.
to goe
when
It
her these manie weiks past, for shee had bene sicklie four
or fyve weekes, and the
her estate,
surgeon trayed
it,
he could never
hit
Cassillis,
"
Mr
Uth Dec.
am,
friend,
'
'
on the veine.
Cassillis.'
1642.'
whom
Douglas, to
said to be a descendant of
"It
is
now be
was pretended
said that
Lady
times,
how-
to be believed.
Cassillis,
in her confinement,
wrought with her needle, by way of penance one may presume, a representation of her elopement with the gipsies.
This piece
from what
is
still
preserved at Culzean
it is
but I suspect,
tapestry, representing a
horse,
keepers,
well that,
that picture
frail
it
supports
(C.
K. S.)
220 *
ABSENCE.
CLXXXIII.
ABSENCE.
In the note
was
Mr
is
by him presented
set in the
Museum,
by Dr Blacklock, and
many
volume of that
years previously,
1774, (vol.
i.
air,
p. 254.)
CLXXXVI.
whom
of the
am
first
in raptures
with
it."
CLXXXVIII.
SONG
A' WILLIE.
beginning
"
When we
And
appeared in "
61.
It
has the
to the
The Charmer," 2d
initials
B. G. as the author.
i.
p.
Old Church of
i.
Thomas
Edinburgh, who
a likeness of
is
It
A'.
p.
221
is mentioned by Mr
was done about the year 1786,
years.
CLXXXIX.
High
The composer
as noticed
by
of the
Mr
He was born
of Ayrshire.
He
air,
at Irvine,
Poems
For an account of
in the
and died
published a volume of
see the
S. at p. 180,
at
2d of May, 1830.
Kilmarnock
Sillar's life
in 1789,
and writings,
1839. 8vo.
cxc.
ADDRESS TO A BLACKBIRD.
it
may
rinda" were
In addition to that
note, clxxxvi.
be mentioned that Burns' " Letters to Cla-
first
12mo; while
surreptitiously printed at
Glasgow
in 1802,
of Burns' Works, by
Mr
of the correspondence.
became acquainted with Mrs M'Lehose, a young, beautiful, and talented woman, residing with an infant family
in Edinburgh, while her husband was pushing his fortune
in the West Indies.
She first met the Poet in the house
of a
common
The
made a
222 *
ADDRESS TO A BLACKBIRD.
man
ter,
print,
CXCII.
air occurs in a
Mr
MS.
Blaikie, Paisley,
and
is
called
Brother."
CXCVIII.
CLARINDA.
For Mrs
hose.
Meiklejohn, in
Mr
read
Mrs M'Le-
song from
Mr Ty tier's
S.'s note,
See above.
cxcix.
cromlet's lilt.
"
Mr
communication
to
Mr
Riddell, preserved
by Burns, and
printed
'
" The following curious document concerning the seventeen brothers, has never been printed
it is
indorsed,
'
The
"At
1710.'
George Halley,
in Ochterarder,
family of Tullibardine.
the declaration of
cromlet's lilt.
223
"
He
fills
the shield.
TuUibardine had
who
Luss,
lived all to be
men and
;
pening shortly
after
Fifth, discharging
King, with
This hap-
any persons
own
num-
act,
his
some
little
with
of
at feud,
"4. The
is
come.
"
5.
lies
under Endermay.
made one
of
Gowrie's,
*
' A daughter
" The anecdote alluded to is thus told by Pennant
first Earl of Gowrie was addressed by a young gentleman in
:
of the
the neighbourhood,
in rank
to the
visit
224 *
and
crgmlet's lilt,
buried in the church of Tibbermore, over against the
is
"9. Another
Ochtertyre.
"
10.
Och-
to
tertyre.
now
called
them, and lodged him in a tower near another, in which was the young
up a different staircase, and communicating with
another part of the house. The lady, before the communicating doors
were
shut,
them
but the young lady hearing the well-known footsteps of her mother
hobbling up stairs, ran to the top of the leads, and taking a desperate
leap of nine feet four inches, over a chasm *of sixty feet from the
ground, lighted on the battlements of the other tower, whence, deown chamber, she crept into her bed. Her mother
having in vain sought for her in her lover's chamber, came into her
room, where finding her seemingly asleep, she apologised for her unscending into her
just suspicion.
ried.
The
top of the towers from and to which the lady leaped, are
was formerly current in Annandale, respecting the old Tower of ComThere, it was said, a rash young gentlewoman being surprised
in similar circumstances, her father, as the old people expressed it, coming
' rampagin up the turnpike like onie wud bear, wi' a nakit swurd in
his nieve,* she ran to the top of the castle, and leaping down to the
ground, got entrance at the front door, and was in her bed before her
sire could descend from the battlements. The feline Venus of the Egyplongan.
tians certainly
life !"
(C. K. S.)
;;
CROMLET
LILT.
* 225
The heirs sold it to Humphrey Murray, broHumphrey Murray of Buehandy, who sold it again
Ferntown.
ther to
to
Mr
at Logierait.
go
to Ireland.
"
14.
of Foules.
come.
Murray of Tul-
libardine,
sword, in
King James
hilt
of his
and slaughter
cows was not paid, neither could any subject in the realm
be able to compel those who were bound to pay them
'
tally
with th6
'
common
Scottish
226 *
in which,
teen sons
"
cromlet's lilt.
of Heraldry, vol.
ii.
p. 197.)"
(C.K.S.)
cc.
THE WINTER
IT IS PAST.
in the present
work.
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE
LYRIC POETRY
AND MUSIC
OF
SCOTLAND.
PART
III.
cci.
by the
written
late
head.
The
Mr
this
period he displayed an
of"
uncommon genius in
acquiring a know-
When only
at
Having
finished
their pastor.
The
death,
with
till
solici-
Mr
He
"^
Eccle-
chiefly in the
Scottish language,
which
190
Mr
by the
editor.
nister,
Duke
of Gordon.
and composed
prettily,
reel tunes.
was the
first (i.e.
"
I have
says,
and
it
of
Marshall himself, that he took the idea of his three most ce-
lebrated pieces,
Huntly"'s
Reel,'"
his
"
Burns
German
Lairdie," (vide
airs,
is
free
from plagiarisms
Museum
nuine
set
song,
is
is
The
air in the
first
verse of
Mr
A ge-
Skinners
therefore annexed.
Marshall.
^zzzr
atz:*::
Tune
your
fid- dies,
CCr.
:*=5S
^^^H
KTzs:
^^R
reel discreetly;
5SEEE
\^E
Come,
lapi^
El:
my boys,
l=F==N
ffZTff
5"
IS
-:
^ft^
yrg:
life,
i^
choose his
to be
iE
g?j=^lt=feSE
jol-ly.
191
Dance
lassie.
\\^i'
Shj^,
nor melan-
3=
;f^=f=t
IEI3
^^iiPl
cho-ly.
m^
Come,
my
1^^
boys, be glad
iis^^
hr^
;::
choose his
lassie,
^ =r=i^
.^
-*
Dance wi'
life,
^~t ':s-^
iS
;^~r
cho-ly.
ffi:
The
E^
rest of this excellent
song
will
192
cell.
GLADSMUIR.
This
beautiful poem,
beginning "
for
it
field,"
written
music by
well
As
Mr
known volumes of
name of a
was
set to
Scottish tunes.
Gladsmuir
is
the
this
CCIII.
The
GILL MORICE.
ballad of Gill Morice has every appearance of being
another.
by
to
internal evidence,
Elizabeth, there
in
mav
oral communication,
is
is
at least as old
an old ballad,
Queen
" Childe Maurice,"
as the reign of
entitled
which the same incidents that occur in Gill Morice are de-
tailed,
though
in less polished
vol.
may be
i.
A very
seen in Jamieson's
printed at Edinburgh in
editors of Gill
interesting story.
In
Mr
is
well
known
in the musical
193
ly-
rical compositions."
who favoured
to a lady
was
it
In
letters
it in a manner
Aristotle.
never
read
had
It begins
that shews the author
in the fifth act of the play (viz. of Home's Tragedy of Dou-
seen
it ?
glas),
what
it is
As
Museum,
left
out
it is
stanzas, alluded to
by Bishop Percy.
lines,
or four
These modern
verses.
GILL MORICE.
An
Nor
inter-
them
194
;;
And
ha'.
cum ?
Willie,
I'll
For
How
For
Willie,
.''
I sail
a'
ha'.
And
bid her
cum
to
silken sarke.
the slieve
GUI Morice,
errand.
The baron
He
he's a
man
o'
micht.
And
How
" And
sen I
maun your
Sae
I'se
mak
It sail be
errand
it
rin,
true,
;
; ;
CCIII.
; ;
GILL MORICE.
195
He wald
nae
tell
the
man
his errand.
Whar
" Hail
My
Before that
it
be
late.
alane.
"
It's
surely to
my bow'r-woman
It neir cou'd
be to me."
''
to
I brocht
it
Lord Barnard's
lady,
"
If ye be
It's
cum
frae Gill
Morice
brocht
it
to
lady;
196
And speak
"
I rede
Gill
He
"
what means
My
mother
a'
tarries lang."
The baron
to the grene
And
wood came
care.
Kaiming
Gill IMorice,
My
" Yet
For
a'
now.
Gill
Morice,
Now
And
his steid.
And
The
And
"
saw
there she
Cum
Gill Morice's
And
And
''
lands.
kiss'd baith
As
'*
head
the hip
I gat
is o'
ye in
Gill
Morice
the stane.
my
father's
house
and shame ;
I brocht ye up in the gude grene wode,
Ken'd to mysel' alane.
Wi' meikle
sin
And
by thy cradle
sate.
But now
He had
197
;;
198
" To me nae
Will
e'er
I'll fill
And
be
MOmCE,
GILL
CCIII.
after
saft or kind
greet
till
be blind."
That
eir this
Had
gar'd his
body
bleid.
"
Morice,
Gill
the youth
day
was
lines of
speid
ain
On which
ill.
sic
slain."
two
last
From
it
his
it
might have
to
which
is
it
now
is
lost,
as
it
M'Gibbon,
Captain Riddel
"was greatly
lost,
Mr
is
The
faulty measure of
some of
it
oral reciters.
spurious
The
air,
it is
as the story
believed,
is
complete without
CCIII.
GILL MORICE.
199
Mr M^Gibbon
died so late as Sd
October 1756.
Gill
Tytler,
evidence of
lications
antiquity.
its
simple strain,
but
of
air,
and indeed
carries internal
consists of
one
is
it
Esq.
appears in Oswald's
ner.
cciv.
first,
My
beginning "
ly altered
Sandie gied to
by Burns, because
it
me
in its
original state.
The
other, beginning
At an
dresser.
merchantman,
as
true genius
author,
by
early period,
in
But
will
rise
superior
to
every
obstacle,
our
private
in
Frederic,
Prince of Wales.""
its
credit-
much
named the
ed
in that situation
till
when every
coast of Greece,
and
200
dCIV.
On
he composed a
It
Duke of York.
The favourable reception which
ward,
this
its
poem
so justly ob-
Duke of York,
to
whom
cond Departure from England as Rear Admiral," he was appointed purser to the Royal George, one of the finest ships
Navy.
In 1764, he published a new edition of " The Ship-
in the British
1769, she
left
the
Cape
of.
None
A sister,
burgh.
who was
It
is
It
and
is
but was
generally supposed,
all
now knoAvn
on board perished.
to exist in
Edin-
In December
in the charity
work-house of
monument
to the
memory
and worth
as a
tribute.
ccv.
WHEN
The
words of
this fine
Mr
John
Ayr.
Mr
estate of
selling his
CCV. WHEN
*'
this
He
me
201
song one day when his wife had been fretting over their
misfoTt\ines.''''Reliques.
This
Burns alludes
is
to in his
There was
A' to the
life.
adapted
earliest compositions
in the first
Mr
of
it
This song,
night,"
is
COLONEL GARDINER.
beginning " 'Twas at the hour of dark mid-
It
was com-
who
fell
from him
who
Skirvin, after
But
For a
particular
Mrs Richmond
a pretty poetical
Edinburgh,
Inglis,
tale, called
in 1781,
and dedicated
to the
Queen.
It
at
was
202
CCVI.
COLONEL
Gilbert's song
Sir
is
GARDINER.
old collections.
CCVII.
TIBBIE DUNBAR.
This
for the
called
little
Museum.
The words are adapted
Johnny 31'Gill, from the name of
to a Scottish jig,
composer the
its
Mr
under
my
plaidie,"
sixth
CCVIII.
song, beginning
Burns
to
When
Mr
John Lap-
Johnson.
"
another production of
"
No
The
205.
volume of
fifth
his
GAY.
Burns
was
'
says,
I ever
title
woman
of the song
is
mine."
heard to
Farewell to
in
this tune,
Ireland
;''
Dunblane
the
the
Reliques.
ccx,
excellent loyal
is
" In the
The
air
who
Professorship of Music
in
the
sum
late
foot,
for establishing a
University of Edinburgh.
CCX.
The
tune
made
its first
203
Marches, Minuets, &c. composed by J. R. Esq. and dedicated to the Right Honourable
It
there titled
is
The
song
is
CCXT.
row,"
is
;"
but
title
It
is
of Sweet Susan,
it
As Thomson,
sixteenth century.
nius,
in his
Orpheus Caledo-
here inserted.
I.
When
With
He makes
Herbs,
all
trees,
Amongst
all
Haughs and
Yarroiu.
II-
Pan
And
Do
The
hills
204
A>fD
YARROW.
With
'l
IV.
An
Surmounting my descriving,
With rooms sae rair, and windows
Like Dedalus contriving ;
Men passing by do often cry.
In sooth it hath nae marrow.
It stands as sweet on Leader-side
As Newark does on Yarrow.
fair,
to ride.
With
streek
O'er Leader
Haughs and
Yari-ow.
VII.
In Burmill
The
Bog and
Whiteslade Shaws,
haunteth
And Chapel-wood
frequenteth
;^
^i
I'll
'?.
rins
205
and sighs
for sorrow,
What
And
X.
Nae cunning
And
Leader Haughs,
But
minstrel
His
To
And
Scotts, that
dwelt on Yarrow.
CCXII.
It
is
is
the
March of
A'.
the Corpora-
and other
206
CCXII.
The popular
ciety.
air
"
of " Logie
Tailor's old
Buchan,"
o'
&C.
is
only a
The
March."
second
and fourth verses of the song were written by Burns, the rest
of it
very old.
is
CCXIII.
AY WAKIN,
The
first
some
slight alterations
As
Museum
known
O.
stanza
is
is
from be-
far
all
that
is
AY WAKIN, OH
g^^^^E
When
I sleep I
i-rie.
Rest I can-na
^pp
i
!=:
/
get.
my
For thinkin
o'
- rie
dearie.
*^
Ay
bleer
Ay
my
my
lad.
ivakin,
oh!
Wakin
Id
And
-J-
wakin, oh
o'
my
dearie
aye and
CCXIII. AY WAKIN> OH
20*7
cam in my head.
To send my luve a letter ;
It
My
And
Ay
tvakin, oh !
Wakin
Sleep
For
In
ay,
and
I canna
thinkin
irie ;
get
my
o'
dearie.
of "
air
The
tune, however,
simplicity
air,
from
and I
is
its intrinsic
the
the
this
same
air, in
Can
May
1795.
I cease to care ?
I dread.
Every dream
is
Long,
horror
long,
&c.
divine
Oh
me
in pity hear
the night,
Heavy comes
the marroiu ;
While m,y soul's delight
Is on her bed of sorrow.
CCXIV.
THE BREAST-KNOTS.
The
publisher of the
Museum
humo-
208
CCXIV.
The
The
correspondent.
dialect
it is
from an ano-
set,
THE BREAST-KNOTS,
nymous
Buchan
;;
unknown
is
to the Editor.
late pe-
pictures,
ccxv.
air is the
composition of
"
Song
132,
you
verses,
Masterton, author
Lament,"
Strathallan's
The
vol. ii.
bright, I rede
Mr Allan
See Notes on
beginning "
Ye
gallants
right,"
Ann
compliment to Miss
poser.
ccxvi.
line or
ditty.
THIS
My
is
my ain house.
my ain house
my ain house,
no
ain house,
this is no
ken by the biggin o't
For bread and cheese are my door cheeks.
Are my door cheeks, are my door cheeks
For bread and cheese are my door cheeks.
And pancakes the riggin o't.
this is
My
1
no
my ain wean.
my ain wean
my ain wean,
ain wean,
this is no
ken by the greetie
o't.
I'll
AfF
my
I'll
And
my
head,
;
my
head.
o't.
In the Museum, Ramsay's verses are not set to the original tune of " This is no my ain House," but to a very old air,
called Diel stick the Minister,
from an
old,
but rather
my
wife,
licen-
THIS
CCXVI.
This tune
The
to the
NO MY AIN
209
l^OUSE,
is
panion, book
IS
vii.
Com-
by Burns
in
July 1795
same tune.
CHORUS.
no my ain lassie,
Fair though the lassie be ;
O weel ken I my ain lassie.
this is
Kind
She's
very saul.
O
To
steel
When
a blink by
e'e.
this is no,
tall.
heart in thrall
&c.
Jean,
unseen
a'
e'e.
O this
is
no, &c.
may
may
O
There
is
a set of the
this is no,
&c.
stick the Minister,"" intitle
Mr
Campbell of Bud-
yet,
them
is
Of
course
we must beheve
title will
Willie's
be of Gaelic extraction
is
common
not do
it
:
to
It
Shantrews.
dialect, literally
name by which
trowsers,
CCXVI. THIS
210
known
common, with
in
still
its
more ob-
many
at all
title,
NO MY AIN HOUSE.
IS
genera-
tions,
will
ill
to
lie
or bann,
kittle.
As
the reader
may
my ain House,"
" This is no
it is
inserted from
Mrs
air
of
Crockat's
first
OLD AIR OF
Tr
s-
/-
yf-*
^W-^
.'-p
THIS
<
no
is
-S^
my
"^
'
.-i
NO MY AIN HOUSE n
L=z
jj:
'
-%
J
~ \^--^::^
H~
ain house, I
::
o't;
Since
^^B^^^P^^^
with
s ^-T-
T-9-
--4-
his
-*
please
fire -side.
-z
me
Mine
ain
house
r-T^-
o't
And
mistress too of
like
to
bride.
I'll
guide.
And
o't.
ccxvii.
MY
This
WIFE'S A
WANTON WEE
is
THING.
.h
There
u^lt^
The
.
is
It is
-:
'
ccxvir.
MY wipe's
My wife's
My wife's
My wife's
was many'd.
was marry 'd.
she was niarry'd,
She
She
She
She
She
She
sell'd
it.
sell'd
it.
Mr
211
She
She
She
She
,
to the
same
air
Bums had
considerably, which
tered
it
was a
positive improvement.
My
wife's
but
al-
And
my heart I'll
my jewel tine.
wear
niest
For fear
her.
leeze
My
me on my wee
Sae lang's
I'll
thing.
hae
my
my wee
And may
Wi' her
And
we
share
o't.
mair o't
blythly bear it,
see meikle
I'll
ne'er
thing,
lot divine.
a word repine.
CCXVIII.
Hark
its
centre."
After the Doctor's sono- follow the old words, with one ver-
;; !
212
CCXVIII.
it
Mr Thomson
transmitted to Burns a
long
list
new
verses,
amongst which
of " Laddie
lie
near
me." The Bard, in answer, wrote him that " Laddie lie near
me must lie hy me for some time. I do not know the air
and until I am complete master of a tune, in my own singing
(such as it is), I never can compose for it.
My way is I
:
my
when
that
my
then choose
composed, which
is
is
theme
begin one
difficult part
idea of
sit
then, look out for objects in nature around me, that are in
my
workings of
air
When
beginning to jade,
my
my own
my
elbow-chair,
critical strictures as
I feel
effusions to paper,
on the hind-legs of
calling forth
fancy and
my muse
my
my
is
swinging
by way of
my pen goes
my way."
the
lie
near
me"
hope
is
denied me ;
abide me
maun
on.
almost invariably
falter.
213
CCXIX.
man
my
to
song, beginning
The
Collection, in 1776.
author
yet
is
i.
anonymous.
the tune
In
strangely de-
is
ccxx,
THE GARDENER
This
fine song,
The
When
rosy
May
comes
it
is
adapted
in
Mu-
wi' Flowers,"
seum.
beginning
is
dener's
affinity
King of Sweden."
ccxxi.
BARBARA ALLAN.
This ballad
copy in
is
Cruelty, or the
third
volume of
in 176T.
It
ancient.
his possession,
his
reprinted in the
is
Museum, which
is
The
ed
prelate's
Town^
Jemmye
Grove.
In other
perhaps;) and
calls
Be
that as
composed
lished
less
this song,
"bers
fire-
is
its
the hero
nearly the
origin from
may,
it
it
has
side in Scotland,
minstrel
who
refinements
neverthe-
bold, glowing,
age.
learn-
and masterly
A learned
pencil, as
would do
credit to
any
BARBARA ALLAN.
CCXXr.
214)
where
shire,
it
was
name
town of Annan
mention
is
opinion she
and
that, in
that
resided in the
made of a Barbara of
who
of Allan,
that family
but
seen,
he
is
of
CCXXII.
YOUNG PHILANDER.
This
cellany,
1724, where
"
called
is
it
Cecilia's Reflections
on
Thanks
The
vice."
by another song in
" The Young
It is followed
by way of answer,
entitled
first
and third
Ad-
Thomas Durfey, and adapted to a tune composed by Daniel Purcell, brother of Henry Purcell the
Anglocized by
niello,
the Rise
adapted to a
is
In the Museum,
turie,
acted at
fine
it is
old
called the
air,
a modernized
set to
it
trvie
or
Beau in
Hay-mar-
inipLmi-^pp^^pii
Young
K
ai)(l
Phi-lan-der woo'd
f(jr-bad
me
lang.,
But
Mas peevish,
k.
liiui
m ad-ua
tent
liis
]u\--ii)g'
saug,,
But
3cii:
^ji^jim
now
fczs
glass.
Then
iatzjt
Ilk moi-niiig
perceive
^b^
-f
&.^r:^--i
^-^--^
^-^
When
215
when
?i
my
view
had him
wishj I wish I
the wrinkles
my
go
beauty's
- ing-
"^
Then
may
Ave
bid
a-
-^
dieu to wooing.
/TnM-'^
CCXXIII.
(f-Cf
fti/i^i
ON A BANK OF FLOWERS.
This charming song was composed by Burns,
Museum,
for the
at the request of
Mr
in 1789,
Johnson, in place of
volume
cellany,
same
title,
and
to the
same
tune.
ccxxiv.
likewise
composed by Burns,
as a tribute
and
riddill,
liis
lady.
" At
their fire-side
(says Burns) I
at all
The
named
my
life."
am
indebted for
the houses of
and
many
to their
of the hap-
Reliques.
Mr
and
Riddell himself,
of his mariiage.
Mr
Cromek,
Mr
Riddell's estate,) so
ought
to
much
celebrated
this little
spot,
by
that
The
well-known
216
and the
MY BOSOM
that
trees,
BURNS.
own hand,
memory of a
departed friend.
" To
How
living in a
" Kend
On being asked if she knew Burns
makman
and
a
great
poems
was
Aye
did
!
He
I
him
for
manr
puir
now,
that;
he's
deed
but
ing of heuksy and the like o'
:
Ellisland.
!
MY LOVE
The
title
and the
ccxxv.
SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET.
air to
of "
Lady
name
vol
8,
MS.
of an original
ii.
now belonging
to
Mr
bookseller.
ccxxvi.
This
ed,
attributed to
is
year
ballad,
THE GABERLUNZIE-MAN.
which for sterling humour cannot be
524.
man,
u.sed
It
is
James
V.,
related, that
surpass-
to stroll occasionally
about the
country,
dis-
it is
believed, are
now
his songs
lost.
and
He
was
ballads,
most of
second to
none
THE GABEULUNZIE-MAN.
CCXXVI.
The
though
all
and
ill
is
Museum,
air
Willie," which
in
but
ancient, is
lad.
217
which
it
was
and was,
originally,
continues to be sung.
still
In 1782, the
Mr
late
scarce.
CCXXVII.
fine old
Highlanders,
tune
who
is
"
call it
Tha mi mo
chadal," or
"
am
Ramsay, about the year 1723, wrote a song beginning " When innocent pastime our pleasure did crown,"
asleep."
which he
it
is
set
o'clock,
in the
ter Z,, as
but the
in
directs to
is
let-
air deserves
much
Oswald's Collection,
better words.
book
iv.
The tune
under the
title
appears
of the
" Hark
yonder eagle
1742, but
it is
fifth
in
Museum.
ccxxix.
JAMIE, COME TRY ME.
This tune was composed by Oswald, and published with
218
his
name
m the second
as the author,
volume of
his Caledo-
The
Museum
verses in the
verses.
ccxxx.
MAGGIE'S TOCHER.
To
Ramsay, by
its
ain Time.
testifies
beginning
The
Thomson,
be very ancient.
it
A rich vein of
its
air,
antiquity
and
The
sprightliness.
word
instrumental music,
it is
its
twelfth
for,
although the
may do
very well in
MY BONNY MARY.
This
" The
Silver.Tassie,"
was recover-
exception of the
nal verses.
" Go
first
fetch to
four
me
lines,
a pint
o''
this
which belonged
to the origi-
iii.)
as
Dr
Mrs Dunlop,
(dated
THE LAZY
The
air
and
title
MIST.
of this song are taken from Oswald's
xii.
The words
THE LAZY
CCXXXII.
219
MIST.
In
GCXXXIII.
This curious
other collections,
Caledonian
under the
title
of
it
is
called
nicated
by Burns
The
And
away^
"
I will
away
And
be a captain's lady.
A captain's lady
Is a dame of honour
She has her maids
Ay to wait upon her
To wait upon her.
And
get
I will
all
things ready,
away
And be
,
a captain's lady.
&c. &c. &c.
a slight variation,
"
transformed into a
strathspey,
called
Dalry-liouse."
ccxxxiv.
JOHNIE COPE.
This
old
air,
" Fye
An
silly
The
strain repeated
was
Morning."
first
strain,
under the
chorus, or burden
an octave higher.
title of " Johny
volume
ix.
The
verses in the
Museum
220
CCXXXIV.'^JOHNIE COPE.
A different set
in
Ritson's
sets are
alterations
Scottish
volume
Songs,
air,
may
also
But
ii.
satirical song,
called
page 103.
same event
John Cope,
be seen
these
Both of
two
which
" Tra-
Museum,
Mr
Skir-
and from
several gentlemen
Mr
who were
Skirven's relations,
intimately acquainted
with him.
ORIGINAL WORDS.
Cope
meet me an ye daur.
you the airt o' war.
you'll meet wi' me in the morning.
Charlie
And
If
ril learn
Chorus.
Hey! Jolmie
Or
When
Hey
it's
nest
i'
the morning.
flee
CCXXXIV.
JOHNIE
221
COi'E.
It's
For
'twill
be a bluddie morning.
Johnie Cope, &c.
Hey !
I left
them
Hey !
a'
i'
the morning.
Johnie Cope,
Sec.
In
morning.
Johnie Cope, &c.
in the
Hey
Wi'
their
CCXXXV.
I
This
air
Duke
butler to the
the old
LOVE MY JEAN.
Mr
William Marshal],
air, called
my Love
ment
to
moon."
Mrs
Burns.
N. B.
It
Reliques.
ccxxxvi.
O,
The
fragment of
DO?
going
is
all
The
Peggy,
R. Burns,"
" O, dear
by Ramsay as a song
were written
222
CCXXXVI.
Jenny
for
0,
DO
Shepherd."
The melody
Braes of Auchtertyre."
page
The
20.
is
examination of
facts,
the reel tune was modelled from the old air, about the year
whom
the old
James
keep
my
make
Bremner
tyre." It
title
now
deservedly forgotten.
of "
first line
The
How
can I
of an old inattempt
first
James Crockat,
the year
delicate song,
to
reel
is
now
is
now
called
in
title,
Editor.
to Blan-
jigs,
The
old tune of
is
can scarcely
have adapted
ancient
it
to the
223
3^
^^ SPi
O
DO ?
shall
do?
dear mln-ny.
^^^^^^^1^
O
what
shall
Daft
thing-,
doylt thing, do
do?
do?
^=Jr
as
If I be black, I
do.
^^^^^^^^^m
canna be
lo'ed
If I be fair, I
ira:
canna be gude
^
the
lordly,
If I look
^1
lads
Avill
look
by
nie.
dear
min
iij^,
e^^B
what
shall I
do?
CCXXXVII.
it,
were
transmitted
have no
difficulty in
is
clearly
airs.
modern melody
The anonymous
writer
224
CCXXXVIII.
ALLOA HOUSE.
This
melody
fine
pears in the
first
is
volume of
his
title
Caledonian Pocket
name of
the composer.
The
and
end
is
Dr Alexander Webster,
who
an
In
asterisk (*)
song, beginning
burgh,
Com-
returns,
is
spelled in
Alloway
of the song.
from
cal celebrity
its
is
Alloa, which
is
two
different ways,
a parish in Ayrshire,
now of
classi-
Dr
Webster's song,
same name
in the county of
the scene of
air,
nan.
beneficial
effects.
is
situated
Clackman-
This tower was built about the 13th century, and was,
Lord Erskine,
of Stragarthney in Perthshire.
It is
still
ccxxxix,
There
first,
Museum,
the
by Ramsay
for
Shepherd.
The
come,"
is
partly old
The remainder
CCXXXIX.
A more complete,
well.
however,
may be
1
^
225
i.
CCXL.
fine
from which
it
was copied
Museum
into the
An
but neither the author nor the composer are yet known.
excellent
set to
verses,
song
No
see Notes
is
on
Ur-
in Silk."
of "
I'll
lay
me down and
die."
CCXLI.
ST KILDA SONG.
This
is
song, beginning
a translation, by
Mr
"
By
M'Donald, of a
clear,'"
Western
in the
Museum.
Mr
in the second
volume of
his
CCXLI I.
which
Mrs
it
Melody
Scottish
Crockat's
MSS.
O.
is
written in 1709.
It
is
still
The
is in-
verses
pi-eserved,
in the pre-
ly observes,
" it
is
alleged
many
made by
by devils."
The verses adapted to the tune in the Museum, beginning
" Beneath a green shade," were written by Ramsay as a subgood
-,
1
'{
%
'
226
CCXLII.
words
O.
and Thomson, in
his
Orpheus Cale-
As Ramsay's
verses were
partaking too
much
considered
still
of the rude
air, in
the same
WHEN WILD
O.
I.
I left
the lines
Where
My
A
was
My
hand unstain'd
my
in
breast.
wi' plunder
At length
in.
reach'd the bonny glen.
Where
early
life I
Where Nancy
spied
Down
And
I,
sported
Wha
courted
aft I
but
my
turn'd
That
my
in
My purse
And
as
Burns endeavoured
When
1725.
by some people
is light,
fain
I've serv'd
bosom
my
Take pity on a
sodger.
air,
;: ;
CCXLir.
227
O.
Our humble
Ye
and hamely
cot,
fare.
it
am
True
lovers be rewarded.
VII.
The wars
And
are o'er,
find thee
still
true-hearted
Burns, in a
letter
to
Mr
"
The
Mill, Mill,
These
lines
Dr
What you
so
you
see
Currie's
disputed
think a defect, I
how
doctors differ."
first.
In place of these
lines,
Mr
Thomson,
in the first
volume of
228
CCXLII.
and
his Collection,
it
And
O.
These lines
Thomson, in a
are
much
to the
inferior
Mr Gay
ly,"
beginning "
mand
original,
and
Bard
originally wrote
;" printed,
When
Mr
late edition
gold
is
on hand
it
" Pol-
gives us com-
Both
London
No
Cornhill,
cumstances, I
am
it
it is
is
it
From
a modern Anglo-
If
be an imitation of
it
ccxLiv.
LASS, GIN
19,
these cir-
Herring and
Salt.
Mr John
me when
when wyll
this
be
My come,
My lands,
Mr
.''
come
.''
ilka
Day
own
But there
LASS, GIN
CCXLIV.
is
Scottish air
is
is
uncommonly
and
cheerful
third,
fifth
is
is
if
latter is
stiff
The incidents in
The solitary line, " I
to day.
is
all, it is
commences on the
The
of the key.
but
The
and ex-
of the words,
spirit
it
lively,
old
in both copies
The
totally different
former, which
229
who framed
humorous
Scottish ballad,
first
time by
Mr
Smith.
Is
it
that the Scots have laid claim to an English song, which has
sound or in sense
own
still
Museum, which
annexed.
I
HAE layen
three herring
a' sa't
Chorus
And I
and
to
woo.
to
woo
Chorus
To tvoo, to woo, to
And I cannae cum,
and to ivoo.
day to woo.
To woo, to ivoo, to lilt and to woo.
And I cannae cum ilka day to ivoo.
lilt
ilka
is
here
230
Burns, in a
to
letter
Mr
" AVhat
says,
vol. iv.
ring in Sawt
I hke
is
it
much."
Mr
his question.
CCXLV.
tears of
Scott of
Wauchope.
Johnson
told
me
late
Mrs
this himself.
CCXLVI.
MY DEAR FRIEND TO
CEASE, CEASE
BunNs,
in his
Blacklock.
is
his too."
Mr
Reliques, says,
but
I believe,
am
EXPLORE.
" This song is by Dr
Reliques.
Dr
were composed by
Mr
seum.
Blacklock,
air
and words
Mu-
CCXLVIL
the fauid,"
is
daughter of the
ess,
Ann
When
the composition of
late
Castletoun, Bart.
the 8th of
De-
without
The
who
issue.
is
preserved in the
it.
CCXLVII.
It
231
is
It
was written
so young
when her
Richmond
in Surry,
he received,
adds,
'*>
it
which he immediately
may
till
asserts
own being
his
many
resting words,
which he now
then
an undivided claim
That
He
he never heard of
before
Ann Lind-
to music.
Mr
set
his friend,
this ballad,
and the
still
long
more
now
visit to
first
duced."
Mr
to
Lady Ann's
London,
in 1812.
On
verses, at the
Birchall,
a standing
New Bond
postvire,
end
is
an en-
at her spinning-
The
old
woman
fulness
seems to
listen attentively to
is
to the
Divine
will.
Jenny
directed to a book,
232
Bible on
cover, implying,
its
make
bly endeavour to
On an
and conduct.
the constant
sacred volume
that
I'll
do
my
sin
best^
glide wife to be
There
some ingenuity
is
The
nette.
of the Almighty
The
celebrated
viz.
Mrs
is
lad, as set
public,
frequently in
it
We shall con-
Mr
amatory
and
that the
fore
women
'
he remembers,
commence
all
authors,
bin
are written
by
ladies,*"
'
sense of decency
yet almost
is
there
his silly
psalm
is,
asleep himself
and indignation
Little
unknown
this rule
in
Auld Ro-
music,
set to soporific
asleep,
and
indeed, of very
Scotch
propriety as to
late years,
'
'
he
is,
But, after
at the author
Bantam-
'
Alas
to the credit
ridiculous
this silly
of our
taste,
psalm
will
continue to be sung,
shall
be as completely
Of
the
CCXLVII.
24
if
Scottish song-writers
not
added
to the
233
five, are
number."
more might be
am
in this city,
own
work.
Words by Lady
Lindsay.
Music by
the Rev.
Mr William
Leeves
of Wrington.
Recti.
J^
z^^:
^fZ^^
iii|z zg=3J=j
When
the
in
5S5
b-^^^
=E^3^ ^jEiEl
ii
-4
fauldj
and
the
a'
^^1
m-
^m
F-
ai-e
the
'
show
- ers
frae
i:z3t
0'
my
r - "'
pzi
in
wea-ry
The waes
gane.
lZ=3t
a'
fa'
And
kye at hame^
SElESz|::^S5^iprE^
warld to sleep
heart
(H
my
e'e^
zg_^-_^p:_ji"-^;-j?-g;
While
234
aci
it==:i
my
gude - man
sleeps
me.
by
sound
^^^m^^^^
^^^ ^-^?eE ^^^
^zV.
Si
I=SE
6
4
^g^:gg^^lJc^g
Youngf Jamie lo'ed
^V:S:
5
3
^^^^1^^^^
^g;
-jj
had naething
else be-side
To
I
6
i^^^^^
\^
i^ SI
:^i^^i^^^i^^
make
^\..
[...I
,.
my
Ja-mie gade to
And
sea.
the
Lm,pL-,.i^- i_, n[
for
me.
He
ai::
k^
TT
*=!
235
^^gg^p^5i3 gSS
^^
:^
H
^PEEgi
^
15=
gane a
yeai*
tl
my
4+
^r-r
_l
qszn;!
i^
5t
was stown a
covy
My
way ;
mi- ther
she
fell
sick,
and
'v.
-->
S3^^^^^SJfc&S=zE==g"-]h
Jamie
at the sea.
And auld
jr
an33
E^
:-|:
E^
CCXLVIII.
LEITH WYND.
This song
to
have been
is
improperly
called,
"
titled in
Were
the
I assur'd
Museum.
It
ought
seum.
236
About
a
LEITH WYND.
CCXLVIII.
Adam
and
httle,
dignified
it
with the
new
of " Leith
title
Wynd,"
it
in
Mary's
assured
The
verses in the
you"'d constant
for
his
in
as a song
pastoral
Gentle Shepherd."
CCXLIX.
fine air
The humorous
Collection.
*'
First
which
is
song in the
my
care,"
O'T.
to
some
witty, but
preserved in Herd's
Museum, beginning
The
air
it
Pocket Companion.
CCL.
ii.
it
scene
An
iii.
is
also in-
who
was
first
vol.
i.
p. 172, edition
it
in his
The
1765.
cellany.
The
old air
is
Many
is
un-
CCL.
by
oral
237
perfected.
CCLI.
in his pastoral
The
Shepherd.''
written in 1709.
tune
It
is
inserted in
Mrs
airs selected
in the ocean
tosty
this period, it
acted at
had
London
in
MS.
by Mr Gay
Crockat's
rm
like
a sMff ^
But, prior to
1728.
The
original
As
they possess
How
happy
is
Who,
And
low degree.
From
strife,
free.
No
He
fears
Nor
And
liveth unconfin'd.
III.
238
CCLI.
Now
And
And
His
by a
silver
stream he
lies.
flies
tries
Now
Amidst
VI.
Around
CCLII.
fine ballad is
this
a gallant
who
year 1777.
tain Stewart,
Atholl)
Mr
fell
On
officer
(betrothed to a
young lady
in
America, in the
The words
is
printed as
air.
it
was originally
and
correct-
CCLII.
ed some of the
The
stanzas.
reader
239
therefore presented
is
comparing
Museum, he
and,
upon
it
will
ments made on
by
it
When
late
improve-
author.
its
Poor Flora
away,
slipt
Sad'nmg
Mora*^
to
winter's blast
is
III.
''
'
Where now
is
Donald
Say,
is
he
To
still
Each heart
Ah
is
Flora
sincere
his lov'd
Parents upbraid
dear.'''
sneer,
Flora
my moan
tum'd
thou'rt
Friendless in
?'
to stone
now
alone.
Mora
IV.
Ah
Bounding
Mora
is
the
name
o'er
Mora
named by
240
CCLII.
" Never^
!'
Never
shall
Donald
Meet
niair
his lov'd
Floka
Donald, thy
He
me
sent
love
low.
lies
Weeping
Mora.
in
VI.
On
gallant
men
Saratoga's plain
From
But, ah
tho'
British glory.
flee.
VII.
"
Tell her,
O Allan
tell,
And
plaid,'
fell.
Mute
Ah
Was
Donald
all
ah, well-a-day
!"
Mora.
CCLIII.
in
in the
Orpheus Caledonius.
CO LIT.
SUN GALLOP
Tins
is
SKIES.
is,
in fact,
1
in the
CCLIV.
The
mentioned.
airs to
WESTUN
241
SKIES.
appear to have
any
Both
his
comedy
WERE
ON PARNASSUS'
HILL.
nion,
volume of
is
his Caledonian
Pocket Compa-
by our
poet.
CCLVI.
SONG OF SELMA.
The
words of
this song,
Carill,
and
The
pherson.
music, which
is
composed by Oswald.
CCLVII.
song, beginning
is
The words
" Robie donna gorrach," or
air is evidently
vii.
page 30.
CCLVIII.
" This
calls it
the
air
Lament
of the song
mek
is
old
the
rest is mine."
possession, in
The
first
half stanza
Reliques.
Mr
memorandum-book
Cro-
in his
this national
242
musician
is
tic
Highland
" A
brow
social
an interesting
face,
marking strong
sense,
kind
Neil
Gow
was born
in the eightieth
A writer in the
Mr
cir-
He
telligent.
acteristic
in his early
years.
and
in-
so char-
An
edly copied.
Mr Maule of Panmure,
Raeburn and he has been
of a HigJiland Wedding, by
M.
P. for Forfarshire,
ingenious
sit
of
The Sabbath,
his memory
to
View
Mr
to
by
Mr
Allan, to
The
late
whom
he was requested
Mr
Rev.
Graham, author
Made
Alas
No
more
draw forth
The
No
Shall
li^
ccLviii.
243
like
autumn sun
With
CCLIX.
MY
The
first
rest is mine.
Gaelic
air,
Salute,*" inserted in
volume
is
old
the
first,
page 22.
CCLX.
JOHN ANDERSON, MY
The
JO.
Woman.
John Anderson,
And
my jo, cum
in as ze
gae by,
Weel baken
Man.
cummer ? and how doe
ze
Man.
your awin gudeman
For three of
five.
.?
Woman.
Na, cummer, na
tham were gotten quhan
if
.'*
Woman.
Cummer, I hae
Are they to
ze thrive
we may
Willie
rely
was awa.
on an uniform and
About
was
slightly altered,
incident in private
church.
last verse
life,
supposed
244
JOHK ANDERSON, MY
CCLX.
JO.
The church
2.
jected
The
as spurious
and unauthorized.
Man.
And how doe ze cummer ? and how hae
And how mony bairns hae ze ?
ze thriven ?
WoTnan.
Mr
Tytler,
who
now
John Anderson
ly belonged to the
vice,
fact
loes
hiss
in the
Latin ser-
The
quite otherwise.
is
ancient
me
humorous
The
Scottish
songs are not indebted to the Catholic church either for their
words or
their music.
On
Songs,
collected out
harlotrie, in 1549.
Low down
Broom
Hey now Day daws,
Up in
the
Morning
early
in the
&c. &c.
the
as
The
to what
strictly
confined
CCLX.JOHN ANDERSON, MY
245
JO.
Now
many
Hence
it
may
reasonably be
and were
church of
service
written
hymns
set
in the cathedral
is
of
Dun-
preserved
Edinburgh. It consists of
five
attention,
work
is
just
now
for examination
Baird.
lying on
my
table,
The
me
still
now
The tune
down by
of
oral communication,
early as 1578, in
still
preserved.
1789
for the
Queen Elizabeth's
Two
virginal-book, which
is
by Burns
in
Museum,
Since the death of our lamented bard, four additional stanzas have appeared in a collection, entitled
and
Dr
" Poetry
& Reid
original
of Glasgow.
and the
them ought
real author of
stanzas,
them, nor suffered them to be given to the world, as the production of Burns."
24G
CCLXI.
The
this beautiful
Burns consider-
ed
it
to
it
in that work.
The
author
unknown.
CCLXII.
England.
into
Ritson says, that Durfey wrote the words, and sung them in
"
they do him
But no such
little credit.
and Jones,
in
but not
The
free
In 1680, Dur-
Father
"
You
By Heavens
Scottish language,
is
now
letter to
am
edition of
air, as
the odds
Burns
Mr Thom-
volume of Dr Currie's
my
In a
this tune.
1698,
is
gold to brass
Saw ye
Besides,
originally,
and
Tom
Durfey
production.
There
so
is
it
Duenna,
the
The
plant restoring.'
it
properly,
is
which
to this air,
It begins
Durfey's.
'
When
air, if
is
247
love."
he
fairest creature ?
eye.
lifts his
Now
And by
woods,
o'er the
stray
breathing flower
The
II.
When
absent frae
my
fair.
care.
o'
sullen sky
When
'Tis then I
it,
"
mould; but,
I could easily
to
my
throw
taste, in the
this (song)
simple and
an inimitable
eifect."
CCLXIII.
AWA, WHIGS,
AW A.
" Oh,
silly
Soul, alace
!"
The
I have
strain,
248
many
like
it,
at a
much
The
by a
later period,
Mu-
seum.
Hogg's Relics,
dern hands.
is
vol.
The
i. ;
it
owes
its
may be
seen
perfection to
mo-
song
this Jacobite
but
silly
ails this
Heart of mine
?"
and "
r
What
Soul, alace
My Dearie an thou
die."'"'
CCLXIV.
CA'
Mb
this
several alterations
The
happiest manner.
on the old
verses,
Cd
My bonnie dearie.
Will ye gang down yon water side.
That thro' the glen does saftly glide.
And
My
Ye
I sail
row thee
in
bonnie dearie ?
Cd the yowes,
my
plaid.
<Sfc.
