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to their infinite amusement, in the st_yle and manner of a fervent
preacher. It is not easy to discover where the similarity existed
between the Chevalier and the cuckoo.
SONG LXVIII.
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I COPIED this song from an old printed ballad which I found
among ]\Ir Walter Scott's original Jacobite papers ; and the tune
I took down from the singing of Mr Thomas Brown, who said he
had heard the song sung to it.
" Her son is a poor matchless sot,
His own papa ne'er lov'd him."
That " his own papa ne'er lov'd him," may be gathered from
the following anecdotes, from Orford's Reminiscences,
" One of the most remarkable occurrences in the reign of
G-eorge I. was the open quarrel between him and his son, the
Prince of Wales. Whence the dissension originated ; whether the
prince's attachment to his mother embittered his mind against his
father, or whether hatred of his father occasioned his devotion to
her, I do not pretend to know. I do suspect, from circumstances,
that the hereditary enmity in the house of Brunswick between
the parents and their eldest sons, dated earlier than the divisions
between the first two Georges. The Princess Sophia was a woman
of parts and great vivacity. In the earlier part of her life she had
professed much zeal for the deposed house of Stuart, as appeared
by a letter of hers in print, addressed, I think, to the Chevalier
de St George. It is natural enough for all princes, who have no
prospect of being benefited by the deposition of a crowned head,
to choose to think royalty an indelible character. The queen of
Prussia, daughter of Georgs I., lived and died an avowed Jacobite.
The Princess Sophia, youngest child of the Queen of Bohemia,
was consequently the most remote from auy pretensions to the