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MUSICAL AND LITERARY MISCELLATTi.
GOOD-MORROW.
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Words by Thomas Heywood (1638).
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Wake from thy nest, robin red-breast,
Sing birds in ev'ry furrow.
And from each hill let music shrill,
jrive my fair love good-morrow !
Blackbird and thrush, in ev'ry bush,
Stare, linnet, and blithe sparrow ;
Ye pretty elves, among yourselves.
Sing my sweet love good-morrow.
THOMAS CARTER.
My countryman Mr. Thomas Carter was the
composer of the beautiful air of " Oh, Nanny, wilt
thou gang with me;" andM. P. Andrews's hunting-
song, of" Ye sportsmen give ear;" and another air,
which Miss Wewitzer sung in Rosetta, in " Love in
a Village," which from her manner, was the greatest
favourite of any song I ever heard sung upon the
stage — the words are " Cease, gay seducers"— but
Carter's is not the original air that came out in
No. 98.
" Love in a Village." She only played in Dublin.
At one of the rehearsals of " The Castle of
Andalusia," Carter pressed me to bring him in to
hear the music : — this being out of rule, I refused,
until he promised to keep in the dark behind the
scenes. In the middle of the rehearsal I felt a tap
on the shoulder ; I turned, and there stood Carter
in full sight, in the stage-box close behind me.
Before I could express my surprise and vexation,
he whispered — "O'Kecife, introduce me to Harris j"

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