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CHAP. XXIX.

See yonder woman, whom our swains revere,

And dread in secret, while they take her counsel

When sweetheart shall be kind, or when cross dame shall die;

Where lurks the thief who stole the silver tankard,

And how the pestilent murrain may be cured ;

This sage adviser's mad, stark mad, my friend;

Yet, in her madness, hath the art and cunning

To wring fools' secrets from their inmost bosoms,

And pay inquirers with the coin they gave her.-Old Play.

CHAP. XXX.

What ho, my jovial mates! come on! we'll frolic it

Like fairies frisking in the merry moonshine,

Seen by the curtal friar, who, from some christening,

This is a gentle trader, and a prudent-Or some blithe bridal, hies belated ce l

He's no Autolycus, to blear your eye, With quips of worldly gauds and game

someness;

But seasons all his glittering merchandise With wholesome doctrine suited to the use, As men sauce goose with sage and rosemary.-Old Play.

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worshipp'd?

All things resolve in custom-we'll keep ours.-Old Play.

It

was Miranda pluck'd it from his shoulders.-Old Play.

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Along the silver streams of 'Tweed,
"Tis blithe the mimic fly to lead,
When to the hook the salmon springs,
And the line whistles through the rings;
The boiling eddy see him try,
Then dashing from the current high,
Till watchful eye and cautious hand
Have led his wasted strength to land.

"Tis blithe along the midnight tide,
With stalwart arm the boat to guide;
On high the dazzling blaze to rear,
And heedful plunge the barbed spear;
Rock, wood, and scaur, emerging bright,
Fling on the stream their ruddy light,
And from the bank our band appears
Like Genii, arm'd with fiery spears.

"Tis blithe at eve to tell the tale,
How we succeed, and how we fail,
Whether at Alwyn's* lordly meal,
Or lowlier board of Ashestiel;
While the gay tapers cheerly shine,
Bickers the fire, and flows the wine-

• Alwyn, the seat of the Lord Somerville.

FAREWELL TO THE MUSE.

1822.

ENCHANTRESS, farewell, who so oft has decoy'd me,

At the close of the evening through woodlands to roam,

Where the forester, lated, with wonder espied me,

Explore the wild scenes he was quitting for home.

Farewell, and take with thee thy numbers wild speaking

The language alternate of rapture and

woe:

Oh! none but some lover, whose heartstrings are breaking,

The pang that I feel at our parting can know.

Each joy thou couldst double, and when there came sorrow,

Or pale disappointment to darken my way, What voice was like thine, that could sing of to-morrow,

Till forgot in the strain was the grief of to-day!

But when friends drop around us in life's weary waning,

The grief, Queen of Numbers, thou

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CARLE, NOW THE KING'S COME.*

BEING NEW WORDS TO AN AULD SPRING. 1822.

The North for ance has bang'd the South; THE news has flown frae mouth to mouth, The deil a Scotsman's die o' drouth,

Carle, now the King's come!

CHORUS.

Carle, now the King's come!
Carle, now the King's come!
Thou shalt dance, and I will sing,
Carle, now the King's come!

Auld England held him lang and fast;
And Ireland had a joyfu' cast;
But Scotland's turn is come at last-

Carle, now the King's come!

Auld Reekie, in her rokelay grey,
Thought never to have seen the day;
He's been a weary time away-

But, Carle, now the King's come!

She's skirling frae the Castle-hill;
The Carline's voice is grown sae shrill,
Ye'll hear her at the Canon-mill-

Carle, now the King's come! "Up, bairns!" she cries, "baith grit and sma',

And busk ye for the weapon-shaw! Stand by me, and we'll bang them a'Carle, now the King's come!

"Come from Newbattle's ancient spires, Bauld Lothian, with your knights and squires,

And match the mettle of your sires-
Carle, now the King's come!

« You're welcome hame, my Montagu! Bring in your hand the young Buccleuch; I'm missing some that I may rue—

Carle, now the King's come!

An imitation of an old Jacobite ditty, written on the arrival of George IV. in Scotland, August, 1822, and printed as a broadside!

"Come, Haddington, the kind and gay, You've graced my causeway mony a day; I'll weep the cause if you should stay

Carle, now the King's come!

"Come, premier Duke,* and carry doun Frae yonder craig his ancient croun; It's had a lang sleep and a soun'—

But, Carle, now the King's come! "Come, Athole, from the hill and wood, Bring down your clansmen like a clud; Come, Morton, show the Douglas' blood,

Carle, now the King's come! "Come, Tweeddale, true as sword to sheath,

Come, Hopetoun, fear'd on fields of death;

Come, Clerk, and give your bugle breath;

Carle, now the King's come!

