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vi PREFACE.
ancient Englift joetry\ fongs II. VI. IX. XI. awl
XIII. from the y. ncient and modern Scots fongs, &c.
1769 or 1776 : fong IV. is from the Ever Green y
Edin. 1724; fong VII from a flail copy ; fong?
VIII. XIV. XV. and XVI. are from the Tea-
table miscellany; fong X. is from the firft edition,
Glafgow, 1755. 4-to. and fong XV II. from the au-
thors Works, 1759. With refpect to the few addi-
tional songs, the firft is from RamhysTea-table
mifcellany, the feven following are from the fourth
volume of Johnfons Scots muf.cal mufeum (which
did not appear till the work was printed off) ; and
the eighth is from " Nine Canzonets, &c. Byalady."
The music, which does not require, nor per-
haps admit, of a ftricl: adherence to any particular
copy, has been fupplyed by Thomfons Orpheus Ca-
/frtW#j,*themuficforRamfays collection, publish-
ed by himfelf, Oiwalds Caledonian pocket companion^
M'Gibbon, Corri, and Napiers collections of Scots-
tunes, and Johnfons Scots mujical mufeum ; by o-
ther mufical publications, and by fingle fongs. -f-
Where a fong is either known or prefumed to have
a tune, which it has been found impoffible.to pro-
cure, blank lines are left for its after infertion with
the pen; and a few fongs in the firft clafs are in-
debted for original airs to the harmonious muie
of the equally eminent and amiable Shield, whofe
tafte and fcience have been occasionally exerted
* It is the fecond edition of this work which has been matle
ufe of, even for the tunes contained in the firft, as there is con-
fiderable difference in fome of the fets.
f There is a MS. collection of (chiefly) Scotiih tunes in the
library of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, made a-
bout fifty years ago for the laird of Macfarlane, but it feems
to con aiii few tunes not to be found in Ofwalds or other col-
lections. At leaft, for a long liji of dcjidcrata, it only afforded
ene fingle air.