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98 FAREWELL ADDRESS.
FAREWELL ADDRESS,
SPOKEN BY MR GRANT,
AT HIS BENEFIT, THEATRE-ROYAL, IST OCTOBER 1796.
Wow ! wha wad think, that shaws his noddle here.
That surly tyke, ca'd Winter, were sae near ?
For up an' down, where'er I cast my een.
As 'twere in spring-, sweet new-blawn flowers are seen.
But wherefore ferlie, whan I ken this night,
'Tis Reekie's Lasses that attract my sight ?
An' sure the sweetest roses ever blew
Wad tine their beauties whan compared wi' you.
They, for a wee, their gaudy garb assume ;
But ye're aye bonny, in perpetual bloom.
To menseless fallows, wha wad dai-ing- gang,
An' mint to do sic smiling dawties wrang,
FAREWELL ADDRESS,
SPOKEN BY MR GRANT,
AT HIS BENEFIT, THEATRE-ROYAL, IST OCTOBER 1796.
Wow ! wha wad think, that shaws his noddle here.
That surly tyke, ca'd Winter, were sae near ?
For up an' down, where'er I cast my een.
As 'twere in spring-, sweet new-blawn flowers are seen.
But wherefore ferlie, whan I ken this night,
'Tis Reekie's Lasses that attract my sight ?
An' sure the sweetest roses ever blew
Wad tine their beauties whan compared wi' you.
They, for a wee, their gaudy garb assume ;
But ye're aye bonny, in perpetual bloom.
To menseless fallows, wha wad dai-ing- gang,
An' mint to do sic smiling dawties wrang,
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| Special collections of printed music > Glen Collection of printed music > Printed music > Poems and songs > (134) Page 98 - Farewell address |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/87744774 |
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| Description | Spoken by Mr Grant, at his benefit, Theatre-Royal, 1st October 1796. |
| Description | By the late Richard Gall with a memoir of the author. Edinburgh : From the Press of Oliver and Boyd, 1819. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.48 |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). 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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