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GILDEROY. 27
I "bore his body on my back,
And whyles I went and whyles I sat ;
I digg'd a grave, and laid bun in,
And bapp'd liim wi' the sod sae green.
But think na ye my beart was sair,
Wben I laid tbe moul' on bis yellow bair ;
Ob, tbink na ye my heart was wae,
Wben I turn'd about, away to gae ?
The man lives not I '11 love again,
Since that my comely knicht is slain.
Wi' ae lock of his yellow hair
I '11 bind my beart for evermah\
Sir Walter Scott published this affecting piece as a ' fragment
obtained from recitation in the Forest of Ettrick.' He regarded
it as probably relating to the death of Cockburn of Hender-
land, a freebooter, who was banged over the gate of his own
tower by King James V. in 1529. Its being a genuine relic of
antiquity may fairly be a subject of doubt. The resemblance
of the poetry to that of Fair Helen of Kirkconnel is worthy
of notice.
GILDEROY.
The subject of the following amatory elegy was a man named
Patrick Macgregor, but more familiarly Gillieroy (the red-haired
lad), who, after a desperate course of stouthrief and oppression
practised for some years at the bead of a band of followers,
chiefly in the Highlands of Aberdeenshire, was hanged with his
whole party, ten in number, at tbe Cross of Edinburgh, July
27, 1636. The present ballad, an improvement upon a rude
contemporary one, was first printed in Durfey's Pills to Purge
Melancholy, volume v., 1719. It has been several times printed
as tbe composition of a Sir Alexander Halket, but entirely
through a mistake, there being in reabty no such person.
I "bore his body on my back,
And whyles I went and whyles I sat ;
I digg'd a grave, and laid bun in,
And bapp'd liim wi' the sod sae green.
But think na ye my beart was sair,
Wben I laid tbe moul' on bis yellow bair ;
Ob, tbink na ye my heart was wae,
Wben I turn'd about, away to gae ?
The man lives not I '11 love again,
Since that my comely knicht is slain.
Wi' ae lock of his yellow hair
I '11 bind my beart for evermah\
Sir Walter Scott published this affecting piece as a ' fragment
obtained from recitation in the Forest of Ettrick.' He regarded
it as probably relating to the death of Cockburn of Hender-
land, a freebooter, who was banged over the gate of his own
tower by King James V. in 1529. Its being a genuine relic of
antiquity may fairly be a subject of doubt. The resemblance
of the poetry to that of Fair Helen of Kirkconnel is worthy
of notice.
GILDEROY.
The subject of the following amatory elegy was a man named
Patrick Macgregor, but more familiarly Gillieroy (the red-haired
lad), who, after a desperate course of stouthrief and oppression
practised for some years at the bead of a band of followers,
chiefly in the Highlands of Aberdeenshire, was hanged with his
whole party, ten in number, at tbe Cross of Edinburgh, July
27, 1636. The present ballad, an improvement upon a rude
contemporary one, was first printed in Durfey's Pills to Purge
Melancholy, volume v., 1719. It has been several times printed
as tbe composition of a Sir Alexander Halket, but entirely
through a mistake, there being in reabty no such person.
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Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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