Calf-leather shoon
Cd
I
My
Nor
sic school.
fool.
Lanely and
irie.
Sfc.
CA'
CCLXIV.
the gear
a'
My bonnie
Gin
weel,
ye'll
And ye
row me
sail
My winsome
Cd
it
your
in
plaid.
dearie.
is
consists of
air is
It only
uncommonly
the plain,
my
dearie.
Cd
Come
249
first syllable
sharp.
tember 1794,
says,
letters to
" I am
worthy
little
it
it
his singing.
my
When I
it
Ca'
saw the
request
gave
for you.
In a
hand on a few
I
that
stanzas to
which
me
Sep-
in
your adopting
was owing to
rus,
Thomson, dated
fellow of a clergyman, a
charmingly, and at
from
Mr
flattered at
solitary stroll
it
to
others, but
still it
will not
up
it is,
tried
do
my
with
Cd
Cd
My bonnie
Hark
dearie.
Cluden, or Clouden, is a river in Dunafriesrshire, which takes its rise near the
base of the Criffal mountains, and after a course of about fourteen miles falls
into the Nith, nearly opposite to Lincluden College.
It abounds with excellent
trout.
250
ccLxiv.
ca'
Then a
My
bonnie dearie.
Cd
the yoioes,
SjC.
To
the
moon
Cd
sae clearly.
the
2/ owes, S^c.
Yonder Clouden's
Where
silent towers.
Cd
My
Cd
can die
My
but cannot
bonny
Cd
part.
dearie.
the yowes,
S^-c.
CCLXV.
SE
The
air
and words of
lish translation,
DE M HOLLA.
Highland Song.
this Gaelic song, as well as the
Eng-
were copied from Sibbald's Edinburgh MagaThe same song was reprinted in " Albyn's An-
by
Mr
" This
mouth
original
of a
Hebridean
young girl, a
air
native of
Lewis, by an accomplished
this
In the Edinburgh
fragment (for
it is
no more,)
late
Mr
James Sibbald."
CCLXVI.
is
licentious ballad,
It
is said,
251
that he
composed
is
The laird
understood to have
It
is
Lord Orford)
picture of the
in his Catalogue of
young
is
girl's distress
first
King James
The
two
by
written
See
first
Mr
Currie''s
Museum, were
Edition of Burns,
vol,
i.
Appendix,
No 2. But
of "
is
D.
If J. D. be the
initial letters
The
brag weel
o'
The
Mr
Macneil told
me this
himself.
their geer,"
air
My Lodging
Ramsay
ME.
by an anonymous hand,
beginning " Adieu, for a while, my
inserted a song,
to this
native
by a
As
Mu-
252
CCLXVIII.
The tune
seum.
I'LL
others.
CCLXIX.
THE BRIDAL
This song was
O'T.
by Alexander Ross,
written
late school-
Mr
Ross was
His
father,
in that
well bestowed
it
on such a
His
son.
He
the
first
after-
Mr
Ross died
in
May
1783.
He
Tow,'"
referred to in the
is
He
Miscellany in 1728.
Orphan,"" a poem,
The
o't,"
still
verses, beginning
Angus Curaming's
is
" The
unpublished.
Jock'll speed weel
known Highland
Collection of
strathspey.
In
it is
called
bell's
Delight."
CCLXX.
The
MERRY HAE
original
copy of
writing of Burns,
is
now
in
humorous song,
my
hands.
in the
hand-
It seems to
be a
"
My
jera.
me an
important
CCLXX.
O,
MKRRT HAE
BEEN, &C.
I joined a flax-dresser in a
life,
took
fire
me
to ashes,
whom
I adored,
in the field of
matrimony,
The
vol.
'rabrigis, or
jilted
me
with
i.
set,
na
lint- shop
of Burns,
This was an
affair."
true poet,
253
Lord
by
is
direction of the
called
" Boddich
Dow's
Highland Airs.
CCLXXI.
SON.
Johnson
Museum.
it
and
Mr Clarke
accordingly did
at
Mr John
Rid-
so.
this
is,
song, beginning
ii.
may be
Relics.
My love
A more complete
"
in Herd's Collection,
Mr
O'Keefe selected
254
CCLXXII.
in the
Reel/'
acted at Covent
Garden
opera of "
The Highland
in 1788.
CCLXXIII.
ORAN GAOIL.
A Gaelic Song.
This
is
said to
verses, beginning
Gaelic song,
The
to
may be
but he
correct enough.
is
com-
air.
It
may
be re-
long-
music
has
branches.
always
had
their origin.
Lowland
Many
of them too,
it is
believed, have
is
either of Gaelic or
For the
had
That
the tune in
Irish
extraction,
in-
they
it,
which
is
this
inserted
is
subjoined.
S^^ii
HS^f ^^ ^35
tzw-
Pt-P^-^'
VZtZJS.
iribi
OBAN GAOIL.
CCLXXIII.
255
ffze
n.
^^S^Eil
The same
title
of "
in
tharrum do lamh,"
calls
(Mr
Ireland
there
Isles,
arm
many
new
dileas
translated,
clair^ied,
is
the editor
it.
and the
set
is
published
v.
to
be
Irish,
harpers play
set
of
it,
as
it
in
sung
prejudices,
own
relinquished their
own
The com-
luchd
cuil'e,""
'
is
There
is
'
Tha
melody
in her voice
beautifully expressive,
which no
and perceptibly
These
No
Irish
lody.
Many
strain,
Judging by
as that in the
me-
Museum,
But
questionably old.
air,
are un-
It consists of
no
less
is
indeed of a
256
last are so
very
florid, that
Highland
lasses,
with
would
ter, to sing it
find
it
a very
difficult, if
effect.
That
it is
dern, but likewise a very clumsy fabrication, and quite foreign to the nature of vocal composition, the two following
strains of
it
will sufficiently
Mr Fraser's own
may be
words, they
the notes
of the music.
^^SES
g^'
=6iLT
Ii^
F^ftH
The
by
their
Southern
much
to
this
'4U
and
it
description
257
CCLXXIV.
^fnis song,
Sandie
1776,
o'er the
Mr
an Anglo-Scottish production.
lee," is
new
to a
air
Weichsell,
The
same
Vauxhall Gardens by
had recourse
is
collec-
Mr Vernon, Mrs
Warrell.
title,
following
at
Scots,
Mr Hook
sung
In
com-
to
similar to those
when he composed
his air.
which
The
late
Mr
Bremner, and
Mr
Brysson
Scottish Air.
titled
after his
The
is
an
air en-
different
first
from
six bars
of
In Neil
from the
Gow &
air
of "
she."
'*
Sandie
is
o'er the
Lee, or
Mr
is
Baird's
258
CCLXXV.
TODLEN HAME.
The
words of
"
When
my
opinion, that this was one of the best songs of the kind that
The
the
Museum
as,
Lude's Lament
mo-
Armstrong's
o'
Langsyne
THE BRAES
O' BALLOCHMYLE.
" The Catrine woods were yellow
was written by Burns in 1788; and the tune was
This
seen,"
song, beginning
composed by
Mr
mentioned.
Burns
were green."
Allan Masterton,
air,
The
repeatedly
very beautiful
Dr
fields
Currie's Life of
its
true source.
it
is
fine;
singularly beautiful,
among
land
visited
him.
lady, of
whom
it
is said,
gave
rise,
which an account
which he inclosed
as might be expected,
will
it
to
This
a poem, of
letter,
:
in
THE BRAES
CCLXXVI.
O'
BALLOCHMYLE,
259
" To Miss
"
"
Madam,
you
in the enclosed
merit any
judge
to a
poem, which he
Whether
has poetical
it
way worthy of
but
the best
it is
good heart
will
the proper
and, what
equally
it is
sincere as fervent.
Madam, you do
not recollect
real
life,
though I dare
you scarcely
by you. I had
as I believe
it,
my
the
hills
The
moment
all
It
was a
them
lest
little
to another station.
my
songs, or frighten
must
be a wretch indeed, who, regardless of your harmonious endeavour to please him, can eye your elusive
flights to disco-
all
Even
the hoary
its
at
welfare,
rudely browsing
the property
helpless nest-
and wished
cattle, or
it
to
"i
Such
;:
^0
was the
CCLXXVI.
THE BEAES
O'
BALLOCHMYLE.
in a corner of
scene,
my
Had
calumny and
moment sworn
villany taken
my walk,
an
object.
" The
and perhaps
it
'TwAS even
my
return
home
Robert Burns."
I.
the
dewy
fields
were green.
On
Amang
the braes
Ballochmyle.
o'
II.
My
When
Her
" Behold
the lass
Ballochmyle."
o'
III.
is the mom in flowery May,
sweet is night in autumn mild
When roving through the garden gay,.
Or wandering in the lonely wild
But woman Nature's darling child
There aU her charms she does compile
Fair
And
Even
o'
works are
foil'd
Ballochmyle.
IV.
would have
By
It
inclosed
And
Though
plain
;.
;;
THE BRAES
CCLXXVI.
BALLOCHMYLE,
o'
261
steep.
the
bonny
lass o'
Ballochmyle.
and
this incident,
into
which the
letter
and
this
easily
nymph
Burns,
vol.
It
may be
Dr
them with
silent
i.
The above
beginning "
is
See
of Ballochmyle,
his effusions
self-love.
The
Masterton, of
Museum,
whom
The Lass
of Ballochmyle."
Mr
Allan
it is
adapt-
ed.
N.B. Catrine,
in Ayrshire,
is
the seat of
Dugald Stewart,
of Edinburgh.
Ballochmyle
is
the residence of
Boyd
O'T.
The
" The East Nook
of " Wliare
will
our
G udeman
lie,"
which
262
CCLXXVII.
o't.
it
mine,
CCLXXVIII.
This song,
on the green,"
lock.
of
filling
up a corner
by
Mr
in
Dr
Black-
purpose
for the
appear
daisies
It
written
is
who
fell
flattering
Dr
verend
burgh.
chiefly
Principal of
Baird,
This
Mr
It
Mrs Ann
may grati-
ed.
died
Sd August, 1798,
in the
know how
It has
little
it
says,
"
this
song
is
Blacklock's.
affinity to the
She
I'll
come
to
oldest ap-
you,
my Lad.
name."
whistle,
and
I'll
come
to you,
my
Lad," which
Museum.
Vide song
is
inserted in
No
106.
CCLXXIX.
This
is
Mary
our poet's
girl
In one of
affections.
263
Campbell's death.
This
was the early object of
his songs,
he
says, in allu-
sion to her,
''She has
By
my
my own
I'm thine
the unexpected
hand.
Till the
But
my
secret truth
me
low,
Highland lassie, 0."
The reader
the bard.
The Highland
The
son,
17, en-
O."
lassie,
by Burns,
in a letter to
John-
plaintive air,
called
This
to.
He must
whole of
It
it
pen to paper.
it
"
An
address to
it
stands in the
Mary
in
Mu-
Heaven."
CCLXXX.
HARDYKNUTE;
At
in
or
OR,
on pretence, as our
own
territories
historians
assert,
Kin-
that they
S64
HARDYKNUTE
CCLXXX.
Such
the usurper.
OR,
ill-founded,
and
ridiculous pretensions,
Norwegians
ful
and a numerous
raised,
began to assemble
tion,
army was
Haco was
tined to convey
The
at Bergen.
entirely
fleet,
no
It contained
than twenty-seven
less
About
and
his attendants.*
the beginning of
summer 1263,
set sail,
Haco assembled
it
a council of war, at
the western seas, to revenge the inroads which the Scots had
made
then given,
and
this
left
Having touched
able reinforcement,
The
signal to
at
Haco proceeded on
inhabitants,
q.gain
his expedition.
Ar-
ashore,
heavy contributions on
at length
:j:
who
spoil.
its
He
isles.
Having
ra-
"
When
-f-
HolUnshead.
J Danish Account.
CCLXXX.
HAUDYKNUTE
Emboldened by
OE,
Haco determined to
Having collect-
ed
his fleet,
he accordingly
On
and came
set sail,
to anchor off
pest arose, which drove several of the ships ashore near the
village of Largs,
al-
These
vessels
from their
ly reinforced
fleet,
Haco
At
came
drawn up
in sight,
The
in order of battle.
army
right was
man
his left to
main body,
the
in
command
tain.
of
Haco of
to Thorgoil
Steini, his
own nephew
whilst the
Haco
and Nicholson
himself,
soldiers.
With
With their
The
to animate
the Danes,
glory.
it
first
magnitude.
Now
and en-
conflict.
The
gallant
Danes,
killed
young Haco
their leader,
fu-
of the Scottish
The
Stewart
left,
fell
upon
HARDYKNUTE
CCLXXX.
26*6
attacked on
all
Oil,
sides,
The
slain.
right
this,
who had the command of the right wing of the Danes, also
The rout now became general. The remains of the
beaten army fled in confusion towards the coast, and were
fell.
conflict.
difficulty
Haco and
till
sail.
But
his misfortunes
were
his fleet.
Many
to the sword, in
their invaders.
suff'ered at the
hands of
In
has
it,
and dejection of
spirits,
have
to bewail his
unhappy
ing autumn, he
felt
to violent grief
for themselves."
and he continued
fate.
Towards
Home appeared
in this solitary
abode
symptoms of approaching
dissolution.
and
after receiving
fare--
HARDYKNUTE
CCLXXX.
On
of his attendants.
Avell
wholly
OR,
failed
to
His body
dormi-
in the
The
2d day of
Danes and Norwe-
The
October 1263.
The
computed
at
20,000 men.
dug on purpose
to receive them,
and a
Haco of
Steini,
Magnus
and the
brides
Isle of
Man, but
all
right to the
He-
Danes."
Among
who
particularly distinguished
High
gi-eat-grandfather to the
house of Stewart.
with great
spirit
first
who%as
and gallantry
had
also the
honour,
This
by
Hugh
his brother
flattery,
was
called
That such a
Lord Hardyknute"
Danish Account.
HAUDYKNUTE
268 CCLXXX.
OH,
must
either be
ficti-
tious or corrupted.
the English throne, in 1039, and who, after a brvital and inglorious reign of two years, died of a surfeit at the palace of
But
Lambeth.
any
minstrel.
who
did
seems
exist, there
little
That such a
aera.
reason to doubt
ballad indeed
Mr
for
ob-
unsung by
William
its
Mr
had heard
several stanzas of
appearance in print
in
1719.
it
sung
Dr
Clarke,
long; before
-f
here annexed.
It
-'
HARDIE KNUTE.
?.^
^-
-a
9-^'
Jr
aniazz:
^E^EEiEEzi
But
better
known
it
was
modern
chiefly
ballad of
Hardyknute
is
This
county of Fife, by
Henry Wardlaw of
whom
Pitreavie, in the
She died
in
1727, and was interred in the family vault within the church
of Dunfermline.
HARDYKNUTE
CCLXXX.
OR,
9,69
happened to
It at length
it
The
1719.
was
at length divulged,
Ramsay
his
with a
Evergreen, at Edinburgh, in
724.
be " given in
its
first
saw the
It
light.
was now
"
stanzas
shire,"
now
and
memory of a
common people
lady in Lanark-
recovered, to the
The
"
of that province
from
a"ncient poetry,
tradition."
These
for
by a
November 1784,
(says Ritson)
man, and
is
yet, to
same freedom
Hardyknute, Pinker-
but not
his
own words,
in a private business,
he had been
till
Magazine,
" This man,
set
on the
if
calls
a gentle-
pillory
and, in
fact, to call
to society."
title,
HARDYKNUTE
270 CCLXXX.
OR,
which
is
is
not stolen from some old ballad, that has the most
only
lines,
be found
in the
lads,
to
of undoubted antiquity,
too,
original
ret,"
The
press.
anachronisms which
occur
printed
ballad,
-j"
such as
'
from ancient
to
modern
times.
by
communication
oral
too ele-
this historical
CCLXXXI.
EPPIE ADAIR,
This
Companion,
vol. xii.
under the
title
of "
My
Eppie."
Burns
Museum.
CCLXXXII,
The
Earl of
battle of
Mar
for the
Duke
of Argyle for
commemorate
such as "
that
Up
and warn
and
Tom
their flocks
a',
Willie,"
" There^s
Cleancogue,
WiU
Lickladle
on the Ochil-Hills on
some say
Dialogue between
Twa
this battle,
The
battle
of
Cameron's March."
This
:;
which
it
in
alludes.
eCLXXXII.
Berean minister
by the
It
is
Mr
late
Barclay, the
annexed.
W. Pray came
And
man
la, la,
&c.
II.
T.
W. -Now how
I
T.
deil,
Tam, can
this
north,
be true
fear to die
Wi'
sloth,
man.
Fal,
la, la,
&c.
IV.
W.
man
For
271
IMy
still
272
; ;
CCLXXXII.
goes.
Chorus.
T.
Their cogues
Yonder them
I see
Fal,
but few
Amang yon
la, la,
gentlemen
like
frighted crew,
man ;
my
The
sodgers' haill
make
slay
See
Fal,
la, la,
tail.
&c.
vr.
W.
They swear
No
man
foes shall
them
affright,
man
And
And
ne'er desire
The
flight,
Fal,
man.
&c.
la, la,
And put
When we
And
hash and
slash,
But coat or
plaid,
Avi'
la, la,
&c.
THE EWIE
CCXCIII.
WI'
289
X.
Yet
(Wha
my
can speak
villain
Sta'
cam when
my
keeping,
without greeting
it
was
sleeping,
The ewie
wi',
&c.
XI.
morn
And down
my
I got
But
aneath a buss
o'
thorn,
my
it.
wad
it,
The ewie
wi',
&c.
XIII.
1 never
As
My
met
this, sin
The ewie
ivi',
&c.
XIV.
!
o'
crook or cauld.
sair
'
a'.
XV.
we hae worn,
Frae her and her's sae aften shorn.
The loss o' her we cou'd hae born.
Had fair strae-death taen her awa.
The ewie wi', &c.
For
a'
XVI.
a'
290
THE EWIE
CCXCIII.
The
November 1787,
Wl'
pretty
much
my
till
singers,
and
me
plagued
is
for
words to some of
which
good
over
good
all tolerably
own poet-
I dabbled a
my
expectations,
and
THE BLUE-EYED
This
song, beginning
"
for the
* * * * of Lochmaben.
after residing
band
Museum. The
sometime in Liverpool,
is
R * * * * *^
Glenriddel, Esq.
is
no doubt, but
It is very pretty,
singers.
its
com-
slight altera-
LASSIE.
in
in the
pass
this defect
ccxcv.
This
sea,""
is
song, beginning
another
tune in the
Museum
gorrach," in place of a
Esq.
The
is
to the
The
new
air
by R. Riddel of Glenriddel,
upon
TAM GLEN.
This
fine
My heart is a-breaking,.
S73
VIII.
T.
Twa
W. The
And strait
And rent
saint
wad
soon repent.
Fal,
news, man.
la, la, &c.
X.
T.
They
While
fire, left
wings
retire.
rights intire
Pursue, man.
Fal, la, la, &c.
XI.
W. But
Where
The
is.
" The insurgents reckoned, likewise, that some noblemen and chiefs from the
north did not act so honest a part ; or at least did not shew so much courage as
the zeal they expressed or the cause required
Campbell's Life of J. D. of Argyle,
page 305.
74
CCLXXXII.
Hush
is.
Fal,
&c.
la, la,
He
thought the
Johnson, however,
Mr
it
But Burns
Museum.
in the
He
better.
still
accordingly
O cam ye here
Museum.
With
which
is
inserted in the
mek, the
marks.
Speaking of the
narration
is
original,
its
the fight
prototype, Cro-
poem has
little
other merit,
of the
affair.""
flashes of
Doctors
differ
the
many
original contains
recommend
it.
Mr
the
and
in
them
in the
the accompanying
stanzas
Museum) we have an
(the
reader
will
find
Avith
the riches of
only
foils to
its
own genius
the original
but here,
Most
imitations
the model
is
is
are
like a
the same
CCLXXXII. THE BATTLE OF SHERRA-MOOR.
tree,
dure, of spring.
This
life,
one,
is
275
among innumerable
instances, in
powers in new-
versatility of his
This panegyric
is all
be displeased that
by which he has
Mr
it
power
to
CCLXXXIH.
SANDIE AND JOCKIE.
Neither the music nor words of this song are indigenous
to Scotland.
It is merely a modern travestie of part of a
pseudo Scottish song, entitled " Jenny's Lamentation," consisting of five eight-line stanzas, which
Harmony,
Calliope, or English
vol.
in Roberts'
inserted
is
i.
London,
in
739.
CCLXXXIV,
music by
Mr
his friend
Allan Masterton.
my
"
night
and
in 1786,
composed
chest so far
is
set to
this
on the road
maica.
it
as
my
my
farewell dirge to
native land."
Reliques.
In a
letter
serted in
Dr
Dr Moore,
to
dated 2d August
He
says,
the Clyde
"
had been
under
first
me
from
sail
for
vert,
1788, in-
i.
all
Hungry
for
ruin had
me
in the wind.'
the terrors of a
jail; as
some
to co-
ill-advised people
at
;
my heels. I
my chest was
276
on the road
to
Greenock
fast,"
when a
of mine overthrew
my
to
all
from
letter
my
Dr
new
prospects
critics for
me
is
Blacklock to a friend
schemes, by opening
The
poetic ambition.
so
much,
that
in
His
Edinburgh
away I posted
for
The
introduction.
baneful
blasting influence in
the nadir
my
star, that
made a
me
its
revolution to
grand
Jamais Je
dieu, si
I'oublie
I need relate
no
farther.
was
all
and
manners
the
CCLXXXV.
JOHN
This
0'
BADENYOND.
a man,*"
is
Skinner, of
"
When
cam
to be
Mr
John
whom
of this work.
adapted to a
first
fine old
The words
are
Highland strathspey.
CCLXXXVI.
FEENNET HALL.
The
his
ii.
illustrious
is related by W. Gordon, in
House of Gordon," 1726, vol.
words
:;
killed,
On
277
The
sides.
pay
fifty
slaughter
which, as
is said,
compensation of the
in
Upon the 27th of September this year (1630) Frendraught, having in his company Robert Crichton of Condlaw,
and James Lesly, son to the laird of Pitcaple, Crichton shot
Lesly through the arm,
who was
and Frendraught put Crichton out of his company. Immediately thereafter he went to visit the Earl of Murray, and
on
his return
to visit the
came
to the
Bog
now
of Gight,
Marquis of Huntly
Castle Gordon,
notice,
and
his son
had
Upon
He came
got.
to the
company with
his lady,
who complained
to him
harm he had done his son, and vowed he
would be revenged of him ere he returned home. The Mar-
Pitcaple,
grievously of the
quis did
caple,
still
all
but to no purpose
satisfy Pit-
a chaff,
in
vowing revenge.
all
that
had passed
let
Gordon, viscount of
and even
John
to Fren-
home (among
safely
home, and
and
as
after dinner
earnestly
Aboyne
did
Fren-
him
that night.
He
at last
278
They were
unwillingly.
and went
bed
to
The
upon a
there was a
supped merrily,
well entertained,
joyful.
where
vault,
his bed.
The
them
rest,
fire,
in so
sudden and
English Will, Colin Ivat, and other two, being six in number, were cruelly burnt to death, without help or relief being
offered to
so
much
be made
as endeavouring to deliver
as
up
stairs to
the
awake Rothemay
that none of
window
down
no purpose.
And
room took
that,
fire,
so
stairs.
lofting of the
to
was no help
God, clasped
to
all
be
in one
another's embraces.
"And
And
for his
good
was
will
all
to
Frendraught,
CCLXXXVI.FRENNET HALL.
^%^
been a
fit
companion
for
His
wife,
such a wretch a*
land,
adds,
wonder.
The
tions, is not
Museum and
translator of Dante,
which
it is
remembered a few
said, at the time,
J.
Ritson.
other collec-
They
The
Mr
And oh
it
rose,
the fire
He
To
At length
Who
his little
page he saw.
Loup down,
What
loujj
tho' the
How
How
Mr Boyd
tradition, as I never
The
castle.
<
Marquis of
Huntly, Lord
Lady Fren-
by King Charles I.
modern ballad correct,
supposing Lord John and John Gordon of Rothemay
after elevated to the peerage
Neither
is
in
to
Was
The
by our father
slain."
John and Lady Crichton of Frennefs provocation appears to have been, the 50,000 merks
Scots, about L.2777 15 6 Sterling, which the Marquis of
Huntly had awarded Sir John to pay, in compensation for
actual cause of Sir
must always
Poetical fictions
CCLXXXVII.
a'u",
Lad
vii.
it
is
page
in a' our
8,
under the
The
Town."
letter
Z, to denote
CCLXXXVIII.
This
lass," is
song,
A WAUKRIFE MINNIE.
beginning " Whare are you gaun my
bonnie
Mu-
with
it
elsewhere in Scotland."
281
CCLXXXIX.
This
fine song,
ery cried,"
Skinner
called
TULLOCHGORUM.
beginning " Come gie's a
sang,
is
He
Skinnee.
CuUen
is
it
Aberdeen.
The
Eeliques.
my
Mi s Mont-
ter
old friend
lars I
my
who
Tullochgorum
the master-piece of
think
friend's house,
gomery
MontgomMr John
to
following
the
is
author
These
particu-
Bishop Skinner, at
son.
an extract of a
let-
of Tullochgorum.
ever received.
Mr Skinner.)
abilities in
I regret,
airy
demon of vanity
and while I
he
my
will
be
fancy,
ill
able
when I
was north, I had not the pleasure of paying a younger brother's dutiful respect to the
world
may
they please
'
Tullochgor urn's
my
delight
!'
The
Job says, * O
Let them try."
but, as
written a book
!'
that
282
CCLXXXIX.
'^'Sioiis
of an old
morum.""
TULLOCHGORUM.
Quhip Meg morum, the name
See
Cromek's
is,
1810.
The word
Siotis,
But
aside.
word Quhip-meg-morura,
the
in Francis
Mr
sense.
who framed
Tullochgorum
the reel of
subject of it from the old Scottish song tune, called " Jockie's
fow and Jenny fain," which may be seen loaded with variations in Craig's Select
The
in
^4i-J-=~3~-*-
and the
air,
following
.ft
^ 4^=^=1
Jenny,
m.
I'll
.ft
ft
nae mair be
?=F
cue
to gain
ill
...
tell'd his
mind
^T
ft
ft
3t
nice,
Gie
PP
winna, prig for red or ^vhy t. Love
Ramsay
FAIN.
is
:sqz5
first
me
ft
love at
o-ny
price; I
and
CCLXXXIX.
;;
TULLOCHGORUM.
283
several variations
last corrections.
I.
Come,
gie's
To
II.
What
wadna
They canna'
Compar'd
wi'
Tullochgorum,
IV.
it
is
! :
284*
CCLXXXIX. TULLOCHGORUM.
And
we
Wi'
Nor
To
th'
Reel
o'
fit
Tullochgorum
V.
May
Each
o'er him
and plenty be his lot.
Peace and plenty, peace and plenty.
Peace and plenty be his lot.
And dainties a great store o' them ;
May peace and plenty be his lot,
Unstain'd by any vicious spot.
And may he never want a groat
That's fond o' Tullochgorum !
May peace
VI.
'
May
May
The Reel
o'
Tullochgorum.
ccxc.
Museum,
first
lines
of the chorus,
which are taken from the old song to the same tune.
same
air,
They
unfortunate-
CCXCFOR
ly
came out
and
did not
and
political disputes
fail
285
THAT.
a'
That he was
to his prejudice.
rational
that, AN'
a period when
at
his enemies
them
a'
;;
be denied
but
no honest
In
maintain.
man
that
knew him
what happened
fact,
to
to
and push
their
own
selfish
and misrepresent
this note
"
verses to
Mr Thomson
A great critic
in
January
and wine are the exclusive themes for sono-.writfollowing is on neither subject, and consequently
The
no song
but
will
be allowed, I think,
to
be two or three
rhyme :"
I.
O WHA,
Wad
hang
his
head an'
a' that ?
pass him by
dare be poor for a' that
The coward-slave^ we
We
What
Wear
sae poor.
Is king o'
III.
that.
ccxc FOR
S86
a'
that, an'
a'
that
The pith
o' sense,
a' that.
and pride
May
For
worth.
o'
a' that.
may.
it
a' that.
o'er.
a' that.
CCXCI.
peck
o"*
maut, was
Mr
The
occasion of
it
was
this
Mr
Nicol
who was
after his
at that time
new purchase.
on a
visit to
Mr
Masterton,
who
to
pay Nicol a
visit,
and warm
Accordingly,
his
These
cexci.-
lows,
o,
are all
talents,
287
maut.
o"*
now num-
KILLIECRANKIE.*
The
<*
Whare
by Burns, on purpose
tioned in
1692
and
is
Sir
rest
of
it,
beginning
Museum.
for the
This tune
is
men-
the
The
old.
1691.
CCXCIII.
The
"
were
Mr John
Skin-
Highland
reel,
Ewie" of a very
with
its
I able to re-
different breed
name from a
its
tlie
Author's
last Corrections.
I.
Were
My
I'd
sound
As
it
forth as loud
and
fierce.
CHORUS.
The ewie
lui the
crookit horn,
Wha had
Tummel
is
the
Stuart.
g88
a'.
Was
ca'.
IV.
V.
Whan
And
My
A better,
or a thriftier beast,
Nae
honest
For,
silly
To
man
The ewie
lamb or twa.
wi',
&c.
VII.
The
first
The ewie
wi',
&c.
IX.
My
Weel
Sic a
TAM GLEN.
CCXCVI.
dear
tittie," is
Burns'
fertile
291
muse.
to a very ancient
air,
title
The
is
all
Museum.
the air
set
vol.
i.
p. 97, of that
work.
CCXCVII.
THE DRAP
This comic old
O'
CAPIE,
ballad, beginning
O.
" There
stalls,
lived a wife in
and placed
in a
by David Herd,
It contains a lively and humorous description
in 1776.
of the rough, but, as it would seem, very efficacious means employed by an humble villager to reclaim his unhappy spouse
regular Collection of Songs and Ballads,
may happen to be
fireside,
be a bar, perhaps, to
circle
It has long
its
to hus-
and concludes
been a favourite at
Avith
closet.
is
simiiai-ly situated
pleasure in the
modern
life will
of a drawing-room.
known by
the
ccxcviii.
estates in
1784,
is
for-
Mr
William Ca-
As
o er the Highland
hills
Cromdale."
ecxcix.
is
said to
this
292
CCXCVIII.
Mary Queen of Scots, in the castle of LochThe Earl of Argyle was on the queen's
the unfortunate
leven, in 1567.
tune
may
centuries past.
In
all
probability
it
not
it is
I.
total
its
suppression.
ccc.
\t
p.
is
It appears to be
an amplification of
p.
be found
will
No
It
Hoare was
still
list.
Mr
it is
wi-itten
inserted in the
same
piece,
by Dunbar
namely,
prior to the
Bannatyne Manuscript, in
which Allan
called
Ramsay
Miller's Wife."
293
ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
PART
IIL
ecu.
GLADSMUIR.
William Hamilton
of Bangour, Esq.,
is
a name too
well known, although his poems are less esteemed than for-
life in
He was
born in the
of Edinburgh.
255266,
p.
iii.
there
is
by Macgibbon.
cciv.
"
An
first
appeared,
it is
Falconer, Esq."
It
was copied
WHEN
This song,
to
Breeks,"
294
is
WHEN
Poems on
Several Occasions, by
John
Lapraik.
The
author,
whom Burns
styles
" a very
three miles
He was
thus
Having become involved as security to some persons connected with the Douglas and Heron Bank, upon its failure, in 1769, which occasioned so much distress in the West of Scotland, Lapraik's
property was sold, and he himself reduced to poverty and
Burns' senior by thirty-two years.
landed in
He
jail.
first
number
him, he was
all
he at
if,
"a
least
as
He was
mo-
the
In
lishing them.
his epistles to
it,
in
one of
WHEN
I
295
When
by myself.
sitting lanely
COLONEL GARDINER.
Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, Baronet,
the writer of
member
tinguished
by
tinued a leading
*
Mr
ray
member in
early dis-
Kynnynmound, 15th
1746, p. 598).
ment
of the Faculty of
He was
of
for Selkirkshire;
Member of
Parlia-
in 1761.
In
member
county
On the death
succeeded to the baronetcy and estates, and was successively one of the
Navy.
He
"of
the
died at Marseilles,
His son,
1777.
born in
song
'
He is best known
My sheep I
work, as No.
296 *
COLONEL GARDINER.
In the Censura Literaria, vol.
xciv.
Sir Egerton
among
viii.
p.
409, 1808,
'
By
I will
The
lines,
The
however, were
October 1766,
p.
543,
and
consequence of her
the 4th. of July, were laid in state for some time in the
Thoughts
CoMw^e,s,s q/"
Sutherland,
Earl and
io believe,
by a Person of distinction.']
Her
all
their long-descended
sway
measure O farewell.
Farewell, ye mighty names, for high exploits
And warlike prowess fam'd ; intreated oft.
And oft assail' d, by French or English monarch.
Such are thy triumphs, and thy victory such,
O Death, relentless whom no charm can soothe,
Shrunk
to this little
in the
COLONEL GARDINER.
297
I'll
weep no more
And darken
let
around
all
wedded love
hoar,
own
vital flame.
Portion of Heav'n's
"
fire,
Mrs Richmond
Inglis, the daughter of Colonel Garwas the Fanny fair, all woe begone,' of Sir Gilbert
Elliot's song, which was originally set to the tune of Barbara
diner,
Allan."
'
(C.
K.
S.)
This lady
is
It is there di-
298
Mr
lection,
Lark," 1765.
A letter
wald of Dunikeer,
in Fife, dated
It
of Sir
to Mr Osimprovements
Henry Erskine
is
printed in Oswald's
There
is
a scarce portrait of
Correspondence, p. 326.
ccxx.
Mr
S. evidently
Roman
The
Disputation concerning the Controversit Headis of Religion, holden in the realme of Scotland, &c.
Parise, 1581."
titled
8vo.
Imprented at
8vo.
AY WAKIN,
O.
299
to
me
CCXIII.
AY WAKIN,
"
Mr
O.
When
Ay
wakin'.
Wakin
Oh
For
my
thinkin' o'
dearie
For thinking
I
took
To
it
in
write
My lassie
And
Ay
"
couldna read.
loed her
a'
the better.
much
but
met
her back to the wall, a long crowded table before her, and
many
sick
ccxv.
She
is
now
(says
air
of
'
Mr Cunningham,
Strathallan's Lament.'
in
300
shire,
many happy
passed
evenings."
ccxxi.
BARBARA ALLAN,
" In
this note
paper I found
Mr
at-
was mentioned.
dale sang
S. alludes to
Hoddam
I
me. Unluckily
Castle, in
I lost the
containing numerand,
among
others,
some
ships, in sight,
the belief that this song was composed near the shores of
the Sol way.
"
The
is still
quite
common
in
Grahame."
'
(C. K.
S.)
Barbara Allan,' by
Robert Murray Keith, (in 1752), is copied from a collection entitled " The Caledoniad," London, 1775, 3 vols.
Sir
12mo
"
Paraphrase of the
first
By
Flanders.
It fell
Sir
-h.
letter
Secretary at War.
BARBARA ALLAN.
301
Sir
the
county of
In the Statis-
tical
stated, that
there,
life,
Basil Keith
the last of
whom,
after
an honourable
life in
The
first still
survives,
member
of which
an honovir
at the school
(Vol.
xvii. p. 81).
fession, as appears
He
in July 1747,
now raising in Scotland, for the service of the States(Scots Mag. 1747, p. 351.)
He remained in
General."
the
Dutch
service for
some
skill
years,
politeness
German campaigns.
302 *
BARBARA ALLAN.
;"
and
at
Copenhagen, where
Queen
III.), obtained
of
for
his spirited
Denmark,
him great
On a vacancy in Peebles-shire,
In the
and
in
for
Anne
* 136.
the Gentleman's
privy-council,
Secretary of State.
He was
placed in the
to
the Court of Vienna, and his brother. Sir Basil, was soon
afterwards appointed Governor of Jamaica.
received pensions
and that of
his father,
He
Sir
His
who
sisters
also
had
company
at dinner.
His father. Ambassador Keith, as he was called at Edinburgh, died [2 1st of September 1774] almost as suddenly."
(Gent. Mag.
1795, P.
I.,
p. 535.)
CCXXIV.
Some
notice of
Mr
The
lady to
whom Burns
303
alludes in his
who
Mrs
Riddell, with
visited
him during
whom
her
husband was
first
In addition to the
may
it
be mentioned,
Captain Walter
that,
Riddell, a
on
his return
He
widow consoled
March 1808, by
herself, in
She resided
Hampton
latterly at
ccxxv.
MY LOVE
" The
Jamie.'
the
The words
'
'
Vox
Borealis, or
Jamie and
Willie,'
1641.
When
the Parliament
is
ended.
'
was
plaid
and sung by
of
Edinburgh
304*
Burns
Dr Fordyce
but
Cunningham after
confounding Professor David
him,
fall
Fordyce with
Rev.
Dr James
at Aberdeen, in
Fordyce.
March 1711,
was licensed
to preach,
7 th of
He
it
was who
who was
occasion for
It
this
note.
is
printed at
page
gives
105, of
He
ccxxxi.
MY BONNY MARY.
"
The
first
is
^(Burns).
ballad, printed in
Hogg and
MY BONNY MARY.
Mr
305
as preserved
by
Peter Buchan
me
Ye'U bring
A
That
A
The
fact of
may
silver tassie
health to
my
this
new
all
upon the
how ready
slightest
poetry, and
and a
server,
had of
one
an
was
his imagination
command."
fine stanza of
(Note,
Mr
to take
wing
R. Chambers).
ccxxxiv.
JOHNNIE COPE.
At page
are ascribed to
Adam
whom some
Skirving, of
(See
p. * 189).
account
Notwithstanding
no reason
Mr
Stenhouse's assertion,
Mr Cunningham
this
says,
all
ccxxxv.
I
LOVE MY JEAN.
'
The Marquis
of
306*
LOVE MY JEAN.
'
The German
Lairdie.'
"
ccxxxvi.
O,
DEAR MOTHER.
-0.,'
same with those of ' The Wren she lies in Care's bed,'
otherwise Lennox's Love to Blantyre, an air said to have
been composed on the considerable legacy, including Lethington, the ancient seat of the Maitland family, then re-
baptized
celebrated
Lord Blantyre.
" I have always heard,
air.
to
The
verses,
be found
in
Walter Scott.
may
On
the head of
'
'
Ballad Book,'
by permission,
How
can
is
to Sir
keep,'
we
names given
scarcely
now
to
be believed.
Pocket Companion/
See also
The
Dancer's
CCXXXVIII.
ALLOA HOUSE.
" There
'
is
The Spring
and
an
t " I believe it is not generally known that Nancy Dawson, the celebrated dancer, was a native of Scotland.
She cut her first capers near
Kelso, where she was born, the daughter of an humble cottager. This
Dr Smollett. Miss
Nancy's relatives continued farmers in the same vicinity forty years
ago." (C. K. S.)
ALLOA HOUSE.
307
of the Lord
ter of the
teith,
for hindering
he
Having
is)
tell
you what
(C. K. S.)
ture
" A.
r."
It
November 1747.
Alexander Webster, D.D. was born
in the
at
Edinburgh
in
-Scots
vol.
i.
Magazine
No. 10.
and a sketch of
for April 1802.
his life,
An
excellent
appeared in the
CCXLI.
ST KILDA DAY.
song occurs
at
page
of" The Miscellaneous Works of A. Macdonald; including the Tragedy of Vimonda, and those productions
which have appeared under signature of Matthew Bramble,
123,
Esq."
He
308 *
ST KILDA DAY.
tish Episcopal
surname.
and he
finally settled in
London,
as a literary character.
life.
He
also noticed in
is
" His works were lively, satiand humorous, and were published under the signa-
ture of
Mr
Chalmers
says,
Matthew Bramble.
He
and
scientific
and accumulated
age, at Kentish
distress.
Town,
in
CCXLV.
The
Scott of Wauchope.
who wrote
"
Mrs
THE LOVER
poetry,
ADDRESS TO A ROSE-BUD.
it is
who "
writer
309
Dr
Black-
whose
talents
deserving of praise,"
her personal
The
At
future prospects."
she married
Mr
Walter Scott,
whom
life,
to
This
will
notice, as
in
February 1787.
which Burns so
it
When
first
A man
And
amang
Could rank
my
merry morn
and lass.
rig
mind
latest
wish that to
my
That
its
pow'r,
hour
my
breast.
The rough
Amang
I
burr-thistle, spreading
And
spar'd the
symbol dear.
2 A
wide
finely
310/
May
mutual regard.
visit to
Mrs
Scott. "
" Wauchope
commonly given
to
Sancho Panza
may be
Mrs
a good thing.
female authors."
At Dunbar, mentioning
been much taken with this lady.
" Mrs Fall, a genius in painting," he adds, " fully more
clever in the fine arts and sciences than
my
Lady
friend
Mrs
Scott
did
this
visit.
editor,
who
dates the
"
I had heard the two lines quoted here long ago, but
since have met with a copy of the ballad, which, if genuAuld
ine, could never have been sung to the air now called
Robin Gray.' Lady Anne Bernard's Ballad was first published, very lamely, in Herbert Croft's novel of Love and
Madness, in (1780), founded on the murder of Miss Rae, by
Mr Hackman, and filled with false statements, and all
manner of absurdities.
'
^^'311
to Lady Anne
London Monthly Magazine,
May 1805." (C, K. S.)
poem, attributed
little
Magazine
for
My love is
Come
I'll
And
does he rove ?
long absent from me.
my dove,
my love.
hither
write to
fly
But fasten
under
it
Her dove
my wing.
blew and
it
rain'd
And
So heavy the
He
letter it
grew.
Till Colin
he found.
the prize
dies.
Her
flew.
flutters
and
May
1825,
aged seventy-five.
Auld Robin Gray,' with two versions of a continuwhich he printed, in a thin 4 to volume,
and presented to the members of the Bannatyne Club, in
copy of
'
312*
1824.
Lady Anne,
is
compo-
as they are
much
face
with vivacity; her figure light and elegant; her conversation lively
Though
liarly agreeable.
woman
as a
it
'
ill-
airs, either
Auld Robin
Gray.'
Unluckily, before
title of Lays of the Lindsays.'
and
book
circulated,
the
lady
her
friends changed
was
the
suppressed
the
all
save
song of Robin
their minds, and
was
When
Lady
Anne
died, she
Gray and its continuation.
with the
bequeathed
'
to Sir
ing
'
The
Lays.'
It is
much
in oblivion."
to
fifty
pounds, probably
be regretted that
this
(C.K.S.)
CCXLIX.
told
by an
old
O'T.
woman,
that, in her
the
" Whistle
on a
*313
o't.
She added,
kit, or fiddle.
(C.
K.
S.)
CCLI.
The
original
words of
this song,"
which
Mr
has
S,
inserted at
vol.
i.
CCLII.
There
an old stall-copy of
is
this ballad,
with the
title
An
life,
Maga-
"
a very
zine,
is
it
said to be
we under-
however, remains
Mr
R. Chambers,
neill's destitute
is far
unpublished.
in his Scottish
Biography, of
life,,
MY
"
still
This work,
possession.".
(C. K. S.)
my
314 *
MY heart's
in
the highlands,
day
first
tidings
Chorus.
Let us drink and go hame, drink and go hame.
we
If
bad name
to
Let
us, &c.
The more
But when
When
think on the
my heart warms,
my heart is full sore.
I
I
Let
us,
lilly I lost at
Portmore.
&c.
Let
us,
&c
There
is
And he
I
Due,
speak by experience
But
perhapsJ'
many
my
best.
my mind serves me
in the original
Sir
W.
wherever
S. has written
so.
I
go.
;
!
315
If
And
\^e'll fill
Derry
ourselves fou.
it's ill
to
go through.
FINIS.
CCLX.
JOHN ANDERSON, MY
"
The
other
fashion.
soi;ig
verses printed
well
air,
known
JO.
in
to an-
much
in
than this
Hoo
a,'
&c.
And
Lads
like lasses.
And
CCLXIV.
ca' the ewes to the knowes.
Burns says, " This beautiful song is in the true old Scotch
taste, yet I do not know that either air or words were in
316 *
ca'
print before."
And Cromek
last verse,
'
new was
written
A Collection of Songs
" Glasgow, printed by Niven, Napier, and
Khull, Trongate," (about the year 1805?) 12mo, pp. 76.
The following lines are part of what she calls, " An Acwho
and Poems,"
at
:"
Where
My
I got my bread
can soon be told.
fourteen years
learning
it
Who
But
I
and sober
liv'd a quiet
a'
life,
my
old.
....
time
When
I see
I sing a
And
merry company,
sometimes
But 'deed
it's
whisky pree
best to let
it
be.
CCLXVII.
I
lo'e
page 249),
Clunie,
He
He
at
Markinch, pre-
his ministry.
*317
TOBLIN HAME.
CCLXIX.
THE BRIDAL
O'T.
