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The Poetry Contained in the Novels, Tales, and Romances, of the Author of Waverley
The Poetry Contained in the Novels Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley Author:Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: DAVID GELLATLEY'S SONG. " He (Davie Gellatley,) sung with great earnestness, and not without some taste, a fragment of an old Scotcli ditty:" False love, and hast thou play'd me this In summer among the flowers ? I will repay thee back again In winter among the showers. Unless again, again, my love, Unless you turn again; As you with other maidens rove, I'll smile on other men. The Knight's to the mountain His bugle to wind; The Lady 's to greenwood Her garland to bind. The bower of Burd Elleu Has moss on the floor, That the step of Lord William Be silent and sure. In the middle of this din, the Baron repeatedly implored silence; and when at length the instinct of polite discipline so far prevailed, that for a moment he obtained it, he hastened to beseech their attention ' unto a military ariette, which was a particular favourite of the Marechal Due de Berwick;' then, imitating, as well as he could, the manner and tone of a French musquetaire, he immediately commenced," -- Mon cceur volage, dit-elle, N'est pas pour vous, garcon, Est pour un homme de guerre, Qui a barbe au menton. Lon, Lon, Laridon. Qui porte chapeau a plume, Soulier a rouge talon, Qui joue de la flute, Aussi de violon. Lon, Lon, Laridon. It's up Glenbarchan's braes I gaed, And o'er the bent of Killiebraid, And mony a weary cast I made, To cuittle the moor-fowl's tail. If up a bonny black-cock should spring, To whistle him down wi'-a slug in his wing, And strap him on to my lunzie string, Right seldom would I fail. " The stamping of horses was now heard in the court, and Da...« less