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THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
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I spoke sincere, nor flatter'd much,
Nae selfish thought's in me, Mary,
Ambition, wealth, nor naething such ;
No, I loved only thee, Mary !
Though you've been false, yet while I live,
I'll lo'e nae maid but thee, Mary ;
Let friends forget, as I forgive,
Thy wrongs to them and me, Mary ;
So then, farewell ! o' this be sure,
Since you've been false to me, Mary ;
For a' the world I'd not endure
Half what I've done for thee, Mary.
" Thou aet qane awa'." This melody is evidently derived from the old Scottish air " Haud am' frae me, Donald,"
which was published so far back as 1657, in John Playford's " Dancing Master," under the title of " Welcome home,
old Rowley." It affords another example of the alteration and remodelling of old airs, to which we have already
adverted in Note, p. 12, and to which we shall again have occasion to advert in future Notes. The melody, as here
given, is nearly the same as that published by Pietro Urbani at Edinburgh, in his Collection of Scottish Airs, &c,
about the close of the last century. Some of his redundant embellishments have been omitted. Urbani, a good
singer and a good musician, had the merit of being the first person who attempted, at great cost, to get up some of
Handel's Oratorios in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1802; but the meritorious attempt was not encouraged, and Urbani
was ruined. He afterwards went to reside in Dublin, and died there in 1816. The author of the verses is not known.
They were printed anonymously in Urbani's Collection, and in Johnson's Museum.
As the transformation which the old air has undergone is curious, we subjoin it in the same key as the new air, to
facilitate comparison.
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