It is a mistake to suppose that Ramsay's song in the TeaTable Miscellany, " I have a green purse," to the tune
of " A rock and a wee pickle tow," has any reference to a
by Ross of Lochlee.
title,
much
earlier date.
"
MERRY
O MERRY
Dunblaine
HA'e
alias, the
Bob- of
falsely, to
be the
jig
CCLXXV.
TODLIN HAME.
The
air, by Joanna
George Thomson's collec-
Mr
When
And
white was
siller
Woe
is me
and can it then be.
That poverty parts sic company
!
i'
" Overlay, a
neckcloth.
318 *
TODLIN HAME.
And
the sound
o'
my bosom ha'e
life o'
o'
her ey'n.
been.
And
When
I utter'd
my
banter, or chorus'd
When
Wherever
And
my
song.
disci'eet.
The
For
And
my
last
is
ha'e cross'd
Cruelly, though
How
is
me
we
ilka
day
see.
CCLXXIX.
MARY
" In the table of contents, the music of this pathetic address is said to have been composed by Miss Johnston of
Hilton.
Burns has
according
Dry den,
Whate'er the did was done with so much ease.
In her alone 'twas natural to please
Her motions
'*319
" None who ever had the delight of seeing her in the
ball-room, giving double charms to a minuet, or dignifying
a country-dance, can question the truth of this feeble en-
comium."
Mr
(C.
K.
S.)
this note, is
MS.,
at the
end of
to Johnson,
"among
his
Go
fetch to
Thus,
for
me a pint
MSS.,
in his
own
[Burns']
(^Reliques, p. 412.)
CCLXXX.
HARDYKNUTE.
Elizabeth Halket, second daughter of Sir Charles
Halket of Pitferran, and wife of Sir Henry Wardlaw of Pitwas the authoress of
She was born in April 1677; became, by
marriage. Lady Wardlaw, in June 1696, and died in 1727.
See
Ramsay, by Geo.
Lon-
have
son
It is
much
to be regretted that
we
less information
who
Chalmers's inquiries
sweetness of temper."
'
but,
HARDYKNUTE.
320
"
guage, very
me
that
little
we were
to
it
Lady Ward-
law.
I now
under the
but
contents, the
work
^'
Ah, Chloris
Gilderoy
'
and
;'
is
printed
name
Ritson,
author.
this
of
title
To
sit.
is
added as
its
oversight, refers to
The
original ballad,
refers to
in Percy's Reliques,
this
work.
Chambers's Songs,
vol.
i.
p.
l,and
It
was
dramatic poet.
i&c.
Compiled by L.
and
Though now
Uncertain of
If
your
fair self
I shall
first
freedom hate.
dying men, may well
disorder'd be.
What
approve,
my
Lovers, like
At
my fate.
my chains
tell
HARBYKNUTE.
To
*321
Hardy-
was the
get."
"most
lad,"
spirited and beautiful imitation of the ancient balhe remarks, " that, in order to append his own con-
Mr
which would have rendered his catastrophe inappliWith such license, to write continuations and conclusions would be no difficult task."
(Poetical Works,
lad,
cable.
12mo
edition, vol.
i.
p. 73).
deservedly held in
amusing
little
to see with
vol.
1.
p. do).
CCLXXXII.
ii.
p. 164-177.
Murdoch M'Lennan,
(Reliques, p. 245.)
and subsequent
Relics,
second
minister
It will
collections,
series.
The
of
Crathie,
Dee-side.
and
also in
author,
to
Hogg's Jacobite
whom
it
is
thus
322
"
tlie
named
He
and was
was for
would be
1734.
studied at St
Andrews
It
Mr
which a very
full
Mr
late
account
vol.
i.
p.
Bower, historian of
798.
He
song, "
tic
A hundred years
witness his
h^nce," written for the " Gymnas:
Club."
CCLXXXVI.
FRENNET HALL.
"
COMPLETE copy
therwell's Minstrelsy,
of this ballad
Mr MoThe second
printed in
is
error.
Then
out
it
Inviting
by Andrew
to an Northland gentlewoman,
Bell,
is
the following
July 8 (1631),
fif-
Master of Hospital,
become
frantic
through
(C. K.
S.)
CCLXXXIx!!
TULLOCHGORUM.
in the Scots
Weekly Magazine,
for
TULLOCHGORUM.
As some account
April 1776.
Mr
S. in the note to
song
Works
cci.,
of the
of the author
is
prefixed, a Biographical
given
by-
323
Memoir
to
which
of Poetry,
by the
Aberdeenshire,
Works."
late
(being)
Vol.
III.
of
at
Longside,
Posthumous
his
Dr
Currie,
o'
MAUT.
an account
Grammar High
Tour to
the Highlands.
friesshire, of
He
says,
"
(vol.
whom
i.
p. 177.)
He
died in the
fell
summer
Like
by the
of 1797."
song
relates,
was a writing-
He
ccxciv.
The
heroine of this
song,
'
/ gaed a waefiH
gate
yestreen,'
composed the
p. 133.)
air."
(Motherwell's
ii.
324
CCXCVIII.
manse
died at the
.;
\ \
1
He was
an
John Logan
1
1 1
died in
|!in
fin
1798),
Mr Cameron
(who
A posthumous
'8vo.
now
volume
:
1813.
;;
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE
AND MUSIC
LYRIC POETEY
OF
SCOTLAND.
PART
IV.
CCCI.
CRAIGIE-BURN WOOD.
This song, beginning " Sweet closes the evening on Craigie-
Museum.
About
His
last edition
in
he curtailed two
of the song
and
is
altered
some of the
lines.
here annexed.
a'
the pride
yield
me
o'
spring's return
When
is
my
please.
wringing.
griefs impart.
it
heart.
langer.
me
When
The
reader,
ginal in the
how
far
Museum,
will
tree.
be enabled to form
his opinion,
tions.
CCCI. CKAIGIE-BrR2>J WOOD.
296
Burns composed
Mr
friend of his,
King-shall,
in
had
The
chorus
Beyond
And O
for
The young
Whelpdale.
Wood.
this
Gillespie,
is
thee, dearie,
to
thee, dearie ;
The
girl's
singing,
to
note,, in
the hand-writing of
a chorus
from doing
Mr
The man
prevent Iiim
it
Burns), that
Scottish
music of
ing
late
Mr
Ste-
tunes.
At
the
phen Clarke
air, called
country
song
the
From
West
Craigie-burn, near
Highlands, we
qnity. ''''^Ileliques.
Dr
we can
words, &c.
haysa;.;-;
the follow-
is
Clarke, There is
no need
again
it
this
is
! !
"
It is
to
remarkable of
Craigie-burn
localize it)
Moffat,
from
(so far as
until one
the
reaches
r-'vys'
Wood
is
si-
The woods
medicinal waters.
crieff,
there he
met the
'
its
Dum-
of Craigieburn and of
It
was
lyrics."
cccii.
LOVE.
lines
and
have reason
is
in his
by way of
it is."
J?e-
I'llAK
CCCII.
297
LOVK.
are adapted to the tune of " Carron Side,'' taken from Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol.
pretty
It is very
viii.
it
air, called
CCCIII.
HUGHIE GRAHAM,
According
to
tradition,
Hugh
Carlisle,
predatoi'y chiefs
who
so long
off,
infer alia,
bring so
excursion
Carlisle,
where he was
said,
and convicted of
tried
intercessions
his life
victim to his
Wood
own
his offices
indiscretion
observes,
prelate's time,
Graham
many changes
fell
Anthoin this
state,
all.
ballad,
it
and
Burns acquaints
from
it is
ny
Great
felony.
is
inserted in the
it
Museum
originally
The copy
transmitted to Johnson
is
is
entirely in Burns's
own hand-
writing.
The
Death of
Chace."
London
in 1714.
Pills to
It
Sir
is
Purge Melancholy,
called "
To
The
Life and
298
as
HUGHIE GRAHAM.
CCCIII.
Grime
Graham
for
town, &c.
Sir
or
Graeme
Garland
edition in his
Mr W.
Laidlaw
in Selkirkshire.
in Blackhouse, that
Mr
Duka
of Roxburgh,
Bayne, Esq.
These
and another
in
the hands of
John,
John
main
The
Museum, may
title
Museum
Some of
localizing the
erroneous.
song to Stirling
In other
in place of Carlisle, is
respects, however,
it
and the
evidently
appears to be the
ccciv.
MY GODDESS WOMAN.
The
words of
this
it
Mr John
Lear-
It
Mr
Learmont, in 1791, pubUshed a volume of Poems, pastoral, satirical, tragic, and comic; carefully corrected by
the author.
merit.
Mr
Some of
The Butcher
Boy."
cccv.
The
ME NOW.
OCCV."^~.IOHK',
COME
KISS
ME NOW.
299
vie,
S^'c.
entitled
dition, of the
favourite
hymn
equally absurd, as
is
it
is
On
these churches.
but hkewise
some of the
finest airs
some of
of
''
Mr
for the
more
particular
it is
said, that
David Lindseyes
poesie,
second time by
Andro Hart,
in 1621,
under the
title
o^
Ane
collectit
out
ofsundrie partes of the Scripture, with sundrie of other Ballates ; changed out of prophaine SANGEs,^r avoyding of
sinne and haoiotrie, with augmentation ofsundrie
gude and
Newlie
correctict
and amended
Among
his
300
KISS
ME NOW.
must be admit-
it
We annex, as a
liariotrie.
godly ballad.
John, come kiss
John, come kiss
John, come kiss
me now,
me now /
me by and
by,^
ado.
The
stanzas in the
Museum
of the
is
Pindlay's Delight;"
The
in
celebrated
1575, well
Wm Byrd,
known
upon the
are inserted in
is
a mere
me
triple time.
air
air of
I'VE
The
words of
BEEN COURTING AT A
this
anonymous.
ha
The
LASS.
Museum
ii.
page 135.
The
author
"
is
Ah
Johnie, lad, ye're nae sae kind's you sud hae been."
cccvir.
PEASE STRAE.
The
words of
beginning "
The
coun-
by Herd,
tEASE STRAE.
CCCVII.
and
301
a favourite
many
The
au-
and
is
printed in
collections.
CCCVIII.
A SOUTHLAND JENNY.
Burns,
Ayrshire song,
before.
It, as well as
"
this is a
popular
many
Museum,) was
written from
Mrs
Burns's
voice."
It
we
it,
beginning "
the letter
was known
for
southland Jenny
be
:c'.i-M'U.-
old.
it
(-Vf^'
?.'
cccix.
The fragment
my
many
Pocket Com-
other Collections.
it
is
first
an-
to this toiun.
He
The improved
now
before me.
England
copy,
ere
all
it
he lang.
is
302
cccx.
LADDIE,
Thijs
is
No
139, beginning
Petticoat."
have kiWd
my
heart.
cccxi.
O,
This tune
is
very
it
in square-
made."
The
was printed
would give
"
in Herd's Collection in
ed by Burns,
it
to I'ender
it
of "
title
ballad, beginning
let
1776 ; but
it
was retouch-
a place in the
Johnson
Museum.
And
wou'd
fain
be
in, jo.
CHORUS.
let
This
me
in this ae night,
For pity's
rise
and
let
me
in, jo.
The
His
CCr.XI. O, LET
ME
IN THIS AE NIGHT,
SOS
I ivinna
The
let
you
in, jo.
/
The sweetest
tell
you
noiv,
&c.
Now
The
Is
now
Let
witless, trusting-
How
summer-day
woman,
say.
same, jo,
tell you noiu, &c.
/
If the song, as
it
much
in respect of elegance
alterations of
our bard.
that
time, takes
air.
At which
most repine,
love.
CHORUS.
me ;
But
How
And
mingle sighs
ivith
mine,
love.
fol-
304
home hare
1,
love.
To
Let
And
is
mine, love.
O wert
thou,
&c.
let
me
think
we
fleet,
wert thou.
Sec.
CCCXII.
MY
my Luve
o'
my
They
an old
way
Edinburgh."
to
air, in
p. 28,
slow
common
melody, and
it
title
of
its
parent
Gow &
Son,
in their
position
or even that
o'
Gow,
own com-
or any of
melody
as their
it
air
of "
it
is
nothing more
The High-way
to
Edin-
In the
me, Burns,
air, called
in a note, says,
Lord
Elcho's Favourite
is
now
to
lying before
be sung
to the
CCCXIII.
is
which
is
old.
The
805
chorus of this
is
Every day my
O gudewtfe, emmt
The lawin,
O gudewife,
And
The
my head
the lawin,
the lawin ;
by Burns.
air, called
cccxiv.
THE WHISTLE.
The
words of
this
ballad,
beginning "
I'll
sing
of a
Museum,
" As
it.
In
the train of
Anne
is
curious,
of Denmark,
when she came to Scotland with our King James the VI.
May, 1590) there came over also a Danish gentleman,
(1st
pion of Bacchus.
the
creden-
Germany
After
many overthrows
306
THE WHISTLE.
COCXIV.
baronet of that
hard contest,
name
left
And
who,
hleiv
sister
Robert
beft)re
of Sir Walter's.
of Maxwelton
mentioned, afterwards
rie
shrill.
married a
after three
by the present
Sir
Robert Law-
it
had continued
lineal
who won
and Alex-
which
last
gentleman carried
off the
field."
of Glenriddel,
Esq. one of this jovial party, composed the tune to the ballad.
cccxv.
Companion, book
i.
page 20.
In the Reliques, Burns says, that this tune is sometimes
" There's few gude fellows when Willie's awa ;" but he
called
The
script
copy
Editor of
of the
in
to
else
of the song
title.
the
this
song, in
Burns'
Museum, and
own
finds
original
manu-
it
to
be very correctly
printed.
cccxvi.
AN AULD MAN ?
This humorous song was written by Burns, in 1790, exDr Blacklock had likewise written
pressly for the Museum.
LASSIE DO WI'
CCCXVI.
manuscript
Dr
You may
ter.
may
leave
it
put
out, as
tune
is
the
Pills'"
you
please.
young
It has
and therefore
very old.
There
of the song
do
^vith
you
it is
song too
is
left it out.
set
of
it
in the sixth
Collection.
title
Woman
Dr
book of Oswald's
to these
miserably long."
The
bad
is
is
words.
*'
At
a.
307
LASSIE, &C.
is
quoted, "
What
shall
in 1703.
CCCXVII.
is
is
some hints of
tion, vol.
ii.
glad, or in
from an old song in Herd's Collecwhich begins " How can I be blythe or
his verses,
page
1 ,
my mind
contented be."
any
other collection
prior to the
Museum.
Burns, however,
never composed any words for a song unless the tune was
quite familiar to him.
CCCXVIII.
The
words of
ning forth I went," appear in Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany 1724, and both the words and music in Thomson's
Orpheus Caledonius
into
this
iii.
the
Museum.
in 1725,
man, a
Scottish Song.
vol.
The worthy
prelate,
how-
308
cccxix.
0,
The
fragment of
Museum from
which
AS
WAS
KIST YESTREEN.
The
Argyle."
it is
song, however,
is
of considerable antiquity,
book
nion,
under the
V.
The
streen."
into the
was copied
old
It appears in the
title
Pocket Compa-
title
Lumps
o'
Pudding."
Gay
selected this air for one of his songs in the Beggar's Opera,
beginning "
Thus
Turk," acted
at
London
in 1728.
cccxx.
Museum.
The
title,
in Herd's
And
volume
ha'."
to the
Both
ballads,
how-
melody.
"
sung
ballad, beginning
cccxxi.
I
Burns
says,
"
this
song
is
altered
FAIR.
from a Poem by
Sir
do think that
have improv-
Sir
Reliques.
Robert
Ay ton's
verses
appear in John
Play ford's
London, 1659,
They
folio,
set to
under the
title
of a " Song
Mr Henry
music by
309
Lawes."
Poets, vol.
page 325
iii.
and we
may be enabled
the reader
shall
that
DO
And
Had
to love thee.
to
move
thee
II.
III.
And
leaves
fall
from
her,
one by one.
IV.
Such
When
The
song by Burns
is
to
adapted,
is
called
smile,
The Cuckoo."
'
air,
There
a fragment of which
vol.
is
i.
CCCXXII.
IF E'ER
appears in
music
is
DO WELL
'TIS
A WONDER.
When
I was a young-
Compa-
"
CCCXXII. IF
310
book
nion,
sources
and
i.
E*'eB
DO WELL
'TIS
A WONDER.
From
these
it
CCCXXIII.
"
My soger
is
by Ramsay.
laddie
gotten
?'
also adds,
air,
;'
is
He
called
or,
'
'
o'
;'
or
Reliques.
this
song appear in
Thom-
is
the
title
prefixed to
it
in
My
Thomson's
work.
in
the
volume of his
of " The
title
our Goodman
LIE.
written
ly^""
One
thus
Where
I
1
',
under the
for
will
have
my
311
cccxxv.
0,
"
Bt7A}TS says,
entertainments are
Two
land.
are
GALLOWAY TAM.
The Wooing
now much worn out
a wedding
at
These
of the Maiden.'
<
still
The Wooing of
the
Silly puir
Maiden.
Reliques.
two additional
These
verses,
however, are palpable forgeries, and are, besides, both shockingly indelicate and profane.
With regard
it
appears in Oswald's
The
treble time.
Both
far
antiquity of
it is
very questionable.*
cccxxvi.
AS I CAM DOWN BY YON CASTLE WA'.
the words and music of this song; were transmitted
by Burns
to
it
is
any Collection
prior to the
Museum.
CCCXXVII.
LORD RONALD MY
The
which
in the
SON.
it is
my
where
Museum.
horn spoons.
Some
of his descendants,
it is
loway.
2 A
for
Thomas
said, still
making
312
CCCXXVIl.
a more
full,
ballad,
under the
" There
is
The
hero
is
it
Thomas Randolph
or
Ran-
of Scotland.
moment when
at the
his services
See
The Bruce,
murder on Edward
Lord
Hailes, in his
There
is
by an English army.
For
this
death to poison.
peats,
this story
Fordun
hook 20ih.
both of
whom
re-
charge the
III.
But it is combated successfully by
" Remarks on the History of Scotland.""
dif-
may have
exchanged
for a little
child, poisoned
by
mother.
LORD RANDAL.
O, WHERE hae ye been. Lord Randal, my son ?
O, where hae ye been, my handsome young man ?
I hae been to the wild wood ; mother, make my bed soon^
For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down.
gat ye your dinner, Lord Randal, my son ?
gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?
I din'd wi' my true-love, mother, make my bed soon.
For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down.
Where
Where
What
What
What became
What became
my
my
son ?
SIS
Burns
"
observes, that
this air,
of Lochaber. In this
manner, most of our finest more modern airs have had their
origin.
Some early minstrel, or musical shepherd, composed
Ayrshire,
is
liques.
it
bears."i?^-
certainly just.
CCCXXVIII.
O'ER
Burns
Craigs of Kyle,"
who was
is
" Comin
thro' the
the west.
believe, in Kilmarnock.
There
much
are
strolling
a slight-of-hand blackguard."
I took
through
Reliques.
Stewart
I^ewis, a
same
air,
The
his
to the
poems, about
words
In
to
written
his manuscript,
tlae
Muirhead.""
by Burns,
he
directs
Mr
Clarke to
Mu-
set
the
This
is
a modern
air,
by
Mr M.
S.
cccxxx.
TO THE ROSEBUD.
This song, beginning " All hail to thee thou
joiner, in the
bawmy bud,"
neighbourhood
314
The
of Belfast.
tune
is
published in 1742.
I observe that
song a
little
Scottish language.
cccxxxi.
he
written
says,
alludes to a part of
my
No
it is
of no con-
The reader, on
entitled " The High-
Reliques.
117,
title
Mr
of " Phebe," by
The
CCCXXXII.
This
song, beginning
'*
I hae
effusion.
originally stood,
observe, has
above
it,
line,
and written
Highland
our
later Scottish
of that name.
to
That which
airs
my
thinking so
is
also
is,
that
'
hell.)
Oswald has
it
is
I hae
One
in his
Collection
It
and songs
'
five stanzas,
As
an
and seems
to be
a proof of
this, it is
known
Laddie,'
315
to the peasantry
while eveiy
song begins,
He
It
is
met wi a
meicMe man,
and bonnie."
Reliques.
may, or may
tune to
the
its
not,
this
other namesakes.
second, there
is
an
air
this
under the
it
title
of " Cockle-Shells."
From
this circumstance
same
air
his
ning "
The Lowland
Ramsay.
by
book, under
first
the
pool, in 1754.
CCCXXXIII.
IT IS NA, JEAN,
THY BONNIE
FACE,
were originally
The
tune was composed by Oswald, and inserted in his Caledonian Pocket Companion, bookiv.
under the
one of the
title
of "
The
p.
30, published in
Maid's Complaint
"
1742
It is certam
316
CCGXXXIV.
DONALD COUPER.
This old tune is mentioned by Colonel Cleland in
mock poem on the " Highland Host," written in 1697.
his
But
it
was current
it
in
title
of Daniel Cooper.
Tom
this period, as
street brethren,
tune, which
inserted in the
vol. V.
is
To
per."
the
Museum,
inserted in
morous touches
it
his
man.
how Donald,
And
The
he's
tune in the
modernized.
The
to
court a vnfe,
her.
is
a genuine copy
DONALD COUPER.
A. D. 1657.
gl^lp^^l^Eg^
E^gE^l^g^
^^^^^
^13
'^.
_&:id
s$
317
cccxxxv.
to pursue
Dr Black-
This
me
song, beginning
lock.
is
His amanuensis
his likewise.
The
cccxxxvi.
EPPIE M'NAB.
verses in the Museum, beginning "
my
dearie,
saw ye
The modern
own
my
now
hand-writing, are
verses,
had
in the poet's
The
tune
is
under the
vi.
title
WHA
IS
This tune, in old times, was known by the name of " Lass,
an I come near thee," which was the first line of the chorus
of a foolish old song.
Lass, an 1 come near thee.
Lass, an I come near thee,
I'll
gar
a'
Lass, an
The
your
ribbatis reel.
I come near
thee.
Museum
were writ-
to his brother
by the
'
to the
Wi-
poet
first
Jean Wilson, a
silly
and
Having
first
hne of the
S18
CCCXXXVII.
DOOR-?
The
tune of "
The
Rowley."
Had awa
of "
Museum, No
338, as well as
it is
here annexed
me, Do-
title
tune in the
frae
its
To
enable
modern repre-
1657.
JCdtljE
i=^E=^=^^^^^^fe
S 1
razf
:zs:
Orpheus Caledonius,
in 1725.
cccxxxix.
This
by the
is
late
the same
Mr
in Edinburgh.
two
folio
air,
Set.
volumes, "
Airs for the Voice, with introductory and concluding Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Piano-Forte, Violin, and
Violoncello," a
work of great
merit.
In the preface he
in-
forms us, that having been, struck with the elegant simplicity of the original
singers
819
Scottish
to that
he
taste.
He
Society of Edinburgh,
monkal
and
Har^
concerts in Glasgow.
The
was an excellent
and
singer,
knew Urbani
his
Mr
He
intimately.
knowledge of Counterpoint
late
rous and respectable band of vocal and instrumental performers from various parts of the kingdom, that the inhabitants of
gratified
with
hearing some of the best Oratorios of Handel, &c. This concern, although deserving of encouragement, did not succeed,
and the
affairs
Sybold died
where he continued
CCCXL.
THE TEARS
in the University of
book
iv.
page
Reliques.
8, entitled
a Scottish melody.
ret
The words
make
first
all
the
four lines
are adapted to
an
Pocket Companion,
lovely
It is the composition of
Burns
Edinburgh.
;"
but
Mr
it is
not
John Bar-
Dr Blow,
M'ho set
320
THE TEARS
CCCXL.
Pills," in
Gay
1707.
selected this tune for one of his songs iu the Beggar's Opera,
beginning "
When
London
acted at
he holds up
his
hands arraigned
for life,"
in 1728.
CCCXLI.
These
thing,""
little
verses, beginning
thing, canie
the
idol,
charming
lovely Davies.
wee
us,
on his
Reliques.
The
words are adapted to the tune of " The bonie wee Thing,"
in Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, book ym..-See
notes on
Song No
ROY'S
Mr CuoMEK
WIFE OF ALDIVALLOCH.
by Mrs Murray, spouse of Dr Murray, Bath. In the collections of Thomson, Urbani, &c. they are attributed to the
There may be two different
pen of Mrs Grant of Carron.
editions of this song,
" The
Ruffian's Rant."
of the
air.
Burns, in a
letter to
Mr
Thomson, dated
Dr
Sept. 1793,
and
works, says, " I have the original words of a song for the
last air,
composed
it
and published
in the
to
any
In another
]
who
edition of the
letter
9th November,
from
794,
way of an English
me
thus,
on Song
my Katy V
You will
allow me,
The
No
156, beginning
"
BOY'S
CCCXLII.
WIFE OF ALDIVALLOCH.
es of Irish blackguard, is
determined to have
I think this, to be
done
two
in
You
my quantum
body."
my room and
321
am
see I
from some
of applause
vol. iv.
To
this
was
Dr
MSS.
in Burns's
to
temptation to give
it
letter
of our bard,
doubtless that
is
The
of September, 1793.)
to the public
is irresistible
and
if,
in
same song.
lieve
No
156.
by the
It begins,
The
reader
" Stay,
my
me."
There appears
The
count.
to
be some obscurity in
Dr
Currie's ac-
letter,
address
wards of a year
thereafter.
19th
dress,
ap-
it
The
words of
Museum by Dr
The manu-
not
now among
my
hero,
my
lost,
as
been informed,
Blacklock.
The
verses, beginning
"
My
it
This beautiful
322
" When
The
my thumb
Rohidh donna
is
is
The
it.
letters J.
in
Dancing Master,
It appears in Playford's
The
Q. subjoined
old.
W.
Pills to
Purge Melancholy,
it
in
is
very
1657
melody.
under the
title
is
is
It
origin-
memory of man.
CCCXLV.
says,
is
The
originally
it,
which
Reliques.
is
It
is,
however, a
by Burns
to
Mr
adapted to
it;
which,
fine
Saw ye Johnie
tune for
all that,
comin', quo'
bard.
CCCXLVI.
A COUNTRY
This
old Scots
LASS.
for
it
its
way
into
England
'
The
Pills to
323
Henry
that year.
first
volumes
to
to
it
be sung
make
of every alternate
line,
What
thus
O into
A^ at the end
am
a country lass,
A lofty mind I bear a ;
I think myself as good as those
That gay apparel wear a.
This
tho' I
posed
The
it.
song, however,
is
who com-
Thomson,
tune."
in
his
original melody,
suit his
one simple
strain,
The
little
last
adapted
Museum.
called
which
he had
sung
heard
This ballad
seems to relate to
who was
on an expedition
sent
to
same
the
ballad,
in the
tune.
to Shetland, in
1554, by the
who had
He, however, returned without beUpon this he was incarcerated, and his titles
to seize a certain person
offensive to her.
ing successful.
and
of
transmitted to Johnson
north,"
to
estates
were
counsel to
forfeited.
Queen Mary.
AE FOND
This song was
BEFORE
by Burns,
KISS
written
WE
in
SEVER.
1790, on purpose for
824!
WE
SEVER.
the
Museum.
he
directs it to
be
set to the
viii.
This
Mr
Clarke.
The
ed
to
first
AS
This
WAS A WAND'RING.
is
entitled Riiin
The
m' eudail
mo
verses in the
They are
by Burns.
mhealladh,
i.
Museum
e.
communicated
A modern and
to
My
much
dear
were likewise
"
transla-
life.
CCCXLIX.
LOVELY DAVIES.
This is another production of Burns, in compliment to the
young lady (Miss Davies) formerly noticed, whose personal
and mental accomplishments have more than once been the
theme of our bard's poetical encomiums. See notes on Song
341, entitled " The bonnie wee Thing-."' In his original manuscript, I observe that the 9th line
began
^'
cheers,"
Miiir^'' at his
own
request.
to
325
CCCL.
The
tune and
title
0'
The bard
script,
TOW.
by
Bui-ns,
viii.
The humorous
manu-
viz.
suck, at the
stanza, is scored
line
of the second
more euphonical.
as being
CCCLI.
NOW WESTLIN
This song was
seum.
the
written
The words
King came
for the
o'er the
composed on the
WINDS.
by Burns on purpose
battle,
of a song
title
father-in-
defeated,
law,
and afterwards
retired to France,
Come
different
one
kiss with
strain,
AIR,
KISS
is
in this simple
manner even
Imiiibii'i
so late
edition second.
^hbIi^hbI
quite a
It originally consisted of
tune.
COME
name of
air the
as 1733, in
Mu-
When
ME."
ml
m
In Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany, one of the songs, beginning "
to
My
be sung to
strain to
Jocky blyth
for
what
iLSee
notes on
thou'st done,"
is
directed
Song No
4*15.
S26
to
*'
Had
licentious verses,
Collection
and adapted
it,
it
It is
of Reels, Strathspeys,
now known by
Fettercairn.""
S^c.
CCCLII.
HAE A WIFE
This
old tune
Companion.
It
MY
O'
AIN.
is
trifling verses,
beginning
HAE a
C:3P
wife
o'
my
awn,
be haddin' to naebody J
I hae a pat and a pan,
I'll borrow frae naebody.
I'll
Dr
for that
work by
up
his
mind,
In
enced."
this
if
us,
situation
Museum, formed
ballad.
cccLin.
WHEN
The
ditty,
which
is
preserved in
be presented
dertook to make
he had
it
Museum.
it
could
Burns un-
to encounter,
it
skill
and
dexterity.
The
musical
melodies.
It
is
is
among
preserved in the
first
own
variations
CCCLIII.
Mrs
in
SST
BOBBED.
Crockat's Manuscript
CCCLIV.
They were
tion in 1776.
the
his Collec-
by Burns
slightly retouched
for
Museum.
CCCLV.
O,
This comic
had a
been
real origin
left
is
before me,
Museum. The
young girl having
and at her own dis-
for the
:
relation,
marry an old
rich booby.
Her
affections,
by a young man,
to
however, had
whom
she
had
The
diewart.
says,
"
called
this
The Mou-
song
is
mine."
CCCLVI.
The
series
JOHNIE ARMSTRANG.
frequent wars between England and Scotland,
for
but more
liable to
be ravaged and
laid
life,
no
in-
soil.
sickle,
now
The
328
johnie akmstrang.
cecLvi.
chieftains,
hostile clans,
The
by
whose
interests
con-
septs,
Much
or the
to
control.
their liveli-
mode of
such
they
protected
at
it
and predatory
their roving
all
life,
Their ideas of
Every thing
living.
fair
booty, and as
Notwithstanding
hazards.
and
When
friends.
cause, they
called
their sovereign,
and
standard of
proved their
raised in the
upon
cheerfulness to the
flocked with
of the kingdom.
But
grees,
became
so powerful
by
large grants of
to disregard
Amongst
They
may
still
be traced.
The
habitual
at the
same time
Even when
so cautious
assailed
and circum-
by superior num-
JOHNIE ABMSTRANG.
CCCLVI.
3S9
by abandoning
their dwell-
and
woods and
deep morasses, accessible by paths only known to themselves.
ings,
Although
and
to lower their
James V.
During
power,
his
mi-
nority, the
gan
zeal, as
spirit
and
he next directed
his attention to
He
accord-
"
Annandale, Liddesdale,
the
who
protected
necessary precaution
of forfeiting,
or
committing the
King of
who were
the Border,
publicly executed.
About
burgh
at the
head of
his
During
this expedition,
John
This Armstrong, as we
" was the most redoubted chieftain
by
Pitscottie,
330
that
JOHNIE ARMSTRAN6.
eCCLVI.
had been
He
land or England.
man."
that,
It
is
said
(thirty-six,)
richly
Newcastle,
to
paid him
state,
with his
the king
Scottish
tribute.
num-
foresaid
apparelled, trusting
in
that,
re-
But
him and
men
his
so
What
sight, saying,
stronof
made
Jdfig should
own
cost,
Secondly,
At length
him
he, seeing
to his majesty,
no hope of
fa-
vour, said very proudly, " It is folly to seek grace at a graceless face
But, had
known
this, I
for I
that king
my
to
know
Lindsay
set
order
known
to
be most culpable.
And hereupon,
apprehended
Armestrang
to be
of murdei',
theft,
trees, to the
example of
among
the rest,
it
John
he caused^orty-
their captain,
all
hanged on growing
cruel thief
woman and
to the
George
end he
331
JOHNIK ARMSTRANG.
CCCLVl.
so they
were
ii.
HolUns-
had deserved."
p.
This historian
182.
The
fered,
place where
was
where
ed
The
out.
Carlenrig chapel,
at
Langholm.
point-
still
memory
growing
trees
They
tendants,
his
way through
companions
to Gilnockie castle.
This
castle
and
was situated
its
ruins
still
all
The
Scotland.
produce the
effects
he so anxiously expected.
The
unfor-
severities
he had exercised
having
rest-
made such an
ment the
dispirited
lives.
This unlucky
affair,
intelligence of
it
and melancholy
mo-
3S2
cccLvr.
johnie abmstrang.
into
1542, in the
John was
brought to the
Avere
scaffold,
their leaders
So
gers.
that^
by
possessed
scarcely
The
left,
this
districts
Buchanan.
formerly
is
is
name.
noticed
by
is
is
made
to say,
Here
In the
is
also
''
first
who
The
celebrated ballad of
tells us,
the
that he copied
it
The
reciter likewise
false.
By
the
common
one,
bal-
upon
had thus obtained
lad
ballad
may be
Song?,
vol.
ii
in
various
particulars.
The English
JQHNIE AEMSTRANG.
CCCLVI.
As
Museum
33S
leaving out the greater part of this fine old Scottish ballad
for
want of room,
it is
here annexed.
JOHNIE ARMSTRANG.
Sum speiks of lords, sum speiks of lairds.
And siclyke men of hie degrie
Of a gentleman I sing a sang.
Sum tyme caUd laird of Gilnockie.
The king he wrytes a luving letter.
With his ain hand sae tenderly.
hope
And
he'll
dyne at Gilnockie.
They ran
their horse
He weind
my
sovereign liege,
And
subject of zours,
my
me my
And
lyfe,
my
liege,
my
king.
whyt
steids.
And
me my
lyfe,
a bony gift
my
I'll
liege,
my
king.
gie to thee.
S34
JOHNIE ARMSTKAKG.
CCCLVI.
mills.
me.
These four-and-twenty mills complete.
Sail gang for thee tluow all the zeir.
And as meikle of gude reid quheit.
As all thair happers dow to bear.
Away, away, thou traytor, &c.
me my
Grant
lyfe,
my
zeir to
liege^,
my
king.
And
flee-
Grant
me my
And
lyfe,
a brave gift
my
liege,
I'll
my
king.
gie to thee
Ze
traytor,
&C.
leid,
For
That
To
eir I
seik het
Surely
it is
a great
their is
But had
How
flie.
at a graceless face.
nanefor
my men and
me.
wad
John wore a
335
JOHNIE AHMSTEANG.
CCCLVI.
And
ryding as
wont
to be.
hundred
zeir.
Kirsty,
my brither,
laird of
Mangertoun
thee, Kirsty,
my
son,
Thy
my bony Gilnockhall,
Quhair on Esk-syde thou standest stout,
Gif I had livd but seven zeirs mair,
I wald haif gilt thee round about.
John murdred was at Carlinrigg,
And all his galant companie ;
But Scotlands heart was never sae wae.
Farweil,
To
see so
die.
Nane
The
is
of
of this ballad,
air
commemorating an event
in 1529,
Museum.
It
class of airs
len
to be
would appear
so frequently noticed
Lament
Hame
for
Chief-
donna gor-
piper of Jedburgh,
who was
similar,
It
but
still
more
lines
he chanted them
the
progenitor of that
Robidh
the
the
in
my
of
The
336
CCCLVI.JOHNIK ARMSTBANG.
my
They
ear.
is
termed a singer,)
still
vibrate in
are annexed.
JOHNIE ARMSTRANG.
g^teEls
Some
some speiks of
speiks of lords,
za
laii-ds.
ggig^^ifa
men
of
hie degi-ie
Of
a gen-tle-man
And
sicklike
F--^
sing a sang-,
Some-
EEEill^ip^S
tyme
The
Gil
call'd laird of
- nockie.
bably nothing
when sung
or performed slowly on an
fast,
little
or no variation,
The
anonymous.
The
Brem-
under the
is
ner's Collection of
in 1764,
author
title
LOGIE
Considerable
liberties
"
O'
BUCHAN.
this fine
Logie of Buclian,
It be-
On
turn-
paring
it
which belonged
to the late
Mr
James
Sibbald, bookseller in
LOGIE O BUCHAJ?.
CCCLVIII.
Edinburgh, now
the
worse.
better
The
is
It
is
and
Ann
he
on the
several aherations
old verses.
for
that
observes,
337
Lady
LOGIE OF BUCHAN.
i!
O Lo - GiE
^il^lig
of Buclian,
O Lo - gie
They hae
11^
MM
W
=3=:s=:
^Vz=prT=^Ez:g3=B=gpE|z^d=g
m
ta'en a -
wa Ja-mie
izza
_
- ol
Wha play'd on
[-"="
^!=td_]i== F:3L-i:
pipe and the vi
sae sma'^,
tw.:r^-
the
U-lL
^
They hae ta'en
I gang awa ;
I gang awa ;
'-r
~F-- rrr
1
He said,
He said,
=H
^!^-E? -P
s
yi
the laird.
wa
Jamie, the
3S8
CCCLVIII.
LOGIE
o'
BUCHAN.
II.
in.
My
my
IV.
I sit on
my
my
wheel.
sae weel
He had but ae saxpence, he brak it in twa.
And he gae me the half o't, when he gaed awa.
And
me
CCCLIX.
O,
The
Having
left
Kenmure
at the
1715.
command
in
Lancashire.
many
that month.
On
the 9th of
ment,
bones,
cleavers,
and warming-pans.
In
this
disgraceful
CCCLIX.
O,
839
ceive them.
were committed
He
to the tower.
noblemen
several other
was afterwards
tried,
and
it
is
in
his
own
adapted, to
hand-writing,
Mr
Johnson.
Cromek,
in his
They
rose in
He
He
hand
His
His
It
ladle's
ladie's
and
and
seem inexplicable.
CGCLX.
BESS
This
song,
spinning-
The
beautiful
melody
to
in the fifth
book of
his
S40
CCCLX.
BESS
title
of
CCCLXI.
MY COLLIER
The
bonny
words of
Johnson
in the poet's
own
LADDIE.
beginning "
other collection.
know
this song,
is his
own
live ye,
my
The
no
" I do not
It appears in
hand-writing.
however,
Where
says,
greater part of
it,
composition.
CCCLXII.
It contains
ii.
in the
lady informed the Editor, that, in her early days, the verses
air
of "
Bab
at the
This
WILLIAM'S GHOST.
old ballad, beginning " There came a ghost
fine
to
Mr
it
by Ramsay
covered by
last stanzas
Ramsay
The
verses re-
The first part of it, entitled " Willie and May Margaret,"
may be seen in Gilchrist's Collection, vol.
WilUe, the
i.
visit his
On
cross the
his return
River Clyde.
is
home, he
sweetheart, Margaret,
He
accordingly sets
drowned
in
attempting to
to the
GGCLXiii. William's ghost.
Margaret.
fickle
lad,
841
bal-
ancestors.
it
in the second
It
a curious
is
German
fact, that
ballad,
by
ti'anslated
have
others,
Mr
evi-
Ghost."
liam's
panion, book
it is
v., is
In Oswald's Caledonian
air entitled " William's Ghost," but
an
evidently modern.
Collection
and
in the
Ritson's
in
CCCLXIV,
their
Maxwell of Nithsdale.
composed by the
The
late
The
Mr
an
air
same name,
is
in the stewartry of
Kirkcudbright.
CCCLXV.
JOHNIE BLUNT.
This old song, beginning " There
glen," as well as
Burns
for the
ginal of
its
ancient simple
Museum.
It
is
man
yonder
is
the ori-
John Blunt
in
were transmitted by
liv'd
air,
No
300. Tra-
Craw-
CCCLXVI.
THE COUNTRY
LASSIE,
the
The
Museum.
342
THE COUNTRY
CCCLXVI.
" Of
his song,
is
inserted in
Henry Carey,
all
LASSIE.
in
"
Sally in
he
this
tune
God
as
ha's
CCCLXVII.
FAIR ELIZA.
This
song, beginning
by Burns
written
" Turn
Museum.
It
is
adapted to a Perth-
In Burns'
shire air,
MSS.
for the
title
nexed
do you
muse
" So much
Macdonald's Collection
in this country.
It
to that air.
is
in
for
but there
your Rabina
will
is
a Perthshire tune in
No
There
112.
do charmingly
will
20,
No
ter,
man
133.""
much
is
trifling alteration,
an-
my
with a
is
How
I have tasked
I assure you,
admired
for the
much
to
air,
it is
is
ano-
which,
in
page
whom Mr Hun-
attached.
This gentle-
This
is
shire air,
FAIR ELIZA.
the same song as the last, adapted
No 133
to the
Argyle-
us
ccctxix.
MUIRLAND WILLIE.
This very humorous
will tell
ye how,"
is
ballad, beginning
It
it
was
The
Burns
Collec-
tion, written in
"
says,
this
their
tJiieves
were
rife,
and
for garnishing
and adorning
See Select
his person."
Critical Observa-
CromeJc, vol.
II.
ii.
London, 1810.
CCCLXX.
We are
a-walking
all
first edition,
now
in
first
As
was
in his Collection,
it
in 1769,
is
Herd published
alone."
it,
time.
It
is
in possession of a complete
late
Mr
Walter Scott
copy of the
ballad,
com-
Joseph Ritson.
CCCLXXI.
YE JACOBITES BY NAME.
This
Jacobitical effusion
of Burns.
It
is
air
and
rate,
is
adapted to an
The
YouVe
which
sevei'al
of their
.?"
all
heard of Paul
was sung
to the
same
CCCLXXI.
344'
tune.
"
My
There
;;
VE JACOBITES BY NAME.
love's in
published as
officer,
The
1794.
late
told me, however, that he was the author of this ballad himself.
MY LUVE'S IN GERMANY.
My lure's in Germany, send him hame, send him
My luve's in Germany, send him hame;
My hive's in Germany,
hame
He may
ne'er his
Jeanie
see,
Your
Your
flee,
flee,
Your
For he
fell in
flee.
Germany
Bonny dame.
He'll ne'er
He'll ne'er
He'll ne'er
To
come
come
Willie's slain
come
me
CCCLXXII.
ballad, beginning
Johnson.
nobleman
in his
In a note, accompanying
"
was printed
it is
it,
liv'd in
own
a village of
hand-writing, to
before."
CCCLXXIII.
THE
This
POSIE.
Hums
in
for the
where
it
Museum.
845
It appears evident to
me
of this
air.
he has
entirely
and the
close of
both tunes
from a country
lowing
is
is
first
girl's voice,
or else
to,
The
it
on a wonderful similarity
I took
had no great
down
the notes
The
merit.
fol-
a specimen
There was
What
Wad
Burns, in a
&c.
kind
o' that,
to thee, fair
sir ?
she says,
May.
Sec.
letter to
Mr
Thomson, printed
Dr
in
Currie's
edition of
B urns'
" The
Works, dated
19tli October,
was taken
think
The
is
1794, says,
Posie, in the
it is
tell
trash.
me
if
first
in
By
the
you do not
composed.
receive
this
air
name,
in
of Roslin Castle.
until
Mr
Hewit,
adapted
it
-THE rOSIE.
CCC'T.XXIII.
S4(>
Strathmore.
It
is
book
Collection,
Macgibbon's
in
title
ii.
it
tion.
CCCLXXIV.
THE BANKS
O' BOON.
" Ye baiiks and braes o' bonnie
Doon," was written by Burns for the Museum. It is adapted
to an air, formerly called The Caledonian Hunt's Delight,
This
song, beginning
Mr
the parties,
The
James
Mr
Miller, Dejp-
Stephen Clarke,
facts, as related
by Burns, may be depended upon. In a letter to Mr Thomson, dated November, 1794, the bard says, " There is an
that
years ago,
Mr
gentleman
whom
It
.''
James
is
Miller,
possibly
;
curious enough.
writer in your
in
good many
good town, a
company with
Mr
Clarke, partly
tain
it
air.
that, in
ments of an
air,
a few days,
which
Ritson,
this
but
you
account
THE
CCCLXXIV.
Now,
years ago.
to
BAX'KS
was an Irish
air
347
DOON.
o'
it
difficult it is to trace
the
cult then
music
through the
have
lately seen
my name
of Dumfries, with
streets
it
was the
head
at the
first
time, I
had
Burns alludes
cal
is
As truth,
not system,
it
me
struck
friend,
" When
friars or priests,
number of bass
in
great to a person
who
frequently, that he
from the
original
is
to be a slight va-
other.
invention,
If a
Barbara Allan
would appear so
riation
was
by putting
my
my
Piano-forte, after
some degree of
musical rhythm us) upon the short keys, avoiding the longones,
it
melody.
surprised
This
is
me much
to hear
so curious
and
an agreeable Scottish
may amuse
who
themselve s by play-
known tune
modern instruments,
are
348
made of ebony,
o'
DOON.
to distinguish
ones,
It remains to be observed,
Museum
in the
The
original
written
upon a
is
slip
now
Ex-
of
lying before
written
by the
late
John Hamilton,
Music-seller, in Edin-
CCCLXXV.