"Come, Wemyss, who modest merit aids; Come, Rosebery, from Dalmeny shades; Breadalbane, bring your belted plaids;

Carle, now the King's come! "Come, stately Niddrie, auld and true, Girt with the sword that Minden knew; We have o'er few such lairds as you

Carle, now the King's come!

Cogie, now the King's come! Cogie, now the King's come! I'se be fou and ye's be toom,§ Cogie, now the King's come!

PART SECOND.

A Hawick gill of mountain dew,
Heised up Auld Reekie's heart, I trow,
It minded her of Waterloo-

Carle, now the King's come!
Again I heard her summons swell,
For, sic a dirdum and a yell,
It drown'd Saint Giles's jowing bell—
Carle, now the King's come!

"My trusty Provest, tried and tight, Stand forward for the Good Town's right, There's waur than you been made a knight||

Carle, now the King's come!

"My reverend Clergy, look ye say The best of thanksgivings ye ha'e, And warstle for a sunny day

Carle, now the King's come!

"My Doctors, look that you agree,
Cure a' the town without a fee;
My Lawyers, dinna pike a plea—

"King Arthur's grown a common crier,« He's heard in Fife and far Cantire,— "Fic, lads, behold my crest of fire!'

Carle, now the King's come!

"Saint Abb roars out, I see him pass,
Between Tantallon and the Bass!'
Calton, get out your keeking-glass-

Carle, now the King's come!"
The Carline stopp'd; and, sure I am,
For very glee had ta'en a dwam,
But Omant help'd her to a dram.-

Cogie, now the King's come!

The Duke of Hamilton, the premier duke of Scotland.

The Baron of Pennycuik, bound by his tenure to meet the sovereign whenever he or she visits Edinburgh at the Harestone, and there blow three blasts on a horn.

The landlord of the Waterloo Hotel,

Carie, now the King's come!

Come forth each sturdy Burgher's bairn, That dints on wood or clanks on airn, That fires the o'en, or winds the pirnCarle, now the King's come!

"Come forward with the Blanket Blue, T Your sires were loyal men and true, As Scotiand's foemen oft might rue

Carle, now the King's come! "Scots downa loup, and rin and rave, We're steady folks and something grave,

§ Empty.

The Lord Provost had the agreeable surprise of hearing his health proposed, at the civic banquet given to George IV. in the Parlia ment-House, as "Sir William Arbuthnot, Bart."

¶A Blue Blanket is the standard of the incorporated trades of Edinburgh.

We'll keep the causeway firm and brave-“My daughters, come with een sae blue, Carle, now the King's come!

"Sir Thomas, thunder from your rock,
Till Pentland dinnles wi' the shock,
And lace wi' fire my snood o' smoke—
Carle, now the King's come!

"Melville, bring out your bands of blue,
A' Louden lads, baith stout and true,
With Elcho, Hope, and Cockburn, too-
Carle, now the King's come!

"And you, who on yon bluidy braes Compell'd the vanquish'd Despot's praise, Rank out-rank out--my gallant Greyst

Carle, now the King's come!

"Cock o' the North, my Huntly bra',
Where are you with the Forty-twa?
Ah! wae's my heart that ye're awa'-
Carle, now the King's come!

"But yonder come my canty Celts, With durk and pistols at their belts, Thank God, we've still some plaids and

kilts

Carle, now the King's come! "Lord, how the pibrochs groan and yell! Macdonnell's ta'en the field himsell, Macleod comes branking o'er the fell

Carle, now the King's come!

"Bend up your bow each Archer spark,
For you're to guard him light and dark;
Faith, lads, for ance ye've hit the mark-
Carle, now the King's come!

"Young Errol, take the sword of state,
The sceptre, Panie-Morarchate;
Knight Mareschal, see ye clear the gate-
Carle, now the King's come!

"Kind cummer, Leith, ye've been mis

set,

But dinna be upon the fret—
Ye'se hae the handsel of him yet,

Carle, now the King's come!

* Sir Thomas Bradford, then commander of

the forces in Scotland.

↑ The Scots Greys.

Your garlands weave, your blossoms strew; He ne'er saw fairer flowers than you

Carle, now the King's come!

"What shall we do for the propine→→
We used to offer something fine,
But ne'er a groat's in pouch of mine→
Carle, now the King's come!

Deil care-for that I'se never start, We'll welcome him with Highland heart; Whate'er we have he's get a part

Carle, now the King's come!

I'll show him mason-work this day-
Nane of your bricks of Babel clay,
But towers shall stand till Time's away-
Carle, now the King's come!

"I'll show him wit, I'll show him lair,
And gallant lads and lasses fair,
And what wad kind heart wish for mair?-
Carle, now the King's come!
Step out, Sir John, of projects rife,
Come win the thanks of an auld wife,
And bring him health and length of life-
Carle, now the King's come!"

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