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Should heaven bid my wifhes with freedom implore
One blifs for the anguifh I fuffer'd before,
For Jefsy, dear Jefsy alone would I pray,
And grafp my whole wifh on my wedding-day.
Blefs'd be th' approach of my wedding-dayi p
Hail my dear nymph and my wedding-dayi
Earth, fmile more verdant, and heaven fhine more gay i
For happinefs dawns'with my wedding-day. .
But Luna, who equally fovereign prefides
O'er the hearts of the Ladies, and flow of the' tides.
Unhappily changing, foon chang'd his wife's mind:
O Fate, could a wife prove-.fo conftant and kind!
Why, was I born to a wedding-dayi
Curs d, ever curs'd be my wedding-dayi
C^lin, poor Colin thus changes his lay,
And dates all hia plagues from his wedding-day.
Ye Batchelors, warn'd by the Shepherds diftrefs.
Be taught from your freedom td meafure \our blifs,
Nor fall to the witchcraft of beauty a prey,
And blaft all your joys on a wedding-day.
Horns are the gift of a wedding-day,:
Want and a Scold crown a wedding-day,
^ 3 PP V * ne gallant, who wife when he mav,
Prefers a ftout rope to a wedding-day.
One blifs for the anguifh I fuffer'd before,
For Jefsy, dear Jefsy alone would I pray,
And grafp my whole wifh on my wedding-day.
Blefs'd be th' approach of my wedding-dayi p
Hail my dear nymph and my wedding-dayi
Earth, fmile more verdant, and heaven fhine more gay i
For happinefs dawns'with my wedding-day. .
But Luna, who equally fovereign prefides
O'er the hearts of the Ladies, and flow of the' tides.
Unhappily changing, foon chang'd his wife's mind:
O Fate, could a wife prove-.fo conftant and kind!
Why, was I born to a wedding-dayi
Curs d, ever curs'd be my wedding-dayi
C^lin, poor Colin thus changes his lay,
And dates all hia plagues from his wedding-day.
Ye Batchelors, warn'd by the Shepherds diftrefs.
Be taught from your freedom td meafure \our blifs,
Nor fall to the witchcraft of beauty a prey,
And blaft all your joys on a wedding-day.
Horns are the gift of a wedding-day,:
Want and a Scold crown a wedding-day,
^ 3 PP V * ne gallant, who wife when he mav,
Prefers a ftout rope to a wedding-day.
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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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