DONOCHT-HEAD.
This charming song, beginning " Keen blaws the wind
"er Donocht-Head," was written by Thomas Pickering,
Esq., author of several other fine songs.
quired of Burns
if
pounds
Edinburgh Herald
Mr Thomson
it
"
Donocht-Head
were.
It
is
appeared
not mine;
first
in the
it."
See his
The
in-
letter to
Mr
in the fourth
called
The
reader
is
A LAPLAND SONG,
By Thomas Pickering, Esq.
The
And
Thy
And
Far
And
Mr
CGCLXXV. DOiroCHT-HKAD.
The
And Enna
bud on the
tree.
The
And
The wolf to
And howl
Then
349
to the
my
moon
Enna, oh
fair
And
by Dr
CCCLXXVI.
SIC
by Bremner,
and Country
fine song,
is
it
delled
titled
It
was
mo
collection of
the Rev. Robert Scott, minister of the parish of GlenbuckSeveral old ballads, which have hitherto been consider-
et.
ed as
lost,
appear in
this collection.
CCCLXXVIII.
likewise
"
A Parcel of Rogues in
It
is
adapted
the Nation,"
Dr
350 CCCLXXVllI.
for Burns,
ed,
in
what I think
may follow
the
of
same
the time.
Dr
time-
room on
th.e plate.
CCCLXXIX.
KELLY-BURN BRAES.
This comic ballad, beginning " There lived a Carle in
Kelly-burn braes," was written by Burns on purpose for the
Museum. Burns, however, modelled his ballad from an old
one suug to the same tune.
Cromek, in his " Remains of
Nithsdale and Galloway song," has published the following
verses, entitled
Braes."'
Hey
Go
maun
Hey
&c.
And, &c.
The
devil he
mounted her on
Hey ! &c.
And awa like a
his back.
And, &c.
He
carried her on
till
he came to
hell's door.
Hey ! &c.
And bade
her gae
And, &c.
He
in, for
Hey ! &c.
And thousands o'
devils
to stare.
And, &c.
Hey
carlin play'd
pouk.
&c.
have.
KELLY-BUllN BllAES.
CCCLXXIX.
reekit
351
Hey
&c.
or she'll ruin us
a'.
And, &c.
The
deil
Hey
And
He
He
carried her
Hey
&c.
Till
carle ranted
And,
&c.
Ye're bringing
And, &c.
me back my
Hey
&.C.
Gude-morrow, most
Hey
ye'll
and sang.
&c.
And the wale o'
And, &c.
and
in
caudrons
I try'd her.
my
And, &c.
Sae here's a gude pose for to keep to yoursel'.
Hey ! &c.
She's nae fit for heaven, and she'll ruin a' hell.
And, &.C.
In a note annexed
" This
original
Burns.
Yet
Cromek
says,
there
is
many
characteristic
traits
that
his
critical
it
taste
352
CCCLXXIX.KELLY-BURN BRAES.
The
reader,
Museum,
will
have no
difficulty in dis-
he
calls
it, is
He
It
is
really too
bad
any two
to affirm,
trash.
different stamp.
CCCLXXX.
EVANTHE.
This song, beginning " When, dear Evanthe, we were
young," was written by Dr Blacklock for the Museum. The
The
original
words
session.
CCCLXXXI.
Let
Let her
loe nae
man but me
lowing note
" These
set the
and most
The
let
Dr
Black-
air in the
recent embellishments.
fol-
excellent
Mu-
See notes
CCCLXXXII.
AY WAKIN',
See
notes
in the third
upon another
0.
is
inserted
No 213
of that work.
set
Mr
by Ro-
Stephen Clarke.
353
CCCLXXXIII.
PATIE'S
This humorous
frae the glen,"
volume
of"
The words
WEDDING.
beginning "
ballad,
As
Patie came
Edinburgh
Collection, printed at
his
up
second
in the
in 1776.
We'll put
is
volume of the
No
Mu-
479.
CCCLXXXIV.
The
this song,
my Jhes
did
me
Museum.
beginning It was in
entlio'al,
were communi-
The
it is
air,
said, is
an
cceLxxxv.
ORAN AN AOIG;
This charming
Museum.
OR,
skies,"
Mrs Dunlop,
fair
day,
in Macdonald's Collection of
dressed to
song, beginning
Highland
to a Gaelic
Airs.
dated EUisland,
In a
melody
letter ad-
17th December,
1791} and printed in the second volume of Dr Currie's edition of Burns' works, the bard says, " I have just finished
the following song, which, to a lady, the descendant of
line,
many
" SCENE A field of battle Time of the day. Evening, The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the
following
5
354 CCCLXXXV.-
ORAN AN AOIG
"
Farewell^ thou
OK,
SONG OF DEATH."
Our
fair
race of existence
is
run
of terrors
thou life's gloomy foe
Go, frighten the coward and slave
Go teach them to tremble, fell tyrant but know.
No terrors hast thou for the brave
He
falls in
dark,
*'
The
Highland Airs,
Skye tune,
to the
Mr
Ritson and
The
Or an an Aoig ;
or.
Mr
Museum
my
stanzas."
''
Lodging
this
is
song to
but the
air,
My
of
latter
Isle
Both
this
entitled
Macdonald's Collec-
friend,
volume of Dr Currie's
had an
edition,
it is
life,
of printing
it.
it
The
to
spirit
of defence in
355
CCCLXXXVI.
AFTON WATER.
This
song, beginning
Mrs
Stewart
of Afton Lodge, for the notice she had taken of the bard,
being the
first
of
He
life.
Afton
is
Museum.
the Nith.
Mrs
Lodge, which
is
upon
its
father.
CCCLXXXVII.
BONNY BELL.
This
ings
is
CCCLXXXVIII.
GREEN SLEEVES.
This
Ye
fair,"
The
and Pudding
Pies, the
by the
Latin
these
John Anderson,
all
my jo,
was a
is
is
said to
Maggy Lauder
metamorphosed hymns.
third.
The
was very
Ballads, vol.
ii.
was another
original music of
fine."
See Percy's
356
The
air
No
my Jo,"
^60.
strain,
and elsewhere.
England
in
many
as in Scotland,
It
of
Henry
Playford's
Wit and
is
title
Mirth,
vol.
it
ap-
pears in
Green Sleeves.
CCCLXXXIX.
to
from the
the
title
first
of
The
The White
takes
its rise
air,
book of
Aird''s (of
Weaver''s
Cart
is
March.
in the parish of
Eaglesham, and,
loom,
falls into
selected
its
after passing
various productions o/
cccxc.
SLEEPY BODY.
This song
is
ditions.
affixed, to
The
only addition
is,
Avith
ad-
CCCXC.
SLEEPY BODY.
357
me
tange.
Cum me
me
tange.
ambiebas,
Videri solebas
Amoris
negotiis aptus
At factus maritus
In lecto sepitus
Somno es, baud amore, tu captus,
Thomson published
ginal tune in his
Orpheus Caledonius,
in 1733,
and
is
air
of
The Plowman,
This
charming old
however,
air,
which
out
left
air.
it
is
certainly deserving of
much
Scottish, to
The
Johnson,
to
Museum.
The
tant.
air
this
the
ex-
called
likewise
CCCXCII.
HEY
This
*'
Up
Burns
to
wi'
with
its
humorous
verses,
beginning
Museum.
This song
is
by
not yet
Mr
to
air to
35S
CCCXCIV.
man at Martin-
mas^ has long been known among the inhabitants of Nithsdale and Galloway, where
it is
The
a great favourite.
first
And up
is
the hiring
my
hand's out.
fair,
is
the truest
first
Rood-
of the half
year."
which
is
fair.
"
Miller's
in the overture to
air
Rosina ; and
Gow
Don's Strathspey."
It
is
now
called
cccxcv.
modern
is still
"
all
time in the
Museum.
The
anonymous.
cccxcvi.
The
Museum.
for the
it
to
have
left
ivrsf
DADDIE.
359
Scottish
name of the tune could not be generally, if at all, unDr Pepush adapted Gay's song to
beginning " Why that languish ? O, he's dead
derstood in England.
this air,
O,
The
opera of Polly,
The
cated to Johnson
by Burns,
in the poet's
own
hand-writing.
Some
but
it
little
more of it.
CCCXCVIII.
SHE'S FAIR
Burns picked up
this
Museum.
Gow
which
to
AND
FAUSE.
THE
This comic
DEIL'S
is
written
written
THE EXCISEMAN.
The Deil cam fiddlin thro"*
by Burns for the Museum. The
WI'
AWA
upon a
It
lines.
slip
is said,
upon
letter.
of "
title in
to.
It
first line
360
ccoxcix.
the exciseman.
of the "
Pills
first
volume
1698.
cccc.
MISS WEIR.
"
Johnson
writing.
for his
It
is
Museum, by Burns,
in the poet's
own hand-
elei'gynian at Biggar.
*361
ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS
PART
IVo
CCCIV.
MY GODDESS WOMAN.
This song
is
tlie
Mr
title
" Poems
Pastoral,
By John Learmont.
Comic.
Satirical, Tragic,
and
Carefully corrected by
the Author.
My
Muse
wayward wight.
many a quirky flight
a queer
is
And cramm'd
with
The
heir-apparent to his
a poet
(if
for the
dedication to
The
is
a gardener
by
profession,
and
and
The volume
Unequal
Rivals, a Pastoral."
entitled
but he him-
Accept,
" The
In a poetical dedication, he
362
MY GODDESS WOMAN.
me
to the
(p. 260.)
Langholm Lodge,
Duke
of Buccleuch
latter retired, at
succeeded by
Mr
Macdonald
who
more than
is
raising gar-
under-
THE WHISTLE.
" Thejie are some odd blunders
Maxwelton family in my
possession enables me to mention.
There was no Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwelton prior to, or during the reign of
King James the Sixth. Stephen, the third son of John
Whistle, which a pedigree of the
Laurie, the
first
who
and
his son
and
heir,
1685.
By
whom
dell,
Catharine was married to Walter Riddel of Glenridand Anne to Alexander Fergusson of Craigdarroch.
killed,
when
a lad, by a
fall
from
THE WHISTLE.
363
fable,
un-
is
cccxxi.
" This
had
is
'
them a Scots
and
FAIR.
is just
It is usually attributed to
dress.'
bably found
it),
it
iii.
but
p. 91
anonymous
is
have
to
his contemporaries
as
musical collection of
earlier
ford's
part
Aytoun,
it
also
Select
is
in Play-
Ayres and
it
(Bannatyne Miscellany,
Robert Aytoun,
Sir
is
vol.
p. 323).
He was
St Andrews.
at
London,
Vol.
I. p.
in
299-324.
CCCXXIV.
"
said to have
been composed on the beautiful Lady Anne Cochrane,
She
bed.
Annie
;'
is
still
at
remembered by
tradition as
'
bonnie
The
former, indeed,
is
very
ill
done
and
364 *
was taken
the
cccxxv.
GALLOWAY TAM.
Mr
Stenhouse
this
air.
MS. Lute
Book, 1627.
CCCXXVII.
The
WHAR
my bed, mammie,
noo.
eat,
Mak'
my
bed,
mammie, noo.
gied them to
Mak'
my
my
bed,
little
doggie do,
It stretch' d
An' sae
" The
dog,
mammie, noo.
My
little
out
will
o't
its
I,
head an'
mammie,
nurse, or nursery-maid,
its feet,
and
dee't.
noo.
who sung
(i.e.
Scotland for-
in
reptile.
365
In that
very-
'
'
'
'
(C. K. S.)
cccxxviii.
Jean Glover,
and
whom he
to
Burns,
The
was
author of the
in collecting
some information regarding her history, from which it appears that she was born in that town, 31st of October 1758.
Having become enamoured with a strolling player who frequented that part of the country at fairs, and other occasions,
she eloped with him and afterwards pursued an irregular
;
course of
life,
town
in
"
woman
when she
in Ireland, in the
ballad,
died,
it is
life
till
the
supposed, at Letterkenny
the Heather,"
by Stewart Lewis,
is
inserted at p.
838 of
366 *
THE TEARS
CCCXXXIV.
DONALD COUPER.
Dunkeld
in
August 1689,
at the early
age of twenty-eight.
CCCXL.
I SHED MUST EVER FALL.
Museum, " This Song of Genius"
THE TEARS
In the Index
Burns
calls
to the
it), is
This lady,
first
by Burns
it
(as
has
with
the third
by Wood,
vol.
i.
p. 369).
in the year
1765
The
written by
Mrs
Stewart.
They
am
sure the
^
lent.
THE TEARS
The
lives of those
And though
who
Than
that
life
endear.
scarce competence,
which
bliss
still
content.
was mine
Then have
And
met my view
Thought Fancy's power would ever reign,
And Nature's charms be ever new.
I
And
still.
Or
if soft
Oh whence
!
Fills this
still
than joy.
now
alarms.
And
fly.
And when,
Oh
we bestow.
can she not, with ruthless hand.
Our
treasured fondness
Change even
Shunning
tlie
367
368*
THE TEARS
And Prudence
And Pity
The glowing
tints
of Fancy fade.
charm no more j
my hopes betray'd ?
Can nought my happiness restore ?
Alas
are all
my heart.
CCCXLII.
this favourite
song
Mrs Grant
Bath
difficulty
This
is
ascribed to
Mrs Murray of
Mr
T.,
knew
well, a
know
well up in years
when
who married Dr
dead probably,
whom
player.
You
was
for she
flute
to be the writer of
to
They
are
little
to
be
relied on."
She
Grant of Carron,
Mr
*369
name
of
Mrs
have written
to
Grant's second
of the
loch:" (vol. i.
celebrated song,
'
JRoy's
Wife of Aldival"
p. 55).
Cromek has also, in the same work, given a communica" Mrs Murray of Bath" respecting Ross of Lochlee
tion from
i.
206.)
p.
CCCXLVI.
A COUNTRY LASS.
Mr
*'
what
is
Ritson,
in his
A. D.
1610." (C.K.
'
this ballad
the hero
of
at Newcastle.'
He was executed,
S.)
CCCXLVII.
whom
him
West
trip to the
on Burns's Reliques,
and
says,
Review
" The
370
:"
a motto to his
lines as
be
set to
and other
tained to
occurs in
As
'of
air, as it
modern
in
uncommon
description
occurs in Gordon's
notation,
subjoined,
is
Mr
Graham,
in
MS.
remarks, that
airs,
By
might attempt
any
applying
in vain to
airs.
Scotish, if there
is
any
intended for
modern elaborated
the Ports, which are the
find in ancient or
and certainly
All the
by the forced
application to
little
or nothing in
to.
them of a
a system of
common
with the
old and purely melodic style belonging to all the most ancient
when such
of.
a thing as
artificial
to
IIORY DALL
this
-rh
-^^
my
?P=^
^^^
^
appendix to
PORT.
JZU^^JL
*=33*3=*
371
RORY DALL
'd^
POKT.
SE
II
;pf^E
WT
a=
372 *
The
a musical friend to
whom
MS.,
submitted.
MS.,
it
to
Ball's Port,'
The
from it.
in the
'
former, of course,
Harp
air,
somewhat analogous
to the
(p. 11),
in his
in
totally
the genuine
is
its
bears the
it is
it
and Gunn,
it
Museum,'
the
Rory
'
'
rally
and
try
known by
whom
who
the
Roderick Morison,
name
of
they describe as
'
Rory Dall,
He
is
said
Dunvegan
Castle,
footing at
who kept
Highland
chief.
Mr
Macdonald, whose Essay was pubthat after the death of this Macleod,
'
poems.'
but
is
somewhat
doubtful.
The
date of the
RORY
Straloch
is
said
MS.
port.
have flourished
to
Mr Gunn
373
is
by Macdonald
7th century.
dai.l's
end of the
in the
are correct,
But
as traditional information
is
is
about the year 1650, he says, that he accompanied the Marquis of Huntley on a visit to
posed a
or
'
'
Port
'
or air,
Charles
"
Mr Gunn also
Lude's Supper.'
We
who
there
com-
Suipeir Leoid,'
called
many
years, been so
much
engrossed in
strain of the
'
piob mhor,'
that they
it
lightened
much
for the
encouragement of pipes
374 *
in this country,
airs,
more, at
and may
many
'
at
may
it
not yet
many
still
fine
least,
So
have elapsed since the harp was cultivated in the Highlands, that in any enquiries of this kind
we can place no faith whatever in tradition, by which we
years, however,
and modernized
MSS.
scripts,
The former
'
Ports,'! viz.
Port
'
and
Ballangowne,'
airs,
called
happens
this
to
and which
is
Skene
MS.
The musical
as a great curiosity.
down from
its
and character
reader cannot
It is a precious
is,
we
to that contained
fail to
relic of
regard
the last of
modern
The
original state.
'
There
Straloch
is
MS.
and moi'e
incomplete,
tradition
it
had no
regular musicians.
instrument
but
Mr
Every
'
Port' which
we have
seen an-
* 375'
Graham
all
Mr G.
F.
now mentioned,
little
of the
hand and
master's
is
particularly bold
and
poet's
.
The
striking,
for
fire,'
which
mowe were to
style of their
and
if
compare them with any music of the present day with which
we are acquainted, we would say that they reminded us
of Beethoven's adagios.
'
'
and
different
its
own,
beg
to subscribe t6
encouragement
to
some
name
at the
MS. must
who
gives his
have flourished
"
Two
Western Highlands."
1819, 12mo.,
it is
last
harpers of the
199,
last edi-
Edinburgh,
family
tJie
his songs
But there
is
still
re-
a Gaelic proverb.
RORY DALL
376
in that
volume, "
Am
Port
PORT
is
fearr a sheinn
The
As
may
Ruadhrigh
tune
best
Roderick
tire of.
The
first is
earlier relics of
simply entitled
A POUT.
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iz:
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ife
JEAN LINDSAY
Two
PORT.
title
here selected,
JEAN LINDSAY
377
called
is
PORT.
--
iz:
T^
I^
:^
:tz
"Cf
-hr
1=1:
2^
r=tr-
'
ci' 4-\-
d-
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'
3-
i
i
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-e^
I
On
airs,
Collection, to Campbell's
vols., to
Highlands of Scotland
discontinued,
F. A. S. E.
from the
1734."
it
was
By John Gunn,
NOW WESTLIN
" It
is
WINDS.
Museum,
*
as
it
2f
was
first
published in the
378
Kirkoswald
at
to
letter
Dr
CCCLVII.
JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.
Mr
Stenhouse,
tomed
to hear it
town-piper of Jedburgh.
At page 389,
air of the
Border Musi-
The
younger days.
as performed in his
cian's,
was accus-
late
Mr
MS.
and
I possess
shire, in
opportunity to extract.
As
stated,
it
Mr Thomas
who was
Monklaw,
himself a skilful
performer.
Mr Thomas
many
down
after
which,
I jotted
down
Scott per>
two of which
noted
whom
"
A List
who
till
lived
Mr Thomas
Mr
Walter Scott's
Monklaw,
JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.
"
1.
He was
Mr
379
Kerr of Littledean,
an excellent performer.
Roxburghshire
" 2. Walter Forsyth (son of the former) was gamekeeper
the son was reckoned
to the then Duke of Roxburghe
:
likewise a
good
The third in
piper.
succession of celebrat-
The
They
bagpipe.
is
called the
Border or Bellows-
century.
dancing-master in
Edin-
who could
play on the pipe the old popular tune of " Sour Plums of
Galashiels,"
it
in order to pro-
He
Richard
Lees, manufacturer in
Galashiels,
died
"
5.
Mr Thomas
Scott
bellows-bagpipe
is
is
in Teviotdale
on the bagpipe.
at
any
rate,
the
whom
he
was acquainted positively declared. This is a remarkable
The
fact, not generally known, and difficult of belief.
north-east coast) origin,
to,
particularly in the
mode
of execution.
successor of
Mr Thomas
year 1731
"
7.
380
JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.
he knew the
titne;
art of
He was
a great improvement.
He
*'
The
Pipers
earliest
(Mr Thomas
Scott says) of th
name and
who were born and bred at Yettam, in
Roxburghshire. They were all tinkers. The late James
Allen was piper to the Duke of Northumberland, and was
Scotish Border, properly speaking, were of the
family of Allen,
He
time.
johs,
died in
jail,
at the
down
" After
this
jotting
happened
down
my
leave
man who
so liberally
made
from Monktoun,
is
to deliver
within
my
little
letter,
of introduction to
sheriff,
Walter Scott."
Sir
"
died at
at
two of the
had,
and
Scott,
fully pos-
when on
him by
life,
Mr
clock, 27th
pipes,
his son
left
him
JOHNIE ARMSTRONG.
in full possession of
After hearing
it.
it
may
there
12mo
He
(Lock-
vol.
ii.
p. 137,
George Syme,
The
hummed it
The
edit.)
is
he
Galashiels."
iti
102.
p.
i.
it,
381
air
is
dated 1789,
this inscription
CCCLVIII.
LOGIE OF BUCHAN.
is
said to
Mr
Peter Buchan, in a
little
not certain
" George
what
humour
most of
ment
what year,
is
place, or in
7.
He
like
and rehearsed
He
'
it
known
Jacobite
song of
to father
is
upon a
Will Jack
Who
382 *
LOGIE OF BUCHAN.
But who could neither read nor write,
Tho' wonderfully could indite.
Which
commonly appended
to
most copies of
this song, and which have led people to think this William
obliged to
remove
to the fishing
'
CCCLIX.
O,
The
by Allan Cunningham.
ccclxiii.
William's ghost.
This ballad occurs in the fourth volume of the TeaTable Miscellany, which was probably not printed before
In June 1728, at least, Allan Ramsay advertised
work as in three volumes {Caled. Mercury) ; and the
London edition, 1733, contains the three in one, and professes to be " the completest and most correct of any yet
1734.
the
published."
my
assistance
and
to
them the
me
their
It is
WILLIAM
GHOST.
383
to be regretted that
Q,
X,
The
hands
different
the author
W.
1733
edition.
C. (Robert Crawfurd).
Tweedside, p.
Davie, p. 49
4.
5.
The Rose
3.
My
Deary,
muse repeat,
93
p.
1.
in
if
Yarrow, pr40
thou
die, p.
6.
^ :'\
Song, Beneath a
Allan Water,
7.
8.
59
4.
.;
9.
G.
of Love, p. 32.
H. (Hamilton of Bangour).
and
I.
H.
initials at the
end.
p.'
King James V)
Lauder?) 1. To Chloe,
p."
84,
2.
Song
Fill
me a
When we
meet
0,Zowe/j/iJfa2t/,p.l5
for a Serenade,
Bumper,
Song,
152.
(Attributed to
L.
p, 52,
M, (Joseph
Power
to the
Heywood?), Jamaica
Song, Subjected
Plays, Tp.\9\.
without any
Mitchell)
2,
1.
The Promised
Joy,
Betty, p. 30.
Meadows,
p.
11,
2.
Song,
Celestial
p.-31.
P.
7<
Major Pack
?)
its
Arms,
p,''l20,
Q. (Old Songs with additions), pages 24, 63, 88, 106, 108, 141,
164, 165, 169,170, 195,211.
/i-
384 *
R.
William's ghost.
Robertson of Struan?)
to her Valentine, p. 11
2.
R.
How
p. 14,
Myth
ilk
Symmers ?)
S. (
Song,
Nymph
W. W.
I love,
Walkmshaw,
Of
Hamilla then
Is
Song,
)
that
Broom
Song,
here^s to the
him
of Cowdenknows,
see.
why, p. 33.
I. W. Q.
The
morn was I to
T. R. (
Tuneful Throats, p. 137.
W.
To
1.
all the
my
Birds, whose
own, p. 5.
me
tell
Bacchanal Song,
Come,
p. 172.
Z. (Old Songs), pages 7, 21, 28, 64, 76, 89, 98, 119, 123, 133, 135,
138, 142, 153, 167, 181, 184, 186, 192.
Of the
the
first
place
is
and " The Bush aboon Traquair." At page *113, I endeavoured to identify him as Robert Crawfurd, the
second son of Patrick Crawfurd of Drumsoy, by his first
marriage, with a daughter of Gordon of Turnberry.
Since
following notice in a
Charles Mackie,
The
thus stated,
'^
"
Mr
*'
Index Funereus,"
is
May 1733."
May 1733."
William's ghost.
385
when her
eldest son,
He was M.P.
from 1741
He
1768.
till
1754
and
for Ayrshire,
from 1761
for Renfrewshire,
As he was
till
called
in years,
;
and
his
when he
we may
died, in 1733."
CCCLXXI.
YE JACOBITES BY NAME.
"
We
Third
who
petitioned
knight of romance.
Paul Jones
was com-
who becomes
and
Mr Cunningham
Thomas
Kirkpatrick of Closeburn
way."
"
a schoolmaster in Gallo-
Burns on some old verses; and that " the air is very popular,
and has been compelled to bear the burthen of much indifferent verse."
does not
(Edit, of Burns,
mean
to
include in this
number
his
hope he
own
fine
386 *
YE JACOBITES BY NAME.
verses,
They
Hogg's
it is
Let the
series.
reader,
is
i'
to
the
fain
my
wad
me hame
to
be,
ain countrie
to
my
fain
my
leaf
is
on the
ain countrie
wad
tree.
I be,
ain countrie
11.
I'll
to fa'.
an' a'
And green
to
my
ain countrie
III.
there's
IV.
e'e,
The
following
is
A favourite
Song,"
from a
common
stall
;;
YE JACOBITES BY NAME.
387
There
refer
is
To
his
own
country.
May
free
May
Who
Haunt
all
such,
own
country.
May
When
To
their
own
country.
own
country.
; ;
388*
CCCLXXVII.
The
Mr S. as
MS. It may
See
1. p.
36." (C. K.
me
wrang,
For
Slowly's
my bonny
love growing
Now young
my bonny
love growing.
is
gane.
my
bonny^love growing.
And
him.
my bonny
love growing.
S).
389
*****
Now down
And
till it
was dark,
man
old ballad
Mr
by
as preserved in the
West of Scotland,
iii.
will
be found in
p. 42.
CCCLXXIX.
KELLY-BURN BRAES.
The
original
ballad,
still
preserved
by
tradition,
was
in Scotland,
subjoined.
his verses
from
stall
copy
is
390
Of a maiden, which
It's
I will tell
lately fell.
who was
of a pretty maid,
And
"
betray'd.
sent to Virginio.
It's
on a bed of
ease, to lie
down when
And
alas
I'll
Seven years
me down
full
low.
please.
be weary, weary, O.
And
And
me
to
Madam Guy
be weary, weary O.
And
alas, I'U
be weary, weary O.
to meat,
to eat.
At every meal
And
be weary, weary O.
alas!
I'll
we must be
to walk,
at her back.
silly
spider
lull it to sleep.
fly.
From
me
to think of liberty.
We
are
yoked
to the
fear
we run away,
THE
With
* 391
slave's lament.
my
neck,
my back
is
like to break,
And
alas, I'll
If
it
From
be weary, weary O.
And alas,
I'll
be a slave to
and probably
Madam Guy
be weary, weary O.
my
was
The
later.
following Advertisement
is
ex-
Monday,
He has
three years.
him
for
L.40, he belongs
to
Broughton.
" This Advertisement not to be repeated."
-
may have
Captain Abercrombie,
(C. K.
at
S).
CCCXCIII.
Dr Robert Mundell,
the
month
of September 1758.
After
degree of A.
M. he
survives
completing his
demy
still
Mr
Alexander Mundell,
DumMr M.
friesshire.
On
its
duties.
still
392 *
LL.D. was
conferred on
him by the
University of Glasgow.
cccxcvi.
Songs in
The
oflp
the bink,
to drink.
'
cccxcix.
Mr
Lockhart,
WI'
THE EXCISEMAN.
in his Life of
Burns (Svoedit.
p. 310),
359 of
this
ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MUSIC
LYRIC POETRY
SCOTLAND.
PART
V.
CCCCI.
under the
title
of "
Companion, book
i.
page
9.
of Inverness," with an
and
this
is all
prompted the
ed to commemorate.
He
The
up
that remains
feelings
took
these as the
is
well
it.
jh 129.
its
up by
inquisitive criti-
and Modern,
edited hy
^^ee Select
R. H. Cromek,
S62
CCCCII.
This
my luve's
like
to
The
before me.
original manuscript
annexed to the
Neil
Gow's
Graham.
Mr
verses,
is
now
says,
and
It is to
is
Museum.
for the
Burns, in a note
Collection,
first
Johnson
this
song
in
is
Major
there called
last
all
the
But
this
suit the
This was
but
Mr
Clarke has
first,
and
this
made
the
has occa-
This song
Set RED,
RED
ROSE.
Burns had
in-
mistake which
melody.
The
plaintive air,
Mr
left
out in Song
No
entitled "
Mary Queen
of Scots."
and
See thecal-
lowing' song.
cccciv.
MARY QUEEN
OF SCOTS' LAMENT.
This charming and pathetic ballad, beginning " Now nature hangs her mantle green," was written by Burns on purpose for the
Museum.
With
matchless
skill,
he
MARY QUEEN OF
CCCCIV.
SCOTS'
LAMENT.
363
Can any
afflicted soul.
to her son,
dissolu-
tion ?
My
Or turn
mother's friend.
Wave
o'er the
yellow corn
And
in the
And
Bloom on
The
Queen of
Scots'
Editor of the
" Mary
Museum,
to the
It consists
I stood
by yon
roofless tower,"
They
which was
manuscript
also
is
before
me
The
original
se-
title
entirely changed.
A VISION.
As I stood by yon roofless tower.
Where the wa'-flower scents the dewy air,
Where the howlet mourns in her ivy bovver,
And tells the midnight moon her care.
364
CCCCV.
And
The
Was
forth
stern
Attir'd as minstrels
Had
And
to hear
He
Dr
cribed
is
river
Cluden or Clou-
Tour
may
find
some account
island.
in Pennant's
Though
this
fitted
for
poem has
taste,
whatever his
omitted.
tie,
Our
poet's
It
may
be ques-
CCCCV.
365
This nursery
Wren's
nest,^'
to the
entitled
nox's
Love
original tune,
Mr
" Len-
fifth
its
page 497.
The
to Blantyre."
Gray
Breeks.'
it
is
John-
'
singino-.
''
"'''"'
'
ceccvii.
PEGGY IN DEVOTION.
The
Museum
to this tune,
beginning
The
liand.
Peggy
in devotion.
From my
Still
may be
seen in
printed at
loving- motion.
Playford's PUls,
London
in 1700.
in the
Parson's Daughter."
first
edition of
volume
The
pseudo-Scottish production.
is
likewise
is
ii.
to the
Scotch
only a
both indelicate
and profane.
CCCCVIII.
JAMIE
This humorous
laird o'
0'
old song,
THE GLEN.
beginning " Auld Rob, the
in the south
CCCCVIIL JAMIE
366
6'
THE GLEN.
sung from
it
his
There
is
a striking coin-
cidence in several bars of this old air and the tune called
GIN YE
......
originally consisted of
one strain.
The
volume of
The
Companion.
following
his
is
sion.
I
^EEEEi=5S^E --Ef--=,EEEE;
^SE3S
^-^
^^
\m
._
-p
?L h
t\s>
*
=
S
p'
..
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J.
'
>
^ ^
r""i"^~
1
*ffffl
r'* d O'A
.1
P
r
_.-_j_,
'
:..
..
1549
sung one of
for
it is
one of the
their spiritual
airs to
IH
1
"JIB
1
?n
LL J-
<
in Scotland
long
hymns, beginning
The
are annexed.
CHORUS.
you were dead, goodman.
And a green sod on your head, goodman,
That I might ware my widowhead
Upon a rantin Highlandinan.
/ iDish
that
And
John Highlanclman.
&c.
three to our
wish,
it
was
called,
O GIN
CCCCIX.
367
And
loish,
John Highlandman.
&c.
twa to me.
John Highlandman.
And
three to our
wish, &c.
And
ivish,
Upon comparing
this song,
John Higlilandman.
&C.
hand-writing,
the
of his own.
ccccx.
GEE,
is
un-
is
Tea-Table Miscel-
The song
It appears
therefore
was
The
in the
it is
The
tune
" Merry may the Maid be that marries the Miller." See
the Museum, vol. ii. song 123.
In Ritson's Scottish Songs,
the words are set to a still more modern and a very indifferent air. In Gow's Fifth Collection of Reels and Strathspeys,
page 32, is an air called " My Wife she's taen the Gee," said
to be old, and communicated by the late Alexander Gibson
Hunter, of Blackness, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh.
The
first strain
fits
368
ccrcx.
song,
and
it
gee.
The
by a Field
to the Editor,
Officer of the
Bombay
establishment.
great severity.
little
ensuing-
With
natal day.
of their economy,
the fruits
they were
and
after their
Christmas dinner, the glass, the toast, and the song, went
cheerfully round.
called
upon
One of
for a song,
the Gee."
inquired at the
officer
My
as usual,
"They
and sung
when
" Did you understand the import of any of them ?" Only
(This is the
one. Sire, and it was all in praise of Ghee."
made
from
buffalo-milk,
and greatly
name of a clarified oil,
" Have they ever had any gliee
relished by the Asiatics.)
to their rice
?''''
asked Tippoo.
officer.
suitable allowance of
it
daily."
let
riod until they obtained their liberty, these officers were re-
ccccxi.
TAM
This romantic
maidens
a"*
"
is
LIN.
of unquestionable antiquity.
It
memory.
The
in
tale
is
mentioned
Vedder-
Andrews
in
TAM
CCCCXI,
The
1549.
to
air,
369
LIN.
Tam
Lin,
The
is
ballad
Christmas or Yule
likewise quoted in a
is
set to music,
" Set
quet.
Peables,
1.
I.
in II 1 1 partes
S.
is
at present
The soprano
Edinburgh.
to the
Dr Duncan,
The
junior.
reader
"
medley.
saw three
is
ladies fair
Be
And
W.
Scott, in his
Tam Lin
seems to have been frequently parodied as a burlesque ballad, beginning " Tom o' the Lin was a Scotsman born," is
still
well
known
it
alluded to in ano-
John Graham
fragment of
this
ballad,
under the
is
title
of " Kerton
in Herd's Collection,
It
570
TAM
CCCCXI.
LIN.
fast as she
can gang.
*'
the tree
" Yes,
And
?"
Thomas,
Kertonha'
I will
is
The
near Selkirk.
Museum,
ballad in the
communicated by Burns,
W.
Sir
Scott,
in his
own hand-
as well as the
in the Tales
Minstrels^/
of
the
of Wonder.
Border, has
under the
title
of "
;" to
Many
pular superstition.
by
The
of a modern hand.
which he
fairies
of po-
W.
Scott's
language
itself
work
the writer.
The
Carterhaugh
shire.
is
Tarn Lin
is
laid in Selkirk-
" The
rings,
in
his disenchantment
ing to their
mode of
spots, accord-
never grow.
Cross) where
fair
is
said to
Duke
train,
of Buccleuch's seat
Min-
371
CCCCXII.
The
Burns
sist
HERE'S A
words and
The words
con-
Burns
The tune
himself.
more than
it
should have
and Johnson,
is
to
mend
by-
first strain
the matter,
annexed.
'^|z^^i=:_^:5_=:!!=:5=^_=:i_ = L_^=_.^^:
^_4_J
i_.
^.-i ^-i_,
jU_-L_t,
Here's a health
to
him
that's a -
^^^
sli^^
k^,
t-L
0V-!f=F=Fr=TF==FFT=?-?'F^
/ J#T^
SES
tiI-
him
that's
a-
f"-
yestreen.
^
But durst nae a - bide
till
day.
it
*3;
dry ?
^i^
wha
~J
win-iia drink
!t
dry ?
Wba
l=B=H
wio-na driuk
to the
i^^^^E!
here's a health to
372 ccccxri.
;!;
;
zl
*"i*:ry:z*t:
nane
Is
o'
our com
pa
ny.
fe
S=E
5-:
let
O let
Wha
Can
ne'er be the
man
for
me.
>
Burns
left
Here's a health
to
them
awa.
that's
It's
gude
gude
gude
And
to be
to be honest
abide
blue.
o'
the clan,
May
May
May
liberty
And wander
their
way
to the devil
here's a
ccCcxii.
Here's
wad
wad
read.
write
o'
snaw.
ccccxiii.
auld langsyne.
Burns communicated this old fragment,
fourth verses written by
Museum.
letter
to
" Apropos
is
not the
give
will
am an
my
is
an
soul.
I shall
in the
Museum,
fragment
vol. v.)
of the heaven-inspired
There
is
poet
who composed
more of the
fire
this glorious
of native genius in
Scotch
There
You know
altera-
work.
tions, in that
December,
the
am on my
it
Now
* Lord
Thomas
Erskine.
f M'Leod
of that
ilk.
374
" The
called
was
AULD langsyne.
CCeCXIII
own.
his
In the Reliques, published by Cromek, Burns has the fol" Ramsay, as usual with him, has taken
lowing remark
be seen
in the
Museum,
vol. v."
And,
am done
Auld,
Langsyne.
The
may
Mr Thom-
in a letter to
air is
but mediocre
but
the following song, the old song of the olden times, and
it
in print, nor
down from an
observes, that
is
enough
Auld Langsyne
Go
are
pubhc
fetch
Lass of Inverness"
all
known
tome aPint
o""
Wine
to re-
The
He
lovely
admitted
and a gude
willie-
waught.
Those two introduced by Burns, have only relation to the innocent amusements of youth, contrasted with
the cares and troubles of maturer age.
Burns brushed up
many
several of
them
ren-
Ramsay
must be
regretted,
little
of the
ori-
Many
critic."
Histori-
With
in Johnson's
Museum,
it is
375
and
the
old tune
ar-
ranged to an
air
Mr
Garden
and
oioe
in
1 783.
It
is
movement of
the last
that overture,
substituted for
is
Mr
drone.
for note,
" The
Miller's
the
Gow
No
394,
as slightly altered
by
and gave
i.
it
also introduced
name of "
the
Sir Alex-
Baronet of Newton-don,
As
The
called
Daughter ;" but the strathspey itself is moLowland melody of " I fee'd a Lad at Michael-
musical
it is
air,
late
of "
title
Wedding."
mas."
for the
which the
in
in the
violin-player,
county of Roxburgh,
art.
An old
Tune
"
I fee'd a lad at
:i<-r
$:x:
i ^:
Should
BURNS.
Michaelmas."
z
auld acquaintance be forgot.
And
ne-ver brought to
^_^
\^^
1=^:^
;=i::::s:
e5e;
mind? Should auld acquaintance be
forgot.
And
Efe|E;gS^^E;|^feEE
2 E
days
o'
lang-
376
CCCt'XIII,
AULD
LAlilGSYNE.
Sl^Sli^ii^^-l=i
For auld langsyne,
syne.
^E5
my
dear.
1
fc=i2=^
tak a cup
o'
1^=^^^
kindness yet. For auld langsyne.
m i
-^
(EE
For
auld,
4*c.
ive've ivandei-'d
mony a
tueary foot
For
We twa
auld,
i^c.
But
For
auld,
&jc.
frere.
by
Mr William
glee,
for
Knyvett, of London.
ccccxiv.
LOUIS,
Burns,
He
WHAT RECK
likewise
commvmicated the
BY THEE ?
" These words are mine."
/^
This
are adapted.
praise of his
is
BY THEE
377
HAD
This
humour of
Museum, until
Burns pruned it of some of its luxuriances. The old verses
omitted are perhaps still too well known.
The tune was oriold song partook too freely of the broad
" Come
ginally called
in
its
kiss wi'
first.
second strain
added
is
wi'
me," and
The
The
See Notes on
Song No
in Oswald's Caledonian
it
as
351.
there entitled
is
ccccxvi.
The
Burns
this
The
tune
is
said to
entitled
be very
It
is
an
old.
CCCCXVII.
Miller's Daughter."
is
taken from
called
" The
The
this song,
Set.
body meet a body," are parodied from the first set, which was
it was copied into the
Museum.
Mr
music-seller, for-
the
new words.
little,
and published
it
with
378
CCCCXIX.
There
and
" apparently
is
as ancient
as the
is
The words
Reliques-
daughters.""
of the
Marion,
but
it
is
owing
sung
Mr
in the North.
is
to their
uniformly
was
it
original tune.
its
ed the ballad
know
did not
first
ap-
Songs
but, as he
in his work.
by
his
three daughters.
John,
Eai'l
Lord Forbes.
to
I.
Lady
of Athol.
III.
II.
Lady
1568
who
John,
to
whom
thirdti/.
The
first
who
created
till
for
the
is
Museum
evi-
or in
verses of the ballad for want of room, but the reader will find
the whole of
it
ccccxx.
known
beautiful song
The
is
A'
THE PLAIN.
air, entitled
'<
The
Carlin
o'
the Glen."
and
well
3T9
CCCCXXI.
entitled
wards reprinted
in his Reliques,
It
to the air
was
after-
by Cromek.
'
welcome home
but
;'
Mr
Mr
Mr
at the close
of
him by
the bard.
CCCCXXII.
bagatelle
Clarke tho.ught
it
is
coecxxiii.
fine old
humorous
ballad,
there liv'd a
and printed
in his Collection.
Johnson by the
to
late
Mr
this ballad
on sending the
lowing note "
air to
Sir,
by
Mr
after
The above
It
in
be arranged, wrote
R. Macintosh.
by many.
it
The
is
is
Mr James Johnson,
Mr Clarke the fol-
down
J. J."
CCCCXXIV,
THE ROWIN'T
This
IN
HER APRON.
" Our young
and transmitted
its
in his
own
lady's a
by Burns,
380
CCCCXXIV.
Museum.
bright.
stewartry of Kirkcud-
its
ccccxxv.
'
deen.
1st
Set.
It is a
may
Mr Ewen
This
seum.
lucJc
about the
house.''''
of Aber-
affection
ming-
It is nearly
life.
Reliques.
The
first
Weel may
air,
No 425,
Mu-
all
the rest
from the tune of " There's nae Luck about the House."
The
ccccxxvi.
air to the
who wrote
of the music
*'
2d Set.
desire of
Mr
You must
is
who
CCCCXXVII.
3d Set.
Mr
William
Kny vett
very popular.
CCCCXXVIII.
ii.
p. 93.
381
CCCCXXIX.
This song
1724, where
tial letter
of
is
it is
its
when he was a
letter
M,
which
the ini-
is
Mr Home.
The
strain
The
verses
Maid's Complaint,"
in the fourth
The
p. 40.
were improved by
Mr
last
Stephen
Museum
lished in the
Orpheus Caledonius,
to the air of
" Pinkie
House."
ccccxxx.
is
gat ye
a production of Burns'.
lively air,
Ecclefechan
is
a well-known village in
Dum-
fries- shire.
ccccxxxi.
THE COUPER
This humorous
behind the door,"
it
O'
CUDDY.
;;,
is
He directs
the Bouster.''
tune
is
to
At
" Bab
at
its wit, it
any bard.
CCCCXXXII.
Wha
is
that at
in his
382
ccccxxxii.
lany, 1724.
It
gument,'" and
is
is
there entitled
to the days of
Museum.
CCCGXXXIII.
THE MALTMAN.
This
It possesses un-
is
The
ccccxxxiv.
LEEZIE LINDSAY.
This beautiful old air was communicated by Burns.
stanza to which it is adapted, beginning " Will ye go
The
to the
in-
memorandum,
written
"
Mr
when he composed
No
456.
See Notes on
Son^
say^ however,
Songs, vol,
ii.
ccccxxxv.
The
genuine
in Crockat's
FIRE.
Museum
likewise appears
in 1709,
under
of "
The old Wife beyond tlie Fire." It would therefore seem, as if Ramsay had softened down an older and less
Scotified song, preserving as much of the spirit and broad
humour of the original as might appear consistent with the
the
title
manners and
taste
lived.
His bio-
Ram-
CCCCXXXV.
say
to
383
shew
that
it
letter Q,
was an old song with additions. The tune,
of " Set the old Wife beyond the Fire," was
under the
title
printed in
The
ning "
whole of
SOMEBODY.
0'
Museum,
My heart is
darna
sair, I
first,
title
to the manuscript
which are
and
to the
also
To
begin-
tell,"
this w^ork.
song,
refers
Burns, in a note
Johnson
for
the
music.
in the
The
little
merit.
The
of the key.
first.
It
is
adapted to a
second strain
is
much
Ramsay,
four, in place of
ccccxxxvii.
THE CARDIN
These
verses, beginning
"
O'T.
I coft
a stane
o'
haslock woo',"
The words
is
at pre-
CCCCXXXVIII.
THE SOUTERS
SELKIRK.
" Essay on Scottish Music,''
the fragment of this old song, beginning " Up
Mr Tytler,
alluding to
is
O'
in his ingenious
Previous
army
in
reward of
his
thk
ccccxxxviii,
384-
,souters
o'
Selkirk.
loyalty,
prince.
off.
