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MINSTRELSY. 341
« But if my gude Lord were here this night,
As he's awa' wi' Charlie,
The great Argyle and a' his men
Durstna plunder the bonny house o' Airly.
Were my gude Lord but here this day,
As he's awa' wi' Charlie,
The dearest blood o' a' thy kin
Wad sloken the lowe o' Airly.
THE BEE HIVE.*
There was an old woman that had a bee hive,
And three master bees about it did strive ;
And to each master bee she did give a name.
It was for to conquer each other they came.
With a fal de ral, &c.
There was one they called Geordie, and one
they called Fed,f |head ?
The third they called Jamie ; pray who was the
Jamie and Geordie together did strive
Who should be the master bee of the bee hive.
With a fal de ral, &c.
Says Geordie to Jamie, " I'd have you forbear,
From ent'ring my hive ; if you do, I declare,
My bees in abundance about you shall fly,
And if they do catch you, you surely shall die."
With a fal de ral, &c.
* The Bee Hive has little merit in point of composition, and still
less as an allegory. It is only inserted here as a further specimen
of the ways and means by which the Jacobite spirit was kept alive
among the people.
f Fed, the Jacobite abbreviation of the name of Frederick, Prince
of Wales, son of George II.