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: ; ; ; ; THE NICIIT IS NEIR GONE. The turtill that treu is. With nots that reneuis, Hir pairtie perseuis The nicht is neir gone. Nou hairts vith hynds Conforme to thair kynds, Hie tursis thair tynds. On grund vhair they grone, Nou hurchonis vith hairs Ay passes in pairs, Quilk deuly declares The nicht is neir gone. The sesone excellis, Thrugh sueetnes that smellis Nou cupid compellis Our hairts echone On vinds vha vaiks, To muse on our maiks, Syn sing for thair saiks The nicht is neir gone. All curageous knichtis Aganis the day dichtis The breist plate that bricht is. To fight with thair fone The stared steed stanipis, Throu curage and crampis, Syn on the land lampis The nicht is neir gone. The freiks on feildis, That vicht vapens veildis, With shyning bricht sheildis At litan in trone. 70
— ; — s THE NICHT IS NEIE GONE. Stiff speirs in reists, Ouer cursors crists, Ar brok on thair breists The nicht is neir gone. So hard are thair hittis, j Some sueyes, some settis, And some perforce flittis On grund vhill they grone, Syn grooms that gay is On blanks that brayis, With suords assayis, The nicht is neu* gone. These verses—the earhest known to the air oi JSei/ tutti, tutti, or Bruce' Address—are thought to be the composition of Alexander Montgomerie, author of The Cherrie and the Slae. Montgomerie is one of the most deservedly famed of our early Scottish poets. Unfortunately, few particulars of his life have been preserved. Though he enjoyed a high degree of reputa- \ tion in his own day, and though his genius must have contributed greatly to the refinement of the age in which he lived, no contemporary pen, so far I I as we are aware, has recorded a single biographical incident in his eventful career. All that is known of him has been gleaned from casual documents. His identity was even doubted, and tradition has assigned more than one locality as the scene of his musings. The fact of his being an off-shoot of the noble family of Eglintoun, however, may be regarded as beyond cavil. In Timothy Font's " Topography of Cunninghame"—written early in the seventeenth century—the place of his birth is thus clearly indicated : " Hasilhead Castle, a stronge old building, environed with large ditches, seated on a loche, veil planted and commodiously beautified : the heritage of Robert Montgomery, laird thereof. Faumes it is for ye birth of yat renounet poet Alexander Montgomery," Testimony is also borne to his identity by his nephew, Sir William Mure of Rowallan , whose mother, Elizabeth, was a sister of the Poet. In an address to Charles I., then Prince of Wales, Sir William says " Matchless Montgomery, in his native tongue, 71
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; ; BALLADS AND SONGS OF AYRSHIRE.
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— — — JOHNIE FAA, date 16th D
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; JOHNIE FAA. and in punissing of a
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Page 53 and 54: — HUGHIE GRAHAM. lace was again m
Page 55 and 56: ; HUGHIE GRAHAM. Thy weeping's sair
Page 57 and 58: \ He might as weU die on the gallow
Page 59 and 60: ! THE BATTLE OF LOUDOIW HILL. But u
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Page 75: TIIE NICHT IS NEIR GONE. lence seem
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Page 119 and 120: THE lady's dream. If she is kind un
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', sentiment — j j EEMAEKS. humou
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; — ; BALLADS AND SONGS OF AYRSHI
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; ; —— Her scarf of a beautiful
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; ; ; THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNUKE. And
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; — THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNURE. And
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— THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNUKE. But a
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; ; — — THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNUR
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THE WARLOCK LAIRD OF FAIL. Abbot fo
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; THE WARLOCK LAIKD OF FAIL. And in
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; THE WARLOCK LAIRD OF FAIL. " The
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PRESTWICK DRUM. near the close of t
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; PRESTWICK DKUM. liam I., the chur
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; : : HAKDYKNUTE. Full thirteen son
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; : : m^ HARDYKNUTE. Brade Thomas,
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; HAEDYKNUTE. Quoth Noble Rothsay,
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; HARDYKNUTE. There on a lee where
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HARDYKNUTE. the ballad may be ancie
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CARRICK FOR A MAN. represented in t
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'( '/ CAERICK FOR A MAN. of English
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; DANIEL BARR. The lassies they a'
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; — " SCOFFING BALLAD." This, as
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— " SCOFFING BALLAD." ! when it w
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i ! THE SANG THE SPINDLE. An' Bell
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jj : — — S THE SANG THE SPINDLE
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; ; ; mm 'Tis a chamber for the bri
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; But 'deed it's best to let it be.
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— ; ; —; WHEN I UPON THY BOSOM
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I WHEN — ! I UPON THY BOSOM LEAN.
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; SIK ARTHUR AND LADY ANNE. Janet A
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; ; If I e'er rin against my will,
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'i where, ; ; ; THE BEDS OF SWEET R
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• ; ; ; —! JAMIE TAMSON. Oh ! b
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JAMIE TAMSON. formation of this cor
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NA TO BE MAEKEIT AVA. the ith of Oc
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; THE AYRSHIRE LADDIE. Now, lads, g
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; ; ®{)£rc's nae aSarJj to ©tiar
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; Maun yield to Robin's sweet love-
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; ; ; — ' DRUCKEN JOCK. Or nurse
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:; —; A' are nearly fou, Lippin'
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— ; ; rioun Crawfurd, Lady Shipne
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; ; ; TAM O THE DOWN. mm Quo' she,
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— — — • THE HILLS OF GALLOW
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; ; But too late I found, even she
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; ; ; ; RURAL LIBERTY. And gazing,
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And Changue was a pious guidly man,
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; ; ; ; THE LAIRD O CHANGUE. Changu
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— —; — THE LAIRD O CHANGUE. "
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;— ; — THE LAIKD O CHANGUE. O'e
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WHAT BIKD IN BEAUTY, FLIGHT, OR SON
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—; APPENDIX. The bay an' the yell
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