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CROMLET'S LILT. 263
Wherefore I '11 me address
Into some wilderness,
Where unheard I '11 express
My anxious pain.
Did we not both conjure
By Stygian lake,
That sacred oath most pure
The gods did take,
That we should both prove true :
You to me, I to you,
By that most solemn vow
We both did make ?
But thou perfidiously
Didst violate
Thy promise made to me,
To my regret ;
For all the great respect,
Wherewith I thee affect,
Is paid with such neglect,
Love 's turned to hate.
What tyrant e'er could hatch,
Though inhumane,
A torturing rack and match
To this my pain ?
barbarous cruelty,
That I, for loving thee,
Should basely murdered be
By thy disdain !
1 '11 go find out a cell,
Where light ne'er shined :
There I '11 resolve to dwell,
And be confined,
Wherefore I '11 me address
Into some wilderness,
Where unheard I '11 express
My anxious pain.
Did we not both conjure
By Stygian lake,
That sacred oath most pure
The gods did take,
That we should both prove true :
You to me, I to you,
By that most solemn vow
We both did make ?
But thou perfidiously
Didst violate
Thy promise made to me,
To my regret ;
For all the great respect,
Wherewith I thee affect,
Is paid with such neglect,
Love 's turned to hate.
What tyrant e'er could hatch,
Though inhumane,
A torturing rack and match
To this my pain ?
barbarous cruelty,
That I, for loving thee,
Should basely murdered be
By thy disdain !
1 '11 go find out a cell,
Where light ne'er shined :
There I '11 resolve to dwell,
And be confined,
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| Special collections of printed music > Inglis Collection of printed music > Printed music > Songs of Scotland prior to Burns > (269) Page 263 |
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| Description | With the tunes. Edited by Robert Chambers. |
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| Shelfmark | Ing.64 |
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| Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The 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. |
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