[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...

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rioun Crawfurd, Lady Shipness, or Sldppinmage, was one of the
Hesilheid family, and very likely aunt of the poet, with whom he
probably passed some of his earlier years. Hume also alludes to
his having been in Dumbarton
" From Semples dytements of an horse, did die.
Of Porterfieldes, that dwelt into Dumbartane," &c.
Sempill of FuUwood, Renfrewshire, had some property in Dumbartonshire,
and the family lived in the town of Dumbarton for several
generations.
Montgomerie must have been many times in that town
on his way to Skipness, in Cowal.
Whare Girvan stream, amang its braes,
Rins rowin' to the sea
Whare mony a stately castle stands,
An' mony a bonny tree.
Young Tammie liv'd : the fire o' youth
Shone in his hazel ee.
An' he has tauld his auld mither
That married he will be.
Be counsell'd weel, my bonny son,
O !
counsel take frae me.
An' dinna join in wedlock bands
These twa lang years or three.
For women's hearts, my bonny son,
Are deeper than the sea
An' darker far than Burchill taps.
That touches the star's e'ebree.