They
A few who
Lady wood
edge, the wife of one of their brethren lying dead, and her
Thence the town of Selkirk obtained for their arms, a woman sitting upon a sarcophagus,
holding a child in her arms ; in the back ground a wood
child sucking her breast.
amount
That
It
incredible.
makers
souters of Selkirk
is
men,
should, in 1513,
a circumstance
vitterly
He
present."
is
in Scotland could
when
period
the
to fourscore fighting
Dr John-
son was told at Aberdeen, that the people learned the art of
making shoes from Cromwelfs soldiers ; that tall boys run
without shoes in the streets
"
feet.
Away
fii'st
The
Souters of SelMrTc T
It
is
men of
In other respects
torious
Ritson.
and valuable.
more prone
traditions than
had no shoes
to believe in
make them and that all Scotland could scarcely have mustered an army of eiwlity shoemakers at the battle of Flodden.
;
short,
o'
385
SELKIRK.
same Ught as
did to another
it
EngUshman, who
expresses his
And
hills,
North
to be deceived
chai-acter
Sober
reflection
tined to inhabit.
it is
des-
mankind, wherever
to
Amongst
all
Nor was
it
body from
Scotland an excep-
On
the con-
skill
manufacturers of shoes,
who
bark lether, and makes shoone otherwaies than the law permittes
that
is
to say, of lether
Air,
c.
22.
quhere the
They make
is
home and
the eare
barked (tanned)."
Chalmerlan
fell
at Flodden, cordoners
craft as
come
(i. e.
shoemakers)
to the
weekly markets.
CCCCXXXVIII.THE SOUTERS
386
and made
leather)
were prohibited
ment held
Now,
among
by
to be exported
in the reign of
Away,
59.
c,
made long
before Cromwell
CromwelPs
tanned
(i. e.
James VI,
all
SELKIRK.
Barked hides
lazv.
was born.
first
are
sJioes,
o'*
make
soldiers
It
shoes.
in a royal Scottish
burgh on
That eighty
song.
making shoes
is
for
indeed
may be
of the incorporation
who
This appellation
sion.
are actually
is
mean
The
members
shoemakers by profesthose
and
it
Some
ticket
and useful
his lips,
fraternit3^
number.
That the once populous and important royal burgh of Selkirk was pillaged and laid waste by the English, in revenge
of the signal bravery displayed by its " Souters"" in battle ;
and that James V. the succeeding monarch,
titude for their loyalty
for the sufferings of
its
his compassion
;
fire,
had
&c. he
it
of
new
and
prince,
to be
"
SELKIUK.
387
On
same
o'
the 20th of
done to ws be owre
lovittis,
and
Selkirk,
ten-
and
common
teil
ane thousand
yeirlie
samyn
of the
thairto,
and defence
and otherwayis
be
callit, accusit,
againis
And
ws and of
in the contrair in
quhilkis
thame
in
owre
thir
time cuming,
maid or
to
be
letters
With
awne gudis, or
to
ony wise
actis or statutis
power
set
nocht
sail
to
and bigging
lieges repairand
maid
what part
With
free ishe
and
and with
entrie,
richtis pertinentis
may
quietlie, wele,
and
ing whatsumever.
in peace,
frelie,
signet,
and
call-
subscrivit
God
ane thousand
five
by
yeir."
Here
six yeris
follows ano-
"
We,
understanding that
thairof, continualie
sen the Field of Flodoune has been oppressit, heriit and owre
traitors,
thai
CCCCXXXVllL THE
388
dewties
Thaibfor, and
SOUTEllS
o''
SELKlfiX.
and
feist
fair
cum aftere
of the sammyn
To
fair is usit
lie
quietlie, wele,
and
in pece,
effeiris,
yeir-
frelie,
obstakill,
im-
Subscrivit with
or exercit be
payand
to
als frelie in
and
day, begynand at
Lady next
of owre
heirof,
God
ane thousand
five
three yeir."
The Royal
and
ratifying
them
in the
most
full
is
is
pre-
duct at Flodden,
This
Brydon, a
alive,
by
name appears
in possession of the
descendant,
day of riding
field
Thus every
by
is
still
its
antiquity,
their
common,
by a member of
still
John
That the
by many deeds
as a notary-public.
and
A standard,
is still
fact is ascertained
Avhich
of Flodden.
it
was
This the
direct evidence.
which
is
inserted
o'
389
sklkirk.
Up
battle of
Home
long after
lies
of
Hume
the Earl of
and
but that
Hume
Hume,
at
a match of football,
in
it
fami-
men
The
Middlestead,
and a
Mr
who was
faithful
late
have lived
all
says,
my
"
was
days within
this
is
every
and
and Lord
Hume
At election dinners, &c. when the Selkirk folks begin to get fou (merry), they always call for music, and for that tune in particular.
At such times I never
heard a Souter hint at the football, but many times speak of
upon
that occasion.
Neither
to
vol.
p. 118.
Mr
Robertson nor
Mr
lines
of
on the
subject.
The
lated
its
compass
390
THE SOUTERS
CCCCXXXVIII.
THE SOUTERS
0'
o'
SELKIRK.
SELKIRK.
Lively.
^
Up
E5E
wi' the Souters
o'
Selkirk,
wi'
Lord
m.
Hume, But up
SE
the fazart
i:d?i
/
single-soal'd
--
/^a-
shoon;
^E
f33E^
E^^E^
trt
\
And up
l-
~^
deil
:^=ff
scoup
o'
Hume and
g
fee
stude sae abiegh on the
ne'er to the
l^l^ig
E3
That
field.
II.
aiid leU
his menzie.
i
That
391
ccccxxxtx.
There
is
a very old
set
of "
title
Antiqua,
vol.
The
p. 175.
ii.
tune
Musica
annexed.
is
A SCOTTISH MARCH.
1678.
4^t5-B^^^^^^^^
^^i^a^i^^S
P^^^f^ii^g^
^^-p-pif-JiSyjg^
Ramsay wrote new words
to the
same
air,
beginning " I
Tea-Table Miscellany
in
1724.
Mr
in the
Alexander Ross,
county of
for-
Forfar, like-
wise wrote a song on the old model, beginning " There was
tow,"" in
own
The
whole of
although
find
it
Mr
it is
by
annexed
Shepherdess,"
in the
reader
to peruse the
first
Museum
be inserted
to his beautiful
in this
work,
will
The
verses
it is
be-
1776.
392
CCCCXL.
TIBBIE
FOWLER
O'
THE GLEN.
Although
was inserted
An
Museum.
in the
in print
till
it
it is
in
not in his
best style.
entitled
Fye upon
There's o'er
mony wooing
at her
Aberdeen ;
There's seven and forty wooing at
Fifteen
Fye upon
came
frae
nonsense.
It
is
really too
bad
man
her.
to disfigure
Cromek,
*'
in his
this curious
song
;"
many
tells us,
variations of
his readers
among
be modern, and
of the original.
own
secret
he presents
will at
totally destitute
But any
person,
of the exquisite
humour
for, after
Johnson's
by
Museum.
co-
from
393
CCCCXLI.
SING.
all,"
" Blest
late
Mr
Mr
" The words and music of this song are by Mr Allan MasYou must get the rest of the words from him."
terton.
Johnson did
so.
CCCCXLII.
Tunes,
p. 18.
title
the
is
fifth
The
day
is
book of
his
in
yon Glen,"
Its
in
p.
now
the
by Burns
be discovered.
Museum.
in the
it
The word^'
in
is
air,
my
thing,
in
May
ticle,
seum
1791.
Mr
at
Edinburgh
this ar-
adapted in the
Mu-
39i
CCCCXLIV.
The
The
Mr
late
Urbani of
has
this
runs
It
And aye
Hee O ! wee O !
What unU I do wi' you,
S^c.
CCCCXLV.
ballad, beginning
originally
composed by
" In
lovely
Mr Thomas
August
was
last,""
D'Urfey, in imitation
of,
it
printed in
Henry
Mirth" in 1698.
Table Miscellany
Playford's
first
It was again
volume of " Wit and
it
in his
Tea-
some words
in
the original
less
dialect,
seems
nei-
At
the
up the
than
song, of which
three
first
stanzas
With regard
air
CCCCXLV.
it is
395
to the tune, to
ginaJly adapted,
origi-
in Albyn's
of " Jock of
title
As
may
the
they are
stanza of their
first
respective verses.
<=
in
yon
And
?
they luv'd
dale.
ther
^m
m&
m*
nzfc
Ji-:
^r-E=fT=rt^i^
-e^
(__1
#
1,
fill.
Ti
tf
Of
'
i-
sae
seems to me.
it
Gar
g-T-^tr|--^-|-:r4-f^--f7f-(^r-iYF^^
I.
^
-g-
IT
Gar
build
l:.
_J
it
^m
spec - di -
lie.
396
IN JANUARY LAST,
^^
m
In Ja-nu-a--i-y
on
last^
Munnonday
%
a - long the
did pass.
fields
^E HiZS.
3=13
a
leaked
me
^^S
It
be - hind, and I
diz
Yan
-tLlt P
sefl-.
:^;
^-*^--e
To
EE
^F^
'^^
T-n-rll
I
morn. As
at
^dilj.
1676, rcjjrinted in
Jzz^d^^^
;^-p-:g--p M&
az:
The
the Scots
and
several others.
CCCCXLVI.
O WALY, WALY!
This
is
merely the
first
WALY
O WALY,
CCCCXLVI
397
original
Mr
Clarke,
it is
and much
right
to the
" If you
my
I took
opinion.
it
it down at
now stands ;
CCCCXLVII.
Respecting
Waterfall.
Mr
this tune.
her's shall
have merit
letter to
all.
have
On
this
Museum, and
as that publication
is
work."
young
lad}"^
ballad,
amour of Charles
II. with a
in the time
of the usurpation.
It begins
There was
There was a
lass
blyther lass
The
lass that
made
the bed to
me
399 CCCCXLVIII.
The
lass that
made
fair
was
she.
&c.
title
first edition,
ii.
London 1700
Had
ine.
BED.
&c.
&c.
of "
The
Wit and
is
its
it is
inadmissible,
first
draught of the
amended
his letter
in
The
subsequent edition.
in a
is
corrections of the
Whan
And
Her
father's
me
invite.
humble cot
to share.
finer
Than
her's that
made
Upon
Of her
that
made
this
following version of
and
bard.
Of
one of those
he says might be
to Johnson,
it
the bonnie lass that made the bed. 899
rcccxi.viir.
I clasp 'd
The
The
The
ancient.
musical
well-known
Museum
air, to
air
reader
first
is
are adapted,
reputed to be very
observe a remarkable
will
They may
possibly be
CCCCXLIX.
Collection,
Bridge."
The
under the
of "Dalkeith Maiden
title
sense.
is
at
In place of
'*
first
stanza,
tune and
title
The
Hallow Fair
ter
Sacrament
is
volume of his
it
after the
Collection, in 1776.
in
November.
The
verses in the
Museum
400
CCCCLI.
vii,
6.
CCCCLII,
I'LL
This
My
him on a
antiquity.
In
I.
during the
talents,
latter
and
fidelity
period of his
Colonel Strachan, an
officer
of the
Macleod of Assint
estate of
demned
to death
ledged Charles as their lawful king, and under whose commission and orders he had acted.
mark of
in-
and revenge that the malice and cruelty of his enemies could suggest, on the 21st May 1650.
The verses in the Museum, though abundantly long for
dignity
son''s
Book
iii.
printed at Edinburgh
The words
in the
bal-
whole of it in Wat-
to, in
in
1711,
1776.
of Chevy Chace."
CCCCLIII.
Mr Ritson
SHILLINGS,
is
" The Maiden's sad Comto the new west country tune,
plaint for
or,
want
of
Hogh, when
a Husband
shall I
be married
By
L.
W. ;"
the
first,
CCCCLIII.
all)
401
are either taken from, or have given rise to, the present
song.
To
Mr
Ritson
WHEN
shall I
Hogh,
be married ?
My
be married,
Hogh, somebody,
it is quite gone away.
Before
good
shUlings,
shillings.
And
My
My mother
Hogh, a
And
My
she gave
me
a ladle,
ladle.
lies
by
Hogh, a cradle.
any man with
When
me
does
lie.
of the
lines
Ritson would appear to have been originally of Scottish origin, for the
is
word
in Scotland
known
die
is
in Scotland,
it
well
is
this diligent
antiquarian.
CCCCLIV.
The
words of
this
E'EN.
776.
Johnson, the publisher of the Museum, after several unavailing researches, was at length informed, that an old
the
name of Geikie, a
man
of
was uncommonly
fine.
Mr
402
-OUR
CCCCLIV.
They
merry
soon
i:''S'S.
Museum,
in
down
it
Mr
Mr
Clarke
the notes,
first
for
ap-
Mr
Johnson,
informs me, that Geikie died about four days after the tune
own
Collec-
but he could not discover the music when that work was
printed in 1794.
CCCCLV.
JOHN MALCOLM.
SIR
This
*'
curious, ironical,
1751.
It also appears in
tune
to
It
is
weel
is
be found
in Aird's Collection,
my
auld Wife."
No
and
The
several others.
called
"
fare
ye
The
song
is
ronet of Lochoro
and
his friend
Mr
began to
circulate.
CCCCLVI.
MY BONNY LIZAE
This
BAILLIE.
Museum.
" Lizae Baillie's to Gartantan gane
To see her sister Jean,
And there she's met wi' Duncan Graeme,
And he's convoy 'd her hame."
The charming
Burns.
genuine original
It is the
air
Museum.
Many
other
original words,
still
down from
Several
fine
Wap
Collections
was
**
feetie
the
ginning "
o't," inserted in
by
Mr
And now
The Female
called
*'
am
once more
opera of
don 1730.
CCCCLVIII.
I'LL
This
in
AY
BY YON TOWN.
"
CA' IN
O watye wha's
for the
Museum,
They
Mrs Burns.
to
in
first
I'll
O, never
The
a'
my
life
to
yon town,
again
yon town
I'll
To
of "
title
in Aird's First
Book
Town."
air
This
I'll
it is
called
to
yon
variational
"
404
in a Violin Concerto,
composed by the
bilini,
Mr
by
Girolamo Sta-
been arranged as a
It has likewise
plause.
late
at
Butler,
and
several other
mu-
sicians.
CCCCLIX.
The words
At
?"
"
says,
You will find this tune in Neil Gow's, and several other
The bard alludes to Gow's Second Collection of
Collections.
BLUE BONNETS,
This
Mrs
title
and Oswald's
As
It
is
modern part of
1
Macgibbon
also printed in
Collections.
the
first
you
Let
In any future
this
song follow,
'
edition of the
Museum,
the
title
by Burns
the present
title
Wherefore
?'
to the tune of
of the song
Celestial,''
ei-
CCCCLXI.
CCCCLXI.
per'd in parlour,
gant original
it's
405
little air
ele-
Museum.
This song
is
to
be found in no other
work.
CCCCLXII.
by Burns
cated
at cards
Museum.
The chasm
up,
by
As
be
babie.
to
has printed
it belozv.
is,
to
hush or sing
sense,
corrected.
CCCCLXIII.
SIT
DOWN.
The
He
likewise for
many
iii.
p, 193.
CCCCLXIV.
is
The
evidently
Andro and
his
Burns'
4oa
CCCCLXV.
SAYS I MANNA.
taken from Oswald's Caledonian Pocket
MY MINNIE
This
air is
panion, where
says I
maun
it is
Dr Pepush
not."
The
tost."
Mother
like
to the
My
Com-
title
of "
in
The words
in the
Museum
is
it.
The
air,
verses.
CCCCLXVI.
"
The Banks of
SLAE.
Helicon.''''
it is
inserted in the
Banna-
some of
his verses,
published by
its
and
work
title
of
Most of his
poetical
There
is,
likewise, a manuscript
volume of
his
poems
in the
The
tish
ingenious
Mr Tytler,
in his
CCCCLXVI
as a
poem of
407
Sir
is
he continues,
to such popular
words ; but
it
is
now
Mr
'
It cannot
lost.
and the
Lau-
The Banks
of Helicon,"
sung
'*
The
know of no
Cherrie
air at this
it."
to be lost, for
it is
In
Psalms of David,
Blackball,
in the College
transcribed between the years 1560 and 1566 (as is instructed by another volume of the same work, belonging to Mr
About
is
Blakehall
;"
and
title
of
in another
same
title.
for his
name
is
alluded
He
to.
Mussleburgh."
self
Gude
is
The
transcriber,
" About
of Ancrum,
Leyden.
to the
Roxburghshire,
A printed
styles
him-
Thomas Wode,
is
preserved in a manuscript
Rev,
Mr
Cranstoun, minister
and afterwards
to
Dr John
of Scottish Poetry,
2 a
408
CCCCLXVI.
printed copies agree with the old manuscript almost note for
museum
The reader
communication.
in
and crotchets
is
that
is
modern
handed down by
but crotchets
in the manuscript,
minums
for
TPIE
BANKS OF HELICON.
From
schein
^t
Or
if
the
MS.
la-dies that
Ee~
Eg
r
:=i
brim. So scimlie
in 1566.
Aver,
or
yet
?:
^m
so suave,
So beau- ti-
ful
or
^^^^^^
CCCCLXVI.
409
St
P=*
(
trim.
^&
^^^m
- -
ti~-^-^
bo -
ny, sa
^^jljjl
nie,
Amang you
ai
p
Gif
port,
did resort.
\-u^fW^
And
Her persone
so perfyte.
all thair
race.
Collection,
in
is
pre-
Cam-
vol.
iii.
185
p.
et seq.
CCCCLXVII.
AS
The
written
first
is
old,
it
it
with
410 CCCCLXVII.
AS
CAME
The words
or alterations.
o'eR
page 12th,
i,
entitled
Museum,
also in the
original, as
in
composition
its
be
air,
Our
my
it is
an excellent, but
Cairney mount,
the blooming heather, &c.
different
this
be Ramsay's
bonnie High-
It begins.
licentious, song.
As
This
'
somewhat
to
which I take
vol. v.
to
sets.''''
Highland Laddie,
is
printed in
The Orpheus
and
is
Caledonius,
been mentioned
1725.
The
to
now annexed.
O MY
j^
bon-nic
bon-nie
W*^
'*'5~'~'8
High-land lad-die,
,0 my
^m
3EX*
^f^
^^
He row'd me
die.
x=:5
in his
?
Highland
sick,
plaidy,
^=PS^^
^sa
and
like to
AS
CCCCLXVII.
The
wr
verses
tten
in the first
" As
came
o'er the
This
song,
some Jacobite
i'rom
Avith the
annexed
verses, entitled
The
will at
once dis-
LASSIE.
(a dialogue.)
Tune."
The
And
a'
the
hills wi'
Charles resound,
Bonnie Lawland
Glory, honour,
now
lassie.
invite,
With
that
much
I too,
Bonnie
laddie.
Highland
laddie.
so freely part,
Bonnie Highland
laddie.
3.
No
When
prevail,
Though
this conflict in
Bonnie
Tells
me
me
lassie,
love too
my
soul,
Lawland
much
Bonnie Lawland
lassie,
does rule,
lassie.
412
Ah
dull pretence
Than
4.
see
And
leave
me
Bonnie
Of Whiggs
to
mock
Highland
laddie,
Bonnie Highland
laddie.
5.
Tho', Jenny, I
Bonnie
I never will
my leave maun
lassie,
my
Lawland
take,
lassie,
love forsake,
6.
to
my
smart,
Highland laddie.
To one more fair ye'll give your heart,
Bonnie Highland laddie ;
Bonnie
And what
still
laddie.
gives
me
greater pain,
Highland
Death may for ever you detain,
Bonnie Highland laddie.
Bonnie
laddie.
laddie.
7.
None
have a share,
shall take,
Wou'd make
CCCCLXVIII.
413
And when
victorious,
you
shall find,
Highland laddie,
Jenny constant to your mind,
Bonnie Highland laddie.
Bonnie
laddie,
ME
FAIR PLAY."
1.
If thou'lt play
me
fair play,
For
a'
laddie,
Bonnie
laddie.
Highland la ddie,
Geordie's louts,
The time
shall
Bonnie
They
I'd
come when
laddie.
will repent,
and we
rejoice,
spring,
'
414
CCCCLXVIII.
But
The
I'd
air to
It appears without
spirited.
i.
is
very
air called
is
it
first edition, in
The
Jacobites,
printed in Playford's
1657.
airs as
of the public.
it
this tune,
says,
Museum, vol. v.
One of these old
"
is
a-
the
songs
a'
day,
CCCCLXIX.
The
verses are
Indeed,
it
to be
an old Highland
be a doubt as
to the locality
of
tlie air.
415
CCCCLXX.
spey, called
N. B.
It is
sons: is to
The
be
only the
first
set."
Souter
Daughter
of Reels, in 1764.
Collection,
Burns, in a note
Souter's Daughter."
words says,
to the
annexed
and
is
Gow
and Son's
in several others.
CCCCLXXI.
to
written
by Burns
for the
Museum.
verses, written
of those
times.
CHORUS.
You're welcome, Charlie Steivart,
You're welcome, Charlie Stewart,
Had
I'd
You're welcome,
S^c.
is
me
Which saddens
for thy
mischance
You're luelcome,
S^c.
<Sfc.
spirit
416
To
Thou charming
You
re welcome,
Sjc.
S^c.
To
You're welcome,
When
e'er I take
S^c.
a glass of wine,
But
To
health to
him that
will
combine
You're welcome,
<Sfc.
enthrall
all.
Who
will
You're welcome,
<Sfc.
CCCCLXXII.
The
Cromek,
is
air,
were com-
bard's original
in his
"
i.
it
to his readers
p. 73,
has
Museum
CCCCLXXII.
was the
Michaelmas moon.
first
Cattle-stealing formerly
it
417
many
and
north can trace their descent from the daring sons of the
The produce
mountains.
daughter) of a Michaelmas-moon
is
proverbial
and, by the
Nay,
to this
day a High-
deem it a very
phrase) a sheep now and then.
is
great crime to
lift
(such
is
the
sery song.
of the
may read
It
is
my
Hee, balow,
Wha
got
Islands.'*
my young
Highland
thief.
cragie.
An
CCCCLXXIII.
title
of
Burns.
It
is,
The version in
however, almost
Fyn M'Coule.
by Bellendyne
is
:
Kyng Eugenius,
fiith
century)
anc
in thir
days
man ofhugesta-
418
CCCCLXXIII.
He
amang
ar mcmy vulgarfahyllis
byUis that ar rehersit of
dedis
is
nathyng
quhom
Kyng Aethuee.
But becaus
his
remanent
gestis
of
Kyng
EUGENIUS."
Bishop Lesley's account (anno 1570)
" Multorum
is
in these
Finnanum quondam,
Fyn-Mac-Coul dictum, ingentis
opinio est,
nostra lingua
words
Coeli filium,
magnitudinis
It
is
David Lindsay's
in-
dity.
The
following verse of
Coule,
it is
said
it
may
suffice.
Of Fyn Mac-
He
of the "
lad of
Row," which
Pills,"
1712,
in
Auld King
first
is
of
clippis.
Coul.
CCCCLXXIV.
song, beginning
"
A laddie and
lassie
dwelt
lively air to
to
Mr
in
The
humour and
spirit.
who sung
419
CCCCLXXV.
BANNOCKS
This
O'
BEAR-MEAL.
fine old
A lad
and a
The
Killogie
lassie lay in
;"
a Killo-
may be
liques.
seen in the
Another song
first
to
possesses
seum
title
little
is still
merit.
in
sung, but
in the
Mur-
new words.
" Nithsdale and Galloway
Cromek,
in his
following remark
is
was
It
air.
" In
Museum
many
One
this song.
fine
The
editor
(Cromek) has
Here they
And
Wha
are
collected the
he believes
is
songs shorn of
their very best verses for fear they should exceed the
of a page.
there
will
bounds
two
last
complete the
blasted fairly.
who
the old songs for that work, had only looked into the
the
last,
air,
is
Mu-
repeated
BANNOCKS
CCCCLXXV.
420
O'
BEAEMEAL.
Nay
is
it
In the
is
title
of
words alluded
first
line
to.
CCCCLXXVI.
WAE
This
MY HEART.
IS
and transmitted
tune
is
The
adapted.
to
it,
by
Museum,
alongst with
himself, to
which the
CCCCLXXVII.
dern Songs,
vol.
of Playford's
in which,
ii.
Edinburgh, 1776.
Wit and
ballad, beginning
Mirth,
first edition, in
1702, there
is
silly
inci-
is
Mo-
way,
he was young,
Sir,
fair
Sir.
For
instance,
CCCCLXXVII. THEKE WAS A SILLY SHEPHERD SWAIN.
421
And
If
As you go by
If
you
You
The English
the
will not
fair
hill. Sir,
ballad
is
will. Sir.
cal-
Boyne Water."
led
CCCCLXXVIII.
The
jo," are
ed
in 1776.
air,
is
much
October
last,
the people
it
is
preaching on
said, that
Mr
hymns and
and
spiritual songs
My mother
sent
me
writ-
James Kirkton,
in
lignant, allowable,
same
for insertion.
fit
-profane songs,
ma-
as,
to the well
Robin
loes
o'er the
first lines
Lave
o't,"
" Kind
belong to an old
which
may be
seen
422
'
ccccLxxvm.
The
Kind Robin
loes
Hech
Heck
Hech
Kind
old words of
Robin
loes
me.
at
in 1798.
1.
Come
Who
And
all
ye souls devoid of
art.
3.
The
The
summer's
Alike to
me
shield.
field.
kingdom's mine
The
if
Robin's mine.
Edinburgh
4S3
CCCCLXXIX.
This
is
in the sixth
was printed
don 1712. It consists of six stanzas, beginning " Poor Sandy had marry 'd a wife ;" but they are not worth the transcribing.
CCCCLXXX.
HERE'S HIS HEALTH IN WATER.
This short song, of two stanzas, beginning " Although
my
a jocular allusion
the bard.
vol.
i.
CCCCLXXXI.
foolish
MILL.
air
similar double-meaning
ditties
my
Many
Jo."
occur in Playford's
Wit and
one of them.
CCCCLXXXII.
SIR PATRICK SPENS;
This
beginning "
The King
sits in
Bishop Percy, in
generations.
English Poetry,"
of
it
lad,
under the
his
many
vol.
title
Dum-
" In
2 H
424
CCCCLXXXII.
discover
yet
am
my
observation.''
Though
though
history
is
silent respecting
is
i.
it
not
is
al-
has escaped
71.
not.
was
all his
when
it
by
historians,
daughter and successor, he despatched one of his ablest seacaptains. Sir Patrick Spens, to
King
and
on
Scotland, and
all
on board perished.
I.
to
for
would, in
all probability,
by a
fall
from
it.
Sir
Maid of Norway
totally ruined
425
conse-
beneficial
"
It is
in his
History of
Barton, of
Scotland, indeed,
navy
the two
perished
first
at this period
times, dispose
whom
them
Hence the
and the
liability to
the reign of
James
shipwreck in rough
III.
Even
seas.
so late as
it
ony
the feast of Simon's and Jude's day, unto the feast of the
purification of our lady, called Candlemas,"" (that
to the
.'5.
2d of February
And
this penalty
to say,
was raised to
What
is
thereafter,)
a miser-
us, that
"
in
some
modem
copies,
name
Andrew Wood, a famous Scottish admiral, who flourished in the time of Edward IV. but whose story has nothing
in common with this ballad.
As Wood was the most noted
warrior of Scotland, it is probable that, like the Theban
instead of Sir Patrick Spens, hath been substituted the
of Sir
The copy
Museum
is
exactly the
same
which has been elegantly translated into the German language by Professor Herden, in a work entitled the " Volk
Leider.-''
vol.
i.
-iSG
CCCCLXXXIII.
lies
Ballads,
The words are adapted to the beautiful air called
" Lennox's Love to Blantyre," which is frequently played as
This tune
a dancing-tune.
"
is
air called
do."
CCCCLXXXIV,
GUDE WALLACE.
This old
ballad,
commemorating some
supposed
real or
from
The
bards
MSS,
Museum.
That
Paisley,
ballads,
cannot be doubted
lost,
though
for
some
the
Fordon's Scotichronicon,
vol.
O for my
ii.
That
page 176.
in
gude Wal-
this
hero
another*
less
The
corroborated
by a
book
Henry
the
Deeds of Wallace,
V,
Many
cient minstrel,
The
or
CCCCLXXXIV, GUDE WALLACE.
falsehood of these traditional relations in a great measure undecided.
But we have
activity of
body
and fatigue
he
not only delivered his country from the oppression and tyran-
ny of Edward
I.,
He
retaliations
on the
opportunity to de-
stroy him.
ser-
betrayed by his countryman, Sir John Menteith, and delivered into the
who
hands of the
relentless
it is
far, at least, as
Indeed,
they do not
many
other
handed down by
tradition,
and are
still
current
whom Wallace
among
the
could scarcely bo
thought to be a favourite.
CCCCLXXXV.
The
words and
air
Your
For him he
But soon
first
wad make
When
his
mane.
make ye
he did sough
wiltu, wiltu, dot again ?
And
fain.
;
428
O fy upon her!
bonny auld thing this indeed,
An't like your honour.
CCCCLXXXVI.
THE WINTER OF
LIFE.
adapted.
CCCCLXXXVII.
Thk
words of
this
The
1776.
was communicated
Mr
in
original air,
to
Mr
much
which
is real-
Clarke by a gentle-
blank
genuine
air.
Museum, but
the
the song
is
left
known
together in
to be pretty ancient.
CCCCLXXXVIII.
it
"
trose's
The
No
notice
is
only action
known
to
village in Inverness-shire,
have happened
was long
Cromdale
is
it
is
Mon-
elsewhere occur.
at
Cromdale, a
situ-
CCCCLXXXVIII.
and
Though
miles.
its
Its length is
soil
429
in general thin
and
is
somewhat
haughs,
or low grounds, on the banks of the river Spey are very fertile.
slight
first
obtained a
With
it
The
was "
title
Wat
of
it
intended
old
name of
the tune, as
it
Y'
and
it is
it
Companion.
Be-
to be be-
But
assault, the
fated
cious
and blood-thirsty
to
be pillaged by his
ill-
fero-
troops.
Montrose
ter
to retreat
to these ravages,
upwards of
to take shel-
Baillie
pushed forward
and compelled
and
sixty miles,
and Urrey
where he surprised
and routed some Highlanders under the command of Alexander M'Donald, a firm royalist, and staunch adherent of Montrose,
from
As
430
CCCCLXXXVIII.
and on the
and
Baillie,
who was a
veteran
skilful officer,
Encouraged by
vicinity of Alford.
into the
tliese
briUiant successes,
fell
These
I.,
as a
services, ap-
But
neither Charles
of these
and Montrose,
after
by Colonel Strachan
fate at
in the
it
Kilsyth,
fell
and afterwards
May
1650.
must be remembered,
where
6000
that the
sacrifice
liberties
of their
and
still
himself
For, at
first
Aberdeen
in
1640,
CCCCLXXXVIIl.
431
Kings's cavalry.
Yet, in
to,
town of Aberdeen
to destruction
and
mory
will
the
his
me-
his unfortunate
coun-
trymen.
CCCCLXXXIX.
ballad, beginning
784, and
left
I chanc'd to
vol.
meet an
ii.
It also appears in
p.
347,
Herd's
it
in
"
singer of Scottish songs, obligingly communicated the original melody, which enabled the publisher of the
Museum
present both the words and music to the public for the
to
first
The
ten
Editor
by the
is
late
Rev.
Mr
was
writ-
ccccxc.
THE TAILOR.
This
The words
for the
lection,
selected
by
Mr
The Drummer."
432
THE TAILOR.
CCCCXC.
opera of "
The Poor
Soldier,"
which was
first
acted in Co-
It begins,
doubt."
ccccxci.
exquisitely comic
'*
the fair,"
Dr Alexander
was written by
ballad, be-
bit wifeikie,
to
Geddes, a catholic
of merit.
The words
of the song are adapted to a Highland strathit is evidently mo" The Boatie rows." Dr Geddes
the old air of " Tarrie Woo," to suit the
words of
his
ccccxcii.
Z, to denote
letter
It
is
air
which
to
Museum.
Dr
Vide Song-
No
to
me,"
its
with additions.
she's
and
second volume of
163.
CCCCXCIII.
He
panion, book
title
of "
But
it
At
is
vii.
setting
it
is
inserted
Day."
composed by the
Com-
under the
late
was
to the
CCCCXCIII. COULD AUGHT OF SONG, &C.
pastoral
433
At
I'll
day and
setting
With
soul that
rising
still
his
morn.
With
^
Dr Howard's
air,
although the
Mr
Lowe,
in
latter,
in Robart's
"
Tliis
Caliope, or
vol. ii. London 1739, and again in ano" The Muse's Delight," printed at Liver-
English Harmony,"
ther work, entitled
pool in 1754.
The anonymous
editor of the
work
entitled
he was be-
loved for his private virtues, being ever ready to relieve distress, to anticipate
the
demands of
friendship,
He
and
to prevent
His ballads
own country
He
of neatness and
preferred so
much
facility to
to that of
He died at his house in Norfolk-street, in the Strand (London) on the 13th of July 1782, and was succeeded in his situation of organist of St Clement's
and that of St
Bride's
by
by
Mr Thomas
Mr Thomas
Smart,
Mus. Biog.
vol.
ii.
p. 200.
434
CCCCXCIV.
O DEAR!
The
air.
&
music-sellers,
" The
favourite duet of
is
Co.
entitled
many
Museum, and
yeajrs
is still
fa-
vourite.
ccccxcv,
The
The
of
Mr
less.
rejected
it
side,
which
will
Laggan
by
Burns wilj
answer very
know
that
'
well,
" P.
S.
When
There is a striking resemblance between this tune of " Laggan Burn" and "Lady Shaftsbury's Strathspey," composed
by Mr Nathaniel Gow, and pubUshed in his Third Collection,
page 15.
occcxcvi.
JENNY'S BAWBEE.
"
And
a'
that e^er
Ancient and
Moori-
ccccxcvi.
435
jenny's bawbee.
following humorous
pen of
leck,
verses, to the
Esq.
same
air,
do
The
credit to the
M. P.
Quo' he,
ilk
cream-fac'd
And
here they
cam awa
as the diel.
to steal
Jenny's bawbee.
The
first,
And
Quo' he, "
My
ilk ane's
He
Jenny's bawbee.
436
ccccxcvi.
jenny's bawbee.
The
fool cried,
But she
And
And
" Tehee
!"
tail.
CCCCXCVII.
IT
This
is
WAS
A'
The
adherents.
"
are
Mr Hogg
the bard.
the
many of
by
who thought
this
tain Ogilvie,
it
ccccxcvin.
am come
for the
to the
Museum,
ocJion, ochrie
Burns
Oh
unless
we except
Museum.
"
Vide Song No
likewise
first
volume of the
89-
The
bard's
own
manuscripts, both
Burns,
it is
seum.
fifth
Mr Clarke
volume of that
first
Mu-
Avork.
reflect
Duke
indis-
of Cumberland exerci-
THE HIGHLAND
CCCCXCVIII.
487
LAMENT.
WID0W**3
and
In the month of
horror.
May
the
following,
Duke
ad-
" The
of Lovat,
castles
away
rebels,
if
So
alert
man, nor
all
beast, to
was ruin,
Scotland.
silence,
The keen
and
sensibility
and
susceptible
from
King
other
It
was
and havoc.
a'
for
The
present ballad,
publication,
aster,
who has
however, like
by three
to
many
*'
The
our rightfu'
;"
"
rise
Simpsons Hist, of
desolation."
several
fact.
others of our
be disfigured since
additional verses of a
modern
its
poet-
Cromek,
of Scottish songs.
since
The
been copied by
later
pub-
nexed, to enable the reader to distinguish the old lines from the
spurious.
"
438
o'
hope
left.
to
be compared with
ccccxcix,
'
GLOOMY DECEMBER.
This charming and
I hail thee, thou
the
Museum.
for
that tune
it
far better
but, as
Museum,
of variety.
EVAN BANKS.
This
fine song,
work.
The words
by Burns
i.
for the
my
same
taken from
titled,
varied.
Evan
is
its
rise
the
"
*439
ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
PART
V.
CCCCI.
ningbam,
Inverness," which
by
Mr
Allan Cun-
in a pathetic
first
ccccix.
The
An
An
the
fire wi'
fire wi'
is,
round, &c.
Saying
(C. K. S.)
CCCCXI.
TAM
"
The name
man's Roll.
LIN.
Lynne
of Walter de
Lynnes of that ilk, a little ancient family in Cuningham, but lately extinct."
The Christian
name of Thomlyne occurs also in several old Romances.
" On the subject of such poetical names, it may be mentioned here, that Tristram was the ancient appellation of
the ancestor of the
day."
Peerage.)
*2
440 *
"
TAM
LIN.
remarkable that none of our Scotish ballads contains the names, or is founded on any incident to be met with
in the collections of Ossianic poetry, as far as I have ever
It is
is
(C. K.
MSS."
is
now
my possession,
in
Mr
antiquity than
Blackwood's
MS.
of Wood's
familiar
S.)
and
is
unques-
its
it.
The Medley
Wood
in 1566, but
S. has assigned to
airs,
by a
different
CCCCXIII.
AULD LANGSYNE.
Collection
In Watson's
Edinb. 1711.
8vo, there
is
of
Scots
poem
entitled
It
as a specimen.
It is
prob-
The
And
Is
freely past
and gone
now grown
so cold
On
Old-long-syne
reflect
*441
AULB LANGSYNE.
If e'er
That truly
And
Or ought
that's
good therein
CCCCXXV.
Burns
and
came under
His exer-
his notice,
were
as
connected with
his conduct,
and
Mr
Ewen,
who very
community.
Though
zens.
lic charities
left to
the pub-
1821, p. 620.)
442
He was
much
note as to
make
it
all
the par-
ticulars
but the following notice has been kindly communicated by James Maidment, Esq., Advocate, who was one
;
" John
Ewen was
born in Montrose
he was of humble
origin,
and
his parents
set
up a small hardware
to
1766,
Mr Ewen
deceased father-in-law.
On
(chiefly herit-
if
moveable
ef-
by Ewen's death,
that, in
his survivance,
give them
all his
issue,
In case of
he became bound to
443
foreign clime.
in
in-
This he
M'as
upon payment of
effect, and
enabled to
"
Ewen
dowing an hospital
at
and
aside
diXiA.
full report
of this lawsuit
in the
is
vol. iv. p.
346-361.
In the
are
lie, for
Mr
same lady.
and feeling of our older lyric poetry, that it
gret she had not directed herself more to
composition.
is
matter of re-
this
branch of
444 *
bonny
boat.
And to
'
Soft
His
toils
And
That
ever
may
And
they speed.
feeble age
Largo bay.
lightly
on the
tide
bears
Thro'
many
its
scaly store
a stormy gale.
CCCCXXIX.
AS SYLVIA IN A FOREST LAY.
This song,
as stated at
The following
in
Ramsay's
passages in a letter
been
first
(of Gilbertfield)
made
which
is
published in 1724.
"
in Edinburgh.
He
has
far
old.
Ramsay, again,
present.
He
aspires
Mr
at
445
snowy
His
These are
The above
is
series of original
by Malloch, addressed to Professor Ker of Aberdeen, between the years 1720 and 1727.
It is to be regretted that he has not described more particularly the various hands " that wrote these Miscellany Songs."
See
letters
page *383,
particulars of his
Mr
own
life.
cribed,
" As Sylvia
in a forest lay," to
Malloch, or Mallet,
it
one
The
seum.
it
author of
London
or
two dramatic
ticed
of his
by
Mr
life
Mu-
He was
pieces, as well as
S. at pages
had proceeded
to
54 and 59.
p. 204.
as
large 8vo.
446
The
believe,
'
Argyle's Levee'
has been often printed, and Lord Binning has been held
out to the public as
"
It is
fit
its
author.
rumour.
it
a book of poems,
who wrote
that ballad.
He
eldest son of
in the year
November 1715.
own commendation,
contains a jocular
447
position.
He
by
of Jerviswood,
It
is
his wife
Musical Museum.
it
many
-UNGRATEFUL NANNY.
As
I ungrateful
Nanny do ?
My
If
to say.
When
If
Robin
Though
I
to
in his
my
fields
If
Nanny
her two
Did not her lambs in safety sleep,
Within my folds in frost and snow ?
Have they not there from cold been free,
But Nanny still is cold to me.
I cheerfully did give
'
::
448
;;
Were
stung
I'll
Nanny
'Twas
come,
Her corn
fill
them home.
My
To Nanny's
poultry oats
gave,
If
Nanny
me
soon
If
at Naples, the
27th of December
some of
An
ccccxxxix.
and
where he took
his degree of
A.M.
449
His principal
1784, in the eighty -sixth year of his age.
work, " Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepherdess," a pastoral tale,
was
first
To
is
prefixed a
life,
by
his
It is to
to the volume.
CCCCXL.
TIBBIE FOWLER
Mr
R.
Chambers,
O'
his
in
collection
Dr
THE GLEN.
this
song
of "
Scottish
name
of which
The two
Table Miscellany.
first
is
mentioned
in the
Tea-
There
is
a tradition at
sometime during the seventeenth century, to the representative of the attainted family of
is still
Logan
of Restalrig, whose
Logan and
in the possession of a
Isabella
Fowler
The marriage
is still
extant,
p.
314."
See
(vol.
ii.
p.
378.)
Unfortunately,
we cannot
Dr
was no
450
WALY, WALY.
CCCCXLVI.
WALY, WALY.
page 147,
from
some
lines
Wood's
MS.;
Mr Stenhouse has quoted
but that portion of the MS. was written long subsequent
See Note ccccxi. at page * 439.
to 1566.
" In the West country (says Burns), I have heard a
In his previous note on
lines beginning,
ran thus
second stanza.
When
'
way
Or wherefore need
Sin'
my
And
my head,
kame my
me
hair.
forsook.
me mair
!'"
Reliques, p. 245.
CCCCLI.
HALLOW
Robert Fergusson,
cursor of Burns,
October 1750.
cation at
was born
He
FAIR.
Church, he was
for the
came
to
to
office
of the Commissary-clerk.
At the same
led
time, he
He died
in idle society.
on the
when
life
monument to
own expense a
HALLOW
* 451
FAIR.
Poems has
ever ap-
peared.
may
It
that
some of
Edinburgh, while he himself subsisted as a drudge by copying deeds, at about twopence a page.
title
The following is
the
airs.
Mr
Tenducci
Rimenes, Mrs
Mr Phillips Arbaces,
****
Semira, Miss Brown.
Woodman Mandane, by
The
actress
whose name
left
is
blank, was
Madame Ten-
ducci.
CCCCLVL
MY BONNIE
"
The
LIZZIE BAILLIE.
antiquity,
commences thus
It
was
in
it is
A MS.
:"
(C. K.
S.)
When the
To
When
of
Mac-
;;
452
CCCGLXI,
now
Is
printed complete in
of Scotish ballads, p.
The
viNG, to
whom
Mr
Motherwell's collection
90." (C. K.
air,
S.)
are
by Captain Skircommuni-
for other
cations.
To THE Tune
He
of
''
TU never gae
down
the
Broom.^'
But
He
it's
hard
to divine
to dree.
old.
But
it's
the law.
dree.
it's
CCCCLXIII.
Mr
SIT
DOUN.
this
song, died at
The
following notices of
Registers,
On
him
the 14th of
SIT
DOUN.
453
it
and, on the
7 th of
office
were
cil
engraver,
funeral of Alexander
to
music -bells."
Mr
It is well
known
that there
is
is
many
As
stated at page
odicals.
CCCCLXVI.
The
verses in the
stanzas of "
The
Museum,
first
four
them
to
be something quite
454
MS.
SLAB.
when the
greater part of
which
Rev.
the
princely collection,
it
Advocates' Library.
Mary Queen
of Scots
such a supposition.
It
;"
but there
is
no evidence
her
life,
which
popular song,
tish
Songs,"
adds, "
(vol.
said to
ii.,
p.
title,
in praise
that Queen's
Mary, had
455
CCCCLXVII.
i.
p.
146,
MS.,
title,
Wi' playing up
their
Their danein'
may
sir,
Whiggish
be sad,
jigs.
sir.
CHORUS.
Sing, heedle
teedle
liltie,
Andum, tandum,
liltie
tandie
Sing
that grees,
first
sir.
CCCCLXIX.
Dr Thomas Blacklock,
may
His
life
has
suffice to
mention that
it
by the smallpox
church, and was
in infancy
means of preventing
parochial minister
and that
his settlement as a
he continued to
*2k
life
to
456 *
literary pursuits,
In 1766, the
He
July
died at Edinburgh in
CCCCLXXIII.
is
David Lyndsay.
vol.
p.
ii.
410.
CCCCLXXV.
BANNOCKS
O'
BEAR-MILL.
Mr
Sten-
by Robert H.
Mr
S.
is
so
The
success
Mr
had imposed on
Mr
and various
cir-
but few
See an
tended originals.
zine,
teemed
Mr
Cunningham,
Xhe
man much
aged about
himself was
taste,
warm and
died at Lon(;lon,
forty-five.
much
es-
he had a good
He
Blackwood's Maga-
in
him much."
article
Mr Cromek
He was
both
kind
14th of
"
loved
in
Poetry and
have missed
March 1812,
BANNOCKS
O'
BKAR-MILL.
