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rcccxi.viir. — the bonnie lass that made the bed. 899
I clasp 'd her waist, and kiss'd her syne ;
The tear stude twinklhig in her ee ;
dearest maid, gin ye'll be mine.
Ye ay sail mak' the bed to me.
The air, to which the verses in the Museum are adapted,
was communicated by Burns, and is reputed to be very
ancient. The musical reader will observe a remarkable
coincidence between the first four bars of this tune and the
well-known air of " Johnnie Cope." They may possibly be
productions of the same minstrel.
CCCCXLIX.
SAE FAR AWA.
This song, beginning " O sad and heavy should I part,"
was written by Burns for the Museum. The words are
adapted to a Scots measure, or dancing tune, printed in
Aird's Collection, under the title of "Dalkeith Maiden
Bridge." The bard's original manuscript of the sono- is at
present in the Editor's possession. Johnson has committed
a mistake in printing the seventh line of the first stanza,
which mars the sense. In place of '* Gin body strength"
it should be " Gie body strength," as in the manuscript.
CCCCL.
PUT THE GOWN UPON THE BISHOP.
This is a mere fragment of one of these satirical and fre-
quently obscene old songs, composed in ridicule of the
Scottish Bishops, about the period of the reformation. The
tune and title are preserved in the Collections of Macgibbon,
Oswald, and several others.
CCCCLI.
Hallow Fair THERE'S FOUTH O' BR AW JOCKIES AND JENNYS.
This humorous song was written, and communicated by
Robert Ferguson to David Herd, who published it after the
poet's decease, in the second volume of his Collection, in 1776.
Hallow Fair is held annually at Edinburgh, after the win-
ter Sacrament in November. The verses in the Museum
are adapted to an old tune called " Wally Honey," taken