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Cupid thrown into the South-Sea.
MTRTILL A y as like Venus' fell
As e'er an Egg was like amther,
Anes Cupid met upon the Mall,
And took her for his bonny Mither.
He wing'd his Way up to her Breaft;
She ftarted, he cry'd, Mam 'tis mej
The Beauty, in o'er rafh a Jeft,
Flang the Arch-Gytling in South-Sea.
Frae thence he raife wi' guilded Wings,
His Bow and Shafts to Gowd were changed \
Deels V the Sea, quoth he, it dings 5
Syne back to Mall and Park he rang'd.
Breathing Mifchief, the God look'd gurly,
With Transfers a' his Darts were feather'd 5
He made a horrid hurly burly,
Where Beaus and Belles were thickefb gathered*
He tentily Myrtilla fought,
And in the thrang Change- Alley got her J
He drew his Bow, and quick as Thought
With a braw new Subfcription ihot her^
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I mmmm$m mmmmmm m
Cupid thrown into the South-Sea.
MTRTILL A y as like Venus' fell
As e'er an Egg was like amther,
Anes Cupid met upon the Mall,
And took her for his bonny Mither.
He wing'd his Way up to her Breaft;
She ftarted, he cry'd, Mam 'tis mej
The Beauty, in o'er rafh a Jeft,
Flang the Arch-Gytling in South-Sea.
Frae thence he raife wi' guilded Wings,
His Bow and Shafts to Gowd were changed \
Deels V the Sea, quoth he, it dings 5
Syne back to Mall and Park he rang'd.
Breathing Mifchief, the God look'd gurly,
With Transfers a' his Darts were feather'd 5
He made a horrid hurly burly,
Where Beaus and Belles were thickefb gathered*
He tentily Myrtilla fought,
And in the thrang Change- Alley got her J
He drew his Bow, and quick as Thought
With a braw new Subfcription ihot her^
D %
I O
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| Description | By Allan Ramsay. Edinburgh : Printed for the author, 1720. [A collection of pamphlets previously issued separately by Ramsay. The collection was probably first published in 1719 without a collective title page and subsequently re-issued in 1720 with prefatory material and a collective title page but little attempt at continuous pagination.] Contents: Morning interview (with: Elegy on Maggy Johnston, To the most beautiful Scots ladies, Scots songs) [Martin 36, 32, 49, 46] - Christ’s-Kirk on the Green [Martin 7] - Scriblers lash’d [Martin 48] - Content [Martin 17] - Richy and Sandy [Martin 25] - Familiar epistles [Martin 22] - Prologue [variant of Martin 42] - Bessy Bell and Mary Gray [Martin 28] - Young laird and Edinburgh Katy [Martin 54] - Patie and Roger [Martin 37] - Edinburgh’s salutation [Martin 31]. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.106 |
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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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