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wliich I have puzzled myself in vain to recollect, but think it
must have been allegorical. The poetry is poor, but the song is
particularly whimsical. " "WT a bullet in his boretree." It is of
boretree or alder that boys make their air-guns. This is making
as light of King William's fire-arms as possible. The third verse
seems to insinuate that he had been horridly sick in crossing the
Channel. The air is plain, but supposed to be very old. Both
that and the song are decidedly of Scottish original.
SONG XV.
31t Inas a' for out vi^\)tfiv feuig.
This song is traditionally said to have been written by a Captain
Ogilvie, related to the house of Inverquharity, who was with
King James in his Irish expedition, and was in the battle of the
Boyne. He was a brave man, and fell in an engagement on the
Rhine. There is no part of the history of these times so affecting
as that which relates to King James and his oflBcers in France.
In 1690, when the clans were broken up, and forced to submit to
William's government, upwards of a hundred gentlemen, all of
good families, voluntarily exiled themselves to attend their master
in his adversity ; and, what will astonish many, the greater pro-
portion of these were Lowlanders,as appears by the list of their
names, which now lies before me. The king of France was kind
to them, and settled small salaries on them : but after his misfor-
tunes at La Hogue and Cherbourg, seeing that James' restoration,
which they fondly anticipated, would on that account be delayed,
and that they would become burdensome to the king of France,
they besought that they might be reduced to a company of private
soldiers. " For the sake of your Majesty," said they to James,
" we will submit to the meanest circumstances, and undergo the
greatest hardships and fatigues that reason can imagine or misfor-
tune inflict, until it shall please God to restore you and us to our
own."
They would take no denial, and the measure was complied
wliich I have puzzled myself in vain to recollect, but think it
must have been allegorical. The poetry is poor, but the song is
particularly whimsical. " "WT a bullet in his boretree." It is of
boretree or alder that boys make their air-guns. This is making
as light of King William's fire-arms as possible. The third verse
seems to insinuate that he had been horridly sick in crossing the
Channel. The air is plain, but supposed to be very old. Both
that and the song are decidedly of Scottish original.
SONG XV.
31t Inas a' for out vi^\)tfiv feuig.
This song is traditionally said to have been written by a Captain
Ogilvie, related to the house of Inverquharity, who was with
King James in his Irish expedition, and was in the battle of the
Boyne. He was a brave man, and fell in an engagement on the
Rhine. There is no part of the history of these times so affecting
as that which relates to King James and his oflBcers in France.
In 1690, when the clans were broken up, and forced to submit to
William's government, upwards of a hundred gentlemen, all of
good families, voluntarily exiled themselves to attend their master
in his adversity ; and, what will astonish many, the greater pro-
portion of these were Lowlanders,as appears by the list of their
names, which now lies before me. The king of France was kind
to them, and settled small salaries on them : but after his misfor-
tunes at La Hogue and Cherbourg, seeing that James' restoration,
which they fondly anticipated, would on that account be delayed,
and that they would become burdensome to the king of France,
they besought that they might be reduced to a company of private
soldiers. " For the sake of your Majesty," said they to James,
" we will submit to the meanest circumstances, and undergo the
greatest hardships and fatigues that reason can imagine or misfor-
tune inflict, until it shall please God to restore you and us to our
own."
They would take no denial, and the measure was complied
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| Description | Being the songs, airs, and legends, of the adherents to the house of Stuart. Collected and illustrated by James Hogg. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood, 1819-1821. [First series] -- second series. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.194-194a |
| 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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