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QUEEN MARY’S LAMENTATION.
I sing' and lament me in vain,
these walls can but echo roj moan,
Alas; it increases my pain,
when I think on the days that are gone.
Through the gate of my prison I see,
the birds as they wanton in air,
My heart how it pants to be free,
my looks they are wild with dispair.
Above, though opprest by my fate,
I burn with contempt for my foes,
Though fortune has alter’d my state,
she ne’er can subdue me to those.
False woman, in ages to come,
thy malice detested shall be,
And when we are cold in the tomb,
some heart will still sorrow for me.
Ye roofs where cold damps and dismay,
with silence and solitude dwell,
How comfortless passes the day ?
how sadly tolls the evening bell:
I sing' and lament me in vain,
these walls can but echo roj moan,
Alas; it increases my pain,
when I think on the days that are gone.
Through the gate of my prison I see,
the birds as they wanton in air,
My heart how it pants to be free,
my looks they are wild with dispair.
Above, though opprest by my fate,
I burn with contempt for my foes,
Though fortune has alter’d my state,
she ne’er can subdue me to those.
False woman, in ages to come,
thy malice detested shall be,
And when we are cold in the tomb,
some heart will still sorrow for me.
Ye roofs where cold damps and dismay,
with silence and solitude dwell,
How comfortless passes the day ?
how sadly tolls the evening bell:
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Kings and rulers > Queen Mary's lamentation > (2) |
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| Description | To which are added, The orange and blue, Lord Gregory, Tak' your auld cloke about ye, and The sailor's return. Glasgow : Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by R. Hutchison, bookseller, 19 Saltmarket, 1823. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2883(7) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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