The ploughman,

The poets, what fools they're to deave us,

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533

436

The posie,

399

The queen of sluts,

454

The quern-lilt,

582

The rantin Highlandman,

24

The rigs o' barley,

141

The rinaway bride,

268

The rock and the wee pickle tow,

249

The rosy brier,

229

The rover of Lochryan,

626

The sailor and shepherdess,

678

The siller croun,

280

The social cup,

373

The soldiers return,

294

The souters o' Selkirk,

538

The spring of the year,

266

The tears I shed must ever fall,

537

The tears of Scotland,

187

The thistle of Scotland,

165

The waefu' heart,

449

The wanton wife,

681

There's a lad in this town has a fancy for me,

663

There's news, lasses,

There's my thumb, I'll ne'er beguile thee,

There's nae luck about the house,

There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame,

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642

28

To danton me. The blude-red rose, &c.
To danton me, (Jacobite Song)

What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man,

When the kye come hame,

When gloamin o'er the welkin steals,

SCOTTISH SONGS.

AH, CHLORIS!

TUNE-Gilderoy.

AH, Chloris! could I now but sit
As unconcern'd, as when
Your infant beauty could beget
No happiness or pain!
When I this dawning did admire,
And praised the coming day,
I little thought that rising fire
Would take my rest away.

Your charms in harmless childhood lay,
As metals in a mine;

Age from no face takes more away
Than youth conceal'd in thine :
But as your charms insensibly
To their perfection press'd,
So love, as unperceived, did fly,
And centre in my breast.

My passion with your beauty grew,
While Cupid, at my heart,
Still, as his mother favour'd you,
Threw a new flaming dart.
Each gloried in their wanton part;
To make a lover, he
Employ'd the utmost of his art ;-—
To make a beauty, she.*

This song, which appeared in the Tea-Table Miscellany, (1724,) is said to have been written by President Forbes of Culloden, upon Miss Mary Rose, a daughter of his neighbour, Rose of Kilravock, Nairnshire; and the

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