457
original designs
published,
or
re-issued,
This
PATRICK SPENCE.
but
I shall
now
it
was
it.
in-
quite evident
and
it
adhering to historical
it
difficult to fix
on
Had
facts.
its
it
is
by some of
close of the
it
was sent
to
it
should
Bishop Percy,
along
still
following remark
it
is,
would lead us
to infer that
inter-
458 *
SIR
polated, or that
its
PATRICK SPENCE.
composition
is
of a comparatively
date."
(vol.
i.
modern
was
this resemblance,
with the
this collection."
localities
It
Dunfermline and
The
ballad,
air, will
volume of Campbell's
Albyn's Anthology.
I
late, yestreen."
Well
if
the
CCCCLXXXIV.
GUDE WALLACE.
This
is
suaded
it
is
ing
is
The follow-
fact, to
their
own.
GUDE WALLACE.
And
Then would I
And ev'n as
If e'er I
'Tis I
The English
We
459
460
GUDE WALLACE.
The man,
I'd
To
If
Where
to the place
He
that
Till that
And
For
give
it's
me something
for to eat,
Nor
Down
all
Englishmen
Come
The
It
put them
Then
five
all
gudeman ran
into a fever
ben.
cir-
tam
p. 176.)
in ipsa
quam
viriliter se
ab Anglis
(vol.
ii.
*46l
DKAl).
CCCCLXXXV.
There
famous
is
Kinghorn
fiddler of
at Leslie House.
humour
supposed
It is
was sold
at a sale in
and
also said to
is
in red
ago.
CCCCLXXXVIl.
'
The Duchess
There
is
to be part of
an English ballad,
of Newcastle's Lament,"
not a taylor in
all
it
begins,
London town
gown.
Her
Thou worst
I
of
all
my
wife, &c.
(C. K. S.)
CCCCLXXXIX.
The
variously attributed.
it, is
following
" Gleanings
12mo:
From
the
name
which
his father
was proprietor.
office.
known by
In. his
commonly
that appellation
"
462*
at
known song
for
of
'
Nae Dominies
to be a picture of himself
drawn from
and which he
real life,
"
He was
He
Many
is
placed to
his
'
who
died anno 1769, in the 81st year of his age, and the
52d of
With a manly
his ministry.
figure
he possessed the
As a
and
pastor, his
Beloved by
his relatives,
The
his life
was
and
his
side, printed
informed
M'Kay
useful,
it
page 431,
states, that
late
Rev.
ever, the
most probable
Sten-
Mr
Nathaniel
in
the stew-
artry of Kirkcudbright."
Mr
he was credibly
last century,
Mr M'Kie
* 463
ministry.
Mag. 1781,
his age,
and 42d of
his
p. 55.)
ccccxci.
" Memoirs
Church,
in the Highlands,
Paris,
he spent
and returned
to
where he
Scotland,
The
seminary
College at
officiated as a
University of
Laws
and at
he remained
this
his death,
till
Dr Mason Good
his person
"
It
was about
this period,
acquainted with
first
It
introduced to this
may be
I first became
met him accidentally at
who
Education
Dr Geddes.
here quoted
beheld a
man
and
was by no means
uncommon
negli-
His figure
was lank, his face meagre, his hair black, long, and loose,
without having been sufficiently submitted to the operations
of the toilet
and
his eyes,
vivid, spark-
464 *
He was
Company when
I entered,
me
stantaneously persuaded
upon which
with
command
all
minutes learned, to
my
astonishment, that
I listened
and
it
related to no-
own house
few
in a
in the
New
was
The
in Guildford Street.
cluded, or rather
worn
who
sat
on
my
On
we
this topic
till
at
as trivial as
room
we
yielded to
(p.
all
playfulness,
us,
good
302.)
CCCCXCII.
"Mr
Robert Chambers
(C.K.S.)
by
inserted."
465
YOUNG EANDAL.
'
It
was
To
High Germanie,
High Germanie,
That he
friends
tower
i'
o'
sweet Willanslee,
He
" Oh, whan will ye be back," sae kindly did she spier,
" Oh, whan will ye be back, my hinny and my dear ?"
" Whenever I can win eneuch o' Spanish gear.
To dress ye
silks,
my dear."
And
this
muckle wife be
my
ring,
466
CCCCXCIX.
GLOOMY DECEMBER.
These
Mrs M'Lehose.
rinda, otherwise
edit, of
Burns, vol.
iv. p.
See
by Burns to ClaCunningham's
Mr
330.
CCCCXCVII.
IT
" These
WAS
a'
composition of Burns
lad,
very
called
common
bonny Mally
one stanza
formerly
Stuart.
among
I
if
indeed at
give
entire
from
1.
cold winter
is
Now
One
It's I will
And
And
I will
the
copy.
The
all,
my
dear,
my
stall
IT
WAS
a'
* 467
3.
4.
I will
5.
my
I will
do more for
Than
true love
me
6.
So farewell
I'll
my
Farewell
my
bonny Mally
Stuart,
When we came
in to Stirling town.
As we
camp
all
lay in
;|
Probably
" That my
!"
468
WAS
IT
a'
And
And
11.
The
He
my
dear.
" The
ballad, as
it
appears in the
sung by
his daughter,
he was delighted
Mrs Lockhart."
to hear
it
(C. K. S.)
EVAN BANKS.
Johnson committed a mistake
Burns
to this song,
in affixing the
aware of
Cromek
of
by
Currie,
But
" Reliques," having given the song anew in
this error,
in the
name
his works,
withdrew
it
Review on
"
Mr Cromek ought to
Dr
this
Currie in his
all
first
was ascertained
it
"
"
Shall
e'er see
my bonny
to be
who wrote
it
at
EVAN BANKS.
the request of
Dr Wood.
Its
* 469
first
(vol.
i.
p. 34.)
life
of
Eng-
she published
*393
The
sheets, enables
Notes and
me
some further
At
poetry in Scotland.
was
pirated,
is
"^
edition dated
Dublin
and sold
To
ruary 20th,
postscript
lections
1735,
" N. B.
correct,
now Mr Ramsay
4
sh.,
sells his
or separately, at
bound, at
vols.,
sh. 6d.
That
handsomely bound,
each
vol.
and
his
at
Poems,
in
vols. 8vo.
at 3 sh. 6d."
Of
7sh.,
That the
first
we
was then
*2 G
394*
1740
is
dred and
fifty
songs,
Miscellany
or a
By
vol., of
London 1750, 4
vols, in one,
which a
The eleventh
may
in six parts,
Set by
First.
first
is
The
'
page
vol.
6, occurs,
ii.,
Mansfield's
MS. volume
It
is
of Poems.
The Charmer,"
also contained in
I regret
Mr
not having
who
terrified
Humphrey
while
WILLIAM DUDGEON.
This was a
Cameron.
at
Mr
now
is
The
" The
Dumbar-
tonshire.
race
395
extinct.
last
Mrs
informed by a lady
matter." (C. K.
This
is
all
am
had no
S.)
SKENE'S MAN.USCRIPT.
That
this
page *
The work
11 0.
world
title,
:
inte-
With
Scot."
MS.,
conceives that
the
Mr Dauney
MS.
it
should not be
WILLIAM DUDGEON.
The
The maid
poet,
am
Dudgeon.
indebted to
is,
that tends
by mistake,
" St Baldred of the Bass," and other poems, who states that
his informant was Andrew Howden, Esq., farmer, Lawhead, near Tyninghame, an intimate friend of Dudgeon,
and himself a writer of songs.
396
WILLIAM DUDGEON.
Mr
"
William Dudgeon,
Mr
having
its
His
Robert Ainslie,
Mr
popularity from a
Kilpatrick
it
known
that any of
them appeared
His talents
in print.
He was
taught by a
Mr
removed
civil
to Perth,)
engineer, both of
and a musician.
Some specimens
As
airs,
'
Dudgeon,
a musician,
Auld Robin
which are
still
proved himself
to
plary farmer.
in the
years.
it
in a state of nature.
He
gave
it
To
it
to a
high degree.
October 1813.]
Prestonkirk,
where
his
ashes
[He
died 28th of
in the churchyard of
his
Border tour
in
May
JOHN MAYNE.
1787,
ill
Mr
late
397
R. Ainslie, W.S.,
Mr
Douglas
Ainslie,
in Berwickshire.
'
remarkable character
JOHN MAYNE.
"
"
The
Gun, a poem
Siller
in
which
in five can-
Mr Mayne
not only
embryo
state of
its
culated in
Mr
Stenhouse at
p.
to
423.
given.
At
e'en,
is
gane,
O
My
!
could
Revered by
We'd
Mr
name
Allan
live in bliss
and
my
ain
on Logan braes.
to his friend
in
of the
official
my
who
398 *
"
JOHN MAYNE.
If
zine for
Gentleman's Maga-
he will
find a brief
London, 1787.
house, No.
4th, Settled in
5th,
Died in
14th
6th,
March
2,
1836.
yard, 21st
"
his
would
March 1836.
just add,
'
the residence of
my
gow, should be
'
city,'
intended to designate
at the
Head
of the
city.'
W. H. Mayne."
THERE
At page
*1 18,
Songs,
1776,
vol.
p.
ii.
152
is
which
is
mentioned in
MS. volume
vol. vi.
page 529.
was admitted
noticed,
there
is
no doubt that
it
I feel
Adams.
the author-
much
Before
it
Songs just
common form
of a stall-ballad.
*399
One
1774, gives
it
in its
state,
with some
additional verses, which were struck out when the song reThe " Answer," being
ceived its present amended form.
*' Nae luck
about the house when our
the Song entitled,
was printed
also at the
same time.
PINKY HOUSE
The Song
" As Sylvia
in
p.
Song ccccxxix.
Museum
in
Mr
the Musical
it
58,
is
;
the same as
but in both
to Mallet, instead of
Some
may
be
here introduced.
all
Mr
Freebairn, styled
the rank and beauty of the time pass in review, and are
les
et
Alice Rutherfurd.
1'
une
belles."
complete, sur
les
elles
petits
Cupidons
traits, et
a polir
remporteront bientot
coeurs
memes
les
plus re-
400 *
MRS COCKBURN.
among "
Mr
obligations to
tract of a letter
Chambers.)
from a lady
years before
following
is
my
an ex-
K. Sharpe, Esq.,
to Charles
her death in
The
She
Alicia.
many
lived for
Crighton Street.
in
She had a
she wore
tied
it
no capa
lace
hood
under her chin, and her sleeves puffed out in the fashion
of
that time
the
title
of
raised to the
Bench
N,
BY HERSELF.
Some
And
my
heart misguide
attain
my
little.
head,
*401
MRS COCKBURN.
E.
my
head misguided
than by reason.
And
I
trusting too
much
to
my
heart,
to remorse
Hypocrisy has enabled me to conceal my errors.
But neither hath the Bible taught me to dread a future
Nor David Hume to be indifferent about it.
As I can neither be better nor happier than I am,
I must be shocked at the thought of not to be.
Mrs Cockburn
state,
November 1794.
In her
Mr
relict of
is
Patrick
Cockburn, Advocate.
places
my
Scott
emerald ring
much
me in my
my
it
she
and
hours of deepest
appears that
It
with
attention she
distress,
Mrs Cockburn
went
to
two
nieces,
She
who
died in 1780.
two hair-rings
for
affectionate friends,
William Swinton."
"
my
earliest
Mrs Keith
be given
A lock
Hugh
Hugh
Dalrymple's
Mrs Dalrymple,
D., for
is
whom Mrs
now
to
C, has
402*
MRS COCKBURN.
She
great affection.
outlives her,
my
charge of
mentioned
and
for
mourning, be-
favourite cat."
directions
" Shorten
your
taste."
In a
MS.
collection
Songs belonging
of
to
Thomas
by a Lady
burn,"
Song
following
the
is
Charles's Manifesto.
burlesque
in
has no author's
name
of
Prince
but
R. Chambers, who had the use of that manuscript, has ascribed it to her, (Scottish Songs, p. 586,) and
it evidently is the parody to which Sir Walter Scott alludes
See vol. i. p. 124* of the
in his recollections of that lady.
It
affixed,
my friend Mr
present work.
the
am a Hero to my
And truly a most
trade,
leal Prince.
Ye
They shall be
all
made
The
nation's debt
sirs
your swords,
we
sure to you,
sirs.
boys
peace.
!;
sooner
Then
we
403
all
3.
Nae langer
that
we will allow.
goes asunder.
For crack
it
to
do
4.
And
good ye got
Your
liberty of conscience.
5.
And,
To join my
Father's standard
This
Manuscript," and
city,
to the
is
common
mueli superior, in
sets of the air,
it
its
original simpli-
in this place, as
harmo-
which
is
Mr
sN
404*
$
I've
<o
pp.
/O,
^l~
i"lTJ=ii
:=!:
Jtfltzliz2
Sym.
S^^
-zi
3d:
r^crTx
[jT
fHV-
heard them
lilt
g
incj
the
at
Ewe
milk
ms,
f-
gi
:p:
:l^=!t
j=^j=iL-Tgzzg
Lass
es
d
tr
sm
a'
lilt
ing
be
3tZ=^
IIEZDC
-
fore
dawn of
4-
^^
day.
"
Now
there's
1*^"
moan - ing on
V-|
V-
^^
il -
*405
f^^
p=*i=i?i=s
^
::
The
-$
Flow'rs of the
Fo
- rest
a'
wede
:^
-e-
n^J=^
-a-
t'f^
f7\
t^ h^h
n
''
'^^
pp.
m.
way.
S:
are
/T\
--e-
^
TZ.
406
JAMES OSWALD.
JAMES OSWALD.
Mr
Stenhouse,
in his
Note
at
in other
date of Oswald's
Collections.
The volumes
" The
of
at
folio.
Some
account of Oswald's
See Introduction,
work
p. xlviii.
is
entitled to honourable
Teacher of Dancing
at Dunferm"
line.
He probably held the office of Music-master of Dunfermline and Precentor," which was advertised as vacant
lodies, first appears as a
We find,
On
life.
contains
some
place.
was
and
as
com-
positions, whilst
in this
It
;
to Allan
it
shows
in
Ramsay,
AN EPISTLE.
Dear Oswald, could my verse as sweetly flow
As notes thou softly touchest with the bow,
While all the circling fair attentive hing
On
ilk vibration of
JAMES OSWALD.
I'd sing how thou wouldst
By solemn notes, or cheer
As
thy
soft as
new
polish'd
Danton me.
But wha can sing that feels wi' sae great pain
The loss for which Edina sighs in vain ?
Our
concert
the Ladies
mind
y.
ir
When
shall
we
fair
Alas
no more
No more
No more
shall thy
gay tunes
delight.
rents.
Which laws we
on us
entails.
And where
Still
Of Jamie Oswald
'Tis hard indeed
The day
last
know
we.
Perhaps our vanish'd gold may flow to thee.
If so, be wise ; and when ye' re well to fend.
Return again and here your siller spend.
Mean-while, to keep our heavy hearts aboon,
O publish a' your works, and send them soon.
We'll a' subscribe, as we did for the past.
And
Farewell
I'll
perhaps,
sing again to a
if
as well as
may wag
or strings can
new
fav'rite tune.
last.
407
408*
JAMES OSWALD.
On
the
title
The
Churchyard."
we " learn
appointed Chamber Composer
At a
later period
is
that
Mr
to his Majesty."
The
(Gentletime of his
MISS GRAHAM.
In the notices given of
this lady at
p. 161.)
i.
GALA WATER.
The
following
(No. Gcxv.)
version
local
is
MS.
of this
favourite
collection already
Out
Out
o'er
Shew me
way
Gala Water.
Gala Water,
Bonny lads o' Gala Water,
The Lothian lads maun ne'er compare
Wi' the bra lads o' Gala Water.
the
to
o'
2.
At
Nettlie-flatt
And
we
will begin,
song
men-
*409
GALA WATER.
We'll
down by
And drink
the
3.
And
Galashiels
is
meikle better.
4.
5.
6.
And
But
And gane
little better.
7.
see.
8.
*2h
?]
lad,
410*
Bonny
lads
When copying
o'
it
in his collection of
Mr
Songs,
usual interest,
(what
it
probably
is)
the
first
lass.
for
a country."
The following
them
in
any other
MS.
collection.
1.
fears.
JOHN BRUCE.
lOQ and 236, the airs, " Whistle o'er the lave
"
and
Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad," have
At pages
o't,"
been attributed to
^.^7''Sj
ME TELL ME.
exert his
* 41
skill,
gill,
&c.
we
learn, that
in the Rebellion of
1745,
He
burgh Castle.
by Burns
(says
Mr
Mayne,)
to
This opinion
is
"
his days.
'
He
is
supposed,
altogether erroneous
for,
o't.'
although John
The
a composer of music.
air in
SIR
To
Sir
HENRY ERSKINE.
years
and
that, in 1756,
his conduct,
he
it
maybe
added, that
of Parliament for
lost his
many
Sir
Henry Erskine,
foot.
M.
Wedderburn,
only daughter of
ceased."
Mr
buted
Chambers, in his Scottish Songs, p. 134, has attrisong to James Tytler, of whom some notice has
this
I ^
412*
EWIE
The
Wl'
following version
Mr
ccxLiv.) occurs in
of
this
popular
Song (No.
Songs.
1-
I ha'e
a cow,
ha'e a calf,
A
f
2.
I
mark tyed up in a
ha'e a
rag.
Lass, &c.
It lyes in
An'
I,
&c.
3.
wie
I've a
-:
up
in the shelf,
Lass, &c.
I
it a*
myself,
4.
1
!
I've a
wee bit
lairdship
down
i'
the Merse,
Lass, &c.
The
An'
THE EWIE
The Song
the Musical
under
Wl'
this
Museum,
to
woo.
is sufficiently
well known.
am
not have been indebted for the idea of his song to the
lowing
silly
enough
verses,
1.
my
A' the ewes come hame at even, a' the ewes come hame at even,
A' the ewes come hame at even, crooked hornie bydes awa'.
Ewie
wi' the
fol-
in
not
*413
WILLIAM MARSHALL.
2.
Ewie
may you
3.
A' the ewes gies milk eneugh, a' the ewes gies milk eneugh,
A' the ewes gies milk eneugh, but crooked horn gies maist ava',
Ewie wi' the crooked horn, &c.
ALLAN MASTERTON.
This
page 323
*.
is
mentioned slightly
at
his suc-
October 1800.
WILLIAM MARSHALL.
MS.
Mac-
who
passed through
life
much esteemed
William Marshall,
airs
less
eminent as a performer on
the 27th of
self-taught,
December 1748,
o. s.
He was
cal mechanics,
almost wholly
When about
of the Duke of
414*
WILLIAM MARSHALL.
first
employed
at
*'
The
to
that
and whether
at
much to
Gordon
the satisfac-
Castle, or during
London, Edinburgh,
ing-places, or elsewhere,
Mr
Hence
them.
fill
at water-
him of much
Mr Mac-
would do
" His
much
higher pretension."
developed
and
itself;
encouraged by
Memoir
continues,
in the cultivation of
all
whom
of
all
" rapidly
he was much
it,
pos-
of Mr Marshall's productions.
positions,
were
'
'
'
'
well,'
'
'
Johnie Pringle'
(afterwards called
Two
viz.
Mr
'
Tullochgorum,' and
Forbes of Seaton)
'
The Marlively
Miss Admiral
Strathspey,'
'
it
Skinner, author of
Gordon's (now
Miss Jane
'
'
Of
a'
by
the
*415
WILLIAM MARSHALL.
his
and
and
reels lively
in-
Mr
five
Gordon
Castle,
was obliged
and
to the deli-
to relinquish his
time to
to the
Duke
now
The
spirit
of farming.
He was
shortly there-
after
comprehending the
down, Glenlivat,
situation
he
filled
districts of
Cabrach, Auchen-
with
fidelity
and honour
till
This
the year
them
all."
Mr
and
at the
May
Collection of Marshall's
last
416*
century.
The volume
it
was
fol-
Messrs
It
such a collection,
if
Mr MacGregor
he
is
well as of a considerable
to the inter-
were prevailed
for which,
materials,
number of Marshall's
as
original
letters.
REV.
MURDOCH MACLENNAN.
instead
of the words, he
died " in the 50th year of his ministry, and 32d of his age,"
read, " and 8 2d of his age."
in this
work
as
No. cccxxxix.
Charmer,"
vol.
ii.
p. 194.
Edin. 1782.
The
It is likewise in-
MS.,
KELSO RACES.
Not having had an opportunity at the time to collate the
verses on " Kelso Races," which are printed at page 529,
I find it necessary to point
14,
ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MUSIC
LYRIC POETEY
SCOTLAND.
PART
DI.
"
MY
VI.
PEGGY'S FACE.
This song was written by Burns in 1787, for the second volume of the Museum, but having been mislaid, it did not make
its appearance till the publication of the last volume of that
work. In a
is
letter, inclosing
Mr Johnson
" Dear
it
Mr
air,
as I have a very
script
me
the
list
mumanu-
of the Antiquarian
Burns alludes
R. Burns."
Farewell.
to the
burgh.
Mr
this
Ewie
Avi'
These
It
alterations,
Avill
however, do
generally be found,
posing a song,
if
not superior,
2i
is,
at least,
more
440
DI.
MY PEGGY'S
FACE.
se-
lected.
DII.
This
my
fine ballad,
Tammy
boy.
It first
MY BOY TAMMY.
beginning " Whar
?"
hae ye been
a'
day,
become a favour-
son) the celebrated actress, used frequently to sing this ballad on the stage with great applause.
The melody,
cient
to
and uncommonly
quite puerile
people,
The
pretty.
the verses.
is
very an-
still
it
sung by old
remembers some of
Is she
fit
My
Is she
fit
Tammy ?
boy.
My
boy,
She's just as
fit
Tammy ?
New
come
frae her
thing
mammy.
How
young
sort of puzzle
thing.
My
boy. Tammy }
How auld's the bonnie young thing.
My boy. Tammy?
She's twice six and twice seven.
written
SUN.
jrtll.i^flED
GLEAMS THE
44l
SUN.
Duchess of Gordon.
is " Kinrara,
Doctor's works,
The
title
tune,
of the
isong, in
Mr
set to the
by
Gow
the
fa,ther
Kinrara
of Dunkeld.
Gordon.
DIV.
0,
Ramsay
and printed
in his
The
He
very
but
is still
Mu-
seum were taken from Ramsay's, and the rest of it was writJohnson has made a mistake
ten by Burns for that work.
in copying the fifth line of the second stanza.
**
It should be
manu-
script.
DV.
WHEN
It
is
ix. calls
original
title
of the song.
The
author's
covered.
DVI.
WHAR
This
publisher of the
Museum, was
written
by
Mr
Carey.
air, called
It
"
is
I'll
p. 16.
This tune
is
omitted
442
DVI.
Mr
WHAR ESK
CURRENT LEADS.
ITS SILVER
its
appearance in the
Mr
number of
Collection, printed
Thomson's
George
in
provements.
the
Museum,
read, as in
I deck'd
my
Mr
Thomson's
pleasing peaceful
edition,
bowerline
8th.
Mr Thomson
is
unknown,
and that
to, after
There
ry singularly beautiful."
is
all
of
particularly ro-
cality to the
set to
DVII.
by Ramsay
and printed
lines
in his
tune of
to the
I'll
I'll
there
lovers,
was
Tea-Table Miscellany
The
^'
in 1724.
Some
Ramsay's production.
in
to the
Mr
same
air,
the
published
John Watt,
in
Miscellany," printed at
say's song,
in
it
in that
work
in
1725.
London
in
" Musical
1730, published
Lad and a
Ram-
Lassie lay
o'
o'
"
A dialogue between
MAIR.
As
443
to the tune of
"
I'll
done.
DVIII.
ROW
This
by the
written
most promising
in the sixth
late
Mr
man
poetical talents,
and author of
The
of the
several songs
tune
is
certainly
Irish.
at Linkhouse, near
Dunbar,
in the
At an
ficiency in reading,
early period he
writing,
left
new
line
able to
him
went
Edinburgh, to which
to
was sent
as the other
After a
it
it.
He
architect, to
trial
of this
nearly as disagree-
he therefore gave
city his father
it
up
also,
and
recently removed.
occasion, attached
him
so strongly to
he
44^
Drill.
Whilst
STKEAJVt.
employed
his spare
hours in
muse.
tia's
His
derable attention,
began
to attract consi-
cor-
his existence
on the 10th of
May
put a period to
assistance,
his age.
During
from weakness
to
hold a pen, he committed several of his poems to paper, written with a black lead pencil.
Mr
Of
all
the writings of
But
uniformly virtuous.
is
them
rich
Mr
this is not
;
and unaf-
fected."
Mr
Works were
Gall's Poetical
lately published in
&
a neat
AS
This
is
WENT
O'ER
THE HIGHLAND
HILLS.
it
Museum.
self is
ever,
IS
The
air is said to
be
very pretty.
The
tune, how-
The
author
445
DX.
0,
This
CHERUB CONTENT.
beautiful song
ming,
excellent poems.
air, called
lects of
Mr Camp-
Coolun.
written by
Mr
school of Glasgow.
Mr
Q annexed, to
It
is
denote that
entitled
title
inserted in
The
book
sixth,
in
the reign of
Scotland, there
original ballad
was
vincit
all."
James VI. of
it
" Omnia
is
It
set to
nion,
MSB.
in Skene's
Editor
is
air,
is
in
common
time, entitled
Museum.
But the
cam
Isles^
and
446
DXJI.
King of
Scots.
The
army on
this occasion
I.
is situ-
royal
Donald's
" The
Battel of Hayrlaw''
is
at
Edinburgh
its
Ramsay
is
own
The
to
on some occasions
in 1724, from
late
some verbal
al-
alterations
have been substituted for a few of the more ancient and obsolete words,
nuine authenticity.
little
who
Indeed, Ritson,
in
its
ge-
general had
" The
poem
printed in the
is
" Evergreen,"
Lord
it
Battel of
presumed
to be
Hailes,
may,
for
to the contrary,
any
be as
In
was
in 1691, mention
is
and
illustrations,
made of a bagpipe
by Bishop Gibson
of Harlaw
" Interea ante
alios
Haklaii
cunctis sonare
Battellum."
present Editor
OF HARLAW.
in possession
is
of a
folio
447
manuscript of
title
is
It is
nere annexed
BATTLE OF HARDLAW. A
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^^fe&lia
Mr
sung
sung
in
adagio time.
mere
The
first
air,
that this
and
suits the
measure of the
it is
1724.
was
to heir
and
se.
dulesvnn hermonle,
448
DXII.
"
Alas, Alas
for the
hie,
Harlaw
!"
II.
I marvlit
quha was
me
fae or friend,
carrie
Thus
on the way.
To Inverury as I went,
I met a man, and bad him stay.
Requesting him to mak me 'quaint
Of the beginning and the event
as I walkit
Then he
And
entreated
at the
me
Harlaw
tak tent.
me schaw
IV.
He
hastit
And
hame
sent nae
bodword
back again.
V.
He vow'd
to
gaif,
God Omnipotent
Or
He wald
Corynoch,
}
i.
e.
% Whilst our Malcolm IV. was on the Continent with Henry II. of England,
Somerled, Thane of Argyle, who aspired to the throne of Scotland, raised a formidable rebellion in the north, which was fortunately quelled by the Earl of
Angus, commander of the royal army, who defeated Somerled's forces with immense slaughter. It is a singular coincidence, that Donald, Lord of the Isles, likewise took the opportunity of urging his claim to the lands of Boss, during the absence of his Sovereign ; James I. being, at this period, a captive in England.
Reply, or message.
;;
he did command
That all his weir-men should convene.
hand
Ilk ane well harnisit frae
To meit and heir quhat he did mein ;
He waxit wraith and vowit tein,
Sweirand he wald surpryse the north,
Subdew the brugh of Aberdene,
Merns, Angus, and all Fyfe to Forth.
Then
haistylie
VII.
And
all
Evin
VIII.
Then
Be
all
forss of
Syne thay
arms
him bak
and spak
to beir
resolvit all,
lufe.
IX.
raid
And
;;
450
;;
Without
Throw
resistans^ as
all
he said.
last
XII.
To
hinder this
prowd
enterprise,
And
And
XIV.
faes befor
them
fall,
XV.
Came
shortly in their
armour scheue.
Of doubted Donald of
the Yles,
XVII.
But he
in
number
ten to ane,
ride.
And
451
DXII.
Then Donald
fled,
and that
full fast.
To
And
And
ran
they
till
war out of
sicht
xxn.
This
is
richt report
Tak
this to
Contrair
God and
Thair was
spilt
This
is
sum, sae
Harlaw
I conclude.
XXIII.
But
An
zit a
I sail
mak
War
dulefully
And now we
And will not
dung
to the deid
And on
war
lost.
A man
DXIi.
XXVI.
James Scrimgeor
of
Duddop^ knicht.
valiant
man
he,
of chevalrie,
And
Was
armour schene
The
mortal
man
in
sin
And mony
Quhilk in
children fatherless,
this
453
454
XXXI.
In July, on Saint James his even'.
That four-and-twenty dismall day.
And mony
The brim
ane
may mourn
battill of
for ay
the Harlaw.
Lord of the
Donald mentioned
in the ballad,
and claimed
King of
Scots.
On
is
in
This circumstance
Isles,
Du-
Scottish chiefs.
the
5th July 1187, however, Roland, the gallant hero of Galloway, decided the fate of the older Donald,
who was
slain in
The
ed in the Museum,
is
merely a
is
adapt-
slight alteration
of the
The
second stanza
first.
DXIII.
who
fine
is
a native of Edinburgh.
modern
air,
The words
are adapted to a
Mr Fergus, organist
In 1783,
Mr
The
who
directly accused
Mr
P.
by a
letter
inserted in
In
he pleads
his-
his
Our
November 1784.
455
professing that
world,
Ritson,)
satirical
it
is
to
be
77.
modern
this
song
*'
among
What
!"
This
but
indeed of any time, ever said or wrote any thing like the
line
" Without
" This
is
Remarks by Burns;
Critical
London.
It
is
by Cromek.
is
really
bad ; but he
edition,)
what he
vols.
in
1810.
it
unexceptionable.
ancient ballads,
many
No
Mr
is
is
of opinion,
all
that the
Indeed Burns,
28, in
Dr
Currie's
Pinkerton, in his
forgeries."
DXIV.
WEE WILLY
This comic
little
GRAY.
Wee Totum
Fogg
upon a creepie
Half an ell o' gray
Sits
Wad
456
DXIV.
Go
Berwick, Johnnie
to
m Har''estJockey said to
Sliure
Mount
Duke
The
late
to
Eng-
DXV.
LAMMINGTON
This
"
ballad, beginning
RACES.
When
the
which
a
it is
It possesses considerable
adapted
is
lively
humour
enough
in the
but aWjeux
when
by
Mr
Macaulay, an acquaintance of
air is
d^esprit,
of
be interesting
written
lang,'*
county of
Mr
Johnson
unknown.
DJiVI.
song, beginning
late John
and some time judge of the
is
It
air
by Miss Betsy
Mr
was
"
to quell the
who were
457
The Americans,
bard.
and arduous
after a long
and
contest,
their independence
was
1783.
ratified in
The
literally
false
" And
In the
*'
letters to
imagery
in
it
song
is
well enough,
for instance,
first
and
but
was
imagery
is
The justice
Mr
Exotic rural
flat."
new
ted
by
by
Thomson's
Scotland,
river in
always comparatively
Tait
for in a
Collection,
first
first
and published
half stanza
is
appearance, for
in the fourth
Mr
volume of
printed thus
And
The
For
II. line 5,
lotid roaring,
Stanza
II. line 8,
III. line 2,
Jarnie.
DXVII.
who has
458
DXVII.
Vide Notes on
work.
Song No 508.
Mr
The
air to
which
it is
The
from
Mr
" One of Mr
its
amongst the works of Burns, and generally thought the production of that poet.
to a few of
Mr
The
reverse, indeed,
Gall's friends, to
whom
in question to
its
due ahke
distributive justice,
he communicated the
to support
it
true author,
to
and
is
stands
to render
but an act of
Scots Musical
Mr
Mr Gall
in that publication.
nymously
name
to
and
sent
The
has
works of Burns.
In
name known
to the world,
it
to
waste
air.''''
who was
ano-
Stark,
it
thence
Fare-
it
it,
From
'
Mr Gall,
by
Mr
(both of
them being employed in the same printing-office,) may be reupon as being correct. The manuscript of the song, in
lied
the hand-writing of
Editor
Mr
Gall,
is
in the
possession of the
459
DXVIII.
GO TO BERWICK, JOHNNY.
HiTsoN
says,
Edhiburo-h,
hi
Sir
marauding expeditions
Graham.
Historical
John
Sir
The
p. 26.
Essay.
by nurses
till
lips
The
silly
imposed
and
The
late
Mr
Mu-
same work.
air,
by various masters.
DXIX.
made
its
first
title
of "
it
Watty and
Madge."
The words
The Maid
The
composed by the
late
Mr
Mar-
Stephen
460
Dxix.
^'twas
Museum.
Vide
Song
N&
536.
Mr
printed in 1733,
written
The
original tune
seum,
724, as a substitute
printed in the
first
volume of the
p.
No
Mu-
See the
23.
Wife
again."
DXXI.
GREEN.
The words
are adapted to
" Girvan's
Ayrshire,
which
rises
district
which
its
gives
and after
of Carrick, pours
in
its
waters
village of Girvan, to
name.
DXXII.
who was a
religious
by Burns
written
Museum
in
1787, for
seemed somewhat
alterations
irreverent.
who
sent
it
to
Mr
readily admitted
it
several
George Thomit
it
at all
improved by the
DXXII.
of our bard.
later alterations
have
lost
much of
It soon
appeared to him to
humour and
pristine
its
461
simplicity
and
written
to
He
by Burns
tions
FIRST EDITION.
lang glen,
|
like
men
And
He
spak
And
o'
the darts
o'
my
|
{
my love
I said he
might
die
he was diein'
when he liket, for Jean
The gude
forgie
me
for liein
said for
,j
!'
|
|
|
my
]
i,
Out oure
left
f
}
My
I
f
I spier'd for
An'
if
my
and sweet,
And how my
Gude
He
begg'd
Or
else I
And just
me
I think I will
body
';
I
I
in life,
;;
462
AE DAY A DRAW
OXXII.
WOOF.K.
SECOND EDITION.
Last
May
And
He
spak
I said
my
And vow'd
my
for
love he
was dying
The Lord
The Lord
forgie
forgie
me
me
lik'd, for
Jean,
I kend it or car'd.
might hae waur offers, waur
might hae waur offers.
But thought
But thought
I
I
offers.
But
I
a'
gaed
And wha
And vpw'd
I spier'd for
was
my
And how her new shoon fit her auld shackl't feet.
But, Heavens how he fell a swearin, a swearin.
But, Heavens how he fell a swearin.
!
He
Or
So
else I
kill
him
I think I
wad be
his wife.
wi' sorrow
I think I
These
wad
body
in
life,
from being
DXXII.
spirits
463
quite occupied with the charming sensations of the toothach, so have not a
Dr
word
to spare.""
He up
*'
my
the Gateslack to
Mr
Burns repHed as
next verse.
in the
" Gateslack
passage
is
name
the
up among
up
biu-ial
lang
the
Dr
However,
ground.
loan,''''
is
let
the
still
this
the remains of
also
a ruined church
first line
run,
"
He
&c.
is
locality to
It only remains to
to the tune called
Mr
a kind of
on the confines of
hills,
and a
but
follows
Dalgarnock
;"
word Dalgarnoch
of a particular place
the Lauther
county (Dumfries-shire)
Thomson, runs
be observed, that
The Queen of
is
this
song
produced
adapted
is
name of
volume
in the sixth
corrected
by Burns.
The
greater
part of the verses, however, are taken from the old satirical
This
der.
The
is
The
firesides, entitled
Jo."
at
hame."
some
traits
specimen in the
Museum
pretty.
my
260.
DXXIV.
IN BRECHIN DID A WAB8TER DWELL.
only a fragment of a long ballad frequently heard
at country
possesses
No
is
is
It
first
or-
chanted,
however,
is
very
464
DXXV.
WILLY'S RARE
This
AND WILLY'S
FAIR.
was copied
original air,
its
The
London, 1725.
though
omitted by Thomson.
it is
minstrel,
The
to
rise
It
year,
Thomson published
strain in his
is
printed in
and
it
The
Orpheus Caledonius.
first
half stanza of
ionny
bride,'''' is all
Ram-
in the following
my
honny
Braes of Yarrow.''''
Ramsay
first
The
half
The
ten
by the
Lelth.
See the
late
Rev.
Mr
When
Thy
on them
first
braes
how
When now
ministers of
these ballads
It appears,
Yarrow stream
met
dreary.
my
lover.
Yarrow stream
may be
poetry.
The
It begins,
Thy
Both
first
65,
and
in-
Dxxv.
willy's rare
axd willy's
465
faik.
modern
air,
composed by
Mr
set to
a beautiful
This
much
applause in the
is
extremely comic.
unknown
to
This
Ramsay, as
US.
First Set.
This ballad was copied from Yair's Charmer, vol. ii. printEdinburgh in 1721. The original air, under the title
of " Jocky and Jenny," is inserted in the Jifth volume of
ted at
last
century,
from that
" The Muses Delight" at Liverpool in 1754, under the title of " Jocky and
Jenny, a dialogue sung by Mr Lowe and Miss Falkner."
In the Museum this ballad is adapted to two tunes. The
first set
a Gaelic
air.
The
other
is
an Irish melody.
466
DXXVIII.
US.
Second Set.
This
is
had
called
heard the ballad sung to both tunes, and being unable to de-
which was
cide
best,
The
Oswald
Irish
the English
in the
air.
in
Museum.
DXXIX.
It
was
by Messrs
Gow &
Gow
thaniel
Mr
me,
it
was
Na-
The
Mr
verses
are
The
Maid
late
Colonel
Mr Gow
his
by the
Lady.
DXXX.
FIRE.
stanzas was"Vritten
and
plaintive air
in the first
by Burns, and
Poems
in 1787.
composed
under the
Mary.'\
DXXXI.
THY CHEEK
This
THE
is
ROSE'S HUE.
Mr Richard Gall, was written at the earnest reMr Thomas Oliver, Printer and Publisher, Edinan intimate acquaintance of the author's. Mr Oliver
of the late
quest of
burgh,
IS 0'
THE
467
HUE.
ROSE"'s
it
upon
IS O^
his
mind
dwelt
it
were,
My
And
requested
Mr
Our
DXXXII.
The
seum.
it,
"
My
wife she
dang
The
me.*"
vi. p. iv.
first
in his Cale-
under the
tune in the
Mu-
for the
Museum
title
is
of
com-
of Oswald's varia-
DXXXIII.
fine ballad is
another production of
my
late friend,
who was
likewise wrote
serted in
It
is
after the
adapted to a lively
name of
207.
composer,
some verses
to the
called
air
Mr
Song No.
its
John
Burns
Museum.
in-
Vide Notes on
4G8
DXXXIV.
entitled
it
The
the melody to
John
Marlow
of Queen Elizabeth.
fell
by a
fellow
whom
he was stabbed
Mr
his, called
"
after the
author's decease.
Air.
Fairy Elves.
Of Jealousy beware
For she with fancied sprites.
Herself torments and frights
Thus she
frets,
The Fairy
the
Museum
Queen.""
The
letter
copy, under
title
of
and that in
DXXXV.
Scottish bal-
The
fijrst
of these
is
entitled
"
469
Browne
"
Margaret's
Misfortunes,
or
Fair
The second is
Girl."
Sweet William's frightful Dreams on his Wedding Night
with the sudden Death and Burial of these noble Lovers."
and
Fair Ellinor
The learned
latter ballad
was picked up on a
stall,
he considers it to be the
Burning
Pestle."
The Knight
of the
London,
1613, was written in 1611, and was not well received when
The
in the notes
No
536.
is
of
opinion, both from the difference in the structure of the stanzas, the language
It
is
now
to decide
may be
romances, familiar
ny ages
to
it
first written.
ago.
among
These romances,
all
ma-
appear
successive min-
a full investiga-
by
As
we
field
by
far
are constrained to
Mr
is
tradition.
Manu-
a ballad entitled
" Sweet Willie and Fair Annie," which he took down from
470
the recitation of
said, learned
The
it
Mrs W. Arnot
when a
ANNEl'.
of Aberbrothick, who,
it
is
child
Mr
leading incidents of
Thomas
to
the
Mr
shire.
self.
But
It only remains to be
Museum,
Thomas and
Fair Annet"
is
in Oswald's
Caledonian Pocket
Lord
The
Com-
xii.
DXXXVI.
" 'Twas
in 1723,
it
Bam-
say printed
it
in his
M. the
Thomson, who
ture D.
it
into his
initials
erroneously conceived
it
to
well-known tune
of Chevy Chace.
and William
be very
it
is
old, copied
adapted to the
The
reader will
in
was
in the
JMiscellany, or
made on
Museum
easily
this fine
with that
edi-
tions.
us, that
DXXXVI.
^'
in a
ing
comedy of Fletcher,
Pestle, old
called
Merrythought
471
ing verses
"
When
And
it
all
was grown
were
to dark midnight.
fast asleep.
are, struck
my
fancy
The unhappy
in a
*'
weak
many
my mind
an
rejected
years ago."
to,
was a circum-
A young lady,
whose hand
by her infamous seducer, when
life.
a fever
and, in a few days after, (says Mallet,) I saw her and her
36 and 46
in 1724,
Thus
in
by
Mr
No
Aaron Hill
2 vols 8vo.
poem, which
Bishop Percy pronounces to be " one of the most beautiful
far concerning the origin of Mallet's fine
ballads in our
observes, that
and Margaret, or
on Scottish Song,
Mr
Essay
ed by Fletcher
in 1611, to
Historical
p. 78.
be
lost.
and
Mr
It
is
preserved in the
Herd.
more
faith-
2l
DXXXVI.
47:2
Ballads
for the
Mr
Mallet,
is
Mr
late
organist.
DXXXVIl.
WHAT
THE LASSES AT ME ?
This humorous song, in the broad Buchan dialect, beginning " T am a young bachelor, winsome," was written by
Alexander Ross, author of the songs called " A Rock and a
wee pickle Tow," " The Bridal o't," &c. See the Notes on
AILS
Songs
Museum.
of the
In that author's
the
ails
wad
let
me be
;"
but as
this
the tune of
air
us
let
a'
to the
Wedding,"
Mr
"
An
was inserted
No
What
Gradan's answer,"
the
in
the
Kirk
first
Fye
air,
well.
DXXXVIII
pathetic sonnet
The
is
another production of
Mr
Richard
supposed to be of Gaelic
is
origin.
DXXXIX.
SCROGGAM.
Museum.
same
air,
but
Cockpen
is
in
There
it is
the
" There
quite inadmissible.
name of a
is
patron.
473
DXL,
air, to
trip to
it
con amore.
Mr
Macneill's.
ed in
Mr
that
it
Scott's Minstrelsy
It
was
print-
The
chorus
runs
Then
tell
love
MARY, TURN
This song was written by the
O,
AW A.
late
Mr
R.
"
an thou
The
ails this
His
Gall.
My
Dearie,
die."
Blamire of
is
Carlisle.
What
DXLII.
0,
is
It is adapted
" The Bottom of the Punch-bowl," which
old,
many
others.
!;
474
DXLITI,
The
tune and
by Burns.
book
fifth,
under the
title
In Oswald's
title
air,
with variations,
in
some modern
air,
inserted
lost.
collections, is called
is
The tune,
is
printed in Playford's
is
'
the
name
" Bobbing
of a very old
Dancing Master,'
in the
air.
Mr
dern
title.
It follows
BOBBING JOHN.
Hey,
for
Bobbing John,
up the chanter
Bang up a strathspey
To fling wi' John the
Kittle
ranter,
fald.
Back
as braid's a door
And
Hey,
Bobbing John
up the chanter
Queans are a' gane gyte
To fling wi' John the Ranter,
for
Kittle
Bonny 's
Wi'
its
mo-
"
475
fa'
Bobbing John
Nae
chiel
DXLIV.
MAGGIE LAUDER.
This comic ballad, beginning " Wha wadna be in love
wi' bonny Maggie Lawder ?" was written by Fi-ancis SempJe
of Beltrees, Esq. in the county of Renfrew, about the year
1642.
This
fact is stated
Mr
Mr
Semple of Edin-
burgh.
In the
fifth
editor of that
number of
some
rose
"
and
loot
When
me
in,'
and
'
Beltrees,
author of
Epitaphs in
She
Maggie Lawder.'
Penny-
city
among
must send a
commander of
and whatever
offender or offenders
may be
lodged.' &c.
little
father's sister,
who had a
half-yearly instalments.
by
"
When
of
'
MAGGIE LAUDER.
DXLIV.
