with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns
with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns
34 Represents hoary locks; an old bonnet; a ragged plaidy or surtout, bound with a strazv-rope for a girdle ; a pair of old shoes, with straw-ropes twisted round his ancles, as is done by shepherds in snowy zoeather: his face they disguise as like zvretched old age. as they can : in this plight he is brought into the wedding-house, frequently to the astonishment of strangers who are not in the secret, and begins to sing— '' O, I am a silly old man. My name it is auld Glenae, "*&c. He is asked to drink, and by and by to dance, which, after some uncouth excuses, he is prevailed on to do, the fiddler playing the tune, zohich here is comtnonly called ^^ Auld Glenae ;" in short, he is all the time so plied with liquor that he is ujiderstood to get intoxicated, and with all the ridiculous ges- ticulations of an old drunken beggar, he dances and staggers until he falls on thefloor; yet still in all his riot, nay in his rolling and tumbling on the floor, with some or other drunken motion of his * Glenae, on the small river Ae, in Annandale ; the seat and designation of an ancient branch, and the present representa- tive, of the gallant but unfortunate DalzkUoi Carnivath.-—{The Author's note.)
35 hadi/f he heats time to the musicy till at last he is supposed to be carried out dead drunk. THE BLYTHSOME BRIDAL. I FIND the Blythsome Bridal in James Watson's Collection of Scots Poems, printed at Edinburgh^ in 1706. This song has humour and a felicity/ of expres- sion worthy of 'Ramsay, with even more than his wonted broadness and sprightly language. The Witty Catalogue of Names, with their Historical Epithets, are done in the true Lowland Scottish taste of an age ago, when every householder was nicknamed either from some prominent part of his character, person, or lands and housen, which he rented. Thus—'' Skape-fitted Rob."
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35<br />
hadi/f he heats time to the musicy till at last he is<br />
supposed to be carried out dead drunk.<br />
THE BLYTHSOME BRIDAL.<br />
I FIND the Blythsome Bridal in James Watson's<br />
Collection of Scots Poems, printed at Edinburgh^<br />
in 1706.<br />
This song has humour <strong>and</strong> a felicity/ of expres-<br />
sion worthy of 'Ramsay, <strong>with</strong> even more than his<br />
wonted broadness <strong>and</strong> sprightly language. The<br />
Witty Catalogue of Names, <strong>with</strong> their Historical<br />
Epithets, are done in the true Lowl<strong>and</strong> Scottish<br />
taste of an age ago, when every householder was<br />
nicknamed either from some prominent part of his<br />
character, person, or l<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> housen, which he<br />
rented. Thus—'' Skape-fitted Rob."
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