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I50 FAMOUS SCOTS
Her looks they were so mild,
Free from affected pride,
She me to love beguiled,
I wished her for my bride.'
Take also 'Bessy Bell and Mary Gray'; what a
rich fancy and charming humour plays throughout the
piece, united to a keen knowledge of the human heart —
' O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,
They are twa bonny lasses ;
They bigg'd a bower on yon burnbrae.
And theek'd it o'er with rashes.
Fair Bessy Bell I loo'd yestreen,
And thought I ne'er could alter;
But Mary Gray's twa pawky e'en,
They gar my fancy falter,'
or that verse in his ' Scots Cantata,' with what simplicity,
yet with what true pathos, is it not charged ? —
'O bonny lassie, since 'tis sae,
That I'm despised by thee,
I hate to live ; but O, I'm wae.
And unco sweer to dee.
Dear Jeany, think what dowy hours
I thole by your disdain :
Why should a breast sae saft as yours
Contain a heart of stane?'
George Withers' famous lines, 'Shall I, wasting in
despaire,' are not a whit more pathetic. Then if we
desire humour pure and unadulterated, where can be
found a more delightful //// than ' The Widow ' ?
* The widow can bake, and the widow can brew,
The widow can shape, and the widow can sew,^
And mony braw things the widow can do, —
Then have at the widow, my laddie.'
^ Pronounced in Scots, shoo.
Her looks they were so mild,
Free from affected pride,
She me to love beguiled,
I wished her for my bride.'
Take also 'Bessy Bell and Mary Gray'; what a
rich fancy and charming humour plays throughout the
piece, united to a keen knowledge of the human heart —
' O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,
They are twa bonny lasses ;
They bigg'd a bower on yon burnbrae.
And theek'd it o'er with rashes.
Fair Bessy Bell I loo'd yestreen,
And thought I ne'er could alter;
But Mary Gray's twa pawky e'en,
They gar my fancy falter,'
or that verse in his ' Scots Cantata,' with what simplicity,
yet with what true pathos, is it not charged ? —
'O bonny lassie, since 'tis sae,
That I'm despised by thee,
I hate to live ; but O, I'm wae.
And unco sweer to dee.
Dear Jeany, think what dowy hours
I thole by your disdain :
Why should a breast sae saft as yours
Contain a heart of stane?'
George Withers' famous lines, 'Shall I, wasting in
despaire,' are not a whit more pathetic. Then if we
desire humour pure and unadulterated, where can be
found a more delightful //// than ' The Widow ' ?
* The widow can bake, and the widow can brew,
The widow can shape, and the widow can sew,^
And mony braw things the widow can do, —
Then have at the widow, my laddie.'
^ Pronounced in Scots, shoo.
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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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