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A Collection of Ancient and Modern Scottish Ballads 1 ^.. j5?:--^- ->>> sK; c few ?^- * p^ .^'-l i^' 4.. *\.A^ r. 1, THE GLEN COLLECTION OF SCOTTISH MUSIC Presented by Lady Dorothea Ruggles- Brise to the National Library of Scotland, in memory of her brother. Major Lord George Stewart Murray, Black Watch, killed in action in France in 1914. 28^7/. January 1927. Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/collectionofanci01gilc Cj^e.M. s-a A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT AND MODEUN TALES, AND SONGS: WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, BY JOHN GILCHRIST.' IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. EDINBURGH; PniNTED FOB, WILLIAM BLACKWOOD: AKD BALDWIN, CRADOCK, ^ JOY, PATERKOSTER-BOW^, LONDON. 1815. \^0F SCOTLAND ^] Gilchrist & Heriot, Printers, Leitli. PREFACE. Our relations and intercourse with the sister kingdom have become, from a variety of causes, so intimate, that our manners, our customs, and even our language, are assimilating with rapid strides to those of that country. Not- withstanding, however, that the simple, ex- pressive style of our fathers be becoming less and less frequent in conversation among the middle ranks, yet our poetry is still understood and ad- mired by every Scotchman, and is fondly trea- sured up in the memory of such of our coun- trymen whom adventitious circumstances have placed at a distance from their native land, who pore with delight over the rich humour, tender IV pathos, and descriptive beauty of their country's bards. Our language may fluctuate, and per- haps be lost in the English, but so long as there remains amongst us a taste for simplicity in writ- ing, and beauty in poetry, so long will our an- cient ballads and songs be admired. They are very numerous, and exhibit an astonishing fer- tility of genius in their authors, who relate the loves, depict the manners, and record the actions of a rude but gallant people, with a brevity of description, and a tenderness of feeling, that take a firm hold of the mind ; and may therefore be studied with much advantage by the lover of true poetry, and perused with no little mental profit by the politician and historian.—It was on these foundations that Burns raised that fame which immortalises him ; his enthusiastic admiration led him to imitate, and he surpassed them in feeling, and equalled them in humour ; his cri- tical taste improved many of our old songs, and his compositions have raised the lyric poetry of Scotland above that of every other country. To him have succeeded Macneill, Hogg, and Tannahill, who uphold the lustre of their pre- decessors by the lively images and natural feel- ing which pervade their pieces, and by that want of gaudy colouring which dazzles the eye but never readies the affections. In some of our early poems, it must be ad- mitted, there is a broadness of humour, a free- dom of thought and expression, which in mo- dern productions would be turned from with disgust, but which our virtuous but less polish- ed ancestors not only countenanced but ad- mired. The collector of Scottish poetry has therefore before him wide and extensive fields, abound- ing in beautiful and variegated flowers, with here and there a few rank weeds ; much conse- quently depends on his selection of the mate- rials, in his rejecting the baneful, retaining the useful, elegant, and beautiful, and in some measure on the manner in which he disposes the flowers he has culled, by placing in their proper light the dark shades, sprightly glow, and airy colours, so as to form a combination at once pleasing and instructive.—It has been the Editor's endeavour to form this Collection on these principles. He has rejected? every gross and indelicate poem or song which could raise a blush on the cheek of modesty, at the same time he has not been so fastidious as omit those delineations of nature which mark the pure morals and honost character of our forefathers, a3 ; VI and give a faithful picture of the manners of those times. The Collection is divided into three Parts in the classification of the First and Third, the plan of the acute and learned Mr Ritson has been followed. The First Part consists of His- torical and Romantic Ballads ; the Second of Tales; and the Third of Songs, under the heads Humorous, Love, and Miscellaneous. To the poems in the First and Second Parts brief observations are prefixed, with a view to eluci- date the transactions related ; and in the Third Part are given the author's names, and anecdotes regarding many of the Songs. Such informa- tion has been long wanting, and