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CCCCLXVI. THE CHERUIE AND THE SLAE.
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No, no. Forsuith was never none
That with this perfect paragon.
In bewtie might compair.
The Muses wald have given the gree
To her, as to the A per see,
And peirles perle preclair.
Thinking with admiration
Her persone so perfyte.
Nature in hir creatioun.
To form hir tuik delyte.
Confess then, express then
Your nymphes and all thair race.
For bewtie, of dewtie
Sould yield and give hir place.
This poem was probably composed on the beautiful but
unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. It would exceed our
limits to give the whole words, consisting of nine additional
stanzas in the same hyperbolic style ; but th^ original is pre-
served in the Pepys' Collection in the University of Cam-
bridge. The poem may also be seen inPinkerton's Maitland
Collection, and in Sibbald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry,
with the Musical Notes, vol. iii. p. 185 et seq.
CCCCLXVII.
AS I CAME O'ER THE CAIRNEY MOUNT.
The first stanza of this song is old, the second stanza was
written by Burns, and Johnson, accordingly, marked it with
the letter Z, to shew that it was an old song with addition*