476
The Duke
of
now known by
the brae,
of Montrose's Lodging,
name
the
aunt told him, that she must send an account of his arrival
to the captain of Cromwell's forces, otherwise the soldiers
Francis replied,
would come and poind her moveables.
' Never you
mind that ; let them come, and I'll speak to
them.'
o'
*
Na,
na,'
your coming
and
write
I'll
quoth
here.'
'
his aunt,
Gie
Then
myscl.'
it
me
'
maun
send an account
follows
Glasgow,
Lo
(loon near
There
Francis Semple.
(Signed)
Directed
When
man
To
the
in Glasgow.'
"
derstand
dialect.
'
it,
on account of
He
considered
it
its
as an insult put
scoundrel
who
sulting, infamous,
and impudent
libel, I
'
If
me
such an in-
He
like
had the
vil-
then ordei'cd a
with
against
the
him.
insulting,
It
infamous,
was read
but
it
and
impudent
was impossible
nay,
MAGGIE
DXLIV.
tlie
477
LAUDKll.
From
moment he and
Beltrees
became intimate
Semple
On
gentlemen in Scotland.
cleverest
friends,
to
that
and he
be one of the
The
have passed
with the old lady his aunt, was humorously spent with the
captain and the other officers of Cromwell's forces,
him
in
have
who kept
staid.
Cromwell had
in-
troduced two of Semple's songs into England before the period of the Restoration
known
in
England,
for they
words and
Henry Playford
afterwards introduced the song of " She rose and let me in,"
in his " Wit and Mirth,"" vol. i. printed at London in 1698.
Gay
oipera,
of'Mogey Lauther, a
in our Alley, as
Avell
sort of
New Ansxoer,
set to
written
vols
12mo, 1816.
It possesses considerable
merit.
The
And
And
Wi'
Meg
DXLIV.^MAGGIE LAUDEB
478
And
his bride.
o'
Fife/'
And
Rob
was
want her ;
says he coudna
For he
loes
And Meg
Maggy
Rob
loes
as his
life.
the Ranter.
is
however,
is
tied,
the
name of two
The scene
where a
adjacent
of the ballad,
fair is
held on
the first Tuesday after the 11th of April, another on the 5th
day of July, and a third on the 12th day of November an-
nually.
brity,
lately acquired
an additional
cele-
Mr
Wil-
now
Professor
The
it is
Maggie Lawder
and
very
fine.
The
all
hymn
Vide Notes on
Song
The
till
was
No
lately,
Dunkeld was,
but
this conjecture
was incorrect.
The
service-book
now
is
479
Edinburgh.
It
From
written.
is
a very large
folio
Mr
it
ap-
The
Editor
resemblance to
Maggy
is
The
all,
chaunts, hymns,
DXLV.
tor
burgh
stage, at his
thor's pastoral
some of
Mr
Sheriffs
own
benefit
sung
;
this
his friends
who were
natives of Edinburgh.
Mr
Sheriffs
London but
heard
nothing
him
since that
has
of
In 1798 he went
to reside in
Mr
riod.
Edi-
Chronicle."
The
to
the
pe-
infancy.
Edinburgh.
to
1807.
He
He
*
was an excellent
his death, in
February
many
violin player.
1513,
Dei
till
et Sancti
Michxlis."
480
DXLVI.
Johnson
to
song,
threat ?"
and transmitted
in 1795,
The
Museum.
phen Clarke,
It
to
charming tune,
Mr
Ste-
organist.
was originally published as a single sheet song, a connumber of which were transmitted to Mr Burns, to
siderable
he was a member.
letter
he
to Johnson, which
says,
my
weU
Volunteer ballad.
'tis
me so
am an
You know
much.
is
amateur,
will
am no
connoisseur
but that
be allowed me."
DXLVII.
DEAR TO ME.
pastoral made its appearance about
HE'S
This sweet
little
the
is
The
learnt.
one simple
to
strain,
which indeed
it
Braw
bears a strong
resemblance.
DXLVIII.
Mrs Grant
is
to
?"
where,
tell
me
where,
departure for Holland with the British forces under the com-
mand
to
a modern Scottish
air.
The
481
DXLIX.
COLIN CLOUT.
The Editor
Gall.
recollects
may
yet be recovered.
author
is
It well deserves to
The
be printed.
anonymous.
The words
Mr
Stephen Clarke.
DL.
'TIS
This humorous
it is
title
of "
My
Heart's
my
cellany,
ain."
author
is
unknown.
The words
world before
The
Tea-Table Mis-
us,""
DLL
LOV'D A BONNIE L/ SS.
This song was the earliest that Burns ever wrote;
the bard terms it, the " first time he committed the
ONCE
O,
or, as
sin of
It
was written
in the
In
my
myself.
My
scarcity of
English
my
fifteenth
autumn
idiom
she
was a bonnie,
denies
;
me
the power of
In short,
me
in
that
of
human
joys,
How
DLL
482
O,
ONCE
LOv'd
A EONNIE
&c.
not
her,
tell
talk
;
Eolian harp
rious rattan,
and
liked so
my
I looked
am a Man
why
an
and
and
little
hand,
Among
thistles.
sung sweetly
it
her
was her
fa-
girl
behind with
ones,
Indeed, I did
to loiter
why my
vourite reel (/
much
the touch,
air,
particularly,
when
the same
made
LASS.
make
my
but
country
laird's son,
he was in love
as well as he
on one of
and
for,
whom
my
had no more
my
only, and,
love
till
and
within
highest enjoyment."
/ am a
Man
to
it is
WHEN
THINK ON MY LAD.
This song was written by Ramsay, as a substitute for the
indelicate old Scots song, called " Jumping John." Ramsay
published
it
in his
title
of
" Her Daddy forbad, her Minny forbad," in 1724. But as this
tune, with new words by Burns, had been inserted in the second
WIIEX
DLII.
volume of
tlie
Museum
THINK ON MY LAD.
483
(vide
Cock
croxv'd.
to
Mr Jeremiah
by
this
Hark
And
The
day
all
abroad.
in.
favourite in England.
1657,
title
'tis
it is
Placket," the
northern words.
satirical
In
this song,
James
II.
It
was a furious
papist,
bigotted master
in the
by
Talbot
to his
preceding year,
when
in
any of the
The
histories
of these times.
may be
seen
by Wharton, says,
" made an impression on the (king's) army that canThe whole army.
not be imagined by those that saw it not.
that
it
DLII.
484-
and
WHEN
singing
perpetually.
it
THINK ON MY LAD.
And
ballad observes,
and despicable
we may,
in
nions.
Historical
to boast, that
(Lilliburlero) he
62.
See also
Notes on Song No. 138 of the Museum. This old Scots tune
of Jumping Joan, having acquired the
new title of
Lilliburlero
air.
DLIII.
song,
ancient
my
hameward
beginning Return
The
antiquity.
wise
known by
letter
Z,
to denote its
the
is like-
essentially different
from the
air
called
it
The
is
MY
LADY'S
This sgnglwas
The words
GOWN
Museum by Burns,
in 1788.
Mr
" Gregg's
He had
dancing tunes.
natural history
skilled in the
Pipes,'"
telescopes
he was also
land-surveyor.
He
taught dancing,
until,
by old
age, he
own
DLiv
MY
He
violin.
lady's
died, regretted
all
upon't.
in
485
Novem-
Museum
it
DLV.
MAY MORNING.
This
little
beginning "
song,
are
anonymous hand.
which
is
It
is
to
shepherds
Johnson by an
very pretty.
DLVI.
LASSIE, I'M
liberty
on
which the
this account,
this
last verse,
Mr
(Mr
my
song in collecting
poetical
For a
ten
My
by him, beginning
hame, send
The
love's
in Germany, send
him
Mm hame.
song of Dinna
tJiink
Bonnie Lassie,
is
adapted to a
Gumming
Mr
Her, appears
that the tune
his
apprenticeship
very old.
It
is
in
with Johnson,
Fairlie Shot
of
Music-book,
so
Mr
DLVII. O, aiN
486
for
" Shelty"
when
Highland
in the
I play, cry
o'
HER
beginning,
Reel,
" Boys,
Co vent Garden
Crimini," acted at
in
1788.
DLVIII.
Scottish
under
Master, by Playford,
the
The Dancing
The
the
in
ings, in 1657.
admissible,
in
called
air,
inserted
is
is in-
to the
as
"
Madam
DLIX.
Thumb
first
My
sweetest
May,*
my
It begins
'
DLX.
AilGYLE
This
ballad
is
IS
MY NAME.
universally attributed to
John Campbell,
the
renowned Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, whose uncorrupted patriotism and military talents, justly entitled him to be
ranked among the greatest benefactors of
*
May,
i.
e.
Maid.
his country.
He
ARGYLE
DLX.
MY NAME.
IS
487
age.
this ballad in
o'
his
title
The
tune
is
of Gaelic
origin.
published in 1801.
DLXI.
AN
in
AWA
TO BONNY TWEEDSIDE.
This song was written by Allan Ramsay, and published
his Tea-Table Miscellany, A.D. 1726.
He directs it to
I'LL
to
Kelso go.
In the Museum,
which
is
Companion, book
Kelso go,
is
vi.
p.
The
11.
supposed to be
lost.
DLXII.
written
music in Edinburgh
known.
Two
well
in
in the sixth
volume of the
Mu-
Song 594) but they are there adapted to a diftune, taken from Gow's Collection, called Lord Bai-
(vide
ferent
still
seum
Mr
gcmies Delight.
DLXIII.
Mr
the Edi-
DLXm.
488
the singing of
Johnson,
IN
tlie
Mr
this
publisher of the
The
Museum.
Mr
James
formed that
air,
was very
it
From
ancient.
strain,
man's information.
DLXIV.
fair,"
ballad, beginning
But the
among
the peasantry of
strain
of double mean-
a bar to
its
more polished
reception in the
circles
of modern
society.
DLXV.
The composer
which the verses are united, has hitherto escaped the researches of the Editor.
DLXVI.
unite
it
Lament.
This
Mr
Burns, about
terations
on the
first
made
several al-
as I
air.
I'll
enclose
to send to
!;
DLXVI.
O,
It
Museum
he had altered
air,
THE MILLj
recollection,
O'
be sung to the
The
his intention of
air
of
to the
Hume's Lament ;
Works, we find that it is
489
&C.
is
Dr
a Barrack.
in
lie
for, in
directed to
annexed
for
the
reader's perusal.
MEG
Air" 0,
0'
THE
MILL.
lie
in u Barrack."
O KEN
The
The
The
fine
\.
O wae
DLXVII.
HOW SWEET
This
Mr
fine
IS
song
is
Richard Gall.
of the
called
in the hands^
fine old air,
DLXVIII.
The words
it is
original
was communicated by
Mr
Gall himself
modern
air,
Avhich
490
DLXIX.
HOW SWERT
Thomas
late
In a
letter
Burns admired
all
The
this
song
Mr George Thomson,
Mr Erskine's songs are
addressed to
is divine.'"
DLXX.
JOCKEY'S TA'EN THE PARTING KISS.
Museum.
a Man,
Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Comsupposed to be now lost-
is
which
is
panion.
also preserved in
The
old song
is
written
by Burns
for the
DLXXI.
and printed
Tea-Table Miscellany,
in the
in
1724,
is
not
her
Apron
song to be sung to
but
this
DLXXII.
LITTLE
This
WAT YE WHA'S
COiMING.
rebellion in 1715.
tor-Roll, 1715."
The
author, of course,
is
anonymous.
tlie
High-
bLXXtl.
Lll'TLE
WAT YK
The
49l
COMING,
^VlTA'S
the Visjcount
for
Kenmurc,
Northumberland, and
The names in
the
The
ly called
line
all.
first
It
began
Piddle strings are dear, laddlc;,
Fiddle strings are dear, laddie.
An' ye break your fiddle strings.
Ye se
The
sarfie
tune, in
Treeladle," which
The
unable to discover.
is
collections, Is
Both
if
airs
seem
to
of
The Rob
1785,
who
own
sur-
name.
in
The words
in place of his
or dancing tune.
DtXXIV.
It
19
492
DT-NXIV.
LAV THY
O,
I.OOF IN
MINE, LASS.
The
on St Crispin's day.
first
tune
is
jr^eeling)
It
)rks.
script of this
positions,
late
heard the author's father read the manupoem and that of " Kenneth," as his son's com-
Blacklock
J -r
first
in his
more
most amply
verified,
Johnson, the pubhsher of the Museum,, has omitted seveof the ballad for want of room, but the reader
ral stanzas
Edinburgh
whole of it in
in
Mr
The
is,
Museum
The
composer's
name has
DLXXVI.
PLAINTIVE SOUNDS.
This song was written by William Hamilton of Bangour,
GO,
Esq.
Mr
of his
own
to a
London
fiile
is
1794.
modern
set the
words to a tune
In the
Scottish air.
Museum
the
;
^
493
DLXXVII.
On
Mr
Syme,
is
very interesting.
Mr Syme
Kenmure,
"
I took
him
(says
Mr
of
it
out
cudbright.
The
set
Mr Gordon
Avide around.
The
The
he
soil
poet enjoyed
meditation.
Isle,
and
song.)
letter, in
begged
me
to
Mr
Day dawis,
or, as
it is
air
sometimes called,
make
it
but
till
it
had no idea
the accidental
Mr
my rhyming
is
to
mania."
Mr
me
Burns
to
the noblest
hap-
DLXXVII.
494
pened
to dine
I read
They were
it.
all
charmed with
it,
entreated
it,
whom
me to
it
arise
versed again and again with the greatest enthusiasts for Scottish airs
I say, I
Mr
worthy of notice."
that he
but
had
fixed
T. then proceeds
as
for the
words
this
verse, to
make
This unfortunate
obhged Burns
criticism
it
to lengthen
and
newly-suggested
up
That
it
may
whom no
The
Sinclair,
To
better
judge of
who
it
appears
is
The
reflection,
the public.
Hey
tutti taitie" is
jiis
Mr
gallant ancestors.
Lewie Gordon' a
fitter
but,
on
DLXXVII.
togetherj
The
and published
editor,
tutti taitie'
in the preceding
495
much
Lewie Gordon.'
the second
Hey now
Day
the
air
of
the obsei-vations
better
"'''
As
Hey
upon
Johnson requested
it
Mr
in a
No
170, and
to set
It is
undoubtedly pretty, but by no means calculated to give adequate expression to the bold and energetic sentiments of the
Some
bard.
tion of this
poem, sing
it
these reasons,
and
according to the
first in-
Scots wha
"^T
liae
Avi'
=g=^
Day
daivis."
f~t
af-ten led.
by Burns,
the
Vr
^^^
Hey now
^^^
i 4:xEz ^E^
J
originally written
KZIK
Welcome
to
iHii
:l
wham
Bruce has
m.
Or
;iH
490
^^i^^
tlie
how. See
lovv'r.
^m
-9
"^
s>
sla -
ve -ry.
BE
Wha
Wha
Wha
Wha
can
fill
a coward's grave,
We
and law
strongly draw.
free.
DLXX^^II.
song, entitled
Edinburgh.
Mr
It
is
late
adapted to a favourite
air,
composed by
The
between
Jloxvery Banl^:Sf
49?
DLXXIX.
its
and transmitted
Mr
"
ballad, beginning
fine old
harper," with
original melody,
to
Johnson
Avas
for his
heard ye of a
silly
recovered by Burns,
Museum.
Mr Boyd, the
ingenious translator of
collection of a ballad of
'
a Scotch minstrel
who
stole
a horse
In
Mr
edition of the
same
The
seum.
it is
title
is
Mr
Scott's edition.
The
merry Carlisle,
and low.
And the fiend thing dought they do but
Until the day began to daw.
follow-
while, in
all this
Mr
Mu-
which
we have another
The Lochma-
of "
Now
Border,
under the
ballad,
to high
carped,
In
Mr
warden of that
King Henry
and the
himself.
-DLXXX.
MY NANNIE,
Tins
Poems,
at
Edinburgh,
in 1787.
Stinchar
0.
song, beginning
flows,"
The
first line
hills
of
where
Ayr,
in
bLXJiX. MY
498
Burns
directs the
This
Nannie, O."
the
Museum,
No
88.
:KrANNiE, o.
In order
Vide Sojig
Mr
same tune,
ham,
My
volume of
to a favourite
Mr Thomas Ebdon
of Dur-
organist.
DLXXxt.
GO FROM
MY WINDOW,
LOVE, DO.
and
harlotrie."
The
Editor,
first vei'se
of
Wed*
derburne's parody.
Ej^^5Ez5"^^|Efcl|
Who is
at
my
Go
from
my window, goe^
RgfF
Who
call - is
there,
so
S^^rfJi^^^
lilie
stranger
Go
DLXXXL-GO
from
my
window,
FllOM
MY WINDOW,
LOVE, DO.
499
go.
Wedderburn''s parody must have been well known in England early in the reign of Elizabeth, for a new tune was
made
by J. D. i. e. John Dowland, which is still preserved
in a work called " An Instruction to the Orpharion," printed at London by William Barley, in 1596. Dowland contributed " Mrs Winter's Jump," and several other airs, to this
work but his tune of " Go from my Window, goe," is altoto
it
DLXXXII.
was sent
The
to
upon some
Italian legend,
is
probably built
to
had an eye
said to
of
Henry
wanting
cer.
of
III.
what
As
for
Milan
The
it
probably contained,
MiRRYLAND-TowN,
(called
it is
may be
seen in Chau-
probably a corruption
since the
years
child's
body
But
Mathew
Paris,
practice of
500
DLXXXII.
&C.
For,
-vyhich
if
we
consider,
took their
rise,
der ;
excite
them
by the
perpetrators,
to a crime of so
much
horror,
to
we may reasonably
lished
merely a fragment.
by
Mr Jamieson
in his
from the
the reverend
der the
title
Ballads, vol.
in the
more
recitation of
Dr Brown.
perfect copy
was pub-
That
It
wife of
ballad, un-
page 210.
Edinburgh, 1814.
But the
fol-
SIR
HUGH OF LINCOLN,
An
The
Whan
town,
THE
DLXXXII.
llAIN KINS
DOWN, &C,
Hugh
daughter.
" How
" Come
In Sir
And
sail
ye
Hugh,
my
Sir
Hugh,
;"
in.
And
in.
The mirkest
o'
them
a*.
And
Hugh
Whar
And
And
And
And
And
first
drest
it like
a swine.
501
502
THE RAIN
DLXXXII.
lllNS
DOWN,
&C.
When
bells
came hame ;
Then ilka lady had her young
But lady Helen had nane.
An'
a*
the bairns
son.
And
"
My
Then
And
"
knelt
My
my
heart.
my mither dear.
winding-sheet.
And at the back o' merry Lincoln,
It's there we twa sail meet.
Gae hame, gae hame,
Prepare
Now
my
Made him a
Was
By woman,
chyld, or
man.
begari.
'
DLXXXir.
Though
bability,
it
is
tragic ballad
of
still
not only
it
503
in
lies
was sung
it
England,
also
is
known.
from
Mr
Smith's
vol.
folio 65.
i.
:E
iss
Sae does
azzz
lads
mir
o'
ry
doon the
m^
JEE^rz^drritw
Pa ;
it
land toun.
When
^^5
faAi^ggg
2E
th-
)'
ba'.
t-
i^^^S^
-J
4-^-^4-
^^
m^
Will
ye
come
in
and
dine
win
na come
^P
in.
Without
isi:
my
playferes
S^
)i
^^^S
ang
can-na come
in,
nine
-SJ
504
DLXXXIII.
CAULD
IS
Museum.
Peggy
RamIt is adapted to an old
"
O'er
say," Avhich, in several bars, resembles the tune of
Bogie." The ancient words, adapted to the tune of Peggy
This
by Burns
for the
Ramsay, began
Bonny Peggy Ramsay,
As ony man may see.
Has a bonny sweet face.
And
corrupted copy
old song is witty, but indelicate.
was inserted in the third volume of Henry Playford's
The
of
it
Pills,
published at
to the tune of
diflFerent
London
in 1704,
who
directs
it
to
and very
be sung
is totally
DLXXXIV.
the
first line
of a
Be
Be
silly
be lordly.
be lordly ;
Put a hand in each side
And walk like a bride,
Your mither bids you be lordly.
lordly, lassie^
lordly, lassie,
DLXXXV.
0,
SILK.
third
Vide
Song No
Siller
Crown"
240.
first
appeared
modern
Scottish air,
of the
the
sixtli
Both
volume
505
DLXXXXVI.
LASS.
The words
by Burns.
written
are adapt-
NO CHURCHMAN AM
This
in
I.
is
was published
It
1787.
The words
" Prepare,
my
dear
Several
Brethren," "
modern
songs, such as
DLXXXVIII,
song, beginning
renowned,"
is
"
The
tune
of Cul-
be a Gaelic melody.
said to
is
DLXXXIX.
THERE'S NEWS, LASSES, NEWS
This humorous song was retouched by Burns from a very
ancient one, called " I winna gang to my Bed until I get a
!
Man."
be
It
is
considered
Reels.
title
one of the
It appears in Skene's
of / winna
gang
to
MSS.
my Bed
till
air,
which
may
specimens of Scottish
earliest
circa,
I sud
die.
^^i4.vj.4'^i, ;i
DXC.
HARD
This
IS
many
air, to
is
not known.
Clarke.
The
The
Mr
William
506
DXCX.
Macvicar, to which
it
No
Museum.
any regular
in
as an answer.
was printed
It
Vide Song,
as a sheet song,
NELLY'S DREAM.
This song, beginning Bright the moon aboon yon mountain, was written by the late Mr John Hamilton, music-seller in-
Mr
He
Edinburgh.
song, and
it
published
was copied
into the
it
Museum by
his permission.
Hamilton furnished
same
work.
O THAT
The
first
by Burns
Dxcm.
HAD NE'ER BEEN MARRIED.
Museum.
for the
old
is
The Bard
it is
likewise
communica-
united.
describe to you the anxious sleepless hours these ties freI see a train of helpless
and
my
does the
exertions
life
of
man hang
of fate, even in
stay
all their
all
of fortune.
little
If I
flock
father
on
little
folks,
me
am
the vigour of
come of my
manhood
gracious
God
as I
command
am such
an everlasting
woe enough
but the
man
THAT
DXCIII.
;: ; ;
;!
507
while I
if
"
To
Now
They
cry,
crowdie
Crowdielance
and bainis
evermair.
crowdie! twice
DXCIV.
GIN
This fragment
is
printed in 1776.
merit.
In a
ROSE.
letter to
Songs
little
AiE.
"
And
know,
is
awa' by Phoebus'
light.
inexpressibly beautiful,
original.
It
is
myself, for a
musing
it,
five minutes,
When
to the spring
a bird to shelter there.
wearied on
quite, so far
my
little
a place.
have
After balancing
on the hind-legs of my
And
it
but in vain.
" O WERE my
and
wing
el-
508
GIN
DXCIV.
ROSE.
When
youthfu'
May
will
husband
but
if
its
bloom renew'd."
worthy insertion at
as every poet,
all,
they might be
of his trade,
stroke."
Burns' Works.
Mr Thomson
old and
new words
" Hughie
it
is
Second Collection,
ser's
i.
e.
is
called
This melody,
Ceanu dubh
dileas,
in
and
Gow's
in Era-
some
notes,
same
air,
printed in the
Irish Melodies.
red
from the
air,
first line
written
by
of a beautiful
the late
Mr
Anthology.
he composed
Mr Alexander Campbell,
In the
first
donald of Kilmore.
The
it
C. says
791, or
Mr
1783, and in
made
Maca di-
Gow
and Campbell.
But
DXCIV.
GIN
509
ROSE.
"
lay
was taken from Aird's First Collection, and has been known
it
composition.
"
of
air
gin
my Love
were but a
Hughie
Graham, nor the Gaelic or Irish Melody before alluded
to.
Both the words and air of this old song are still very
Rose,"
is
The
well known.
first
four lines of
it,
as printed in Herd's
comparatively modern.
question, nor
The
strain of
double mean-
Anderson has
selected
for his
is
but the
that which
Mr
WHEN OUR
GOOD-
AW A.
copy of the
original,
which
is
Moffat^""
ballad
is
" quod
others.
The name
discovered
answer
it
to be
an
written
by
translator
of
in
the
The
first
he.
volume
of, the
modern tune
a sprightly
latter to
DXCVI.
in 1776.
the
new
burgh, by the
the air
of
series
is
late
said to
Mr James
adapted to an
air in
published at Edin-
In that work
"
have been
communicated by a lady in
Sibbald, in 1803.
Orkney.''
to
DXCVII.
communicated the
from the
dently borrowed
Andro and
air to
which
fine
but
He
it is
united
old
Lowland melody of
it is
evi-
it
also written
p-LUE.
and published by
Mr
John HaMuseum.
DC.
A'.
the breaking
up of
The
it,
prin-
as their
DC.
at the
lished in
755.
ledonian Pocket
last
Macgibbon placed
Oswald closed the fourth volume of his CaCompanion with the same air. Oswald pro-
it
would be the
last
volume of
Mr
more.
511
less
his
work,
than
eigJit
last
in
Mu-
seum.
The
to
Museum.
said to
first is
murder of
Sir
beginning Adieu
song,
second
a heartwarm
Jbnd adieu! In one of his letters, he says, " Balladmaking is now as completely my hobby-horse, as ever fortifiwas Uncle Toby's
cation
come
the
to the limit of
right
side
fully looking
been
race,
and
who
I'll
e'en canter
(God grant
shall
say or sing,
!),
my
raising
away
it
that I
himself the
Voice
of
Worhs,
Coila,
in
of Cona.
take
and then,
cheer-
whom
I have
a'
hae
till
may
Sae merry as we
so
race,
been happy, I
!'
my
vol. iv.
'
Good
Burns here
imitation of Ossian,
Coila, or Kyle,
is
the
The
burgh
It
is
there entitled
to the
and Joy be
wi'
you
a'."
this
512
;!
DC.
a'.
which was
to the life of
During
this
he became a Freemason,
a boon com-
panion.
historians,) I
(when
his
company,)
all
to
in
given to drinking."
We shall conclude
of Burns.
Life
tain to his
My
When
But when
When
I
I
in peace
then mark
me
there,
wanderer came,
My
gee
I'll
see
you triumph
you
ere I fa'
night,
FINIS.
^
shine,
Good
Oliver
hear.
Boyd, Piinlas.
a'.
Mr
513
ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
PART VL
Dill.
collection of
He
inserted
in the Scotish
lyrical pieces.
One
of these,
Agam,
p.
is
23.
The
ii.
the request of L. G. G.
in Holland.
few days
after it
Dr Thomas Murray,
way,
p.
is
MS.
247, refers to a
municated by
his
On applying to Dr
Wigton.
Life of
Murray,
He
College in 1769.
Church
He
which farm
gow
his father
was tenant, on
studied at
first for
the Scotish
any thing
he accepted of an
office as
where he
being small,
if
at all,
2o
514
meant
The
clergyman.
Church
as a
not given.
is
am
gow,
to
'
it,
he had
At
tating to him.'
in Fochabers,
Ebenezer
M. D. from
is,
He
cudbrightshire.
left
Fochabers in 1806.
He was
He
Kirk-
died in
F. R. S. E."
DVI.
WHERE ESK
The
CURRENT LEADS.
ITS SILVER
and he died at
and a
list
November
1824, p. 637.
DVIII.
ROW
The
collection of
of the
Museum,) which
is
mentioned by
Mr
S. at
page 444,
now
SAFTLY,
THOU STREAM.
515
bears the date " Edinburgh, from the press of Oliver and
Boyd," 1819.
12mo.
DX.
O CHERUB CONTENT.
This
Thomas Campbell,
was born
Esq.,
is
he stated two
I think,
him
His
in this place.
This well-known
ballad, or
poem,
is
There was an
which Ramsay prob-
ably copied,
when he
inserted the
poem
in
green," 1724.
DXIII.
O BOTHWELL BANK.
tution of
Decayed
Intelligence,"
first
published at Ant-
werp, 1605.
words.
The first
On
vol.
ii.
p. 131.
this
stanza
is
descriptive,
Be mysel
Wharby
The
516.
BOTHWELL BANK.
to
Maitland's
MSS.
Cam-
The
all
minutely stated
I confess
my ignorance of what
is
here meant by " the Annals of Transcribing," unless, perit may have some allusion to the learned
Mr
Penny, the " Historian of Linlithgowshire," whose accuracy and minute research were so highly commended by his
literary executors in 1831, although, it must be admitted,
that the merit of his work consists wholly in the accuracy
with which he transcribed that portion of Chalmers's " Cale-
chance,
In regard to Pinkerton,
would have been strange had he pretended any " mystery" where there was none; as the MSS. in question
may be seen in the Pepysian Library to this day. Some
it
biographer of
Mr
it
is
Robert Chambers
shall attribute to
him
all
ought
to
were copied.
Aftei: all,
article in
Chambers's Work, merely improves upon the similar blundering statement that appeared in Nichols's Literary
lustrations, &c., vol. V. p. 670.
Il-
O BOTHWELL BANK,
at
517
and
conceit, (not to
questionably a
man
With
March 1825,
mention other
failings,)
at
petulance
he was un-
by
litera-
DXV.
LAMINGTON RACES.
This Song
is
attributed, at
an acquaintance of
seum.
is
Mr
page 456,
to
"
Mr Macaulay,
this
Mr M.
was
Mu-
but
it
Mac-
for
several collections.
is
stanzas,
ed
in Wilson's collection,
Mr
S. notices as contain-
to
be by
B s."
t,
1770," and subsequent years, he pubanonymously, the " Cave of Morar," " Poetical
Legends," and some other poems, in a separate form. Mr
lished
518
when
In July 1805,
the
new system
November 1781.
He died
August 1817.
at his
(Scots
Mag. 1817,
p. 99.)
DXXV.
This song
is
Wordsworth, who to his " Yarrow Un1803, " and Yarrow Visited," in 1814, again
English Poet,
visited," in
honoured
this
Mr
his
visited," in 1831.
DXXIX.
AH
MARY
in a small
Edinburgh,
1803," 8vo,
The author
well
of Auchinleck,
of Johnson,
was the
Alexander Bos-
He
suc-
Baronet in 1821.
ah! MARY
519
him
in a dispute,
last
sad
brother
offices to his
tion of
Privately printed."
DXXXVI.
A GENTLEMAN
MS.
me
at St Andrew's.
"
may mention
'
was
'
composed on the
youth
ill-fated
of Alexander, seventh
its
origin;
this
i.
p. xx), refers to a
MS. volume
his
of "
Mar-
the rest
a copy of this
520
He
well-known ballad.
charging
veil,
accordingly claimed
it
for
"
MarI
am
sorry this truth (he adds) did not appear sooner, that the
now
Notwithstanding
refers to,
Allan
Ram-
Mr
his
own
life,
are
for
Davies's
life
Catholic,
" by whose
was rather scandalized than reclaimed." There
he had resided
philosophy
mentions, that
Roman
his
irreligion, in
of Garrick.
DXL.
The
Mr Graham
song by
of
When
Border.
passion
still
common
I.
much
first
published by Sir
be a traditional version of a
to
reflected the
to
it
setting
beams of
chivalry."
Curious
Mr
Jeffreys."
Sir
Walter was
There
is
is
no reason, however^
to doubt, that
it
to
Mr
521
Graham, of whom the following is a brief notice, obliginglycommunicated by Sir John Graham Dalyell, Kt., who is
his nephew on the mother's side.
(See Douglas's Peerage,
daughter of William,
Earl of Glencairn.
twelfth
Revenue of the
last
and of a
1775
patriotic disposition
he warmly encouraged
Having been
tune.
lor,
ters.
of Sir John
for-
Tay-
Dr
Thomas Buchanan
of
Leny; whose
Mr Graham of
for
the
late
Miss Blamire,
Langsyne.
Carlisle,"
to the tune
It begins,
When
Had
I
silent time,
sought again
my
native land
fears
is in-
By
of Auld
522
WHAT
AILS THIS
Wha kens
May
HEART OF MINE.
still
left
continue mine.
Castle.
ment
for
called
who
Esq.,
adds, that
is
Mr M.
and
the peasantry about her, and that she was generally addressed in their provincial
manner by the
of Miss
title
Sukey"
DXLIII.
"
'
Written
for this
probably wrong
be found in the
This
is
stall
copies, besides
substituting
*'
three
it
is
likely that he
Museum, making
it
The
by
last stanza
begins
"
Now
Robin's
a'
my
&c."
(C. K. S.)
DXLIV.
MAGGY LAUDER.
The late Mr
OF Beltrees.
As
Poems
attributed to the
Semples
hands of his
MAGGY LAUDER.
Mr
friend,
P. A. Ramsay,
it
is
523
to be
be abandoned.
My good friend,
of the inimitable
Languages
in Dollar
Academy, has
of Oriental
Memoir of
Professor Tennant
is
and genius
short
edition of
to this air,
tonfield
may be
ter of
whom
spirit,
much
satirical wit,
Her
union.
bered
fifty
she made
and no children
years ago
herself
many enemies by
Among
took
it
into her
There seems
to have
been
by poems of a
different stamp,
!;
MAGGY LAUUER.
524
and pretended
what was only meant in jest. Lady Dick
the year 1741.
There is a half-length portrait of
to take seriously
died in
ill
Alexander
Hay
of Drummelzier."
On Tweedside
The
darling
He
For
as
He
He
his heart.
Than
He
saft
and sweet
The
loveliest
When
widow
in the. land.
to
painted.
Her
Anne, daughter of
(C. K. S.)
charm him.
sir.
MAGGY LAUDER.
525
And
sir.
How
Michael
When
she
give
her beauty.
Peter's such a
To whom
How
all
sir.
Roman
To
sir.
worthy
saint.
Roman
let
title
of
Lord Royston (and third son of George, first Earl of Cromartie), by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Mackenzie
of Rosehaugh, Lord Advocate in the reign of Charles the
Second.
As stated above, she became Lady Dick by marriage.
In the Scots Magazine for September 1741, (p.
431,) where her death
is
recorded, she
of Sir William
is
simply styled
Dick of Corstorphine."
DXLV.
A COGGIE OF ALE.
Andrew
He
is
best
little
known
as the author of
" Jamie
In the de-
" To the Honourable the County Club of Aberdeenshire," the author says, " he never was, and probably
dication
526
COGGIE OF ALE.
As
South
at
able to ascertain.
DXLVIII.
Mr
Ritson, in
his
'
North Country
Chorister,' gives
There was
and
'
is
fair
fair
It is
fair
fair,
Te
O,
O,
fair
fair,
name
the mair
was
to blame.
&e.
scarlet coat laid o'er wi' gold, a waistcoat o' the same.
Te
dilly dan,
O,
O,
fair
fair,
&c.
fair
fair,
&c.
Te dUly
O,
O,
MS. made by
(C. K. S.)
maid, what
if
&c.
fair
fair,
dilly,
The
is
if I
be the
may be
known
to
so
man ?
;
I'se
baud ye
ried to the
be quoted
of
too well
whom
&c.
Te
&c.
Te
527
in this place.
This lady,
she survived
November 1838,
A detail-
and writings, which originally appeared in the Edinburgh newspapers, will be found in the
ed notice of her
life
Gentleman's Magazine
for
January 1839,
p. 97.
DLIII.
styled the
Ana-
creon of Scotland.
O GIN
John Anderson,
informed,
still
HER.
am
O'
living in Edinburgh.
Museum,
is,
ARGYLE
528
IS
MY NAME.
DLX.
ARGYLE
IS
MY NAME.
him
into ridi-
S.)
DLXIX.
The
Honourable
of Alexander,
daughter of
fifth
Dr
He was
Pitcairne.
who was a
he held a
lieu-
On
its
literary correspondence,
in verse as well as
prose, with
them were
we need
Both of
collection of
He
much lamented.
Mr George
VALE.
529
Dr
letter itself
Currie.
of verses.
Kellie
any nonsense
insert
gether disregarded
R[
^?],
who
;)
fill it
Mr
let
him
I hear is a
to
as in a letter to Boswell,
me
tells
N[airne?], and to
excellent
my
may
also
brother Lord
poems by him."
The
Thomas
KELSO RACES.
Tune
Logan
Water.
1.
'
2.
Of Dukes
As sweet a dear woman as e'er blest a man ;
Of mien most engaging, how finely she dances.
With her sister-in-law, full of mirth. Lady Frances.
Nisbet of Dirleton.
Lady Frances
Scott, afterwards
2 p
KELSO RACES.
530
3.
Of Nabobs a
pair, their
names
shall
have
strait.
The
And
set at these
Quoth he
Nabobs
an old Jew
like
what you
list.
Down
us,
9.
My
Pray look
cousin,
10.
O'
He
my
Nisbet of Dirleton.
Mr John
Nisbet.
(In
MS.)
'^
7 (In
MS.) M'Dowell,
. :
KELSO
531
RACES..
his fun.
11.
Mr Stewart Shaw,
Lord Percy's piper who travels to Blair, (?)
An Irish dear joy, two captains of foot.
And Lord North ^ the waiter who danced so stout.
My
12.
And
solicitor
Dundas 9
is
the happy
man
13.
border.
full scope.
14.
That
loveliest of girls,
There was
fat
Sandy Maxwell
as big as a tun,
As
fine jolly
fell
by.
17.
Who
they say
is
possessed of
many
Wat
Scott of Harden,
a farthing
If*
and
sister Isabella.
532
KELSO RACES.
And numbers more
I
over
On
be
my pleasure
very dear
was obliged
all
night,
did earn.
to return to Blanearn.
the subject of
Lord
it
may
Minuets,
1836, 4to.
late
Erskine,
(brother of the
It is entitled
to
still
Follow' d obsequious
To
rule, with
DLXXV.
p. 1,) printed at
O'
Mr
MEIKLE PRIDE.
Mackenzie's Works, (vol.
Edinburgh,
" DUNCAN
" The following ballad was an almost extempore prowhen I was a mere lad, in imitation of the
abrupt and laconic description of the ancient Scottish
ballad, some of which had been collected and published at
It was sent, under the above title, to the editor
that time.
of The London Chronicle, who published it without any
duction, written
'2
o'
MEIKLB PRIDE.
533
comment
that
Thane
the
that appellation.
It
meikle pride,
as applying personally to
by
o'
w^as so inar-
as
edition,
They come in
restored.
Wou'd then my
uncle force
my
love,
Henry Mackenzie,
by the
title
of his
by
life,
Works,
vol. iv.
is
included
Edin. 1834,
12mo.
DLXXVII.
Gordon of
to
Straloch's
MS. Lute
it is
Book, 1627,
no resemblance
The
by Dunbar, who
the common minstrels of the town of Edinburgh,
earliest reference to
is
BRUCE
534
(that
is,
James the
which
is
name
dif-
melody, and
it is
artificial
it
posed by some of the musicians at the Scotish Court during the minority of James the Sixth, to suit Montgomery's
page 163.
this
work
THE
IIAIN RINS
535
DLXXXII.
Hugh
lish ballads
and Mother-
It is entitled,
Eng-
collec-
Recueil de
M.CC.LV.
Public
The Anglo-Norman
ballad
is
Matthew
in
It
begins
treison
De un
enfant que
Huchon
ont nom.
DLXXXIX.
MS.
circa
1620.
DXC.
HARD
IS
known
as the author of
is
life
The
am
Works,
London, 1830, 2
in
vols.
Poets,
12mo.
at
Ednam,
in
Roxburghshire,
HARD
536
IS
The copy
of verses
intended to
make
a secret of
it
'
ter' is
It
has met
The
whom Malcolm
injustice I did
him
assist
place,
and
will
He
it.
now
is
now
be able to requite
in the press,
and
all
published.
You
verses,
one written by
Since
me
all
this is so,
my
active in endea;
it
and
edition of his
you
good
poem
as soon as
Mr
I will
I believe I
shall be sent to
mendatory
compa-
settled in a very
The second
make me
our club.
my
first
vouring to
by
by a
myself.
am
Thomson's earliest printed verses occur in a volume entitled " The Edinburgh Miscellany," vol. I. (no second
volume ever appeared). Edinburgh, 1720, 12mo.
Since the previous notes regarding Malloch or Mallet,
were printed, a search has been made in the parochial
registers of Crieif (from
to
in
1700.
HARD
his
IS
537
bourhood of
November 1704,
"by
like,
were dismissed,"
DXCII.
GO TO BERWICK, JOHNNY.
street,
was one of
Edinburgh.
and
it
an ancient family,
friends.
In the Scots Magazine for November 1814, the following notice occurs
Sept. 23d,
ton,
" Died
in the
53d year of
and painful
illness,
DXCIV.
O GIN
To
other
ROSE.
the two verses inserted in this Note, the one old, the
by Burns,
this
Mr
538
O GIN
ROSE.
it
breath,
to play
And
sprinkle
it
Mr
As
fine Song-,
to mention, that
may take
this
opportunity
Bard has recently appeared, by Mr Philip A. Ramsay, pre" The Poems and Songs of Robert Tannahill,
fixed to
and of
his friend,
12mo.
where he
died, 17th of
May
of his age.
'
Glasgow, 1838,
Robert A. Smith."
usually styled
for
much
at Reading,
ally a
for a
18th of
November 1780.
number of
father, origin-
life,
him by
settle in
we
find
Edinburgh as a teacher
of music.
Reading
by
His
settled at
letter addressed to
Mr
Thomson
to
he came hither
ment
his not
and
I believe
having done so at an
la-
He
lies
interred in St
Cuth-
O GIN
bert's
burying-ground.
1824, 6
and
vols.,
well
his
539
and beauty
and above
all,
by
and good
skill
taste,
long continue
to
The
late
projected the
Mr Ramsay
He was
as a pleasing
for
many
years
prime of
DC.
The
Wl'
" Songs
air,
appeared in
Mr
YOU
Joanna Baillie,
Allan Cunningham's
were copied, by
his son,
Mr
A'.
whence they
Lond. 1835.
and Scotland."
2 vols. 12mo.
GOOD-NIGHT, GOOD-NIGHT
The sun
E'en
is
is
done.
one by one
540
It
Wl'
; ! !
YOU
A*.
may
And,
;; !
No
As
this
now
INDEX
SONGS OR AIRS CONTAINED
MUSICAL MUSEUM.
VoL
I,
contains pages
III.
1-101
II.
102-208
209-310
THE
IN
_
_
V.
VI.
311-413
414-516
517-620
Page,
Page.
Absence,
.
cock laird, fu' cadgie,
cogie of ale, and a pickle
A
A
.191
153
....
meal,
A country lass,
,
Ae day a braw wooer,
Ae fond kiss, &c., .
564
356
538
358
400
546
Afton water, .
.
.
Ah Mary, sweetest maid,
Ah the poor shepherd's
mournful fate,
.
.
!
...
.
Allan water,
Alloa house,
.
.
mother's lament for the
death of her son,
.
And I'll kiss thee yet,
An Gille dubh ciar dhubh,
An I'U awa' to bonny Tweed.
158
270
177
418
43
246
....
....
side,
fire,
An
thou wert
my
ain thing,
Argyll
is
my
A rosebud
As
name,
by
my
early walk,
by yon castle
....
cam down
.
,
201
135
B.
Banks of Spey,
.
Bannocks o' bear meal,
.
.
Benny
547
415
416
578
197
side,
371
4
134
31
224
Bessy's baggies,
...
Birks of Aberfeldie,
Blink o'er the burn,
Betty,
.
.
Blue bonnets,
.
Blythe Jockie,
1 94
489
.160
580
336
came in by Auchindoun, 308
I came o'er the Cairney
mount,
480
wa',
As
As
280
my bosom
As
525
went o'er, &c.,
went out ae May morning, 410
318
A southland Jenny,
441
As Sylvia in a forest lay,
526
As walking forth,
486
Auld King Coul,
.
Auld langsyne,
26
.
.
Auld langsyne,
426
.
256
Auld Robin Gray,
.
Auld Rob Morris,
200
354
Auld Sir Symon the King,
A waukrife minnie,
298
Awa', whigs, awa',
272
,
Ay waukin', O,
222
.
Ay waking oh,
396
As
ait
lay on my bed on a
601
night,
.
.
.
359
.
As I was wand'ring,
As
163
98
116
sweet
'
...
52
473
23
INDEX.
Page.
Blytlie Jockie,
Bonnie
Bell,
Bonny Bessy,
Bonny Christy,
Bonny Dundee,
Bonny Jean,
30
187
230
...
31
61
100
55
205
....
Busk
By
.
.
ye, busk ye,
the delicious warmness of
thy mouth,
Cameronian
rant,
.
.
to explore,
Charlie he's my darling,
Chronicle of the heart,
Clarinda,
.
.
.
Clout the caldron,
Cock up your beaver,
Colin Clout,
.
.
Colonel Gardener,
Come
Come,
follow, follow
65
290
288
248
248
312
273
236
603
170
254
440
482
.206
.
24
319
.568
214
552
me,
nymph
here's to the
that I love,
Come kiss wi'
wi' me,
131
596
.262
.
Captain Cook's death,
Carle an the king come.,
Carle an the king come (old
words),
.
