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Orpheus Galedonius.
For our lang biding here.
'HEN we came to London Towrij
We di'eam*d of Gowd in Gowpings here^
^nd ran tin! y ran up and down.
In rifing Stocks to buy a Skair :
We daftly thought to row in Rowth,
But for our Daffine pay'd right dear ;
The Lave will fare the war in trouth:>
For our lang biding here.
But when we fand our Purfes toonij
And dainty Stocks began to fa'.
We hang our Lugs, and wi' a Gloom^
Cjirn'd at Stoqk-jobbing ane and a'.
|f we gang near the South-Sea}\o\x^t^
The Whilly-Wha's will grip ye r gear^
Syne a* the Lave will fare the war^
Fpr Quy lang biding here.

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Volume 2
ShelfmarkGlen.169a
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Volumes 1-2 - Orpheus Caledonius, or, A collection of Scots songs
DescriptionSet to music by W. Thomson. London : Printed for the author, MDCCXXXIII [i.e.1733]. 2 volumes. [An enlarged edition of Thomson's 'Orpheus Caledonius or a collection of the best Scotch songs', London, [1725].] Title pages in red and black. With a list of subscribers in Volume 1. Each volume has 4 pages Scores for the German flute.
ShelfmarkGlen.169-169a
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Dates / events: 1733 [Date printed]
Places: Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Person / organisation: Thomson, William, approximately 1684-approximately 1760 [Publisher]

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Printed music
Glen Collection of printed music
DescriptionScottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe.There are more than 330 publications contained in about 320 selected from the collection of John Glen (1833-1904). Also available are a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.
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Special collections of printed music
DescriptionOver 400 volumes from three internationally renowned special collections of printed music. The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent excellent archives of 18th-19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The Hopkinson Verdi Collection contains contemporary and later editions of the works of Verdi, collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson.