I wist not what ail'd me When my laddie cam' in; Flew aye frae my een; From my very ee-bree; For my heart aye play'd Dunt, dunt, dunt, pittie, pattie. I wist not what ail'd me I toss'd and I tumbled, Now it's sleeping and waking He's aye in my ee; And my heart aye plays Dunt, dunt, dunt, pittie, pattie. MARY SCOTT, THE FLOWER OF YARROW. ALLAN RAMSAY. From the "Tea-Table Miscellany." HAPPY's the love which meets return, Did Ah, no! her form's too heavenly fair, с Be hush'd, ye fears; I'll not despair; The heroine of this song is supposed to have been Mary, daughter of Philip Scott of Dryhope, in Selkirkshire. She was married to Scott of Harden, the notorious border-reiver, or freebooter. A different and possibly an earlier version of this song has been discovered by Mr. Peter Buchan. We copy it from a manuscript volume of the Songs of the North of Scotland collected by that gentleman. Oh, Mary's red, and Mary's white, And Mary she's the king's delight; The king's delight and the prince's marrow, Mary Scott, the flower of Yarrow. When I look east, my heart grows sair; But when I look west, it's mair and mair; Now she's gone to Edinburgh town, To buy braw ribbons to tie her gown; She's bought them broad, and laid them narrow, Mary Scott is the flower of Yarrow. BONNIE CHIRSTY. ALLAN RAMSAY. From the "Tea-Table Miscellany." "How sweetly smells the simmer green, When wand'ring o'er the flow'ry park, But if my Chirsty tunes her voice, My thoughts wi' ecstasies rejoice, Whene'er she smiles a kindly glance, Thus sang blate Edie by a burn, "My Chirsty! witness, bonny stream, I wish this may na be a dream,- The heroine of this song was Miss Christina or Christian Dundas, daughter of Sir James Dundas of Arnisten, and wife of Sir Charles Erskine, or Areskine, of Alva, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland in 1763. The song is the first in the "Tea-Table Miscellany," from which it has been conjectured that it was an especial favourite of its author. I'd promise and fulfil That nane but bonnie she, The lass o' Patie's Mill, Should share the same wi' me. 3 Patie's or Patrick's Mill is supposed to have been on the south bank of the Irwine, near Newmills, in Ayrshire. "The Lass o' Patie's Mill,'" says Burns, "is one of Ramsay's best songs. In Sir J. Sinclair's statistical volumes are two claims, one, I think, from Aberdeenshire, and the other from Ayrshire, for the honour of this song. The following anecdote, which I had from the present Sir William Cunningham of Robertland, who had it of the late John Earl of Loudon, I can, on such authorities, believe: Allan Ramsay was residing at Loudon Castle with the then earl, father to Earl John; and one afternoon, riding or walking out together, his lordship and Allan passed a sweet romantic spot on Irwine water, still called 'Patie's Mill,' where a bonnie lassie was' tedding hay bare-headed on the green.' My lord observed to Allan that it would be a fine theme for a song. Ramsay took the hint, and lingering behind he composed the first sketch of it, which he produced at dinner." THE WAUKIN' O' THE FAULD. ALLAN RAMSAY. My Peggy is a young thing Just enter'd in her teens, Fair as the day, and sweet as May, And weel I like to meet her at My Peggy speaks sae sweetly I wish nae mair to lay my care, My Peggy smiles sae kindly That I look doun on a' the toun, |