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P RE FA C E.
"IN the firft Volume of this work, two or three Airs not of
Scots compofition have been inadvertently inferted; which, whatever
excellence they may have, was improper, as the Collection is meant
to be folely the mufic of our own Country — The Songs contained
in this Volume, both mufic and poetry, are all of them the work
of Scotsmen —Wherever the old words could be recovered, they
have been preferred; both as generally fuiting better, the genius of
the tunes, and to preferve the productions of thofe earlier Sons of
the Scottifh Mufes, fome of whofe names deferved a better fate _
than has befallen them -"Buried 'mong the wreck of thing's which
were. Of our more modern Songs, the Editor has inferted-— the
Authors' names as far as he could afcertain them; and as that
was neglected in the firft Volume, it is annexed here . __ If he
.have made any miftakes in this affair, which he pofsibly may, he
fhall be very grateful at being fet right .
Ignorance and Prejudice may perhaps affect to fneer at the
fimplicity of the poetry or mufic of fome of thefe pieces; but their _
having been for ages the favorites of Nature's Judges _ the Common
People, was to the Editor a fufficient teft of their merit.
Materials for the third Volume are in great forwardnefs; and as
far as can be guefsed, that will conclude the Collection .
EdinT March 1. 1788.
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Entered in Stationers Hall.