Glen Collection of printed music > Printed music > Jacobite relics of Scotland > [First series]

166 NOTES.
Gar pay hiiii's cess or poind him's geers :
She'll no de tat — deil cowe te lears !
She'll bide a while amang te crows,
She'll scour te sorde and whisk te bows ;
And fan her nain sell see te Rei,
Te deil-ma-care for Cromachie !
Orammach is the Graelic for ugly ; Rei, for king ; and Croma-
chie is a cant name for Cromwell. The meaning of the rest is
obvious.
SONG V.
%\)Z Bcetoration.
This song is rather valuable on account of its antiquity than
any intrinsic merit that it possesses ; it having been first sung, as
the manuscript bears, on the 29th of May 1660. The air is,
however, very fine, and many songs were made to it afterwards,
all on the same subject, the twenty -ninth of May, which was an
interesting day to all lovers of our old hereditary line of kings, it
being the anniversary of King Charles II. 's birth, as well as his
restoration.
'■ Old Pendril the miller, at risk of his blood,
Hid the king of our isle in the king of the wood."
As a Scottish minstrel has celebrated this instance of loyalty in
old Pendril, and as there is such ample field for encomiams on
the disinterested loyalty of our own countrymen in subsequent
times, it is with great pleasure that I give the first instance of it
in our sister kingdom. This cannot be better or more truly dis-
played than by relating some of the leading circumstances con-
nected with the battle of Worcester, which shall sujffice for the
illustration of this song and the three following cantatas, all made
on the same subject.
It is well known, that at the beginning of 1651, Charles re-
mained in the hands of the most rigid Covenanters ; and though