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* This beautiful air is probably very old. We give two of the four verses written to it by Allan Eamsay, who has also adapted the air
to the song beginning, " Dear Roger, if your .Jenny geek," in act I, of Tlie Gentle Shepherd. Gay also introduced this melody in his Opera
Achilles, performed in 1733. Eamsay's complete poem, "Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae," the first 'verse of which is traditionary, is published
in the Tea-Table Miscellany, and with the air, in the Orpheus Caledonius, 1725, and in Watts' MusicaZ Miscellany, vol. v., U31.