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400 CCCCLI. — HALLOW FAIR, &C.
from Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book vii.
page 6.
CCCCLII.
I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE.
This song, beginning " My dear and only love I pray,"
was written by James Graham, the celebrated Marquis of
Montrose, whose great bravery, military talents, and fidelity
to his sovereign, Charles I. during the latter period of his
reign, place him on a level with the most renowned heroes of
antiquity. In his latter days, however, like his royal master,
he experienced a sad reverse of fortune. After a gallant but
fruitless resistance against Colonel Strachan, an officer of the
Scottish Parliament, he took refuge in a remote part of the
estate of Macleod of Assint ; but Macleod basely betrayed
and delivered him up to General Leshe, his most bitter enemy.
After a mock trial, for what was called treason, he was con-
demned to death by the very Parliament who had acknow-
ledged Charles as their lawful king, and under whose com-
mission and orders he had acted. This gallant nobleman was
accordingly executed at Edinburgh, with every mark of in-
dignity and revenge that the malice and cruelty of his ene-
mies could suggest, on the 21st May 1650.
The verses in the Museum, though abundantly long for
any ordinary song, are only the Jirst part of Montrose's bal-
lad ; but the curious reader will find the whole of it in Wat-
son's Collection, Book iii. printed at Edinburgh in 1711,
or in Herd's Collection, so often referred to, in 1776.
The words in the Museum are adapted to the ancient tune
of " Chevy Chace."
CCCCLIII.
MY FATHER HAS FORTY GOOD SHILLINGS.
Mb Ritson informs us, that there is an old English bal-
lad, in the black letter, entitled " The Maiden's sad Com-
plaint for want of a Husband ; to the new west country tune,
or, Hogh, when shaU I be married.? By L. W.;" the first,
second, and fifth stanzas whereof (for there are fourteen in