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! THE GENTLE SHEPHERD. 4j
Thrice happy life ! that's from ambition free,
Remov'd from crowns and courts, how cheerfully
A calm contented mortal fpends his time
In liearty health, his foul unftaia'd with crime.
Or Jung as fdloivs.
SANG XII.— Tune, Happy Cloivn.
Hid from himfelf, now by the dawn
He ftarts as fretli as rofes blavvn.
And ranges o'er the heights and lawn.
After his bleeting flocks.
Healthful, and innocently gay,
Ke chants and whittles out the day -,
Untaught to fmile, and then betray.
Like courtly weathercocks.
Life happy from ambition free.
Envy and vile hypocnfy.
When truth and love with joy agree,
Unfuliy'd with a crime :
Unmov'd with what difturbs the great.
In propping of their pride and ftate.
He lives and unafraid of fate.
Contented fpends his time.
Now tow'rds good Symon's houfe I'll bend my way*
And fee what makes yon gamboling to-day ;
All on the green, in a fair w anton ring,
i>!v youthful tenants gaylie dance and fing.
(Exit Sir jrilliwn.

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Gentle shepherd
DescriptionA Scots pastoral comedy: with the songs. Edinburgh : printed by and for J. Robertson, [1736?].
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Glen Collection of printed music
DescriptionScottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.
Special collections of printed music
DescriptionThe Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.