it is wholly owing to BuRNs's passion for Scottish poetry, that so much is now known of the history of our lyrics ; he procured all the late Mr Tytler of Woodhouselee''s anecdotes, which, with his own strictures, are published in Mr Cromek's Reliques of the immortal bard ; —^from that au- thentic source, from Ritson's Scottish Songs, and from other Collections, the Editor has gleaned much of his information on this subject. In every instance he has followed the most correct copies he could obtain of the various poems, being convinced th^t accuracy in the readings Vll ought to be a main object in all publications of this nature : typographical errors may have crept in notwithstanding the greatest care, yet these it is hoped occur but in a few instances. While he thus vouches for its correctness, he is well aware that this epitome of Scottish poetry derives little interest from his observations, in- deed he lays no claim to literary attainments, and has only humbly followed the track of men eminent for their erudition and talents, of some of the first literary characters of the present day, but he trusts, from its combining many of the best pieces of our ancient and modern bards, with a greater variety of Songs and Ballads than is to be met with in any other Collection, that it exhibits in their true light the genius, senti- ments, and manners of this portion of the island in its rude as well as in its more enlightened state. CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST. Part I.—BALLADS. HisToaiCAj.. Pagti Sir Patrick Spens, 4 Hardyknute, 8 Gude Wallace, 20 Battle of Otterbourne, 23 The Battle of Harlaw, 31 Johnie Armstrang, 40 The Battle of Corichie, 49 Edom o' Gordon, 54 The Battle of Reidswire, 60 Dick o' the Cow, 67 Jock o' the Side, 77 Hobbie Noble, 83 The Bonnie Earl o' Murray, 89 The Young Laird of Ochiltrie, 93 FrennetHa', 97 The Battle of Killicrankie, 103 The Chevalier's Muster RoU, 109 The Battle of SherifF-muir-, 112 X CONTENTS* Page. Dialogue between Will Lick-ladle and Tarn Clean- cogue, 120 Up and war 'em a' Willie,. 124 Tranent Muir, 126 Johnie Cope, 135 Romantic. GilMorrice, 139 Fair Annie of Lochroyan, .• 148 Clerk Saunders, 154 Sweet Willie and Fair Annie, 160 Lammikin, 168 Sweet Willie, 174 Glenkindie, 179 The Young Johnstone, 185 Lord Barnaby, 190 The Gj-psie Laddie, 195 Lord Thomas and Fair Annie, 199 The Cruel Brother, 205 Sir Hugh, 210 Lady Maisry, 214 Fause Foodrage, 220 The Yoimg Tamlane, 226 Jamie Douglas, 238 Bonny Barbara Allan, 241 Fair Helen, 243 GHderoy, 24T The Braes of Yarrow, by Hamilton of Bangour, 251 Ditto, by the Rev. John Logan, 257 Willie's drowned in Yarrow, 259 Sir James the Ross, 260 The Wee Wee Man, 268 Clerk Colvill ; or, the Mermaid, 270 Willie and May Margaret, 273 CONTENTS. Part II.—TALES. Page. Peblis to the Play, 279 Christis Kirk of the Grene. Canto 1 290 Canto II 304. Canto III 313 The Wife of Auchtermuchty, 322 The Friers of Berwik, 32T The Monk and Miller's Wife, 346 The Heir of Linne, 354 HaUowFair, 363 Leith Races, 368 The Farmer's Ingle, 375 The Farmer's Ha', 380 POPULAR SCOTTISH BALLADS, TALES, AND SONGS. PART I.—iSallaftisi* VOL. I, Part I.—BALLADS. ^tjStorical SIR PATRICK SPENS. [This is supposed to be one of the oldest Scottish ballads extant, and relates an event that must have occurred at a remote period of our history, no account of such an expedition being recorded by any of our early writers.] The King sits in Dumfermline toun. Drinking the blude-red wine ; * ** O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this ship of mine ?" O up and spak an eldern knight. Sat at the King's right knee, '^ Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sail'd the sea." * Skilful mariner. ; Our King has written a braid letter. And sign'd it wi' his hand. And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens, Was walking on the strand. ^' To Noroway, to Noroway, To Noroway o'er the faem ; The King's daughter o' Noroway, It's thou maun bring her hame." The first word that Sir Patrick read, Sae loud loud laughed he j The neist word that Sir Patrick readj The tear blinded his e'e. ^' O wha is this has done this deed. And tauld the King o me. * To send us out at this time o' the year To sail upon the sea ? *•' Be it wind, be it weet, be it hail, be it sleet. Our ship maun sail the faem The King's daughter o' Noroway, It's we maun fetch her hame." * At a later period than that which may be supposed the era of this expedition, so insufficient were the Scottish ships, so unskilful the mariners and so many shipwrecks happened from these causes, that James III.
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