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

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other verses besides the " Sang" In praise of his matchless relative.
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of his sonnets is entitled
" To The for Me
Suete Nichtingale ! in holme green that hants,
To sport thyself, and speciall in the spring," &c.
And, in a poem on the same lady, he thus apostrophises Nature
" Ye hevins abone, with heavenlie ornaments,
Extend your courtins of the cristall air
To asuir colour turn your elements.
And soft this season, quhilk hes bene schairp and sair.
Command the cluds that they dissolve na mair
Nor us molest with mistie vapours Aveit.
For now scho cums, the fairest of all fair.
The mundane mirrour maikles Margareit."
Lady Margaret Montgomerie married, in 1582, Robert, first Earl of Winton.
I ha'e seen great anes, and sat in great ha's,
'Mong lords and 'mong ladies a' cover'd wi' braws ;
At feasts made for princes, wi' princes I've been,
Whare the grand shine o' splendour has dazzled my een ;
But a sight sae delightfu' I trow, I ne'er spied,
As the bonnie blythe blink o' my ain fireside.
My ain fireside, my ain fireside,
cheery's the blink o' mine ain fireside.
My ain fireside, my ain fireside,
O sweet is the blink o' my ain fireside.
A nee mair, gude be prais'd, round my ain heartsome ingle,
Wi' the friends o' my youth I cordially mingle ;
Nae forms to compel me to seem wae or glad,
1 may laugh when I'm merry, and sigh when I'm sad.
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