The Tea-table Miscellany: A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English |
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Page xvii
... and ftill my grief Stately flept he east the wa ' Send home my long tray'd eyes to me Sweet are the charms of her I love ... 56 107 130 134 145 177 176 206 211 226 231 Stella and Flavia every hour 235 See , see , B3 INDE X. xvii.
... and ftill my grief Stately flept he east the wa ' Send home my long tray'd eyes to me Sweet are the charms of her I love ... 56 107 130 134 145 177 176 206 211 226 231 Stella and Flavia every hour 235 See , see , B3 INDE X. xvii.
Page xviii
... See , see , she wakes , Sabina wakes 257 See , fee , my Seraphina comes 2594 Since times are so bad . I must tell thee , fweet - heart 261 See , firs , fee here a doctor rare » 269 Selinda fure's the brightest thing y 282 Some fay women ...
... See , see , she wakes , Sabina wakes 257 See , fee , my Seraphina comes 2594 Since times are so bad . I must tell thee , fweet - heart 261 See , firs , fee here a doctor rare » 269 Selinda fure's the brightest thing y 282 Some fay women ...
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... See how rich with youthful grace , Beauty warms her ev'ry feature ; Smiling heaven is in her face , All is gay , and all is nature . See what mingling charms arise , Rofy fmiles , and kindling blufhes ; Love fits laughing in her eyes ...
... See how rich with youthful grace , Beauty warms her ev'ry feature ; Smiling heaven is in her face , All is gay , and all is nature . See what mingling charms arise , Rofy fmiles , and kindling blufhes ; Love fits laughing in her eyes ...
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... See how with all their arts and wiles The Loves and Graces arm her . A blufh dwells glowing on her cheeks , Fair feats of youthful pleasures , There love in fmiling language fpeaks , There spreads his rofy treafures . O faireft maid , I ...
... See how with all their arts and wiles The Loves and Graces arm her . A blufh dwells glowing on her cheeks , Fair feats of youthful pleasures , There love in fmiling language fpeaks , There spreads his rofy treafures . O faireft maid , I ...
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... see ye . The blythfome Bridal . Y let us a ' to the bridal , For there will be lilting there ; For Jocky's to be married to Maggy , The lafs wi ' the gowden hair . And there will be lang - kail and pottage , And bannocks of barley ...
... see ye . The blythfome Bridal . Y let us a ' to the bridal , For there will be lilting there ; For Jocky's to be married to Maggy , The lafs wi ' the gowden hair . And there will be lang - kail and pottage , And bannocks of barley ...
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Alake auld baith beauty Becauſe beſt bleft blifs bluſhes blyth bofom bonny breaſt Broom of Cowdenknows charms chearful Chloe cou'd cry'd dear defire delight derol deſpair drink e'er ev'ry eyes faft faid fair fcorn feek feven fhall fhepherd fhine fhould fighs filly fince fing firft fleep fmiles foft fome foon forrow foul fpring frae ftill fuch fwain fweet grace green hame happy heart highland laddie houſe Invermay Jeany Jenny kifs laddie lady laffie lafs laft lov'd lover maid maun merry morning muft muſt nae mair ne'er never night nymph o'er paffion pain Peggy pleaſe pleaſure praiſe rife Rob Morris rofe ſhall ſhe ſmile SONG ſpeak ſweet tell thee thefe theſe thofe thou thouſand treaſure Tune Twas vows wawking Whilft Whofe wife wine wou'd Yarrow young
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Page 236 - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
Page 103 - Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 243 - I have skill to complain, Though the Muses my temples have crowned ; What though, when they hear my soft strain, The Virgins sit weeping around; Ah ! COLIN ! thy hopes are in vain ! Thy pipe and thy laurel resign! Thy False One inclines to a Swain, Whose music is sweeter than thine!
Page 138 - Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge, and broken oath: And give me back my maiden vow, And give me back my troth.
Page 344 - O dinna ye mind, young man," said she, "When ye was in the tavern a drinking, That ye made the healths gae round and round, And slighted Barbara Allan?" He turnd his face unto the wall, And death was with him dealing: "Adieu, adieu, my dear friends all, And be kind to Barbara Allan.
Page 244 - Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days ; Why didst...
Page 138 - How could you say my face was fair, And yet that face forsake? How could you win my virgin heart, Yet leave that heart to break?
Page 199 - Say often what they never mean, Ne'er mind their pretty lying tongue, But tent the language of their een: If these agree, and she persist To answer all your love with hate. Seek elsewhere to be better blest, And let her sigh when 'tis too late. ROGER Kind Patie, now fair fa' your honest heart, — Ye 're ay sae cadgy, and have sic an art To hearten ane!
Page 357 - He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he might have been a King! He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Was the flower amang them a'.
Page 244 - How can they say that Nature Has nothing made in vain ? Why, then, beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain ? No eyes the rocks discover That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wandering lover, And leave the maid to weep...