The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

659
SONG.*
Tvsn-^Bessy Bell and Mary Gray.
Forgive me if I thought your looks
Did once some change discover
To be too jealous is the fault
Of every faithful lover.
My looks that keen resentment show,
Which you blame so severely
Assign, alas, you little know
What 'tis to love sincerely.
The torments of a long despair
I could in silence smother
But 'tis a thing I cannot bear,
To think you love another.
My fate depends alone on you
; ; ; ; ;
I am but what you make rae
Divinely blest if you prove true,
Undone if you forsake me.
SONG
IN BURLESQUE OF PRINCE CHARLES's MANIFESTO.
MRS COCKBURN.
Tune— Clout the Caldron.
Have you any laws to mend ?
Or have you any grievance ?
* This song, and the six songs and eight fragments which follow, are
from a manuscript collection, made, during the decade of 1770-80, by a lady
residing at Edinburgh. I am only permitted to mention that the compiler
was an intimate friend of Mrs Catherine Cockburn, author of the later set
of words to the tune of " the Flowers of the Forest," and of the burlesque
en the Voung Chevalier's Declaration, which immediately follows.