Carron side,
Ca' the ewes to the knowes,
Cauld frosty morning,
Cauld is the evening blast,
Cauld kail in Aberdeen,
Cease, cease, my dear friend,
.
psalms,
354
Donocht-head,
.
the burn Davie,
Drap o' capie, O,
Druimon dubh,
Dumbarton's drums,
Duncan Davison,
Duncan Gray,
.
.
E.
Earl Douglas' lament,
East nook of Fife,
.
Ettrick banks,
Evan banks,
Evanthe,
187
169
156
168
151
Eppie Adair,
Eppie M'Nab,
388
75
306
miller,
261
344
Dusty
34
270
574
lassie,
Down
352
286
290
.346
82
516
.394
F.
Failte na miosg,
.
.
Fair Eliza,
.
.
Fair Eliza,
.
.
Fairest of the fair,
.
.
Farewell, ye fields,
.
.
Fife and a' the lands about it,
Finlayston house,
.
Fine flowers in the valley,
268
378
.379
love,
125
280
331
300
448
182
I
.312
Freicedan (M.),
Frennett hall,
Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae.
.
33
597
171
Fourteenth of October,
Frae the friends and land
Galashiels,
Cromlet's
Galloway Tam,
...
418
102
296
1
363
149
D.
Dainty Davie,
Come,
Come
Cumnock
.401
Page.
Cumbernauld house,
207
G.
Gaelic
Gaelic
Gaelic
Gaelic
Gaelic
Gae
air,
air,
air,
air,
air,
to the
ky
wi'
.
183
266
.
378
379
399
me Johnny, 142
.
.158
.
336
INDEX.
Ill
Page,
Morrice
581
337
310
67
....212
Page.
night,
Gingling Geordie,
Gladsmuir,
.
.
.
Gloomy December,
'
.
482
210
513
302
...
.
186
Highland lamentation,
Highland song,
Hooly and fairly,
How long and dreary
.
is
Hughie Graham,
....
619
blue,
do confess thou art sae fair, 332
153
.
I dream'd I lay, &c.,
If e'er I do weel it's a wonder, 332
I had a horse and I had nae
I
mair,
.193
Hallow
Fair,
Hamilla,
is
,143
.462
loves,
Hardy Knute,
of Largs,
Ill
146
260
petticoat,
who
610
I'll
289
Have you any pots or pans, 336
Her absence will not alter me, 72
Here awa', there awa',
58
Here's a health to my true
.
love,
.174
....
.511
....
lad,
115.
405
368
ain,
...
love
I love
I
love
277
92
464
276
244
404
213
364
my Jean,
my jovial sailor,
my love in secret,
.
or the battle
.
my
me
427
586
588
312
107
lanthy the lovely,
.
.
I care na' for your e'en sae
I'll
199
I.
the
.183
Had
274
110
.541
203
582
Irish air,
458
It is na, Jean, thy bonnie face, 343
It was a' for ourrightfu' King, 513
I've been courting at a lass,
316
Invercauld's reel,
In yon garden, &c.,
who am
love,
wish
....
my love were
in
a mire,
154
41
J.
come
...
me,
Jamie Gay,
Jamie o' the glen,
Jamie,
try
Jenny's bawbie,
.
Jenny dang the weaver,
238
15
420
512
Jenny Nettles,
.
.
Jenny was fair and unkind,
Jocky fou, and Jenny fain,
Jocky said to Jenny,
133
53
217
395
62
269
315
68
INDEX.
IV
Page.
294
216
367
376
242
or the
gipsie
189
28
145
laddie,
K.
Kate of Aberdeen,
36
171
Katherine Ogie,
Katy's answer.
Kellyburnbraes,
Killiecrankie,
Kind Robin
180
392
303
492
loes
34
278
101
Johnie Armstrang,
Johnie Bhint,
Johnie Cope,
Johnny Faa,
Page.
Lucky Nancy,
Lucy Campbell,
me.
M.
M'Gregor of Roro's lament.
M'Pherson's farewell.
Maggy Lauder,
Magie's tocher.
Marquis of Huntly's reel.
Mary of Castlecary,
Mary Queen of Scots lament.
181
117
99
238
209
454
417
Mary Scot,
74
Mary's dream.
38
May- Eve, or Kate of Aberdeer1, 36
May morning,
574
Merry ha'e I been teethin' a
heckle.
279
M.
Freicedan,
102
....
....
L.
Laddie lye near me.
Laddie lye near me
spey,
226
(old
227
135
390
352
Lass gin ye lo'e me tell me now ,253
Leader hanghs and Yarrow
220
Leander on the bay.
27
Leezie Lindsay,
446
Leith wynd,
250
Let me in this ae night.
320
Let ithers brag weel.
276
Lewis Gordon,
87
Little wat ye wha's coming.
591
Lizae Baillie,
469
Liv'd ance twa lovers in yon
dale.
616
Lochaber,
96
Loch Eroch side,
78
Logan water
42
Loggan burn.
511
Logie o' Buchan,
368
Lord Breadalbine's march,
279
Lord Ronald my son.
337
Lord Thomas and fair Annetj 553
Louis, what reck I by thee.
427
Lovely Davies,
360
Lovely lass of Monorgan,
154
Lovely Polly Stewart,
485
words),
Love
is
the cause
of
my
mourning,
111
157
91
244
183
360
413
Morag,
150
Muirland Willie,
380
Musing on the roaring ocean, 187
My ain kind dearie 0,
50
My apron dearie.
94
My bonny Mary,
240
My boy Tammy,
518
My collier laddie.
372
My daddy left me, &c.,
542
My dearie, if thou die.
83
My
My
dear Jockey,
father has forty good
16
shil-
lings.
My goddess woman.
My Harry was a gallant gay.
My heart's in the Highlands,
My joe Janet,
My lady's gown there's gairs
upon't,
465
314
218
268
114
573
My loved Celestia,
160
My love has forsaken me.
159
My love is lost to me.
264
My love she's but a lassie yet. 234
My Mary, dear departed shade ,288
My minnie says I manna.
478
89
My Nannie, 0,
600
My Nannie, 0,
My Peggy's face.
517
322
My tocher's the jewel,
My wife has ta'en the gee. 422
a
wife's
wanton
wee
thing
My
,226
.
INDEX.
Page
Page
N.
Nae
61.5
luck about the house,
205
Nancy's ghost,
Nancy's to the greenwood gane, 50
612
Nelly's dream,
Nithsdale's welcome hame,
375
No churchman am I,
606
No dominies for me, laddie, 504
Now bank an' brae,
537
Now westlin' winds,
363
.
On
On
once I loved,
Orananaig,
Oran Gaoil,
saw ye my
O.
...
510
Bogie,
.
.
the hills and far away,
175
62
be,
O'er
O'er
O'er
O'er
330
549
529
407
456
526
245
ther,
56
338
....
harper,
Oh
Oh
gory,
ono chrio,
open the door. Lord Gre.
...
614
421
561
Willie,
has gotten,
598
90
.282
father,
77
71
steer her
O
O
520
gaun,
558
tell me, my bonny, &c.,
that I had ne'er been married,
O turn
.613
Patie's
....
wedding,
Peasstrae,
396
316
419
Peggy, in devotion,
Peggy, I must love thee,
3
Pinky house,
57
Pol wart on the green,
191
.
Powers celestial, whose protion,
473
Prselium Gillicrankianum,
105
Put the gown upon the bishop, 462
.
...
R.
Rattlin' roarin' Willie,
winds
blowing,
around
.
202
her
.181
.370
the mill
.
Raving
Oscar's ghost,
570
399
585
On
On
On
a bank of flowers,
232
.
a rock by seas surrounded, 1 07
hearing a young lady sing, 453
lee,
2q
292
283
214
VI
INDEX.
Page
....
quo'
10
111
....
St Kilda Song,
Strathallan's lament,
nation,
Sure,
my
545
250
138
107
391
587
Jean,
...
85
5718
Tam
Tam
.....306
Glen,
Lin,
Tarry woo,
Tell me, Jessie,
The
The
The
The
The
The
The
The
The
The
auld
auld
auld
auld
auld
....423
.
tell
me why,
goodman,
man,
,
.
banks
banks
banks
banks
banks
o'
Doon,
of Forth,
of Helicon,
of Nith, -:
of the Dee,
...
544
Stern winter has left us,
Stern winter has left us (2d
sett),
8
115
115
73
528
290
237
34
566
304
58
438
438
438
293
165
6
45
618
328
429
500
446
128
387
76
478
305
532
to
me,
craft,
....
69
185
80
328
460
13
351
285
222
228
278
474
70
81
314
309
242
266
449
141
burns,
The
....
....
deil's
man,
The Duke
233
o'er
my
412
409
daughters,
.431
VU
INDEX.
Page
o't,
20
The happy marriage,
502
The haws of Cromdale,
486
The Highland balou,
218
The Highland character,
ib.
The Highland king,
22
The Highland laddie,
121
The Highland lassie O,
1
The Highland queen,
The Highland widow's lament, 514
608
The Highlander's lament,
435
The humble beggar,
274
The jolly beggar,
99
The joyful widower,
442
The lass of Ecclefechan,
18
The lass of Livingston,
21
The lass of Peaty's mill,
The lass that winna sit down, 476
The last time I came o'er the
.
moor,
The
The
The
The
....
lazy mist,
linkin laddie,
bud,
19
241
246
414
.254
11
The lowlands of Holland,
115
The maid's complaint,
494
The maid gaed to the mill,
46
The maid in bedlam,
47
The maid in bedlam,
119
The maid of Selma,
115
The maid's complaint,
The maid that tends the goats, 40
445
The maltman,
.129
The miller,
250
The mill, mill, O,
The moudiewort,
366
The mucking o' Geordie's byre, 97
The northern lass,
122
Then guidwife count the law.
in',
...
323
582
384
.386
There
539
602
286
474
470
bush,
.107
14
64
234
403
229
28
457
.508
till
326
.
Jamie comes hame,
266
There's a youth in this city,
There's my thumb, I'll ne'er
6Q
beguile you,
There's nae luck about the
44
house,
609
There's news, lasses, news,
.
...
swain,
bit wiflSkie,
490
506
488
437
214
167
286
372
249
398
334
399
450
557
.
.
to Blantyre,
497
INDEX.
Vlll
burgh Katie,
The young man's dream,
This is no mine ain house,
Tho' for seven years,
.
Thou art gane awa',
Thou art gane awa' (new sett),
.
179
131
225
522
348
348
wood laddie,
161
Thy cheek is o' the rose's hue, 548
Tliro' the
What
will I
die,
my
do gin
hoggie
.
...
When
the
216
452
203
569
To daunton me,
190
284
340
Whistle an'
.198
Todlin hame,
.
the rosebud,
the weaver's gin ye go,
Tranent muir,
Tullochgorum,
Tune your fiddles,
'Twas at the shining mid-day
.
To
To
106
]03
298
209
....
...
hour,
Tweedside,
Twine weel the plaiden,
Up
Up
U.
and warn a', Willie,
in the morning early,
195
147
W.
Wae
is
my
490
Waly, waly,
166
Waly, waly (a different sett), 458
Wantonness for ever mair,
435
Wap at the widow, my laddie, 1 30
Water parted from the sea,
39
Wee Willie Gray,
530
We'll put the sheephead in
the pat,
493
,
Were na my heart light, I wad
.
die,
126
bower door, 347
love,
562
203
my
lad,
149
406
come
I'll
.
to you,
.109
258
143
444
554
William's ghost,
374
Willie brewed a peck o' maut, 301
Willy's rare and Willy's fair, 542
144
Willy was a wanton wag,
Will ye go and marry, Katie, 472
Wilt thou be my dearie,
484
Within a mile of Edinburgh
49
town,
Woe's my heart that we should
.
....
.137
a',
10
...
Wha is that at my
Wha wadna be in
the vale,
sunder,
heart,
521
570
214
364
530
163
Where Helen lies,
Where wad bonie Annie lie, 335
Where winding Forth adorns
534
37
32
54
.102
Tibbie Dunbar,
.
Tibbie Fowler,
.
Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day,
'Tis nae very lang sinsyne,
To a blackbird,
.
139
nymph
327
590
Y.
Ye
....
O
aid,
611
Yon
You
Young Damon,
Young Jamie, pride
plain,
of
.
a'
485
340
584
186
the
.433
Young
Philander,
.297
230
INDEX
OF THE
Page
Page
I.
Ancient
A
A
Port,
130
air,
.
Scottish march.
Auld langsyne.
Auld Robin Gray,
Ay wakin', oh
*376
391
375
233
206
139
her while she blusht,
.
396
In January last,
.
I wish that ye were dead,
I kist
gudeman,
366
*377
129
Joan's placket,
.
Jockie's fow, and Jenny's fain, 282
.
447
495
Johnie Armstrang,
336
Jumpin Joan,
129
L.
Logie of Buchan,
C.
Come
132
325
337
166
140
D.
316
Donald Couper,
M.
F.
Fair Helen of Kirkconnell,
G.
Green grows the rashes,
May
143
My
dearie, an'
do?
with thy petticoat,
130
268
Hardie Knute,
Hand awa' from me, Donald, 318
Here's a health to him that's
.
wilt
.223
thou go with
me,
Oran Gaoil,
Over the mountains.
30
256
140
.371
Oh Nancy,
Hap me
awa',
86
die,
O.
*138
H.
.
thou
63
Ports (Highland),
.495
410
^371
R.
Rory
Dall's Port,
*371
INDEX.
Page
s.
....
bled,
Skirvlng's lament.
T.
The auld Highland laddie,
The auld Jew,
The banks of Helicon,
The day dawis.
The day dawis, (2d sett),
The day dawis, (3d sett).
The flowers of the Forest,
495
n94
410
254
408
is
Tune your
fiddles.
Who
my window ?
503
158
503
390
210
190
W.
is
at
498
395
163
495
*534
*403
Y.
Young
Philander,
214
INDEX
OF THE
MUSICAL MUSEUM.
adieu,
620
...
358
sit,
64
478
155
67
lassie,
And
Maggy,
An'
Ah
sure a pair
seen,
Ah! the poor
!
mournful
Ah why
!
fate,
23
shepherd's
.
60
17
to
silk attire
56
249
580
An' I'll kiss thee yet, yet,
201
Anna, thy charms my bosom
fire,
547
A nobleman lived in a village
.
....
.
.384
my early walk,
rosebudby
moor
158
thus abandon'd to
care,
side,
of late,
546
was never
.
I'll
...
the
o'er
I'll
.340
stray'd,
As
wa',
As
As
...
197
47
3
78
castle
.
336
mount,
480
xu
INDEX.
Page
As
As
As
As
side,
As
went
As
went
out, ae
ing,
.340
97
way,
As late by a sodger
15
...
his
to pass,
As o'er the
chanced
Highland
277
hills I
.308
hied,
.
.
soldier for gallant achieve.
lay reclined,
As over Gladsmuir's
stain' d field,
As
cam up
Patie
glen,
plain,
As walking
Balow,
my
B.
boy, lie
sleep,
Bannocks
o'
still
bear meal,
and
.135
.
489
66
453
water,
.351
braw
Braw,
lads
o'
Gala
.
131
.612
...
bride,
lately seen in
65
gladsome
'.
...
By Pinky House
oft let
501
Ill
me
57
By
clear,
526
o' Thornie bank, 164
At Polwarth on the green,
191
Auld Rob Morris that wins
in yon glen,
200
Auld Rob the laird o' muckle
land,
420
Awa, Whigs, awa',
272
Ay waking O, waking ay
and wearie,
396
.
31
...
walk,
spring,
A' the lads
shepherdess lay,
.171
....
green,
Phillis to-
250
sae
210
.396
shine
But
frae the
As Philermon and
93
fand
318
blood-
600
thing,
ments renoun'd,
608
As on an eminence I stood amusing,
282
As on the banks of Tweed I
.
young
all,
May morn-
lovely
shade, a
swain,
.
56Q
.525
Highland
359
river
.
o'er the
hills,
row,
Beneath a green
a fair maid,
Bessie's beauties
bright,
.
midsummer e'enin,
As I was walking by yon
250
at the close
.
326
C.
Carl an the king come,
248
Ca' the yowes to the knowes, 273
Cauld blaws the wind frae
.
east to west,
Cauld
me
is
o'er,
147
603
254
568
206
.195
Come,
Come,
follow, follow,
fy
...
us
let
wedding,
a'
INDEX.
XlU
Page
Page
532
Dunidier as I cam
528
through,
Frae the friends and land I
to the
58
love,
298
Come,
Kyle,
Comin
body,
Come,
430
.312
...
walls,
Fu' fain
G.
Gane
let's
From
338
thro'
Frae
.581
D.
Dear Roger,
if
rib-
266
your Jenny
geek,
.
Deil tak the wars that hurried
.
17
....
Go on,
my
96
and strong,
.
117
Farewell, ye fields an' meadows green,
597
.
Fate gave the word, the arrow
280
sped,
.
.
First
care,
258
a-
...
.103
H.
Had
.391
,198
595
Go, plaintive souuds,
534
Go to Berwick, Johnny,
Grahamius notabilis coegerat
montanos,
540
Gudeen to you, kimmer,
care,
...
...
return,
is the fate of him
loves,
.
.
Harken and I will tell
Hard
74
who
.
GIO
you
380
how,
Hark! theloudtempestshakes
226
earth to its centre,
Hark yonder eagle lonely
wails,
237
.
536
Have ye any pots or pans,
Hear me, ye nymphs, and
.
every swain,
Hee, balou, my sweet wee
Donald,
Her daddie forbad, her min.
nie forbad,
81
.486
.
145
INDEX.
XIV
Page
58
....
awa,
425
178
Here's to the king, sir,
Here's to thy health, mybonie
.
lass,
.511
...
man,
He
24
.115
Hey
Hey
Hey
344
368
my kitten, my kitten, 577
the bony, hey the bony, 222
151
...
to see,
How long
and dreary
is
20
dwell,
maun,
o'
morning,
mer
green,
.541
586
588
286
435
376
.324
.
.
worth,
about the Martinmas
....
....
time,
It is na,
310
123
night, I am alone,
wi' the souters o' Sel450
kirk,
474
It's whisper'd in parlour,
It was a' for our rightfu'
It is
It's
up
king,
It
61
164
457
.258
.183
How
dawning
It fell
How
404
119
In the hall I lay at night,
218
In the garb of old Gaul,
In winter when the rain rain'd
.
.
cauld,
In yon garden fine and gay, 582
I sing of a whistle, a whistle of
70
the
.
night,
often my heart has by
482
.
love been o'erthrown,
How pleasant the banks of the
165
.
clear winding Devon,
sweet is the scene at the
.
sailor,
my jovial
the sun,
.
love
was
in
.513
tinmas time,
230
was in an evening sae saft
113
and sae clear,
398
It was in sweet Senegal,
I've been courting at a lass,
316
I who am sore oppress'd with
love,
154
I wUl awa' wi' my love,
.
175
I winna marry ony man but
.
It
....
....
am
am my mammy's
some,
I
care
blue,
na
I
I
.504
I
I
....
....
Sandy
283
449
332
Jamie, come try me,
238
Jenny's heart was frank and
.
153
304
had nae
619
.
blade,
coft a stane o' haslock woo,
do confess thou art sae fair,
dream'd I lay where flowers
were springing, .
gaed a waefu' gate yestreen,
.
556
ae bairn, 110
for your een sae
193
364
342
253
470
276
free,
Jockey
Jockey
Jockey
Jockey
....
fair,
said to Jenny,
.
Jockey's ta'en the parting
kiss,
28
....
John Anderson,
my jo,
62
62
589
John, 269
INDEX.
Page
Page
My
K.
the wind
Donoclit head,
Keen blaws
o'er
388
.281
My
L.
Landlady, count the lawin',
178
Lang hae we parted been,
227
Late in an evening forth I
328
went,
Leander on the bay,
27
Leave kindred and friends,
sweet Betty,
52
Let ithers brag weel o' their
....
.
....
....
276
wat ye wha's coming, 591
Lived ance two lovers in yon
616
dale,
Look where my dear Hamilla
gear,
Little
smiles,
Ill
me
...
...
pain,
83
55
465
Harry was a gallant gay, 218
My
My heart is
titty,
a breaking, dear
.
.306
My
free,
my hero, my
my brave,
hero,
teous,
.106
beau.
My
lady's
upon't,
gown
.
352
590
25
16
there's gairs
.
.180
form,
.517
Nae
so fair,
rail
and
to write,
160
159
234
606
...
swains,
Now
for to
No repose
121
No churchman am
can
bank
and
Now
smiling
appears,
ye
be,
discover,
brae
131
are
.
537
...
Spring again
28
Nature hangs
her
mantle green, .
417
Now wat ye wha I met ye.
streen,
Now
westlin
winds
slaughterin' guns,
.179
and
.
363
O.
ye luves and groves lament,
408
O an ye war dead gudeman, 421
330
O as I was kist yestreen,
O ay my wife she dang me, 549
Bell, thy looks have kill'd
all
....
my
heart,
.146
O
O
....
573
94
88
Now
claith'd in green,
M.
.
me,
14
...
INDEX.
Page
O
O
Page
O
O
Mary,
605
gae
to
Johnie,
me,
to
O
O
....
.
gory,
O how
....
....
can
be blythe and
328
O how shall I unskilfu' try, 360
Oh send Lewis Gordonhame, 87
Oh was not I a weary wight, 90
O I forbid you, maidens a', 423
O I hae lost my silken snood, 32
O John, come kiss me now, 315
O keep ye weel frae Sir John
Malcolm,
O Kenmure's on an' awa',
glad,
!
Willie,
.468
.370
ken ye what
Meg
o'
the
.
leeze
me on my
wheel,
O
O
585
320
.
.
390
the castle wa',
593
lay thy loof in mine, lass,
leave novels, ye Mauchlin
belles,
let
me
.592
spinning
.
.371
.368
...
ruin,
O
O
honey,
face,
.617
....
560
133
.132
242
....
.232
....
a red, red
415
rose,
...
ed,
33
107
92
morning
in the Spring,
46
night as young Colin lay
musing in bed,
.
151
One night I dream'd I lay
131
most easy,
On Etrick banks ae summer's
One
once
...
night,
O
O
82
570
....
sad and
heavy should
461
Sandy, why leaves thou thy
161
Nelly to mourn, .
53
saw ye Jenny Nettles,
saw ye my dearie, my Eppie
part,
O
O
M'Nab,
saw ye my father,
.
O
O
O
.346
.
77
faintly
gleams,
.
71
steer her up and had her
520
.
gaun,
tell
that I
I
lies,
this is
....
me,
my bonny young
558
... .613
...
my
ried,
O
O
form that
see that
lassie,
.413 O that
386
luve will venture,
Mally's meek,
Mally's
sweet,
Mary,turn awa that bonny
.
320
in this ae night,
...
322
279
merry may the maid be,
129
mighty Nature's handywork,
314
heckle,
142
477
no
163
225
ain house,
those cruel eyes, 604
turn away
Our auld King Coul was a
jolly auld soul,
486
XVH
INDEX.
Page
Page
...
Our
tains gane,
....
O whar
312
lady's a-huntlng
gane,
Out over the Forth, I look to
the North,
O waly, waly, up yon bank,
O waly, waly, up yon bank,
O wat ye wha's in yon town,
O weel may the boatie row,
buy,
466
moun-
....
Our young
Return hameward
at
437
66
whistle, an'
I'll
my lad,
.301
....
she,
pleasure,
.
Scots wha hae wi'
bled,
Pain'd
tection,
Put
the
bishop,
.473
gown
upon
462
my
157
533
Wallace
.596
smart,
.411
...
robb'd
Since
of
all
that
charm'd my view,
184
Sir John Cope trode the north
right far,
242
404
Sleepy body, drousy body,
.
my
soul desires,
516
grief,
Stately
wa',
Stay
Q.
Quite over the mountains,
594
my
the
P.
10
109
.335
pride,
come to you
thou stream,
.566
saftly
572
492
562
524
352
286
Row
471
438
302
264
.199
...
dwell,
heart
4.58
my
434
again,
my
.137
....
he
slept
east
the
289
.135
leave me,
Stern winter has left us,
544
Sun, gallop down the westlin
.
R.
Rattlin, roarin Willie,
Raving
winds
blowing,
Red gleams
hill tap,
around
.
the sun on
.
202
her
.
181
yon
.519
....
....
263
skies,
Sure my Jean is beauty's blossom,
587
sea.
85
xvm
INDEX.
....
....
.
....
Talk not of
pain,
Tarry woo,
Tell
me
love,
it
gives
me
194
45
618
tarry woo,
Jessy, tell me,
'
moor,
The Lawland
trig
and
ing,
69
80
The
low seen,
The
141
....
285
fear,
103
48
316
.
the plain,
.
returns, my bosom
233
burns,
The Deil cam fiddlin thro'
412
.
.
the town,
.
.
The day
....
o'er
.
The
my
.409
has
.431
fields
hills
The
gypsies
cam
lord's yett,
The king
sits
toune,
The
lass of
to
189
Dunfermline
.
496
21
22
23
241
118
414
494
syne,
highest hill,
air,
38
fair, saft
was
220
....
.238
climb'd the
short
445
night,
silent
my
is
84
departing
.620
sable
lad,
.173
234
The
garet's door,
.419
to
Mar374
my daddie's door,
to
228
.508
.293
our gude
.
in
fine,
29
...
The
....
....
19
The lazy
.190
o'er the
are fine,
The night
came
The
jI%o
Page
....
...
INDEX.
XIX
Page
Page
....
and Jennies,
There's
There's
every
There's
462
Thou
three gude-fellows,
454
battle in the
Thou
lasses,
north,
375
There was a bonie lass,
606
There was an auld wife had a
wee pickle tow,
450
There was anee a may,
126
There was a jolly beggar,
274
There was a lass, they ca'd her
Meg,
156
There was a noble lady,
582
There was a silly shepherd
swain,
490
There was a wee bit wiflBkie, 506
There was a wife wonn'd in
Cockpen,
558
.
....
the knowe,
silver
372
...
...
moon's enamour'd
beams,
The
The
a',
fall,
....
....
....
tears I shed
221
must ever
350
355
The wren
bed,
The yellow
mair,
art
ter winds,
art
348
ling'ring star,
less'ning ray,
.
Though distant far
Jessy's charms,
522
gane awa,
122
and
like
with
288
from
72
win.
grove,
To me what
...
300
548
274
452
203
569
25
Twa
.214
midnight,
at the shining midday
hour,
.
_ 534
'Twas at the silent solemn
hour,
554
'Twas in that season of the
year,
9
'Twas on a Monday morning, 440
'Twas past ane o'clock in a
.
'Twas
....
....
sweetly,
.
.
again, thou fair Eliza,
.
Turn
532
49
208
378
U.
and Ryno, .
amang yon clifiy rocks,
and warn a' Willie,
265
40
405
Ullin, Carril
Up
Up
Up
236
softly the
195
.497
years
thimble an
The
seven
for
36
Tho'
....
part,
news,
609
nought but care on
hand,
78
news,
There was a
The
'11
.
28
speed
.278
W.
my heart,
tear's in my e'e,
Wae
is
and the
.
490
XX
INDEX.
Page
Waes me
that e'er
When
made
your bed,
.
246
Wantonness for ever mair,
435
Wap and row, wap and row, 470
Water parted from the sea,
39
Weary fa' you, Duncan Gray, 168
Wee Willie Gray,
530
We'll hide the cooper behind
the door,
442
Well, I agree, ye're sure o' me, 176
.
.493
.
the pat,
I assured you'd constant
prove,
.
257
is that at my chamber
444
door,
Whare are ye gaun my bony
.
Were
....
....
.522
....
Wha
298
lass,
Whare Esk
leads,
Whare
lad,
Whare
Whar
current
its silver
my bonie lass,
a' day, my
live ye,
302
372
hae ye been
....
gaed
lane,
my
to the mill
....
pelf,
....
flowers,
comes,
the
swains on Tweed,
the days they
are
When
lang,
When
fauld,
When
....
Muse
What
repeat,
think,
ye
o'
fu' quine,
What
37
327
the
,
the scorn-
will I do gin
my
When
the
562
lad,
came
my
When
54
394
to be a
294
brave Johnie
.
.319
my
-wall,
When
...
stood,
verse,
.149
...
in
While
Italian
saft
some
296
.102
205
adorns
34
406
pleasure
for
their health,
89
hangs that cloud upon
thy brow,
143
Willie was a wanton wag,
144
Willie
Wastle dwalt on
Tweed,
Wilt thou be my dearie,
484
Will ye gang o'er the lea-rig,
50
Will ye go and marry, Katie, 472
Will ye go to the ewe-bughts,
86
Marion,
Will ye go to the Highlands,
446
Leezie Lindsay,
Willy's rare and Willy's fair, 542
.
Why
.389
dear laddie
gaed to the green hill,
128
When Frennet castle's ivy'd
first
pines salute
pawn
nymph
....
first
Where waving
reduced to despair,
wi'
art thou
203
.403
.473
...
first
I love,
man,
sea,
Wherefore sighing
While fops
When
wadna be in love
bonny Maggy Lauder,
young,
Wha
71
the vale,
hog-
.139
What words, dear Nancy, will
prevail,
.140
gie die,
ter's storms,
the skies,
476
229
Phillis,
43
261
Where
close,
460
trees
What
332
.530
.256
34
214
518
boy Tammy,
Wha's that at my bower door, 347
.
284
570
blaw-
521
...
.
INDEX.
XXI
Page
and
broken words
.
downcast eyes,
With
37
Y
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie
Down,
387
Ye gales that gently wave the
.
sea,
Ye
right,
Ye gods was
Ye Highlands and ye
ear,
Ye Muses
aid,
lend your
nine,
nine,
...
....
Fair,
Young
lend your
611
2r
191
76
302
433
297
our
.
....
79
clear,
lang,
383
and
est lad,
by name give an
.
rivers so limpid
plain,
224
.182
Law.185
....
....
Ye Muses
aid,
Strephon's pic-
ture blest,
lands,
Ye Jacobites
13
you
Page
Ye
Ye
230
frae
.
614
INDEX
OF THE
Page
Ae day
...
board,
*128
*387
I wou'd be,
by Fisherrow, 122
I stood by yon roofless
tower,
363
As I went forth to view the
As
As
came
in
plain,
152
morn,
Awake,
ray,
433
...
my love,
my
boy,
sleep,
Behind yon
80
sensibili-
*400
ty, &c.
.
Braw, braw lads of Gala
Water,
121
Bra', bra' lads o' Gala Wa*408
ter,
But are ye sure the news is
true,
*117
.
.
By Logan's streams that rin
.
....
.
sae deep,
.42
C.
Can
I cease to care
my
Katy
me
124
where Lugar
flows,
.
91
Behold, my love, how green
the groves,
79
Be lordly, lassie, be lordly,
504
Blink o'er the burn, sweet
Betty,
55
.
145
207
thus,
northern
and
lie stUl
.
hills
*401
with genial
B.
Balow,
ness, &c.
As
As
At
lass,
118
frae
.
220
*146
D.
Dead
as a door-nail,
my verse
.
*406
INDEX.
Page
Page
*447
181
to
*207
14
371
away,
Here's a health to them that's
372
awa,
474
Hey for bobbing John,
163
Hey, now the day dawis,
Hech hey Robin, quo' she, 422
.
.148
woo,
Dusty was his coat,
60
dering Willie,
is the glen, and here
the bower,
Here's a health to him that's
Here
E.
Every day
Ewie
my wife
tells
me,
305
*412
Hoo
are ye kimmer,
How
green earth, and ye
354
skies,
*388
*315
my
be sad on
.
How
me wrang,
done
wedding day,
happy is
F.
Farewell, thou fair day, thou
Father,
can
clown,
136
the
rural
237
Husband, husband,
your strife,
cease
112
I feed
303
.
Dunideir as I cam
447
through,
From the chase in the moun170
tain,
near,
Frae
G.
who saved
and
fair,
309
358
a lad at Roodmass,
If those who live in shep79
herds' bowers,
.
413
If thou'lt play me fair play,
*412
I ha'e a cow, I ha'e a calf,
326
I hae a wife o' my ain,
1 hae layen three herring in
ye a',
Great William
.108
saut,
512
I'll
13
I'll
of Nassau,
us from Rome,
clip,
229
81
grey wing,
gang nae mair to yon
403
town,
.
130
I'll hap ye wi' my petticoat,
53
ril rowe thee o'er the lea rig,
I'm o'er young to marry yet, 110
168
I'm wearing awa, Jean,
.
In figure, in feature, and
*196
powers of mind,
396
In January last,
.
369
I saw three ladies fair,
209
I see a form, I see a face,
It fell about the month of
*300
June,
I've heard them lilting at the
67
ewe-milking,
.
*146
I've heard them lilting,
.
Had
H.
the power
will,
Had we
as I've the
.415
loved
never
kindly,
sae
*370
*386
Hame, hame, hame, &c.
Hark! now the drums beat
up again,
Hark
sang,
the mavis'
.
64
evening
249
He
*452
courted her kindly,
Hee, balow, my sweet wee
.
Donald,
.
417
Her daddy forbad, her minny
.
*207
forbad,
.
tune beguiling,
...
63
INDEX.
XXIV
I will
my
awa' wi'
wish
My
My
143
wanton
wife's
thing,
wife's
thing,
...
lies,
162
luve,
away,
219
wish I were where Helen
I will
wee
a winsome
.
wee
lies,
*210
and Jenny's
John Anderson, my
in as ye gae by,
John, come kiss
O.
Brother Sandie, hear ye
the
to
the news ?
dear, minny,
do
228
...
fain,
when wyll
be ?
Jockey's fou,
No
Assembly
*124
wonder that Apollo left, *134
J.
this
N.
Nancy's
gone,
282
cum
jo,
243
298
me now,
O
O
shall I
maid, &c.,
*326
far-famed Rab
my silly
muse,
*294
O gin my love were yon red
fair
rose,
us
grapes,
let
L.
see,
Look up
...
M.
...
.93
well,
sweetest
incline thee,
let
.
486
302
410
*515
gory,
524
*107
bonny
*444
.
boat,
.
.
the ewe-bughting's
bon-
*201
no my ain house,
208
this is no my ain house,
210
Out o'er yon moss, out o'er
*408
yon muir,
.
Over the mountains, and unO,
O,
this is
O waly!
love
.
337
gallant swain,
.
O, open the door, love Gre-
.421
May,
nie,
43
Logie
thou sleeping
art
land laddie,
16
May
My
lassie,
*127
to Pentland's tow'r-
ing tap,
...
yet?
169
the laird,
O my
395
dale,
Lizae Baillie's to Gartartan
402
gane,
166
Long berdes hertheles, .
Look behind and you shall
489
Logie of Buchan,
*384
in blood of
glide,
will tell,
swim
30
May
507
Bessy's
28
King, Lords and Commons, * 1 93
?
223
12
what
K.
Last
211
haggles
211
140
147
538
285
134
XXV
INDEX.
when
a'
day, *364
401
be married,
O where hae ye been. Lord
312
Randal, my son,
O whistle, and I'll come to
109
you, my lad,
O Willie, weel I mind I lent
32
you my hand,
shall I
day I landed,
grass had nae freedom
first
*314
growing,
o'
...
The mucking
The
P.
barne,
*204
wayward
Peace,
The
The
Peggy in devotion,
Pray, came you here
hill,
.
.
100
byre,
.
nine pint bicker's fa'n,
*392
.
.
&c.
.
Then Jockey wou'd a wooing
away,
The ploughman
271
The
lad,
''^303
39
Geordie's
o'
363
the
shun?
Put up thy dagger, Jamie,
fight to
the
160
he's a
bony
.158
down through
rain rins
500
merry Lincoln,
rain rins doon through
503
Mirryland toun,
The reek it rose, and the
279
flame it flew,
There is not a tailor in all
*461
London town,
There's a rose in Kenmore's
339
cap, Willie,
.
The
R.
Returning spring, with glad-
some
ray,
*366
Sawney was
race,
...
...
tall
and of noble
96
Saw ye my Maggie,
Scots wha hae wi' Wallace
.
Some
145
me,
Streams that glide in orient
135
plains,
Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn,
293
.
There's
that
495
*296
See where the Forth, &c.
Should auld acquaintance be
forgot,
375
.
Should auld acquaintance, &c.*440
*135
Since cruel hearted fate,
bled,
...
wons
Rob
auld
Morris,
183
in yon glen,
...
north,
There was a
her Meg,
397
they ca'd
lass,
139
yon
hill,
it is
past,
pets sound,
411
.
spring scarce
cantie
rear'd her head,
.
477
The cock's at the crawing, *216
The
63
The winter
188
my
.
dwelling,
.
126
braes were bonny, Yar.
464
row stream,
.
Thou hast left me ever,
Jamie,
6
Thy restless father roams
Thy
...
once more,
*194
INDEX.
XXVI
Page
*109
To daunton me,
to daimton
.
sweetly,
the dewy
were green,
'Twas even the dewy
'
Twas even
190
25
fields
.
Up
Up
179
Selkirk, 390
acquaint,
455
] 67
27
and
were
36
ga.y,.2^
the
203
ly foot,
.521
When
When
317
226
Where
11
W.
"W ee Totum Fogg,
Weel may we a' be,
se'en-
When Maggie
was blawn,
U.
and war them a', Willie,
wi' the souters o'
my
in
fields
260
were green,
'Twas naher bonnie blue een
212
was my ruin,
.
was
teenth year,
me,
176
To your arms, to your arms,
my bonny Highland lads, 10
Tune your fiddles, tune them
.
When
who,
Why
tarries
my
love,
498
*311
the pat,
We're
Were
a'
Whan
winter's
blawing cauld,
wind
was
398
*-455
...
When
first
came
my
56
dear Johnny
to this toun,
301
pelf,
...
32
Ye
lang,
....
214
You
will think
it,
my
465
duck,
must own,
20
Z^
'
GENEEAL INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS.
[*^t* The Names of the Scotish Lyric Poets, specimens of whose Songs
are contained in the Musical Museum, are printed in Capital Letters.'}
A.
Abell, John, of the Chapel Royal,
153, 155.
Aberdeen Cantus ; a Collection of
Songs, &c., 1662, 1666, and
1682, 140.
See also Introduc46,
*398.
Battishill,
Jonathan, 34.
tion.
*m,
403,423.
Arne,
an old Scotish
at,
Boswell,
B.
Baillie, Lady Grisell, (B. 1665,
D. 1746,) 119, *200.
Baillie, Miss Joanna *317, *443,
*444, 539.
Barclay, Rev. John, {B. 1734,
D. 1798,) 271, *322.
of,
Sir Alexander, of
Auchinleck, Bart., {B. 1775, D.
1822,) 435, 466, 512, 518.
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck,
528.
Bothwell, Lady Ann, '203,
Brash, James, bookseller, Glasgow,
*214,
xxvm
GENERAL INDEX.
'298.
1759, D.
1796,) 5, 14, 25, 43, 60, 79, 83,
102-105, 107, 109-118,
91,
121, 123, 126, 131, 134, 135,
137, 139, 142, 145-148, 157,
Robert, (B.
Burns,
158,166,170-185,202,206-221,
224, 226, 236, 241-248, 253,
258, 262, 274, 275, 280. 284-287,
290, 291, 295,296,300, &c. &c.
he. passim.
Byrd, William, organist, 300.
Mrs M'Lehose,
M'Lehose, Mrs,
Clarinda,
vide
*201,*202.
Clunie, Rev. John, {B. ]757,I>.
1819,) 251.
Cameron, Rev.
William,
{B.
Thomas, 30.
Cassillis,
Earl
Death of
of.
his
Letter on the
in 1642,
Lady,
B.
Craig,
57.
M'Lehose, Mrs.
Cranstoun, Helen Darcy, vide
Stewart, Mrs Dugald,
Crawfurd, Patrick, of Auchinames,
113-*115.
695
D.
*218.
Chalmers, Alexander, Biographical
Dictionary, quoted *304, *308,
Chalmers, George, edition of Allan
Randal, *465.
passim in Addit.
Illust.
supra.
quoted pa ssi?n
XXIX
GENERAL INDEX.
Gumming, Angus, of Granton,
78,
252, 485.
*382,
"385,
of
Burns's
Falconer, William,
D.
Dale's Collection of Scots Songs,
81, 151.
Dalrymple (Sir D.) Lord Hailes,
Letter respecting the ballad
" Argyle's Levee," *445.
tion respecting
Mr Graham
of
Gartmore, 521.
(JB.
1730,
Thomas, musician,
5, 6.
Collection of
Gaelic Airs, 136, 209, 255.
Freebairn, Mr, his Eloge d'Ecosse,
quoted *399.
Eraser's
(Captain)
G.
G, (B,) song by, *220.
Duncan Gray,
D.
vide Gray.
Gall, Richard,
1737,
Susanna,
Dur-
Countess
of,
'211,
*295,
D.
D.
Glover,
Jean,
(B.
1758,
D.
XXX
GENERAL INDEX.
*212.
Gordon,
1743,
D.
1827,)
152,
Hamilton,
Capt.
Gilbertfield, (J5.
William,
of
his
Gow,
passim.
*139,
*377, *408, 534.
Graham, James,
"^371,
*376,
British Georgics,
quoted 242.
Home,
*144, *408.
(J5.
vide
Hunter,
Mrs.
Grisell,
Lady
vide Baillie,
Grisell.
Hugh
D.
I.
Inglis,
H.
Hackston, schoolmaster,
*385.
Halket, Elizabeth,
vide
Ward-
law, Lady.
Halket, George, *381.
Hamilton, Janet,
(Mrs
D.
1542,) 216,
250
Jamieson, Robert, Popular Ballads
and Songs, 469, 474, 500.
Jeffreys, Mr, 520.
19, 20.
*120.
Johnson, Charles, 488.
Johnson, James, publisher of the
Scots Musical Museum, 274,
passim,
Johnson, Mr, 313.
Johnston, Miss, of Hilton, afterwards Mrs Oswald, *318.
K.
Keith,
D.
1736,
GENERAL INDEX.
Keith, Sir Robert Murray, Bart.,
{B. 1732, X>. 1795,) 300,*302.
of,
Kellie,
*198.
1717, D.
1807,) 200, 202, *294, *297.
Lawries of Maxwelton, *362.
John, {B.
ni6.
M.
1,
*105.
D.
Captain John
Macgregor,
L.
D.
of.
Lapraik,
338.
Countess
Drum-
mond, 176.
Macgregor, Joseph, Esq. communication respecting Marshall,
*413.
Miller,
James,
Depute
Teind-
A /^-^v^ 'rfSzO
Joseph/ (^. 1684, B.
Clerk, 346.
Mitchell,
GENERAL INDEX.
XXXll
Montgomery,
Captain
Alex-
Rory Dall.
Moore, Edward, 19,
vide
*400.
Pringle,
R.
passim..
173,
*406.
P.
Pagan, Isabel, *316.
Pasquali, Signor, 315.
Percy, Thomas, DD., Bishop of
R.
Song by, 74.
1686, D.
1757), Songs, &c. by, 2, 9, 15,
16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 28, 56,
57, 58, 62, 68, 85, 90, 91, 96,
98, 119, 120, 122, 125, 127, 130,
137, 141, 161, 162, 168, 169,
176, 208, 221, 224, 225, 236,
237, 240, 310, 381, 382, 442,
459, 460, 482, 490.
Tea- Table Miscellany, 1724-
N.
O.
Oswald, James, musician, 95, 176,
*406-*408.
*105,
346,
Musical Collections, quoted
S.,
Thomas,*200.
GENERAL INDEX.
Robertsoa^ Calliope,
739, quoted
118.
Rory
the blind
*376.
harper,
324,
*372-
M.,
air
by, 313.
15.
36, 37, 77, 78,
Scott, R., of Biggar, 111.
Scott,
tices
*380.
Scott, Sir Walter, Bart.,
B.
1833,)
Border
(5. 1772,
Minstrelsy,
quoted 2yassim.
Recollections of Mrs Cockburn, authoress of the Flowers
of the Forest, *123
mistake regarding her name, *129, *401.
Scott, Sir William, of Thirlstane,
{B. 1670? i>. 1725,) *121.
Sedley, Sir Charles, song by, commonly attributed to President
Forbes, *133, *320.
Selkirk, Souters of, tradition respecting, 386.
Semple, Francis, of Beltrees,
{Flour. 1650,) 87,* 121, 475,522.
Sharpe, Charles K., Esq., Ballad-
Shield,
XXXUl
24, 375.
Sibbald, James, bookseller, Edinburgh, * 141, 510.
*194.
Skirving,
Captain
Robert, Letter
*190;
*394.
Sutherland, Earl and Countess of.
Lines on their Funeral, by Sir
G.
Elliot, -*296.
Book, *306.
Edition of Lord Kelly's
Minuets, 532.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 22, 51.
Shirrefs, Andrew, (F/owr, 1787,)
479, 525.
GENERAL INDEX.
XXXIV
'-
'
sim.
Wallace, William,
of
Cairn-
1, 3.
U.
Urbani, P., Collection of Scots
Songs, 318, 394.
Urquhart of Craigston, *388.
V.
Vane, Lady, Lament on the Death
of her Husband, Lord W. Hamilton,
*135.
Y.
Yester, John Lord,
W.
(i?.
FINIS.
EDINBURGH
1645,
D.